Our midfield is a major concern for me and imo, you need a strong midfield to compete competently in both scudetto and Cl.
If you look at Cl last season, Bayer Leverkursen did not have one single striker of note, sure Kirsten is their leading goal scorer but he is old and didn't play too many games, but they managed to get to the final because of a very talented and balanced midfield
Real madrid have just 2 strikers that you can call reliable in their whole squad and if you know hom much Morientes gets injured, then its just Raul really but look at that midfield and you can see how they won the cup
Valencia do not have a decent striker, thier highest goal scorer in the league was Baraja and Aimar is an AM
In the wc, Turkey got to the semi with Sukur being absoliutely hopeless but their midfield was great, same as Brazil, you take out Ronaldo and they have no strikers.
France had world class strikers in 2002 but none in 98 and what happened they won the wc in 98 because of Zz, Djorkaeff, Petit and Deschamps but in 2002 Zz and Pires was injured and they didn't score a goal
Italy sucked in 98 and 2002 because of a horrible midfiield but were good in 2000 because Albertini returned to form and along with Ambrosini and Fiore they looked decent
This brings me to Juve, our midfiled is just like Italy's, no creativity and are not really brilliant at defending as in protecting the defence
Yes we won SerieA but thats more to do with the big teams in Italy apart from Roma having the same prob as if you look at Inter the midfield was not very good and they relied too much on their strikers especially Vieri to bail them out
Even Roma get into trouble if one of the wingbacks is missing or Totti is injured
The smaller teams like Chievo and Perugia actually play better football but because of non confidence or dare i say it refereeeing decisions Chievo might have even won the league
If anybody actually watched them , the amount of chances created for Marazzina and Corradini were very imppressive and believe me if Trez or a more accomplishe dgoal scorer was there they would have finnished much higher up
Their mf of Eriberto, Manfredini with Corrini pulling the strings was very good, its just their finishing and letting to many goals and of cos being robbed by referees that made them finish 6th
Our team does not actually create chances from the midfiled and most of our goals are from set pieces very little is from actual pass and movement from the mf, thats why we were totally outplayed in most Cl games
You know your team is suffering when the manager plays a defender in Tudor in the mf
At least when Zz was there the others can do donkey work give the ball to him and he does something with it, its notthe same with Nedved as he is not a playmaker and has made players like Tacchi go backwards
Giving away Brighi as well was not very smart imo and I don't know too much about Oliveira but it does say volumes if we are pinning our creative hopes on a 19 year old
As far as I am concerned we need mfs and i have heard of Ambrossini, Giannicheda, they will be most welcome as our mf is sterile and we need a stellar season from both Nedved and Davids, they cannot afford to be off form for months like last season as teams like Inter who have improved as Crespo will score more than Ronaldo did and Roma with Guardiola will be much stronger, not sure if Baiocco and Camo will make the same impact
If you look at Cl last season, Bayer Leverkursen did not have one single striker of note, sure Kirsten is their leading goal scorer but he is old and didn't play too many games, but they managed to get to the final because of a very talented and balanced midfield
Real madrid have just 2 strikers that you can call reliable in their whole squad and if you know hom much Morientes gets injured, then its just Raul really but look at that midfield and you can see how they won the cup
Valencia do not have a decent striker, thier highest goal scorer in the league was Baraja and Aimar is an AM
In the wc, Turkey got to the semi with Sukur being absoliutely hopeless but their midfield was great, same as Brazil, you take out Ronaldo and they have no strikers.
France had world class strikers in 2002 but none in 98 and what happened they won the wc in 98 because of Zz, Djorkaeff, Petit and Deschamps but in 2002 Zz and Pires was injured and they didn't score a goal
Italy sucked in 98 and 2002 because of a horrible midfiield but were good in 2000 because Albertini returned to form and along with Ambrosini and Fiore they looked decent
This brings me to Juve, our midfiled is just like Italy's, no creativity and are not really brilliant at defending as in protecting the defence
Yes we won SerieA but thats more to do with the big teams in Italy apart from Roma having the same prob as if you look at Inter the midfield was not very good and they relied too much on their strikers especially Vieri to bail them out
Even Roma get into trouble if one of the wingbacks is missing or Totti is injured
The smaller teams like Chievo and Perugia actually play better football but because of non confidence or dare i say it refereeeing decisions Chievo might have even won the league
If anybody actually watched them , the amount of chances created for Marazzina and Corradini were very imppressive and believe me if Trez or a more accomplishe dgoal scorer was there they would have finnished much higher up
Their mf of Eriberto, Manfredini with Corrini pulling the strings was very good, its just their finishing and letting to many goals and of cos being robbed by referees that made them finish 6th
Our team does not actually create chances from the midfiled and most of our goals are from set pieces very little is from actual pass and movement from the mf, thats why we were totally outplayed in most Cl games
You know your team is suffering when the manager plays a defender in Tudor in the mf
At least when Zz was there the others can do donkey work give the ball to him and he does something with it, its notthe same with Nedved as he is not a playmaker and has made players like Tacchi go backwards
Giving away Brighi as well was not very smart imo and I don't know too much about Oliveira but it does say volumes if we are pinning our creative hopes on a 19 year old
As far as I am concerned we need mfs and i have heard of Ambrossini, Giannicheda, they will be most welcome as our mf is sterile and we need a stellar season from both Nedved and Davids, they cannot afford to be off form for months like last season as teams like Inter who have improved as Crespo will score more than Ronaldo did and Roma with Guardiola will be much stronger, not sure if Baiocco and Camo will make the same impact
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