Man, it would be awesome if for example Pellegrini doesn't suck and instead turns out to be an adequate and solid player, not amazing once in a generation super Zambrotta R Carlos Marcelo love child, but adequate, solid and maintaining a decent to good level of performances week in week out...
Sadly I see him doing that only as a reverse Cuadrado in a wingback formation with 3 defenders in front of WiFi password. The more I think about it, the less safe and sure I feel if we practice standard 4 player defence line, regardless of how the rest of the players are situated on the field.
Even a huge Max fanboy like me doesn't really believe in his magic skills to turn wasted and useless players into solid and dependable ones in short period of time, so instead I would like to see something like this (not today of course, as there are few South Americans that are key in this scenario):
----------------Kean------------Dybala------------Chiesa----------------
---Pellegrini---(whoever sucks the least)---Loca---Cuads---
--------------------Danilo-------Bonucci---------DeLigt----------------
------------------------------------Wozniak----------------------------------
Front trio has potential for several rotations, Dybala will always roam close to our midfielders no matter what, be it as a false 9 or trequartista behind the front two, or even floating around in a free role next to Chiesa and behind a sole striker in Kean/Morata, where his obvious backup would be Kulusexy. With the quality of our current fullbacks (bar Cuadrado) and our midfielders (bar Locatelli), I really don't see many options and working 11 better than this, especially if we use a standard backline. Pellegrini (so far) is no better defender than the terrible Sandro, but he is without a doubt a better and more useful attacker, crosser and assist provider. Danilo proved to be a solid and dependable player in a defence trio and should play there, preferably on the left to back Pellegrini when needed, so that's basically most of the time. In the heart of the midfield chose whoever helps Loca the most, since all of them keep fucking up from time to time but on a regular basis, it's a no brainer that the least of them play, the better, no need to use two of them next to Locatelli, one is already enough. Up front there is potential, I genuinely like the idea of Kean and Chiesa playing together, if Dybala finds his form and Alvaro keeps delivering coming from the bench then this could work, it could actually work just fine... I hope...
Sadly I see him doing that only as a reverse Cuadrado in a wingback formation with 3 defenders in front of WiFi password. The more I think about it, the less safe and sure I feel if we practice standard 4 player defence line, regardless of how the rest of the players are situated on the field.
Even a huge Max fanboy like me doesn't really believe in his magic skills to turn wasted and useless players into solid and dependable ones in short period of time, so instead I would like to see something like this (not today of course, as there are few South Americans that are key in this scenario):
----------------Kean------------Dybala------------Chiesa----------------
---Pellegrini---(whoever sucks the least)---Loca---Cuads---
--------------------Danilo-------Bonucci---------DeLigt----------------
------------------------------------Wozniak----------------------------------
Front trio has potential for several rotations, Dybala will always roam close to our midfielders no matter what, be it as a false 9 or trequartista behind the front two, or even floating around in a free role next to Chiesa and behind a sole striker in Kean/Morata, where his obvious backup would be Kulusexy. With the quality of our current fullbacks (bar Cuadrado) and our midfielders (bar Locatelli), I really don't see many options and working 11 better than this, especially if we use a standard backline. Pellegrini (so far) is no better defender than the terrible Sandro, but he is without a doubt a better and more useful attacker, crosser and assist provider. Danilo proved to be a solid and dependable player in a defence trio and should play there, preferably on the left to back Pellegrini when needed, so that's basically most of the time. In the heart of the midfield chose whoever helps Loca the most, since all of them keep fucking up from time to time but on a regular basis, it's a no brainer that the least of them play, the better, no need to use two of them next to Locatelli, one is already enough. Up front there is potential, I genuinely like the idea of Kean and Chiesa playing together, if Dybala finds his form and Alvaro keeps delivering coming from the bench then this could work, it could actually work just fine... I hope...
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