Stephan said:
snoop he is talking about our first XI, when our injured players are back
well this is his quote, not mine:
Yes I do, simply because we have the most solid starting XI in Europe yet continue to fail away from home in the Champions League and were just played off the park by a mediocre European side called Werder Bremen.
Andy said:
Buffon
Zebina - Thuram - Cannavaro - Zambrotta
Camoranesi - Vieira - Emerson - Nedved
Ibrahimovic - Trezeguet
Yeah, that is certainly the most solid starting XI in Europe. It's not the most creative or the best defensively, however overall it's right up there with the best...and probably is the best when you look at the 7 players who play centrally. Sure, we were missing Zambrotta, however please don't fvcking tell me we can't cope without one player on the wing. But yeah, we didn't cope and the performance must be blamed on Capello because this is deja vu.
Now replace Nedved with Mutu in a 4-3-3 formation and you have an even better starting XI. But Capello won't give us that..
We would no way play like that If Zambrotta and Zebina was there, are you ignoring the fact that Balzaretti and Blasi played like headless chiken against Bremen? this two are not a fiirst team material, playing both of them at the same time is like commiting a suicide. Also Mutu wasn't available who could make a difference (I am not sure If Cap would use him thou).
We have a great squad, great names, but you also forgetting that we have out of form players like Emerson, Vieira and Zlatan. Also Nedved Thuram are great players with great careers, but ofcourse they are not as great as they were.
I kinda blame the responsibles of transfering players, to not buy good backups at the start of the season, or at the winter transfer period at least.
And you guys should understand, Capello is a 4-4-2 system coach, every coach has it's own systems, and they stay at that system the whole season, ofcourse minor changes happens, but you can't try a new system at the middle of the season. Let's wait and see what will happen first, then see If his system is all failure or not. so far it is working with all the tough luck we had with the injured players, we are leading in serie A by Miles, and we have a 2-3 away loss, which is also an advanatage, Wereder Bremen ishould worry of the 3-2 result, not us.