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...
ball knew looking pull worked
We knew that they would be looking to pull the ball back for the midfielders to hit. We'd worked on that.
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'.
advice advise anyone coming early leave match might miss otherwise until
I should advise anyone coming up to the match to come early and not leave until the end, otherwise they might miss something.
against cent england five four ok per prove quality sides top
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.
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,
fitness mark moment performer problem wise
Mark is an experienced performer and at the moment fitness wise we don't see a problem with him,
good time winning
Winning all the time is not necessarily good for the team.
communication maybe
Maybe if there's a communication breakdown, it's between the Blackburn medics and their manager,
expect fitness match obviously problem season since start
Obviously match fitness is something else but that's a problem we have had since this season started. We would expect to start with him.
best doubt england expect far home poland side win
Poland are very good. We did our best but there is no doubt that by far the best side won.You would expect England to win their home games, though.
finished game last onto quite strongly
We finished the game quite strongly but we couldn't get onto the end of anything in the last third,
coming forward game looking players quality
The players know what this game is all about. They've been looking forward to it coming around and they know the quality of player they are up against.
players
The players know us a lot better and we can say things to them without them getting offended,
best changing final ireland maybe northern pattern pride similar stick
We all have our pride to play for and we will do our best here, and we will stick to a similar pattern before maybe changing things around for Northern Ireland and Azerbaijan in our final two qualifiers,