I know, it's bloody hard to please some people!
I'm having that issue myself. All of a sudden Zidane doesn't seem to be a vastly superior player to Riquelme
Candela was a tricky attacking fullback himself and was Roma's Carlos in that team in the early noughties with Cafú on the right.
As if a team that dominated the midfield would be 5-1 (ratio) down within ten minutes Exactly the idea from the outset, those two will be very busy containing and tracking Zidane and Scholes and supporting the defence. Riquelme is isolated and the Pitbull is patrolling the midfield, where is the service and thus the goals going to come from?
Which is exactly what I have, albeit with Scholes joining the attack more often.
If it gets to that stage mate, I'll vote for you.
I'm having that issue myself. All of a sudden Zidane doesn't seem to be a vastly superior player to Riquelme
Come on, don't start the nonsense talk now. You've been a good boy until now. Cannavaro and Carvalho are two of the best of this generation and you know it. Besides the fact that Cannavaro's leap defies his height.
I'm not playing long ball stuff, I don't need to. I have a team full of passers and players that can beat their men in 1 v 1's. My entire front three will do that, my midfield can do it.
Well no, obviously you wouldn't!
Well this is a final. Zidane is as likely to score a goal as he is headbutt my centre half and ruin it for his team!
Cannavaro more so than Carvalho (whose main weakness is lack of pace but that won't be exposed with you under siege). Either way, Vieri at his peak was a handful for any defence. The guy averaged a goal a game in three different league seasons for two different teams. He is the highest scorer of headed goals in Serie A history, so forgive me if I say that Cannavaro's height-defying leap is not going to stop him creating all sorts of trouble for you.
It is not, my team is much better suited to keeping possession, I will dominate the game for the most part and your DMs will be scrambling as I play the ball around them. Riquelme becomes isolated with Davids monstering him in any case. How on earth will the ball reach your forwards? A big part of it would be aerially and aerially you won't win a single ball all game up there.
TBH, at this point the only people who are mentally and physically knackered are your CBs and your two DMs.
That's the bandage on my head mate I actually wanted Cocu but Ralaks picked him right before me and then he went out
Neither do I, and no, it hasn't been covered before. I'm not one to pick on these things. As far as I know he is a right-footed left winger whose corssing was rubbish (probably because he is very right footed) and always cut inside. I would not argue he can't do the same on the right although it is very likely his crossing would still be rubbish and his effectiveness when cutting inside is not as good as we were used to.
You don't need to have a winger getting to the touchline to put a cross in. Both Zanetti and Candela will put in crosses either from deep or further up when one gets more adventurous. You can also put a ball in the box from anywhere on the pitch or the edge of the box (not just to score but to get Vieri to knock it down target man-style for another player to capitalise). Then there's all those free kicks which will be conceded as Zidane glides past people, and I would be very surprised if I don't get a bucketful of corners to score from. Not that headers was the only way Vieri scored, mind.
), really need others to come on and vote to have any chance Many thanks, ha, for such a great player I couldn't remember him there at all!
On the midfield, I guess we just disagree. I think in these competitions the likes of Vieira and Mendieta are invaluable because they're so mobile and as comfortable on the ball as they were in their defensive work. When these teams have as much attacking talent as they do, I think it really helps to have more of those players because in reality they're all overloaded with attacking talent. You say Davids' primary job would be to nullify Riquelme, well I think if Overmars was to isolate a fullback, he'd destroy him. I feel like I can't even talk confidently about him now (one of the few players I thought I could
), given that I didn't even remember him playing on the right! The Ajax '95 Champions League run is one of the few things I've re-watched and while he wasn't so involved in the final, it still took Costacurta constantly coming across (and Donadoni pinned back) to help out Panucci all game. And he absolutely destroyed Bayern in the semis. I think his crossing was fine. Interesting matchup with Candela being right footed too. I just couldn't see your fullbacks getting forward much, which is where I see width being a problem.Nah, I'm not comparing them player by player at all, my vote was based around Cling Bak's team being better balanced in my opinion. But one has to try to give words to that to then get into these fruitless discussions
and I don't see what's wrong with saying, you know, it's Ronaldo who by the rules of this competition is up there as the greatest player of all time. You do the same with Zidane. But it's not about Ronaldo vs. Vieri, it's the intimation that the rest of the team is well placed around Ronaldo to be a success. You yourself just broke it down into attack vs. defence when the reason I voted for Cling is that I think he'd have more control of the game and then be better placed to score. You'd quite rightly disagree.All those weren't fantasy teams overloaded with attacking talent, they had many more workers to aid the fullbacks. You have Davids. Maybe you can, but show me a team with the likes of attacking talent you have where the fullbacks could cross the halfway line.
) and on comes Seedorf to pair up with Davids, providing greater protection to the back four without losing passing and vision in that part of the pitch. 
I partly made the change to the more sturdy midfield expecting you to show up overnight and making your previous assessment. Good to see all that writing is worth something!