Post by therock67 on Jun 16, 2006 15:31:45 GMT
lyonsee said:
admin said:
Re: Gerrard - Lyonsee's side has Alonso and Gerrard in the centre with Makelele holding there too. It's very narrow (especially on the left) and with two static holding players it's asking too much of Gerrard to bomb forward and move wide.
Lyonsee said that Gerrard controlled the second half of the Champions League final. I would argue that he was lost without Hamann and though Gerrard was much better second half he did need Hamann to support him - I think we can all agree on that. That's not my definition of controlling the midfield.
My team is not that narrow. Perhaps I should've explained. I'm playing two attacking full backs (well two when I find the other one, but probably Gallas) and Ronaldinho and Robben will obviously drop out wide to collect the ball as neither are out and out front men. The reason for putting them as fowards was to differentiate from Chelsea's 4-5-1 formation.
What is your definition of controlling midfield? Every central midfielder who controls a game needs support.
So your wide forwards and wide full backs will be whipping in crosses for Henry to attack with his head?
Realistically if someone is controlling a midfield I'd consider it unlikely that the team would concede 3 goals. If that player was subsequently supplemented with a defensive midfielder who stopped the rot, then I'd likely opine that the former midfielder was not able to exercise sufficient control over the midfield so the manager, recognising this, reinforced that area with more (dominant) personnel.
