Moby
Dick
The aim of this poll is to decide who will come up victorious in a hypothetical match between the two teams. ONLY THE WORLD CUP FORM OF THE PLAYERS IN QUESTION IS CONSIDERED. CLUB FORM IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.
TEAM POLAROID
Vs
TEAM CRAPPY/PIPPA
Polaroid's Tactics
DEFENSEThe defense is comprised of some great World Cup pedigree in some proper heavyweights. Moore and Santamaria would guard the middle. Santamaria the best cb of the 50s and one of the top 2 or 3 manmarkers of all time will be on Fontaine, leaving Moore as the covering defender. For the covering role the most important qualities are really reading of the game, awareness and anticipation. In those aspects, it is nigh on impossible to find one better than Moore, whose prescient anticipation and reading of the game led to jock stein saying that there should a law against it as moore was 20 min ahead of everybody else in the game. Minding the flanks are Cohen and Maldini. Since the opposition won't likely have an out and out wide presence on the left, Cohen can easily tuck in with the CBs providing a compact defensive line while Maldini's job is fairly simple, to track Garrincha the whole time. Moore often played as the left center back so with Maldini taking care of Garrincha and Moore covering, we can curb his influence to an extent.
MIDFIELDBreitner and Zito form the double pivot with Zito being the defensive midfielder while Breitner has the freedom to play his favoured box to box role. Between the two of them they have the job to contain Kopa. Given the fact that crappy's midfield two wouldn't trouble us much when it comes to attacking, these two would have a fair amount of time and space to cut the service from Kopa to the attack. With Fontaine tightly man marked and Kopa's service being intercepted by two very strong DMs, the attack shouldn't be as dangerous as it looks on paper. Thirdly, the midfield is completed with Diego Maradona, who will be the heart of the team pulling the strings and taking on players regularly. Dunga and Silva, while an excellent CM pair should find it difficult in dealing with Diego, like anyone else would given this is the 86 form he is in.
ATTACKStarting with Boniek, he will have a free roaming role like he did in the last game, dropping in at unexpected areas to either link up play through the middle or stretch his defense out wide, his energy, work rate and flair would allow to create chaos in his defense third who are already dealing with Maradona. These two combined would create openings for the forwards. On the other side, Rivaldo will be playing as a Second Striker, using his movement, passing and goalscoring to great effect. He formed a deadly partnership with Ronaldo and IMO was the best attacking player in 2002, so containing him would be difficult. Finally, Eusebio who was in unstoppable scoring form in 66 will lead the line. With the service given to him with his own ability to create chances out of nothing and take on defenses alone he would be finding net without question.
FLUIDITYThe front four is comprised of extremely versatile players who were hard working as well and would add a continuous fluid flow to attack, with them interchanging easily. Rivaldo, Eusebio and Maradona are all equally capable of dropping deep to help the midfield and start attacks or going up front and finish the chances. All had excellent scoring records in their peak WCs. Boniek as we all know is even ahead of them when it comes to multitasking. So, with this given fluidity and movement, it will be impossible to mark one of the players. The most effective way of stopping Diego has usually been man marking him, but that will not be possible here and the movement will drag his defenders all over the pitch.
TEAM POLAROID
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Vs
TEAM CRAPPY/PIPPA
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