ChicagoBlue
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With Savic coming on board, is it time to release the fullbacks and shove it up every team that tries to go mano a mano against us?
With Savic (RB/CB) on the right, VK in the middle and JoLo (LB?CB) on the left, does that allow the "full backs" the freedom to run and play further up the park for MOST of the game? I know Barca plays this way when they are dominating, and ManU even play this way late in games when they are behind.
Is it time for City to move it up a gear and DOMINATE teams with a swarming REAL 7 man defence and VERY SOLID, yet ATTACKING formation with REAL 4 attackers and "free-to-overlap" full backs?
Given that it is now de rigeur to have a SOLE attacker against City, why play with a back four, except for those few periods when we are up against it (free kicks, corner kicks, protecting a slim lead in last 10 mins, etc...)
If we are (he laughs...) actually losing a game in the last 30 mins, it is easy to pull a defender, move Yaya forward AND add another attacking midfielder/winger/striker, WITHOUT having to rearrange the entire team into different positions, which is what Mancini was forced to do at times last season when we had a few injuries.
...........................................Hart
................Savic.................Kompany................Lescott
Richards........................................................................Clichy
.............................De Jong
.....................................................Yaya
..............Silva..................................................Balotelli
......................................Dzeko
AND THAT IS WITHOUT ANY NEW PLAYERS!
CURRENT INTERNATIONALS on Sub's bench to choose from:
Given
Zaba
Kolarov
Boateng
Kolo
Boyata
Milner
Barry
(M. Johnson?)
NEED ANOTHER TOP MIDFIELDER!!
Johnson
Adebayor
NEED ANOTHER QUALITY FORWARD
[Onuoha, SWP, Bridge, Bellamy, Roque, Jo and Tevez not even included)
With Savic (RB/CB) on the right, VK in the middle and JoLo (LB?CB) on the left, does that allow the "full backs" the freedom to run and play further up the park for MOST of the game? I know Barca plays this way when they are dominating, and ManU even play this way late in games when they are behind.
Is it time for City to move it up a gear and DOMINATE teams with a swarming REAL 7 man defence and VERY SOLID, yet ATTACKING formation with REAL 4 attackers and "free-to-overlap" full backs?
Given that it is now de rigeur to have a SOLE attacker against City, why play with a back four, except for those few periods when we are up against it (free kicks, corner kicks, protecting a slim lead in last 10 mins, etc...)
If we are (he laughs...) actually losing a game in the last 30 mins, it is easy to pull a defender, move Yaya forward AND add another attacking midfielder/winger/striker, WITHOUT having to rearrange the entire team into different positions, which is what Mancini was forced to do at times last season when we had a few injuries.
...........................................Hart
................Savic.................Kompany................Lescott
Richards........................................................................Clichy
.............................De Jong
.....................................................Yaya
..............Silva..................................................Balotelli
......................................Dzeko
AND THAT IS WITHOUT ANY NEW PLAYERS!
CURRENT INTERNATIONALS on Sub's bench to choose from:
Given
Zaba
Kolarov
Boateng
Kolo
Boyata
Milner
Barry
(M. Johnson?)
NEED ANOTHER TOP MIDFIELDER!!
Johnson
Adebayor
NEED ANOTHER QUALITY FORWARD
[Onuoha, SWP, Bridge, Bellamy, Roque, Jo and Tevez not even included)