Looks like your going to play 5 at the back though unless you sign a top top defender to sort the back 4 out. Cavani is a good player i think, proper misused at PSG for sure..he'd be a great signing for you if you can get him for the right amount
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Looks like your going to play 5 at the back though unless you sign a top top defender to sort the back 4 out. Cavani is a good player i think, proper misused at PSG for sure..he'd be a great signing for you if you can get him for the right amount
We probably will play 3-4-1-2 (it's not exactly 5 at the back says LvG). We need at least one better/experienced centre back, someone who can cover at left back and someone to play next to Herrera in central midfield. Ideally (if not a top class player like Vidal) someone who can sit behind Herrera and anchor the midfield. In theory, anyway.
So if we play:
------------De Gea
----Jones - Evans - Smalling
Rafael - Herrera - Fletcher - Shaw
--------------Mata
----------Rooney - RvP
Where would Cavani play? It'd mean we have 3 potentially amazing strikers fighting for 2 places, and Welbeck wouldn't get a look in (not something that would upset me too much). Obviously we need a proper quality defender as well, ideally.
Di Maria would have to go on the right midfield position but it'd force him to track back and defend a lot, which he might be able to do.
Fletcher isn't the player he was and still has a few fitness concerns so we need someone who can play next to Herrera. It's probably a good idea for us to buy Daley Blind as he can cover left back and defensive midfield, he's a very well rounded player.
The rest is pretty good, I think, Herrera will be able to get plenty of the ball to the front 3 which is what we've been lacking.
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Not a bad team, but you look light in defence. Or rather the defence looksl ike it lacks experience. And Fletcher could do with replacing. Not good enough. Heaven forbid Felani could play there?
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He's trying out to out psyche people by saying it's a 3. No such thing as 3 defenders in the modern game. It's a compact 5 when you don't have the ball. Just like Holland in the WC.
I don't see where you're goals are going to come from though if either Rooney or RVP gets injured. Cavani seems to spank them in where ever he goes, it obviously comes down to price, if you have the opportunity to get him, i'd love to see him the prem.
Surely he's going to be 1st choice, no? He'll be in the middle for sure, has he got an extended break because the WC?
I don't see where you're goals are going to come from though if either Rooney or RVP gets injured. Cavani seems to spank them in where ever he goes, it obviously comes down to price, if you have the opportunity to get him, i'd love to see him the prem.
Surely he's going to be 1st choice, no? He'll be in the middle for sure, has he got an extended break because the WC?
I've no idea what we're going to do with Fellaini, nobody has mentioned him since the World Cup. It's like he doesn't exist.
Cleverley can't really do much in this system, he can't pass forward and he can't defend.I think the next 3 friendlies will give a better indication of how good this system is, Roma, Inter and Real Madrid (even if they aren't full strength) will seriously put our team to the test.
Of course everyone is back and its a 5 when you don't have the ball, but the wide players are expected to play in midfield whenever you attack, so it's a 3 at that point.
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Cavani could play when you need to rest Rooney RVP or you play him in behind in mata position. No harm in squad depth. It's a long hard season
Yea, it changes obviously depending on loads of factors. But it's a 5 at the back with wing backs, not 3 at the back with wingers. Massive difference in the pysche of those two set up's
Dunno if he's got the centre of gravity to play in the pivot role really..play him on the left cutting in, using his lanky body to get past people..
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In my formation (and it's what the TV places used) they're essentially somewhere between a winger and a wing back. So, er, whatever.
If they have to be defenders then obviously Di Maria is no good unless we're going to sell players and so forth.
In my formation (and it's what the TV places used) they're essentially somewhere between a winger and a wing back. So, er, whatever.
If they have to be defenders then obviously Di Maria is no good unless we're going to sell players and so forth.
Di Maria can play in the middle though (box to box) that's where he was playing for Madrid. He's more of an attacking player tho. If you can get Di Maria over Cavani then obviously thats the wiser choice. As you have no class wingers really...He can be the out and out left winger if you then play 4-3-3
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Arsenal have signed Calum Chambers?
We can't really play Herrera and Di Maria behind Mata in central midfield though, none of them can defend properly.
I think we're going to end up getting De Jong and putting him next to Herrera. Probably not the worst idea in the world but he's a bit of a nasty so and so.
We can't really play Herrera and Di Maria behind Mata in central midfield though, none of them can defend properly.
I think we're going to end up getting De Jong and putting him next to Herrera. Probably not the worst idea in the world but he's a bit of a nasty so and so.
Yeah, Mata is an attacking player defo, can't have him doing any leg work, he doesnt have it in him at all
Herrera/Fell/Di Maria
--------Mata--------
---RVP------Rooney
Might work?
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Don't quite believe that... yet. Can hope though, Gibbs is a disaster zone, Monreal I think is better than people think but needs some form. Very few players who play a lot of games do particularly well moving to a new club then barely ever playing.
As for Drogba being only physical... lol. His hold up play is brilliant, but his movement is fantastic. His reading the game. Don't forget that in winning the champs league final he was brilliant all over the pitch. He was playing as a fullback for part of it. He's a huge huge player at defensive set pieces.
You don't get good because you're a bit strong, you have to be in the right place to be strong against someone, and you have to do something worthwhile with the ball afterwards. He has a phenomenal shot, his awareness and movement is brilliant. In terms of technique there aren't many players that shoot as well from range as he does.
He's scored loads of goals that didn't rely on power at all. A brilliantly timed late run into the box. Admittedly the one that sticks out against Arsenal he ran past Song and someone else who aren't aware of what is going on behind them, but still a late run that got a goal not relying on strength in the slightest.
It depends how Fellaini does. He can do some useful things but not very often.
The only clear use I can see for him at the moment is throwing him on towards the end as a battering ram.
I think we'll sell him.
Yeah, Drogga's was class. Great striker, proper influential character on and off the pitch as well. His header in the 90th v Bayern...awesome!
You won't man, you'd be idiots to sell. He's 6ft3 of strength thats one of fittest out of the Man U squad..puts a right shift in. Unless of course you can recoup a decent bit of money and have another decent target lined up..
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Unfortunately this is what happens when small teams have good players that have a good season.
They get bought and the team gets broken up.
Nah it's fine we'll play all the wonderkids no one knows about and finish above Spurs and Liverpool easily.
Or go down.
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