Ricster
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18 pages is alot to go through and im not sure if this has been mentioned by i'll explain.
I watched the City vs Liverpool game again last night and what i noticed was Yaya was playing at the top of a 3.
Vision the way we set up on Monday night in a formation that could be described as a 4-2-3-1 or when attacking a 4-2-1-3 formation.
What stood out to me was the use of Yaya in this formation. He was playing in the role where we thought we'd see Silva or Robinho. That then got me thinking about the last time we saw a midfielder of the same sort of style play in that position behind the striker or strikers.
Cast your mind back to when the great Johan Cruyff was manager of Barca. It wasn't unusual to see Cruyff deploy a DM style player in that position. The DM does need to have a full array of attributes like, good ball retention, passing, stamina, but most important of all is the pressure and the breaking up of play high up the pitch.
This allowed Barca, and on Monday night City to start attacks much further up the pitch and pinned Liverpool down and not allow them out of their own half.
I am now of the belief that Yaya is the integeral part of this team. The heartbeat if you like. There was no other player on that pitch that played a more important role than Toure.
Yaya Toure is in no doubt to us what Wesley Sneijder was to Inter Milan last season. If you look at the way Inter set out last year under Mourinho we are playing under a very similar mould.
2 DM's in De Jong and Barry as Inter had Zanetti and Cambiasso, and as i've already touched on Yaya and Sneijder.
Here is another image of a similar version to the way we set out. The formation allows us not only to contain but to stretch the opposition when in possession of the ball.
Very clever stuff from Mancini but the highlight for me is the use of Yaya and that is instrumental to the team.
I watched the City vs Liverpool game again last night and what i noticed was Yaya was playing at the top of a 3.
Vision the way we set up on Monday night in a formation that could be described as a 4-2-3-1 or when attacking a 4-2-1-3 formation.
What stood out to me was the use of Yaya in this formation. He was playing in the role where we thought we'd see Silva or Robinho. That then got me thinking about the last time we saw a midfielder of the same sort of style play in that position behind the striker or strikers.
Cast your mind back to when the great Johan Cruyff was manager of Barca. It wasn't unusual to see Cruyff deploy a DM style player in that position. The DM does need to have a full array of attributes like, good ball retention, passing, stamina, but most important of all is the pressure and the breaking up of play high up the pitch.
This allowed Barca, and on Monday night City to start attacks much further up the pitch and pinned Liverpool down and not allow them out of their own half.
I am now of the belief that Yaya is the integeral part of this team. The heartbeat if you like. There was no other player on that pitch that played a more important role than Toure.
Yaya Toure is in no doubt to us what Wesley Sneijder was to Inter Milan last season. If you look at the way Inter set out last year under Mourinho we are playing under a very similar mould.
2 DM's in De Jong and Barry as Inter had Zanetti and Cambiasso, and as i've already touched on Yaya and Sneijder.
Here is another image of a similar version to the way we set out. The formation allows us not only to contain but to stretch the opposition when in possession of the ball.
Very clever stuff from Mancini but the highlight for me is the use of Yaya and that is instrumental to the team.