Markku Kanerva was disappointed in a football match in Iceland, which was played in Murcia, Spain. The A national team debutants played “manly,” according to the Coach’s head coach.
26.3. 22:51 • Updated March 26th. 22:57
Head coach of the owls Markku Kanerva stated to the media that Finland is currently playing at a level where it must also be even more critical.
– A profit was sought from Iceland. The opponent played in the last World Cup and played in Group A of the Nations League. It is great that the team was not satisfied today (with a 1-1 draw), as we are expected to have even bigger results, Kanerva emphasized.
Finland received less than four decent exercises at the Murcia camp before Saturday’s match, and a test crew was seen against Iceland on the green, where three A national team debutants were seen.
– It would have been quite a surprise if the game had been played right away. 17 years old Miska (Overflow) and Miro (Glamor) played quite manly. The positive side was left. There were errors in the passing game, as did the other players.
– Mikael Soisalo became a substitute and was also open-minded in his play. He got an ankle splash in the match to be watched with the doctors, Kanerva bundled up the evening beak.
At the same time, the Finnish Football Association announced that if the all-time representatives of both the Finnish men’s and women’s national football teams were added up, the number of thousands ranged from 999 to 1,002 on Saturday.
Iceland made the Finnish defense game difficult. Kanerva admitted that in the direction of the attack, the Finishers’ scores were far too small.
– The problem was getting the ball played upwards in a controlled way. However, there was one situation in which the opponent’s defender threw the ball away from the meter, “Rive” pointed out Joel Pohjanpalon was awarded a penalty in the 76th minute.
For the second half, Finland changed the game group from the original 5-3-2 to 3-4-3 or sometimes even 5-2-3. According to Kanerva, each game mode has its own “gaps”. In any case, the performance of the Owners improved slightly after the change, although the coach himself did not say it out loud.
Schüller: I was hardly satisfied with Iceland either
Rasmus Schüller was honored to serve as captain of the Owls. The midfield laborer was not happy with his own performance, as was the team.
– For me, the choice of captain is an infinite honor. That is one of the absolute highlights of my career.
Schüller noted that whenever a player has a national team shirt on, there is a stake in the game. Still, he admitted that somehow sadly it (the bet on the match) might have shown up this time.
– We did not succeed in our own goals and we were not aggressive enough on the ground. We had a hard time on the waterlogged pitch – his trademark technique was nowhere in sight today. The distances and distances were too great, and therefore there was too much space left in front of the lines. I think the game was weak, and Iceland didn’t play much either. They were hardly happy after the match either.
The match was preceded by the Ghostbusters’ gesture to war-torn Ukraine as players arrived for a warm-up in shirts that read “We stand with Ukraine.”
– We wanted to show small-scale support for the Ukrainian people and Ukraine, which has been the target of arbitrary hostilities. All the sympathies are on the side of the Ukrainian people, the Finnish captain emphasized.