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Nightmare
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Something I've been wondering recently. It's well-known that teams such as LDU and The Strongest have a big advantage playing at home because of the altitude issues, but in reverse, are these teams negatively affected when travelling to somewhere at sea level? Are there any problems with a higher quality of air, or is the advantage of altitude a one-way street?
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| Nightmare wrote: | | Something I've been wondering recently. It's well-known that teams such as LDU and The Strongest have a big advantage playing at home because of the altitude issues, but in reverse, are these teams negatively affected when travelling to somewhere at sea level? Are there any problems with a higher quality of air, or is the advantage of altitude a one-way street? |
From what I know and past experiences, teams that play at a high altitude constantly and then go to sea level city for a match, won't see any negative effects. Actually they could see themselves benefited because their resistance is much better and will get tired later than they usually do when they play at home.
I remember when I moved from Mexico to Argentina. For the first couple of weeks I thought I flew over the football field, then my body regularized got rid of the unnecessary red globules (or something along those lines) and played at the same rhythm my mates did.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing even to do with the movement of the ball, perhaps? I noticed last night watching The Strongest v Internacional that the Bolivians would shoot from distance a LOT, and seemed to have some really powerful, accurate shots. Maybe that's just something this team in particular are good at, I dunno.
Atletico Nacional v Godoy Cruz setting itself up to be a great game again. Well, great in the sense that neither team seems to be able to defend to save their lives. 4-4 in the fixture in Argentina, and 20 minutes in and we're already 1-1 here after some terrible defending by Godoy, then a free kick that the keeper really should have saved to equalise.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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2-2 right now with both teams still looking like they've forgotten what defending is, and the referee seems pretty incapable of doing anything right; couldn't even deal with a drop ball situation the right way. Very entertaining, though.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Nightmare wrote: | Nothing even to do with the movement of the ball, perhaps? I noticed last night watching The Strongest v Internacional that the Bolivians would shoot from distance a LOT, and seemed to have some really powerful, accurate shots. Maybe that's just something this team in particular are good at, I dunno.
Atletico Nacional v Godoy Cruz setting itself up to be a great game again. Well, great in the sense that neither team seems to be able to defend to save their lives. 4-4 in the fixture in Argentina, and 20 minutes in and we're already 1-1 here after some terrible defending by Godoy, then a free kick that the keeper really should have saved to equalise. |
I thought you were referring to the physical aspect of the game. But yeah, the ball's movement seems to be faster and a bit more powerful when playing at a high altitude. It's not a big disadvantage when they play at sea level stadiums though.
Lost the game last night, got home a bit late and without any energy to turn on the tv. Ended up 2-2, looked like a good one.
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Oh, I was talking about from a physical standpoint initially, but was just wondering about the ball movement in addition to that.
La U playing Penarol tonight, really tired but I think I'll stay up for it.
1-0 after 3 mins. 
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Ganso needs to improve!!!!
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Flamengo out, unlucky crybaby Ronaldinho. 
Best thing about it is Olimpia hold the head-to-head over them, and they were 3-0 up against Olimpia with about 20 minutes left.
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We need to beat Velez!
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The ending in Group 2. Wow!
Flamengo winning 3-0, if Olimpia-Emelec finishes a draw, they're through. 1-1 87 minutes in, and Emelec score to make it 2-1 and Flamengo are going out. Then Olimpia equalise 1 minute later, Flamengo are going through again. Emelec kick off, run up and get a corner, and take the lead again. Finished 3-2.
Flamengo went from being through, to out, to through, to out, in the space of 3 minutes.
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| Nightmare wrote: | The ending in Group 2. Wow!
Flamengo winning 3-0, if Olimpia-Emelec finishes a draw, they're through. 1-1 87 minutes in, and Emelec score to make it 2-1 and Flamengo are going out. Then Olimpia equalise 1 minute later, Flamengo are going through again. Emelec kick off, run up and get a corner, and take the lead again. Finished 3-2.
Flamengo went from being through, to out, to through, to out, in the space of 3 minutes. |
Yeah man, the TV over here was half the Olimpia - Emelec game and the other half was about Flamengo fans in Brazil.
The change of expressions of their faces in a minute was hilarious.
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Pabon is so damned good. I can't believe he's not in Europe yet.
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Universidad de Chile. What a team. A joy to watch.
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| Nightmare wrote: | | Universidad de Chile. What a team. A joy to watch. |
Call me crazy, I'd say they are a top 5 team in the world.
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