Since Pirlo is out, and we don't like Bonucci at CB, why don't we try this.
Buffon
Lichtsteiner - Caceres - Ogbonna - Evra
Bonucci
Vidal - Pogba - Asamoah
Morata - Llorente
This way we can have the two strikers nod down long-balls to the midfielders behind them...