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Xavi is best known for his first touch, ball control and passing range. Frank Lampard has these skills without doubt.

We've signed one flop. His name is Fernandinho. Fernandinho is not a bad player, but never worth 40 million and simply does not fit in this system. What we needed was a Xavi type player. There's loads of them out there. Modric, Rakitic, Kroos etc. Lampard is similar to Xavi and would do a...

We will know what is up, if he remains in charge.

Dzeko (like any other player) is powerless if the team is not built around him.

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I'm not saying that we should attack in a different way, I'm saying that we should defend in a different way.

Individual errors are the result of stress . Our defenders are not comfortable in this 442 and so they make mistakes. Simple as that.

It would still be too open. Every formation is open, but some are more open than others. 442 has failed us, and it is time we tried a formation that is more defensive. And adopting a more defensive formation doesn't mean that we cannot attack in the same way anymore.

It means that Ancelotti is doing a bad job . I won't be surprised if he gets the sack. My fear is that he ends up here. We don't need another manager who is clueless about the defensive side of things.

Because 442 is too open. Why not permanently switch to 4-1-4-1 ? Is it because Pellegrini is too ignorant or is it because the director won't let him ? If it's Txiki who is behind this, then I don't think he's being a good director .. perhaps he just wants to destroy the club from within.

before the sending off there was absolutley no difference between the two teams, this is the truth wether we like it or not .

it maybe his favored system but its not what weve been playing this season .. the man on the right usually stays wide, david silva being the only one that comes inside .. this means that we dont need two holding midfielders, we only need one ... anyway, we are not 2nd because we cannot play...

under guardiola .. barcelona would play with a slow tempo every game .. im not sure what hes doing with bayern at the moment. in mancinis final season we began to play slow, prbably because the new board wanted to us to play like barcelona.

we dont have a huge problem with playing football and scoring goals .. its how we defend that is the problem .. the two banks of four and two strikers up front is OPEN to abuse against teams that use the 4-3-3 (e.g. man united and barcelona) . so why dont we ditch the 442 sometimes ? the...

Liverpool did not lack passion or mentality, they were tactically raped. tactics are a huge part of the game .. its why small teams can beat big teams ..

He is better than Pellegrini. His CV is the proof. How did we do against the rags this season ? we won because they got a man sent off .. if you watch the game again youll find they were difficult to play against before the sending off. we got lucky , but we may not get lucky in the second derby.

this is complete nonsense. messi is not God, he CAN be contained.

Are you ignorant ?

We are talking about the pace of an attack here. i.e. How fast an attack is put together. You can build the play in a slow way , this what Barcelona used to do under Pep and what Spain do under Del bosque. This style is known as tiki taka. You can also build the play in a fast way, it what we...

Atleast you see the difference between the now and then. Some of the posters think the football hasn't changed.