tolmie's hairdoo
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Montgomery Burns said:tolmie's hairdoo said:Given
Richards Toure Lescott Bridge
De Jong
Zabaletta Ireland Barry Bellamy
SWP
SWP and Bellamy give the same thing in terms of height and pace, but Bellamy gives extra protection to Bridge on the Left.
Zabaletta proved against Hamburg that he is top quality on right side of midfield and protects Richards.
The extra holder means Ireland can go beyond SWP when the chance is there. We can't afford to be gung-ho and need to be more narrow.
Excellent - except we should do an Everton and play without a striker, moving SWp further back. This would confuse Wio no end as he would have no one to mark. Swamp midfield with a six and control the game from there, having all but de Jong and Zabaleta breaking. Edit: Wio and Vidic would both be confused and redundant, they would know who to pick up, where to go, what to do; nothing new there I suppose!
I like it! - in fact, six in midfield works if you have Ireland as slightly forward of the line and allow him to look for killer passes for SWP and Bellamy running in behind the full-backs.