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DAiDEViL

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
64,651
Should have fielded DeS instead of Alex Sandro :agree:

On a serious note: No matter what the lineup looks like, it should be more than enough to beat frigging Genua...one would think.
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
These two losses are entirely on this guy. Lazio and Genoa...2 teams on paper that can't hold a candle to us. Bad formation. Terrible lineup to make the formation bad.

Love you max but this is all on you.
 

Boksic

Senior Member
May 11, 2005
14,302
I'm liking what he is doing with Higuain and Dybala.

They seemed to be interchanging who is dropping deep and who is furthest forward. I think it will really benefit Dybala and the team. Higuain probably won't score as many, but makes us more unpredictable.
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
Max:


1.) Cut the shit with Cuadrado. Bench
2.) Stop playing Mario as a winger. Bench Higuain if you must and put mario up top or bench him. I don't care. Play with real wingers.
3.) Matuidi is a must and if you can't see that then you are growing senile. Khedira needs benched with Cuadrado and/or Higuain/Mario.

Change formation or fucking play with wingers.
 
Apr 19, 2007
3,959
Can we at least have an educated talk on what he is doing so that we dont just say this player is good! PLay him! We sound like paarents who never played at their childs game. Only thing missing is everyone constantly yelling shoot.

We have an extremely deep team this season more than any other season in our recent past. We are well balance and have a great squad but a few things could hurt us if we want to get to the top. These things have nothing to do with Cuadrado or Mandzukic not being fast or great offensively or whatever everyone on this forum seems to think.

What made us a top team last year was how good we were at defending. Not just our backline but as a team. We let very few chances even get to us and everyone pulled their weight. There was no weakness to exploit most of the time. This season it looks like our right side could struggle as we lost 2 world class players. Arguably the best in their position. So the main priority for max is to protect the defense and get a solid unit and then to build on that.

One of the oldest truths in soccer, but much more recently as the tiki taki made its force known and possesion was not something you could win off Barca but also Bayrn with pep or a few other teams, is possesion vs position.

We dont need to win both of these but we better win one of them. We have gotten very good at controling the position on the field in which we allow other teams to play. Even in the first half against Madrid we controlled it fairly well but then in the second Madrid coplately controlled posesion and where they were going to have it. Having said that this is Maxs biggest priority. Can we control the game both offensively and defensively and if not which will we rely on?

Eventually we will integrate our wingers more and probably start them but for now our priority is our back line and finding a cm to partner Pjanic. We can say that Max doesnt start new players or play them which is true but there is one player that is getting time just a day after he arrived and that is Matuidi. He is something we desperately need. We have to break up attacks and have the ability to press midfields at times.
 

Juliano13

Senior Member
May 6, 2012
5,017
Max:


1.) Cut the shit with Cuadrado. Bench
2.) Stop playing Mario as a winger. Bench Higuain if you must and put mario up top or bench him. I don't care. Play with real wingers.
3.) Matuidi is a must and if you can't see that then you are growing senile. Khedira needs benched with Cuadrado and/or Higuain/Mario.

Change formation or fucking play with wingers.
You have an obsession, man. Face it, Mandzu has been one of our best performers for a while now.
 

pavelnel

Senior Member
Oct 24, 2006
2,474
He is too cautious and risk averse. With the players he had at his disposal he introduced a defender and two defensive midfielders to protect 3:2 lead. The game could have ended as a draw as a result because Genoa had their fair share of chances. He got lucky again this time but next time might not be so. We should play more aggressive and offensive football if we want to win CL. I have my doubts that he is the coach who can bring the best of our players in this regard.
 

The Quazis

Senior Member
Dec 21, 2012
5,570
I'm liking what he is doing with Higuain and Dybala.

They seemed to be interchanging who is dropping deep and who is furthest forward. I think it will really benefit Dybala and the team. Higuain probably won't score as many, but makes us more unpredictable.
They were doing it last season too.

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ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,535
Can we at least have an educated talk on what he is doing so that we dont just say this player is good! PLay him! We sound like paarents who never played at their childs game. Only thing missing is everyone constantly yelling shoot.

We have an extremely deep team this season more than any other season in our recent past. We are well balance and have a great squad but a few things could hurt us if we want to get to the top. These things have nothing to do with Cuadrado or Mandzukic not being fast or great offensively or whatever everyone on this forum seems to think.

What made us a top team last year was how good we were at defending. Not just our backline but as a team. We let very few chances even get to us and everyone pulled their weight. There was no weakness to exploit most of the time. This season it looks like our right side could struggle as we lost 2 world class players. Arguably the best in their position. So the main priority for max is to protect the defense and get a solid unit and then to build on that.

One of the oldest truths in soccer, but much more recently as the tiki taki made its force known and possesion was not something you could win off Barca but also Bayrn with pep or a few other teams, is possesion vs position.

We dont need to win both of these but we better win one of them. We have gotten very good at controling the position on the field in which we allow other teams to play. Even in the first half against Madrid we controlled it fairly well but then in the second Madrid coplately controlled posesion and where they were going to have it. Having said that this is Maxs biggest priority. Can we control the game both offensively and defensively and if not which will we rely on?

Eventually we will integrate our wingers more and probably start them but for now our priority is our back line and finding a cm to partner Pjanic. We can say that Max doesnt start new players or play them which is true but there is one player that is getting time just a day after he arrived and that is Matuidi. He is something we desperately need. We have to break up attacks and have the ability to press midfields at times.
:tup:

I just wanna know how Genoa scored two goals in the first ten minutes.
 

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