Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Kunty McPhuck]

Got damn ya man Ibra. He's never been that strong

By the way who saw Gravity ? Just saw the flick and it's really nice.
@mastermind ?

Till he meets a top team in the knockout rounds of the CL.

And Guru's seen it, iirc he said it was great

 

[Liu Kang]

Till he meets a top team in the knockout rounds of the CL.

And Guru's seen it, iirc he said it was great

I agree with the logic but still, you being a Serie A follower, do you ever see him that consistent in the quality of his matches with Inter, Juve or Milan ? Dude seems intouchable right now.

 

[Liu Kang]

By the way, how is Juve looking ? Seems like their 3/5/2 is struggling in Europe against top teams.
That 3 man defense seems to have troubles against teams with proper wingers forcing the wing backs to be pushed back. Maybe if they changed to a 4/4/2, they could be more efficient ? Thoughts ?

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I agree with the logic but still, you being a Serie A follower, do you ever see him that consistent in the quality of his matches with Inter, Juve or Milan ? Dude seems intouchable right now.

In the league hes for Inter & then Milan they wouldn't of won the league without him. But when you compare his league form to his CL KO form its night and day. Hes goes from God to Judas once that CL music kicks in

 

[yo moms]

By the way, how is Juve looking ? Seems like their 3/5/2 is struggling in Europe against top teams.
That 3 man defense seems to have troubles against teams with proper wingers forcing the wing backs to be pushed back. Maybe if they changed to a 4/4/2, they could be more efficient ? Thoughts ?

4-4-2 is a terrible formation. its one of the reasons why english players are so bad. they grow up playing this shyt formation from like age 12 or whenever they start 11 a side.

 

[spoiled]

 

[Roaden Polynice]

By the way, how is Juve looking ? Seems like their 3/5/2 is struggling in Europe against top teams.
That 3 man defense seems to have troubles against teams with proper wingers forcing the wing backs to be pushed back. Maybe if they changed to a 4/4/2, they could be more efficient ? Thoughts ?

They played with 4 at the back today...it looked like a 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3.

I switched to the Man U match though once Juve went to 10 men

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

By the way, how is Juve looking ? Seems like their 3/5/2 is struggling in Europe against top teams.
That 3 man defense seems to have troubles against teams with proper wingers forcing the wing backs to be pushed back. Maybe if they changed to a 4/4/2, they could be more efficient ? Thoughts ?

352 works in Serie A because teams play with 2 up top and no one can match their energy in Serie A. Put them vs teams with a single CF and flank support, who can match their energy/workrate they look ordinary.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

They played with 4 at the back today...it looked like a 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3.

That. Unless you got the fb's for it and the Zebras were playin with 4 cb's its not goin to work in this era, especially in Europe. Its just so outdated

 

[Liu Kang]

4-4-2 is a terrible formation. its one of the reasons why english players are so bad. they grow up playing this shyt formation from like age 12 or whenever they start 11 a side.

I think it's not really the formation but how you play it and against who. Italy is playing this way and it kinda works for them.

They played with 4 at the back today...it looked like a 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3.

I switched to the Man U match though once Juve went to 10 men

My bad, some websites I browse had them in 3/5/2 against Real. Well maybe they just not that strong.

352 works in Serie A because teams play with 2 up top and no one can match their energy in Serie A. Put them vs teams with a single CF and flank support, who can match their energy/workrate they look ordinary.

Yeah that's what I thought also.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I think it's not really the formation but how you play it and against who. Italy is playing this way and it kinda works for them..

Yup. Simeones/Atleticos 442 is

 

[Liu Kang]

Yup. Simeones/Atleticos 442 is

Awful to play against on FIFA13
Had me raging because I was struggling against them and not against better teams.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Awful to play against on FIFA13
Had me raging because I was struggling against them and not against better teams.

The crossing, especially with Falcao and Costa upfront

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

Reading the Caf about Kagawa da Jap gawd

And Giggs too

Fellaini out, Giggs in.

Spoiler

This is really indicative of how dire our CM position is if a 40 year old is our saving grace

 

[OneManGang]

What makes yesterday loss to Dortmund even more annoying, is they had ONE shot on goal all second half. And that was all it took. Over the last 7 years, I swear no other team gets punished as badly as Arsenal have been. Our mistakes seem to be CATASTROPHIC.