this pretty much demonstartes how far this 3-5-2 pushes the players. guys like Pogba and vidal have to be the wide players, the cms, the dms, and the ams at the same time. this is simply insane. no wonder their form fluctuates so much.
this is where Rakib actualy has a valid point with the 4-3-3. It would free vidal and Pogba to operate more from the centre and do those behind the defense runs.
with this 352 pogba and vidal have to act as wingers, attacking mids, defensive mid which is good in case of demonstrating their flexibility but it's absolutely insane as they will get tired easily. and with 352 we always concede when we take a bad set piece which leads into a counterattack.
with 433 and a proper leftback we would have a much more fit 5 midfielders. if you look at Bayern centre midfielders they have had around an average playing time of 1000 minutes played. This is because pep is contrantly rotating his squad depending on the level of their opposition. instead at juve we are mostly playing pogba and vidal which both have 2000+ minutes so they will be a lot tired when it comes to European competition. instead if we brought asamoah in midfield and played with asamoah, vidal, pirlo, pogba and marchisio in midfield we would be able to rotate a lot more.
vidal 2068 minutes in serie a
pogba 2204 minutes in serie a
pirlo 1607 minutes in serie a
marchisio 1390 minutes in serie a
Kroos 1524 minutes played in bundesliga
Gotze 1161 minutes played in bundesliga
Alcantara 944 minutes played in bundesliga
Sweinsteiger 1005 minutes played in bundesliga
Lahm 1778 minutes played in bundesliga
Martinez 707 minutes played in bundesliga
Pep does this for all of this positions (except goal keeper) so he is able to get the most out of players in every single match. after we convert to a 433 I hope does this with asamoah pogba vidal marchisio pirlo and one more CM that we might get.