Anna Koivunen captured the place of Finland’s number one place, even though the head coach is not yet admitting it

Pearl The goalkeeper situation speaks to Sunday’s Norwegian match.

In the first European Championship against Iceland, 23-year-old Djurgården goalkeeper Anna Koivunen It kept its net clean, but the coaching leadership of the pearls has not declared birch as number one.

Is this bluff, and it is known to be number one inside the team? Who is the best goalkeeper between Finland’s poles at all or the most suitable goalkeeper?

We discussed this about the long -time goalkeeper coach of the HJK women’s team Juho Illin with.

“I would definitely have chosen Anna Koivunen for the Iceland game. This spring, Koivunen has been the best mill in the Swedish league,” Illi says.

“Koivunen has some special features. She is good at playing on your feet and is really rejecting exceptionally well. She has played volleyball, so she has a long ball back, so she can’t teach you right.

Koivunen’s only small weakness is his length, which is quite a goalkeeper, 172 cents. However, Illi says that the effort power of Turku -based watch is exceptionally strong.

“When he played for a moment in the club, I remember he was number one in all the bouncy tests. Really elastic watch. There is a lot of explosive power,” Illi says.

Finnish Illi, who knows the goalkeeper, remembers that many once suspected Koivunen’s chances of getting to the top just because of the shortness.

However, Koivunen compensates for missing centimeters with its elasticity and skillful game number.

“Koivunen has lived and breathed football for so long. She doesn’t have to react to every ball when she can work proactively.

Although Koivunen is a really skilled goalkeeper, the competition for the number one spot in Finland is fierce. Few European Championship teams have an equally high-quality goalkeeper as Finland.

Also 30 years old Let Tamminen and a 39-year-old truck Tinja-Riikka Korpela could play in the European Championships.

“Anna Tamminen has been playing in Hammarby for a long time, and has been really good there. She is such a expert, good at opening the game, extending, calm, rejecting well. I don’t invent a single weakness,” Illi describes.

“Tinni Korpela’s strengths, on the other hand, are experience and tackling skills. He is a bit of a different era than Koivunen, maybe he has little challenges in playing on foot. Korpela may not fit so well with the gambling method, how the team wants to play and attack,” Illi estimates.

Experienced According to the goalkeeper coach, it is that suitability of the pearl’s way of playing is the number one reason why Koivunen is playing.

Finland wants to open the game from below with short feeds. The goalkeeper tasks are to actively participate in the game all the time.

“The question is what we want. Korpela might be a safer option. She does not play so actively and risky. Koivunen may try tight in between Oona Sirén. But Korpela would decide that we wouldn’t win this game for that solution, but we may lose this game. And that’s why he kicks the ball farther, ”Illi describes the difference between the two watch.

Decision However, how the goalkeeper plays in different situations is, above all, a coaching team. Illi points out that goalkeepers today do what is tactically agreed.

According to him, it is also really special that the Helmar head coach Marko Saloranta Didn’t want to choose a clear number one for the race.

“All the head coaches with whom I have worked for the number one water. It makes it easier to play the defense and play the whole team. Perhaps this kind of open competition wants to create a faith inside the team that anyone can play. The theme has been together,” Illi ponders.

Illi cannot believe that Saloranta would change the goalkeeper to the Norwegian match. Koivunen has played against the last three national matches and I was a sovereign against Iceland.

It would be very special to replace him from the posts between the posts.

“For Koivunen, his head would last. He did not show an uncertainty in the Iceland game. Those boxed balls: a small goalkeeper, a value-scout debut, and he was boldly pressed to box, did what was asked.”

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