4 Way Chain Draft: SF - Pat vs Himannv

[Physiocrat]

Pat

Himannv

Pat Tactics

• Time to go full muppet with a highly attacking 4-2-2-2 in the classic Brazilian tradition.
• The 1982 vintage's achilles heel was their susceptibility on the counter, so to that end we're fielding a much stronger CB pairing, and allowing a little pragmatism in preferring the specialist DM Casemiro to Cerezo.
• Neymar plays as the nominal second striker, who will peel wide frequently, both in search of 1v1 dribbling opportunities and to create space for the AMs to surge into. Between that and Careca leading the line and occupying the CBs, there should be opportunities for Pele and Zico to do damage here.
• Possibly pointless bit of trivia that I'm including anyway: Falcao and Maradona played against each other twice, with Falcao ending up on the winning team on both occasions. He outperformed Diego in terms of end product too, notching a goal and an assist compared to a sole assist for Maradona.

Himannv Tactics

Formation: 3-4-1-2

Tactics:

• Medium block with more zonal marking, but there is a conscious effort to reduce the spaces for the opposition to operate.
• Amoros operates as a more traditional flank hugging wingback, while Brehme cuts in more.
• Most of the play goes through Diego and he has two players in front of him with Gullit sometimes peeling wide or dropping deeper to sync up with Maradona, while Klinsmann stays up top and occupies the defense.
• The back three generally have ball playing skills. They offer a solid base with which they can progress the ball but also have enough defensive solidarity. One of them playing in the attackers quickly when a counter is on is the name of the game.
• The system allow for one of the back three to sometimes venture forward and create an imbalance elsewhere, with Koeman being the most likely to do this. This will be when we have possession.
• The midfield two are both industrious with Dunga being the more defensive one and Matthaus being more attacking in general.
• Diego

 

[Physiocrat]

@Pat_Mustard @Himannv

Game on!

 

[GodShaveTheQueen]

That's more like it @Himannv !

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Voted for Pat because he included the peaks in the formation pic

 

[Himannv]

Good game @Pat_Mustard lovely team.

 

[Pat_Mustard]

Good game @Pat_Mustard lovely team.

Well played mate. That's a great team you've built and you were good value for the win. Looking forward to seeing who you get for your final reinforcement.

Happy enough with the end result of my drafting here. I really needed to get my hands on Marcelo or Roberto Carlos in that last reinforcement round (could have picked Junior but he didn't seem the best fit), then if I'd made it through here I'd probably have hoped to go full-muppet and get R9 or Romario for something like this:

Alisson
Cafu T. Silva Mozer Marcelo
Falcao Casemiro
Zico Pele
Careca R9/Romario
​

 

[Gio]

Well played mate. That's a great team you've built and you were good value for the win. Looking forward to seeing who you get for your final reinforcement.

Happy enough with the end result of my drafting here. I really needed to get my hands on Marcelo or Roberto Carlos in that last reinforcement round (could have picked Junior but he didn't seem the best fit), then if I'd made it through here I'd probably have hoped to go full-muppet and get R9 or Romario for something like this:

Alisson
Cafu T. Silva Mozer Marcelo
Falcao Casemiro
Zico Pele
Careca R9/Romario
​

Yeah I was sketching out a similar sort of team in that shape based on who was all in play and might be feasible upgrades. I think the ultimate problem was the centre-halves don’t tend to get the same traction as their European counterparts. Even though, feck it, I’d back those two to be as good as anyone at managing a high line and bossing the ball about.