Football Topic

[Munch]

If you faced last year's Inter, it would probably have ended in a very sad way for you. But this isn't last year's Inter, and it will never be until we get past this players' crisis and we get rid of Rafa Benitez at once I miss the competitiveness that Mourinho gave to our players so much...

Fancy swapping managers?

Oh wait Roy Hodgson screwed you when he managed you last time.

[Gaahl]

Benitez is too gentle and kind, and players do not respect him and don't work as good as they did cause they don't care. A good manager should be respected (and feared) by players, he should "use" players like a single cooperating machine that does everything he tells them to.

Plus, the players he used in the last matches and the change of module were probably the worst choice he could make. 4-5-1 sucks cause Eto'o can't make everything by himself, and putting in Obi, Materazzi and Mancini in the last match versus Milan was totally wrong, they haven't been playing for ages and they made an awful match indeed (Materazzi took Ibrahimovic down from behind near to the goal while Lucio had already stopped him, they got a free kick and scored).

[Munch]

Lol the 4-5-1...yeah he had this horrid habit of having a defensive formation when at Liverpool. He'd have two Defensive Midfielders on (Mascherano and Lucas Leiva (who's really an attacking midfielder)) and put Torres up front on his own letting him get kicked all over the place by defenders. When Torres was injured he'd put an extremely inexperienced N'Gog up front on his own.

During his last season at Liverpool players started losing respect for him too, they didn't like his favouritism and the way he treated some players (like Crouch and Benayoun).

Does he try to play a striker on the wing? He used to do that with Kuyt and Babel, now Hodgson keeps these tactics and makes them 2x worse. One good thing though is he (Roy) did away with the zonal marking.

[AzKiller]

I think 4-5-1 formation is correct if you got 2wings and not one RM and one LM



                    ST

L.Wing                      R.Wing
                    AM

                CM  CM

LWB                        RWB
            CB        CB

[Munch]

I've always liked the 4-3-3 formation, or if you're brave enough, 3-4-3.

[Hitman]

good old 4-4-2 times were best to watch lol

sucks that almost all teams in cups (and in general) play 4-5-1, not so much action there

[Gaahl]

I don't like 4-5-1 at all, that kind of module usually ends up in slowing the match down (which probably will end up in a draw) and boring people to death. Plus you need some really good and helpful upper-midfielders otherwise poor striker will have all the enemy defenders lurking for him and taking him down in seconds. 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 are the best imo, cause atleast they provide some action

[Munch]

A lot of managers these days are too scared to go offensive. They hide behind their defensive formations and one striker and then scrape a draw and leave the fans feel shitted on when they paid all the money to go watch them.

That's why now I prefer to watch the Championship or League 1 than Premier League because those players aren't showered with huge wages and actually play.

[[Jordan]]

Ajax - Real Madrid tonight.. oh ye 

[dappamikey]

Looking forward to sunday and fully expecting an annihalation of that poor excuse for a club.

Anyways first things first, Werder Bremen at the lane tomorrow and 3 points will see us through.
And you wouldn't catch us playing 4-5-1 as a preffered formation, though we've been doing it will Defoe is injured. Even then Tottenham's mentality is always about scoring more than the other team - the way footbal should be played.