Kwadwo Asamoah (15 Viewers)
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Basically you're talking about holding midfielder and his responsibilities; providing cover for the others to get into more advanced positions, closing down the passing lanes and making interceptions, tackling, etc... But closing down the passing lanes, as you often like to mention that Marchisio is doing, is not enough for one to be the 2nd best in the world. Now, you talked about Martinez and his contribution against Barcelona, but that guy put in numerous tackles and interceptions that night, also started many of Bayern's counter attacks, opened up Barcelona's defense with crucial passes in the final 3rd. He was dominating force and at the risk of being called peasant again I can't see Marchisio doing any of that (tackling, interceptions, crucial passes) or not in the quantity to deserve that amount of praise. Just tell me who were the players that had similar role to Marchisio in Juventus, Milan or Inter from 1994 onwards?
Martinez is better then marchisio. He is god among covering midfielders, and the true hero of football. This is why the antichrist guardiola will murder him. He knows the white knight against tiki taki is in his team.
That quite the question there.
Inter, during its glory period, had Thiago motta. Does that task, but with more tackeling involved. He was a massive factor and inter lost points nearly every time he wasent playing. And the same is happening at PSG now. He's incredibly smart, but like Martinez, also very tackle happy.
The rest of inter is failure and not worthy talking about
Milan had Albertini for the biggest period of time. Who was an absolute monster cause he combined his defensive covering work, with prilo'esk long range and a shot like ronaldo.
After Albertini, its a diffrent matter. Milan played with a trio of players, Pirlo, Seedorf and Gattuso, to support an attacking player and a forward.
Whilst gattuso was the rabid tackeling dog, pirlo covered, and seedorf filled in according to the situation, but usually covering aswel.
Later on, Ambrosini kinda took that role aswel. He still tackles alot, but knows when to tackle, and is excellent when milan is defending deep, to keep shape. offcourse, thats nothing close to what the trio used to do.
Juventus has had deschamps and later tacchinardi in that role. Tho the latter was a pretty harsh tackeling player. after tacchniardi capello insisted on emerson and vieira, a high profile midfield, without a working player. Good for the league, bad for cup competitions. City has been doing the same basically
after that, we had troublesome years and didnt really had one. Christiano zanetti did it somewhat, but not to that extend
That quite the question there.
Inter, during its glory period, had Thiago motta. Does that task, but with more tackeling involved. He was a massive factor and inter lost points nearly every time he wasent playing. And the same is happening at PSG now. He's incredibly smart, but like Martinez, also very tackle happy.
The rest of inter is failure and not worthy talking about
Milan had Albertini for the biggest period of time. Who was an absolute monster cause he combined his defensive covering work, with prilo'esk long range and a shot like ronaldo.
After Albertini, its a diffrent matter. Milan played with a trio of players, Pirlo, Seedorf and Gattuso, to support an attacking player and a forward.
Whilst gattuso was the rabid tackeling dog, pirlo covered, and seedorf filled in according to the situation, but usually covering aswel.
Later on, Ambrosini kinda took that role aswel. He still tackles alot, but knows when to tackle, and is excellent when milan is defending deep, to keep shape. offcourse, thats nothing close to what the trio used to do.
Juventus has had deschamps and later tacchinardi in that role. Tho the latter was a pretty harsh tackeling player. after tacchniardi capello insisted on emerson and vieira, a high profile midfield, without a working player. Good for the league, bad for cup competitions. City has been doing the same basically
after that, we had troublesome years and didnt really had one. Christiano zanetti did it somewhat, but not to that extend
i think the main reason conte doesent use asamoah as a cm is because of his offensive qualities. our midfield is made of 1 creative DM (regista) and two btb CM who are good at defending, making forward runs and are really good passers. while asamoah does have the first two qualities (defense, forward runs) he is not a good passer to be the midfielder that conte wants. i may be wrong but this seems to be one of the reasons...
That is a different question altogether. Mostly because we really need a good back-up CM, because of depth issues and Pirlos remaining time is a factor of uncertainty.
Now, Conte is obviously pleased with how Asamoah fares as a LWB, and I tend to agree. Don't get me wrong, I think Asamoah could play better as a CM, and I'd really love for him to fulfill his full potential, he's probably among my favourite five Juve players right now. But as long as we play 3-5-2 (and changing that is another topic again, but for now it seems Conte will stick to this formation), there is not really a better choice than Asamoah. Shout Coentrao all you want, he's not really an upgrade.
Now, Conte is obviously pleased with how Asamoah fares as a LWB, and I tend to agree. Don't get me wrong, I think Asamoah could play better as a CM, and I'd really love for him to fulfill his full potential, he's probably among my favourite five Juve players right now. But as long as we play 3-5-2 (and changing that is another topic again, but for now it seems Conte will stick to this formation), there is not really a better choice than Asamoah. Shout Coentrao all you want, he's not really an upgrade.
