I dont know if we were looking that terrible on the field, but the jersey surely looks terrible.
I m particularly interested on our left flank, do you think our issues there are fixable, by the addition of vargas?
What is more annoying than the drama queens, are the eternally optimistic delusional fans who somehow believe we can or will win the Scudetto. Granted Serie A is shit, it's not that bad!
It doesn't have to be this way, nothing wrong with the formation. It offers defensive stability and cover all over the field. It's our fault that it isn't working for us. Look at Manchester United play and tell me how many times you've seen Berbatov, Rooney or Hernandez just standing there on the edge of the box not doing anything. You won't see such a thing. Instead they drop deeper offering an option for a pass, dragging opposition defenders out of position and always involving themselves in the biuld-up play. That's the way it is supposed to be. Now tell me how many of our current forwards tend to do that?
I'm not comparing us to United, I'm just giving an example of a working 4-4-2, which we should emulate should we be sticking to this formation.
didn't you guys notice that we only play high long balls, when pirlo wants to change the wing we attack and starts an counter attack? in all other situations we play the ball low and fast which its definitely contes handwriting.
I dont know if we were looking that terrible on the field, but the jersey surely looks terrible.
I m particularly interested on our left flank, do you think our issues there are fixable, by the addition of vargas?
I watched only the first half and from some 20 attacks we had, only two came from the left side. We hardly even tried to attack from there. Despite all that, those two attempts were even more dangerous that our attempts to attack from the right so I wonder why we don't use the left side.
On the right Licht and Krasic were combining excellently but the last touch was bad (Krasic's crosses and attempts to dribble). On the left side though DC didn't even try to cross the midfield line and only in the two counters the ball was delivered to Pasquato. When we had possession the ball was always going to Licht and Krasic, never to Pasquato.
Yeah, Sir Alex uses more than one approach/formation and that is the way it is supposed to be. I was talking about the way their forwards play when they use a 4-4-2. I didn't say they play this formation all the time.
Running definitely isn't a special ability, it is the minimum requirement from a football player! In defense of Krasić though, Messi is also predictable and pretty much one dimensional, yet he is unstoppable for Barca! Somebody mentioned Robben also, he is spot on.
What is more annoying than the drama queens, are the eternally optimistic delusional fans who somehow believe we can or will win the Scudetto. Granted Serie A is shit, it's not that bad!
It doesn't have to be this way, nothing wrong with the formation. It offers defensive stability and cover all over the field. It's our fault that it isn't working for us. Look at Manchester United play and tell me how many times you've seen Berbatov, Rooney or Hernandez just standing there on the edge of the box not doing anything. You won't see such a thing. Instead they drop deeper offering an option for a pass, dragging opposition defenders out of position and always involving themselves in the biuld-up play. That's the way it is supposed to be. Now tell me how many of our current forwards tend to do that?
I'm not comparing us to United, I'm just giving an example of a working 4-4-2, which we should emulate should we be sticking to this formation.
Running definitely isn't a special ability, it is the minimum requirement from a football player! In defense of Krasić though, Messi is also predictable and pretty much one dimensional, yet he is unstoppable for Barca! Somebody mentioned Robben also, he is spot on.