How Will Mancini Line Up Now?

[cibaman]

Let me make my anti City fans prediction now- And feel free to throw your best insult, but at some point in the season Mancini will realize this is his best lineup.


.............................Hart..........................
Micah.....Kompany....Lescott......Kolarov..
.......................Yaya..............................
..............Nasri...........Silva...................
......Aguero.........................Tevez.........
.......................Dzeko..........................

With Milner as the first sub to come in for a striker and Barry the first sub to come in for a midfielder. Balo, AJ and De Jong will lose the most minutes from this Stacked squad if injury does not play a role. WHich as we all know, it always does.

Now go ahead, say your worst. :)

No real ball winning midfielder. Will be hard to break down possession when we come up against the big team's.

Leaving aside the issue of dropping NDJ, the basic problem with that line up is that it will take an awful lot of work to make it completely effective. Its a big departure from our established set up, especially dropping the second DM. Yaya and Silva will have to substantially adapt their games. Tevez would also have to substantially change his role. And that's the elephant in the room. TEVEZ WANTS TO LEAVE THE CLUB.

Whilst Tevez wants to leave the club, it makes complete sense to try to still make use of him. Use him as we did on sunday as an impact sub, use him to cover injuries or rotate him and Aguero to keep Aguero fresh.

But it makes absolutely no sense to waste a minute of time on the training pitch trying to "fit" Tevez into the side. It makes no sense risking dropping points by playing an experimental line up just in order to accommodate Tevez. He could be gone on 1st January,

 

[leewill31]

Let me make my anti City fans prediction now- And feel free to throw your best insult, but at some point in the season Mancini will realize this is his best lineup.


.............................Hart..........................
Micah.....Kompany....Lescott......Kolarov..
.......................Yaya..............................
..............Nasri...........Silva...................
......Aguero.........................Tevez.........
.......................Dzeko..........................

With Milner as the first sub to come in for a striker and Barry the first sub to come in for a midfielder. Balo, AJ and De Jong will lose the most minutes from this Stacked squad if injury does not play a role. WHich as we all know, it always does.

Now go ahead, say your worst. :)

surly this could not be argued?

that's bloody frightening if that team was to be put out!

 

[Rushton121]

Against our title rivals/ "big" teams

---------------Hart---------------

Richards---Kompany---Lescott---Clichy

-------Yaya----De Jong---Barry-------

Nasri----------------------------Silva

----------------Dzeko-----------------


Against "lesser teams"

---------------Hart---------------

Richards--Kompany--Lescott--Clichy

Nasri------Yaya---Barry/Milner------Silva

--------Aguero--------Dzeko--------

 

[BETTER-DEAD-THAN-RED]

hart
richards kompany lescott clichy
nasri silva yaya
tevez aguero dzecko

epic attack

with richards clichy and running up the wing and yaya bombing forward

 

[Tricky_Trev]

hart
richards kompany lescott clichy
nasri silva yaya
tevez aguero dzecko

epic attack

with richards clichy and running up the wing and yaya bombing forward

And you think Lescott and Kompany would be able to defend each and every one of the 5 v 2 counter attacks we would face if we fielded that team... on their own? Football is not about simply throwing on more and more attacking players and expecting to win by a bigger and bigger margin. We must have balance. That team has none.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

I think formations are too simple. Good teams don't have a formation. Of course there are defenders, midfielders and forwards but as a formation when a good team has the ball, well, there isn't one. Gary Neville pointed that out on Monday night football. He froze the screen to show us on three seperate occasions at Bolton from Sunday and we looked like this:

1.
-------------------------Hart-------------------------
--------------Kompany--------Lescott---------------
--------------------------Silva------------------------
------------Milner--------Yaya--------Agüero--------
--------------------Barry------------------------------
---Richards--------------Džeko--------------Kolarov-

2.
-------------------------Hart-------------------------
-------------Kompany--------Lescott----------------
--------Richards--------Yaya--------Kolarov--------
-----------Silva---------Barry--------Milner---------
----------------Agüero-------------Džeko------------

3.
-----------------------------------Hart-------------------------------
Richards--------Kompany-------Yaya-------Lescott--------Kolarov
--------------------------Barry------------Milner--------------------
-----------------Agüero-------------------------------Džeko--------

--------Silva----------------------------------------------------------


Also we could play anythig between 50-60 games this season. This is what the squad is about. Darren Gibson started numerous games for United last season. It's a squad game. We'll almost never have a full strength squad and will rarely have what we'd consider our best XI starting games.<br /><br />-- Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:49 am --<br /><br />

Let me make my anti City fans prediction now- And feel free to throw your best insult, but at some point in the season Mancini will realize this is his best lineup.


.............................Hart..........................
Micah.....Kompany....Lescott......Kolarov..
.......................Yaya..............................
..............Nasri...........Silva...................
......Aguero.........................Tevez.........
.......................Dzeko..........................

With Milner as the first sub to come in for a striker and Barry the first sub to come in for a midfielder. Balo, AJ and De Jong will lose the most minutes from this Stacked squad if injury does not play a role. WHich as we all know, it always does.

Now go ahead, say your worst. :)

That team would 100% need de Jong, not Yaya. Yaya Toure has never tackled any opposing player in his whole life (it's the reason Sergio Busquets replaced him in the Barca team in DM) so where is the break up of play going to come from. If you had to Sartre that XI I'd rather go with Kompany as DM and Yaya in te back 4.

 

[jfszabo20]

All joking aside our squad is actually terrifying.

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH!!! Like has been said ... the problem may lie in RM trying to keep everyone happy.

 

[byronic]

Lets go for 4-3-3

_____________________ Hart _____________________

Richards_____Kompany______Lescott______Clichy

______________________Yaya____________________

_____________Nasri_________________Silva______

___Aguero_________ Dzeko ________ Tevez______

That is mindblowing on paper. Seriously, if that is not a top 3 team in Europe I will eat my neighbour's baby. Especially that forward 6 - scary.

 

[Zmajuga]

_____________________ Hart _____________________

Richards_____Kompany______Lescott______Clichy

______________________Yaya____________________

_____________Nasri_________________Silva______

___Aguero_________ Dzeko ________ Balotelli_____


The reason why I left out Tevez? Tevez sucks in teamplay.

 

[Tevez City]

Lets go for 4-3-3

_____________________ Hart _____________________

Richards_____Kompany______Lescott______Clichy

______________________Yaya____________________

_____________Nasri_________________Silva______

___Aguero_________ Dzeko ________ Tevez______

That is mindblowing on paper. Seriously, if that is not a top 3 team in Europe I will eat my neighbour's baby. Especially that forward 6 - scary.

This is how Barcelona play

_____________ GK___________
_________Back Four ___________
__________Bosquete ___________
Xavi ___________________Iniesta
___Pedro___Villa____Messi