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CL Winner Semi Finals Group A


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Will just point out the negatives because the teams are full of great players.

 

Dynamite: That forward line would not pass to each other and the back four has two pretty average players in it.

 

John: Slow CB's and basically no width because the full backs are defensive and one of them is playing on his weak foot.

 

Lee: The flanks are pretty exposed just with who your full backs are.

 

Alex: Midfield not great defensively.

 

I'll say Alex for sure and then John by a hair. 

 

 

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7 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

Alex: Midfield not great defensively.

That did cross my mind: I wanted to ape the mid-00s Milan midfield (Pirlo sat deep, Seedorf left, Gattuso right), and figured that Scholes was a player who really liked to get stuck in, therefore should be able to play that Gattuso role & then some. An alternative line-up was to take Redondo/another Madrid DM (for a club known to be so outstanding they have had the great DMs of the past 30 yrs play for them) then slide G. Neville in at RB, but Ramos (loathsome as he is) was too great to leave out. The  results is a midfield that plays football, the defence is full of butchers, & an attack that would harry and score.

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Lee & Dynamite (in that order) - although John's team is super close (couple of tweaks on the late picks and this one definitely gets in).

 

Giggs doesn't get enough respect in these games (to be expected for a player-manager Manc who sleeps with his brother's wife); at his peak he was at Mane-levels - that is to say one of the greatest LWs ever. Bale is one of the greatest to have played the game on the other flank. Eto'o was lethal. Its a really great, hard-working front 3 at their peak. Dynamite's front 3 outstanding goes without saying.

 

In midfield Lee edges Dynamite for me -- just. All great 3s - peak Schweinsteiger was probably more accomplished than Effenberg (really close though, both close to or at best in the world for a period at their peak). Albertini/Boban is too close to call although Boban was probably a little more attacking. Rijkaard just over Redondo - but again both world class. Great midfields.

 

Defence has similar weaknesses: each have 1 world class full back & one a little weaker. Riise at his peak was under-rated and gets in ahead of Reiziger. Alves better than Cole too. Cech was better than Peruzzi; the CBs are really close to call but Kohler was probably best of the 4.

 

All fun teams. With 3 Stacks, would probably have dropped Del Piero into the Muller position and picked another CF (nice to see Del Piero getting picked in these games; the Vialli/Ravanelli/Del Piero front 3 for Juve took them to multiple titles + CL finals in the mid 90s and is too easily forgotten).

 

 

 

 

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