Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

[mastermind]

From a midfield tactical standpoint. It's a 2 vs 3 thing, the struggle of adjusting to knowing when to go and not go forward from a side midfielder in a 3 to that of being central in a 2.

Kante is WC destroyer and b2b player in the Gattuso mould but what Chelsea/Sarri need is more Essien then Kante. Now Kante has had all of his success playing in a 2 man midfield, whether it was with Drinkwater, Matic or Pogba. But now he is being asked to do more than ever before and that includes scoring goals.

The real issue for me is Kovacic, who is suppose to be the most attacking of the midfield 3 and provide goals and assists like Hamsik and Zielinski, but that isn't really his game. So they basically relying on the 3 forward players to score all the goals, which may work in Serie A, but not in the PL or in Europe. And when you play a midfield 3, one of the midfielders has to be the additional goal threat along with the forwards, but Jorginho, Kante and Kovacic just aren't that, they all prefer to play deeper. Kante doesn't need the ball but the other 2 need it to be effective. That's why Barkley has looked better in the midfield with Kante and Jorginho, while being technically inferior to Kovacic, he fits better as he is far more direct and wants to get into the box.

TL:DR

Jorginho isn't getting dropped and Sarri isn't going to move from a 3 man midfield. He was 4312 at Empoli and the Napoli players told him they preferred to go to 433, but the midfield shape didnt change

Wouldn't mind seeing a midfield 3 of Kovacic Kante Barkley.

I can see them signing Ramsey, imo.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I can see them signing Ramsey, imo.

Yeah, no need to change the family life.

 

[mastermind]

easily the two most head scratching things in this country right now.

Michael Arace | It wasn't pretty, but US Soccer to get right coach in Crew's Gregg Berhalter

They made this whole show about finding the best coach and everything and they only considered two people?






As for MLS, I still remember when there were 10 teams and the play was slowly improving by year, bums were slowly being phased out.

Now they're trying to get to 28 teams in 4 years after years and tears of "we're not trying to recklessly expand like the NASL" ...
No real plans, just expand, just because ... when that wasn't good enough years ago.

first, holy shyt at that article. And dude tried to paint it as a good thing too that they only interviewed two people.

As for MLS, their expansion is radically different from NASL. NASL went from 9 teams to like 24 in 6 years. That's insane and not what MLS has done.

But your overall point, I agree with regarding no real plan.

 

[Montez]

Yeah, no need to change the family life.

Wife just had twins too. Ramsey has never been loved by Arsenal fans, would be a great fukk you to go to Chelsea. Best fit imo.

first, holy shyt at that article. And dude tried to paint it as a good thing too that they only interviewed two people.

As for MLS, their expansion is radically different from NASL. NASL went from 9 teams to like 24 in 6 years. That's insane and not what MLS has done.

But your overall point, I agree with regarding no real plan.

MLS is a ponzi scheme.

 

[mr.africa]

mike dean refereeing the north london derby

 

[mastermind]

MLS is a ponzi scheme.

no one makes any money in MLS either

 

[Montez]

no one makes any money in MLS either

Only when they bring in new teams...

mike dean refereeing the north london derby

Low key...he's been good to us in those matches. It's when we're playing other teams he screws us.

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Montez]

 

[eufemism]

add on Osario, Tata Martino and Beisla cant even get an interview . This american arrogance is something else, especially since the failures from the last WC qualifying. Poeple really thought an election with a new leader, a GM was gonna bring change

Funny how they keep hiring cacs


NCAA is a joke

Until we start letting 16-18 year olds play real soccer at the pro level we'll never match Europe


Imagine if ronaldo didnt start playing pro soccer until he was 21

 

[concise]

MLS is a ponzi scheme.

It's starting to be hard to deny this now.

All those years in the red with official sponsors like Herbalife, Amway, Advocare, and Xango must have given someone in the league office a "Eureka" moment.

 

[So UnThotful]

Funny how they keep hiring cacs


NCAA is a joke

Until we start letting 16-18 year olds play real soccer at the pro level we'll never match Europe


Imagine if ronaldo didnt start playing pro soccer until he was 21

Ronaldo family couldn't even put him through the youth ranks here with the costs of these leagues . Imagine having all this talent and it goes to waste cause this federation would rather put a profit on the pitch than the best players on it

 

[Yayo Toure]

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Funny how they keep hiring cacs


NCAA is a joke

Until we start letting 16-18 year olds play real soccer at the pro level we'll never match Europe


Imagine if ronaldo didnt start playing pro soccer until he was 21

Have you seen C dots vertical? He'll be playing hoops.

 

[Kwabena]

Arsenal!!