john@staustell said:
Outrun said:
The difference is that they played 4-4-2, with two strikers. We often play only with one striker. Tevez might drift outside as supporting striker but then he's competing with the likes of Silva and Robinho.
Solskjaer was also ok with being on the bench, I doubt Ibra, Tevez and Adebayor are.
Pretty sure Bobby had 6 international strikers at Inter including Ibra, including the likes of fat-boy Adriano.
They had, if I remember it correctly:
Julio Cruz
Ibra
Crespo
Adriano
Suazo
Recoba
Playing 4-4-2, two strikers.
Recoba was on a shit expensive contract so no other club would take him. Basically he played with the reserves and was barely in the first team. Adriano obviously had his issues. Suazo was new for that season and was a stupid buy, he didn't get to play that much. Crespo was just shit and benched for that reason, he was horrible, and old. Worse than Benjani, kept missing goal, laughable. Julio Cruz acted as their Solskjaer, was coming a bit to an age too.
I am not saying your logic is wrong, but what I'm saying is:
Those 6 attackers consisted of alcoholics, 30+ year old players who were fine with playing a match here and there. Their bodies didn't take more anyway.
If we had Ibra, Adebayor, Tevez, Balotelli we would have four players young, in their prime, all expecting to play every week. We'd also have to get rid of Santa Cruz, Jo and Caicedo somehow (which I hope will happen anyway).<br /><br />-- 12 Aug 2010, 16:40 --<br /><br />
Solihull Samba Boys said:
Outrun said:
The difference is that they played 4-4-2, with two strikers. We often play only with one striker. Tevez might drift outside as supporting striker but then he's competing with the likes of Silva and Robinho.
Solskjaer was also ok with being on the bench, I doubt Ibra, Tevez and Adebayor are.
I think we'll play 2 up front this season in a diamond setup. All of Roberto's signings point towards this in my view, plus he played that formation against Valencia. In addition, hopefully we will have 68 games this year so we need class players in every position. We can't have 3 top strikers and then one average one to make up the numbers, and everyone knows what the situation is when they sign.
Starting line-up was:
Hart
Richards - Boateng - Kompany - Kolarov - Yaya - De Jong - Barry - Silva - Tevez - Adebayor
Who was playing right midfield?
They only played for 30 minutes but from what I gathered, we played the 4-3-1-2 of:
Hart
Richards - Boateng - Kompany - Kolarov
Yaya - De Jong - Barry
Silva
Adebayor - Tevez
Yaya, De Jong and Barry seemed to play on a line and covered the midfield. Tevez had a free role behind Adebayor, with Silva acting as a AM.
If we played the diamond we would need a right and left midfield.
I'd say the formation we played was very similar to the one Inter used to play. Cambiasso, Zanetti and Vieira as CM/DMs with Figo or Stankovic on top of them.
Actually I find this interesting, I'll start a new topic of this in the main forum, getting a bit OT here.