John Toshack
John Toshack
John Benjamin Toshack OBEis a Welsh former footballer and football manager. He currently manages Wydad Casablanca. He has also managed several others clubs including Swansea City, who he took from the Fourth Division to the First in four seasons, and two spells with Real Madrid...
decide few players
There are one or two players with a few niggles, so we will need to take a look at them before we decide what to do,
city game hours including manchester played season
He's played every game for Manchester City this season including two hours at Doncaster,
attack bit caused chances counter created dozen finish game half last quite trouble
We caused quite a bit of trouble on the counter attack in our last game away from home, but unfortunately we weren't able to finish them off and take any of the half a dozen chances we created which is not normal,
good time winning
Winning all the time is not necessarily good for the team.
concerned england helps looking positive result
We are looking for a positive result for ourselves. If that helps England so be it, but we are only concerned with ourselves,
others send six three
The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.
talent truly
He's an exceptional talent, a truly exceptional talent,
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If you look at the goals he scored, including the best move of the match, it's a perfect example for any youngster to follow,
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As a Welshman I share the view that we want to beat England to dent their chances of qualifying, but then again I want to do the same thing to Poland next week.
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England have a lot of quality in a lot of areas, particularly midfield. But they have still got to prove that they can be one of the top six. Against 60 per cent of sides, some of the things they did against us they'll be OK with. But against the top four or five sides they may just have to have a re-think.
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It's a lot easier to destroy than to create and if you look at Azerbaijan's games they're difficult to beat,
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It's easy to praise Ryan, he is always such an influential player and he scored two special goals. But I was delighted for David Vaughan. He is a clever, skilful player and he rarely gives the ball away. I asked him to play in an advanced role and he was outstanding all night.
bit hard harder
It was always going to be hard but it may even be a bit harder now.
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It's a difficult process but hopefully a year or 18 months down the line they will be experienced enough, know how we work and we can put the pieces into the puzzle as we feel fit,