I Thing Emerson is one of the most overrated players ever...
Quite the opposite actually, if anything Emo was one of our most underrated players, because most of the fans rate only the players who can create offensively and offer spectacle jiggling with the ball and they tend to underestimate the importance of defensive wise players!
Their efficiency and the crucial role they have on making the difference and winning a game! Emo held our midfield all alone many times over, he protected our CBs and cleared Blasi's and other incompetent player's mess.
We hadnt had such an impressive and efficient DM since Davids!
EMO was a fine component in world class team!!
Every team need such a player, even the Brazilian NT!
It was like having a stone with weels wearing the black and white shirt...
His only great thing was his strenght, nothing more...
Capello's team was good in Serie A. Playing with Lecce and Brecia you can easily win even with emerson and no creativity in your midfield (remember we had a very good attack that year). Although in Champions League we were just bad...
The season with Blasi and Emo in the midfield we faild to win Liverpool in Trin (we had lost 2-1 in Anfield, Cannavaro had scored) and we played average football. The only achievment of this team was shen we won Milan 0-1 and we won the Scudetto...
Next Year with Vieira we were nos as good as we supposed too. We lost from Arsenal easily and in previous round we won Werder from a mistake by Wiese...
The only good match from this team was when we won Inter by 2-0 in Turin...
You are missing the point again, it wasnt EMO's fault,we had our creativity problems,
if Emo had a Zidanne instead of a Blasi in his side we wouldnt have any creativity problems. Emerson's job was to winn balls and he was excellent doing that!
Quietly and effectively, exactly as he should!
His impact was visible quite away in our defensive department and he was one of the reasons, we had the best Defense in Europe, by the first day he joined us!
His support was essential!
Our tactical plan, the long ball and the second DM, are not his decisions, or fault,
you cant blame him for anything, he did his job flawlessly, out tactician though, didnt...
You must understand that we are going NOWHERE with 2 defencive midfielers. This is just old fashioned football...
We must have one defencive midfieler and one player that can attack and pass the ball forward...
Remember the old good Juve. We had Zidane and Davids or Tachinardi in the midfield. The one defend and the other that was a playmaker...
Even this year if you remember when we won Inter by 1-2 Camoranesi played as an attacking midfieler...
We played something like that: Neddy---Momo----Camo----Sali
And you saw what we did...
I ve been saying this for years and years, but unfortunately, our coaches dont think alike...
Unfortunately we are stacked with the ultra defensive 4-4-2 and to make matters even worse, we have to rely on our old wingers to do all the creativity job for us.
I suffer watching Juve been punished on the field, because of this tactical approach, but make no mistake, this is not a player's fault. This is 100% the coaches fault!!
Instead of changing or formation adding an AMF and finding solution to the problem that haunts us for years, they preferred to find quick fixes around it.
Adding Amauri, a forward who can draw back to create, helping himself and Giovinco to gradually replace Neddy as a winger...
Unfortunately this is our future, this is our coach and this is our board...
WE SHOULD NOT TAKE POULSEN OR ANOTHER DEFENCIVE MIDFIELER. WE ARW GOING NOWERE WITH THIS. TREZEGUET WILL BE ALONE DEL PIERO WILL GO BACK TO TAKE THE BALL AND WE WILL ATTACK ONLY WITH THE WINGERS. IF WE PLAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT WITH A GOOD TEAM IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, THIS WILL BE A DISASTER...
And somtheing else...
Sissoko will be much better from Emerson, if we is not already...
I can find you 10 players that are strong, can you find me 10 that can dribble and pass well??????[/QUOTE]
I think we all angry on that, but this is not our choice to make...:faq1:
Due to the fact that they decided not to upgrade our defense and they brought useless defenders to help an already extremely weak defense, we have no option, than to field two ball winners to make up for our main weakness!