I'm sorry mate, i injured my lower back yesterday so couldnt spend that long before pc, and since today preparing january finals
Basically shitting between studying and lying flat on my back.
You haven't addressed our lack of depth for that formation. It may suit our starting eleven but we'd need Llorente and tevez fully fit and in form all the time.
One of the upsides of the 3-5-2 is that the central midfield do most of the work and the scoring and you could have any two mediocre idiots playing upfront and get away with it most of the time. We won 2 scudetti without an attack because of our strong central midfield and the huge role that the 3-5-2 imposes on them. The 3-5-2 would completely fall, however, if we had 2 attack minded CMs injured (Pirlo and Vidal/pogba). We are damn lucky that it was marchisio that got injured and not Pogba or Vidal.
I'll sum up again the points I have against the red formation. Address each individually:
1) Its narrowness will make life more difficult for our CMs to contribute offensively as opposition defenses will be less stretched.
2) Consequently, its success is heavily reliant on Tevez and Llorente (I don't trust their consistency that much yet) even if our CMs perform their duties adequately.
3) It shares the same weakness of defending against double wingers that the 3-5-2 has. I see only the 4-3-3 as a pacifier to that problem.
4) If any of our strikers gets injured, we don't have anything close to adequate replacements and we'll be screwed because our attacking phase depends on the strikers doing their jobs not just the CMs. So depth.
1) Not neccecarely. First of all we have llorente and 2 players, regista and pogba, who can feed him very good balls to the head. this creates vertical space. You have 3 players running in that space. Offcourse that only last for so long, since once the opposing team repositions, it will try to narrow us down.
This indeed creates a width issue, wich we can easely solve in 2 ways
a) Have a very fast counter, just use the offball and have one of the players (tevez pogba, vidal) go for an action/shot. italian football at it finest, go for the chance then fall back in formation.
b) We have Pogba and Marchisio. Marchisio's incredible tactical flexibility and Pogba's talent to usurp him have shown before. Both should drift out wider, and go for early crosses.
Marchisio did this against madrid, whilst pogba has played wider on a few occasions, and nearly allways delivers with a lobbed assist. It not
2) I have full faith in our cm's. The real issue is that this formation reigns and falls with llorente. Without Llorente, the vertical space is gone. Yes, this formation cannot be played without fernando.
3) Just like against real madrid, we showed we can do that pretty good. as their wings were mostly shut down.
4) i agree offcourse. But thats the same with the 433 you mention. Imagine you sell pogba and buy 2 world class wingers (somehow). One gets injured and then who will play ?
This is the real situation we are in. We got depth for the 352. But for nothing else. I see the 41311RED© as an ideal formation to play when players are availbale, and the 352 as the main backup, beeing used when a critical player is abscent.
DO note, we can field that formation allready if everyone is fit. So any sale we do, could go to benefit it
Winger formations and 4312 however, require at least one hightly skilled cam or 2 wingers to even work. a 4231 needs all three of them
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Like i've said before, Tevez plays in my 4-2-3-1 behind the striker. He's still not World class though and a hat trick of tap ins against Sassuolo will not change my mind.
Its vital for a 4231 to field a midfielder, not a striker
the only 4231 i can recall that had a striker in the midfield was man utd with rooney there, and they didnt win anything during that period
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