Lichteiner is a little overrated in this forums to be honest. The first 2 years with us he was class, specially the first year he was a monster. But he has faded from that performances.
Now he is very secure in defending, which is for what we use him mainly, to have a solid backline... but going forward he is very lacking as of late, and it puts too much stress on him to be running the flanks whole game.
Alves on the other hand has a deadly cross and has some technique to dribble past players.... but the best of alves is definitely his end product near the enemy goal area. Cuads and Licht got nothing on him on that department, and this will help us greatly in CL games.
For serie A, we can continue using Licht no problem, as long as we play him in a 4 man backline and not in a 352.
Yup. he improved on that by the end of his spell this year... but Alves has been regular in his end product throuht his whole career. The guy is class.
My only concern is his age,, but well, lets hope he can maintain his form and above all, his drive, to continue playing at high levels.
I saw him playing with brazil some days ago and he looked fine.