Dani Alves - RWB - Barcelona (42 Viewers)
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Lol, why we can't win CL with Dybala-Mandzukic as our main duo?
Our biggest problem was imho that we often had at least couple of players who just can't do anything useful with the ball under pressure (like Licht) or at all (Chiello). You just can't give possessions easy in CL. I honestly believe that adding Alves and Gomes for 4312 we become a legit semifinal contender, add Mascherano to play alongside Marchi to cover all the midfield + Dani Alves when he's going forward (and he is still wc at it) and we have a really good shot on CL.
Our biggest problem was imho that we often had at least couple of players who just can't do anything useful with the ball under pressure (like Licht) or at all (Chiello). You just can't give possessions easy in CL. I honestly believe that adding Alves and Gomes for 4312 we become a legit semifinal contender, add Mascherano to play alongside Marchi to cover all the midfield + Dani Alves when he's going forward (and he is still wc at it) and we have a really good shot on CL.
well you could not call Licht an attacking RB before, but he regressed really hard in this department last year. When your RB/RWB just doesn't possess any attacking treat – it's really sad. And tbh, I'm a little disappointed with Khedira. He is a solid player, great against some Seria A mediocre teams, but he doesn't step up. There is no fight in him. And Sturaro has all the fight in the world, but still lacks skills.
Licht has been bad going forward. lets be honest, he offers nothing because he has no idea hwo to make things work. Great defender, great grinta, but as a winback he lacks.
We need someone who can consistently aid on the attack when we need to score goals, and Alves IMO is a great short term alternative.
About Khedira , he gets the job well done but i dont consider him a game changer either. he is capable but thats it. And obvs he is very good in comparison with the amount of surpluses we have in the mid who doesnt work at all (asa, pereyra, hernanes, padoin etc..). His negative is that he is way too injury prone.
We sign one or 2 world beater and Khedira will be used as a reserve in no time.
We need someone who can consistently aid on the attack when we need to score goals, and Alves IMO is a great short term alternative.
About Khedira , he gets the job well done but i dont consider him a game changer either. he is capable but thats it. And obvs he is very good in comparison with the amount of surpluses we have in the mid who doesnt work at all (asa, pereyra, hernanes, padoin etc..). His negative is that he is way too injury prone.
We sign one or 2 world beater and Khedira will be used as a reserve in no time.
I think we can do better, adn we should do better against not only serie A teams but everyone.
We have great workrate, we have great players in various positions, but our transition from defense to midfield to attack is clunky. Sometimes we cant chain 3 passes together without conceding the ball.
What this team needs IMO, is more technique on midfield, and more use of Sandro and possibly Alves. And i think this is exactly what the board is aiming... to really reinforce the mid of the field with technical players who can work their ass , and using more often than not Alves for Licht and Sandro for Evra will do a lot of good in solving this.
We have great workrate, we have great players in various positions, but our transition from defense to midfield to attack is clunky. Sometimes we cant chain 3 passes together without conceding the ball.
What this team needs IMO, is more technique on midfield, and more use of Sandro and possibly Alves. And i think this is exactly what the board is aiming... to really reinforce the mid of the field with technical players who can work their ass , and using more often than not Alves for Licht and Sandro for Evra will do a lot of good in solving this.
Remember people saying Cuads isnt a wingback because he can't defend.
How wrong they were
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.
So we need a fullback that can defend as well when its needed, tgats why Evra and Licht are the perfect fit!
Licht was not onky defensive minded though, he was pacey, with a decent cross and positive contributions upfront, he is older now though and naturally has lost his pace, the same goes for Dani though and even worse since Alvez is older and since he is focused at attacking, the loss of pace will have a greater impact on his strengths!
Because they are not prolific enough to take advantage the scarse chances they will get when facing a competitive team, in the late CL stages. Manzdu can be at times, but he also tends to lose a few important matches too and we dont have a reliable goal poacher to replace him...
This team needs to be able to score at least 3-4 goals against the clubs from pots 3 and 4 in the group stage of CL like the big clubs do. That has been very frustrating over the last 4 years in the CL and it cost us the group last year. Outside of the Sevilla game at home, we scored 1 goal against those 3 and 4 teams in three matches.
like Barzagli or Ruganiso we need a finisher and yet we replace our fastest winger with a has been...
but this is the fate of the poor we cannot to buy Cuads, only loan him, neither outbid Barca for a new Alves after already buying our new Evra last year...
We have to make some compromises, i hoped it will be for a Cavani class finisher, but obviousky Marotta cannot buy such a finisher and will go with his ussual group of CMs to solve our creativity and finishing issues, so Alvez, Pjanic and Mascherano it is... o and the random Italian SS to waste any extra cash from the Morata buy back...
Still better than the previous years, when we had so many pointless transfers like, Hernanes, Pereyra, Padoin, Zaza and such...
but this is the fate of the poor we cannot to buy Cuads, only loan him, neither outbid Barca for a new Alves after already buying our new Evra last year...
We have to make some compromises, i hoped it will be for a Cavani class finisher, but obviousky Marotta cannot buy such a finisher and will go with his ussual group of CMs to solve our creativity and finishing issues, so Alvez, Pjanic and Mascherano it is... o and the random Italian SS to waste any extra cash from the Morata buy back...
Still better than the previous years, when we had so many pointless transfers like, Hernanes, Pereyra, Padoin, Zaza and such...
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