Tunisia lose to Uruguay on penalties

June 2nd, 2006 | By: Bessam | No Comments »

Tunisia lost to Uruguay today in the LG cup final in Tunisia. It was a scoreless match at the end of 90 minutes, Then it went to penalties where Uraguay won 3-1 penalties.

Both teams had problems making scoring chances and Urugauy hit the post 2 times. The game was mostly played in midfield with the ball often bieng lost before it got to any attacking players.

*David Jemalli scored on a corner kick and was ruled offside
*Karim Esidiri blasted a great shot which tested the Uruguay keeper.

It was clearly a B team affair. Diego Forlan, Chevanton, Magallanes, Recoba, Guigou, Zalayeta, Sorondowas, and Dario Silva where not there for Urugauay and Tunisia used basically all the players that did not play against Belarus in order to test them out. In the end of this tournament I think Roger Lemmerre got a full idea about how well all 23 of his players are because he used at least 20 of them in the 2 matches

The lineups were
Tunisia: Hamdi Kasraoui, Alaeddine Yahya (Radhi Jaidi, 57), Mehdi Meriah, Karim Saidi, David Djemmali, Riadh Bouazizi, Soufiane Melliti (Yassine Chikhaoui, 62), Mehdi Nafti (Jawhar Mnari, 76), Kais Ghodhbane, Karim Essediri (Adel Chedli, 86), Issam Jamaa (Ziad Jaziri, 75).

Uruguay: Fabian Carini, Carlos Valdes, Diego Godin, Walter Lopez, Omar Pouso, Nicolas Olivera, Maximiliano Pereira, Gonzalo Vargas, Diermo Giacomassi, Andes Scotti, Fabian Estoyanoff

Players I was impressed with.
Jemalli, can Lemerre Figure out how to play Jemali along with Trabelsi somehow?
Chikhaoui In 20 minutes he showed us more then Essediri did, in 80. He is 18 and is a big guy who was very tricky for Uraguay on the left. I think he can do damage If he can feed Santos and Jaziri from the left or middle.
Kasraoui back up goalkeeper played well. Very tall and long reach was lucky witht he 2 shots that hit the bar, however he stays in his goal and doesnt risk venturing out which i like
Bouazizi and Nafti and Mehdi Meryeh played hard.

Players I noticed that its not a good idea to mess with
Nafti, Yahia, or Bouazizi

Nafti will fight you, Yahia will tackle you next time(his tackles may end up getting him cards quickly in the world cup) , and Bouzizi will get back at in someway or other before the match is finished.



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