Today is our final group game vs Taiwan and of the three possible scenarios (win, lose or tie), two are favorable to us, Simply put, a win or tie and we go through, a loss and it gets tricky as we will require help from other team. Our mindset is simply to go out and win the game outright and go into the elimination games with a positive result under our belts. What the the situation also means is that Taiwan has to chase the game needing a win as their only means of progressing in this tournament, so hopefully this might expose them at the back and open up space for us to attack. More importantly, an early goal and it might just discourage the opponent or make them have to open up even more. Our scenario is similar to two years ago where we went into the last game vs Poland needing and wanting a game and after a fairly early goal, Poland pretty much quit and we went on to win 4-0.
We had our pre-game briefing this morning and the players seem ready and committed. One very positive note is that in both of our 2 first games, we had been able to stick to our game plan and apply it very well. I am confident that if we do so today, we will win the game and potentially win it with more than 1 goal. We have a few injuries although nothing serious but most likely one of our strikers will be out for today. We have the depth to compensate so I am sure we won't see a drop off in play. The players are resting right now and soon it will be the final briefing followed by pre-game meal. I will hopefully be here talking about our big win tomorrow and have a few players share some of their thoughts. Some pictures are uploaded and I will have some more later today or tomorrow, not to mention adding some video
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