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VivaCrappy's Tactics
Tactics:
Our team is a working unit who's purpose is to starve Maradona and Klinsmann off the ball and keep them away from goal, while exploiting Annahomoss' gaps in defense by quick transitions. We will play a deep-ish defensive line, and we'll press a lot and at high up(Check 'midfield' in our tactics) when Team Annah controls possession. Stealing the ball at any point will be devastating - Boniek, Conti & van Basten will all stay high up the pitch and will run at the defense, Riquleme can pick a pass both from an advanced or deep position and Matthaus can be devastating with his runs from the MF - you have it all with that quintuplet- skill, speed, technique, creativity, goalscoring. Our Attacking Setup ahead explains how we'll exploit Annah's only problem in his team.
Defensive Setup:
Stopping Maradona: This will be the most important part of our tactics, and for that we have the great Fernando Redondo and Lothar Matthaus. Yes, Maradona is unstoppable, but in Annah's 5-3-1-1 Maradona will really rely on his space to work his magic, but you can't find someone better to deny him space than Redondo. Fernando will sit on Maradona throughout the game, and due to lack of forwards from Annah's team he will do it quite comfortably without worries to mark someone else, especially since he has the great Matthaus alongside him who break any play in the MF and charge forward with the ball.
In order to further minimize Maradona's output, we need to stop Klinsmann ,the only other forward in team Annah, too. We gave up on Rio, because Ayala & Adams are perfectly capable of dealing with Klinsmann and stopping him from receiving any passes from the deep. They've both dealt with top notch strikers throughout their careers, and they can deal with him.
Wings: We chose to give up on Lahm for this match because Sagnol suits our plans better being a more defensive full back. Basically, the way we see Annah's lineup, the only attacking threat he has from the wings is Brehme and Zanetti from wing back positions. We feel certain that Sagnol & Lizarazu are better defensively than Brehme and Zanetti are offensively. Not to mention both of his wingbacks have Conti and Boniek to deal with, would be a huge risk on their part to bomb forward at every opportunity.
Midfield: As said before, Redondo's sole role when Annah has possession is to stop Maradona, than distributing and starting attacks. That leaves Matthaus with his superb work rate and power to deal with whatever midfielder roaming forward from team Annah(Luis Enrique, Scholes or Mendieta). I think Matthaus is enough to press and minimize any effect from either of them. Riquleme who doesn't like to go down, won't, and he's job will be to press Sammer or Mendieta or whoever playmakes from deep and try to steal the ball on the opponent's half. And that's where the real magic happens, Boniek & Conti who don't have any big defensive duty, will press as LAM and RAM alongside Riquelme in order to steal the ball, creating a team effort with van Basten to press and steal the ball quickly, while not letting the opposition find time to organize attacks and make them depend on long balls to Klinsmann.
Attacking Setup:
Wings Wings Wings: As mentioned in the defensive tactics, Sagnol & Lizarazu are enough to deal with Annah's wide threat. If you take them out, there's no need for Boniek or Conti to track back. That is critical for us, because if van Basten and Riquelme will find it tight in the middle, Boniek and Conti will take advantage of the missing full backs and will bully Annah's CB trio. Every time Brehme or Zanetti will try to push forward and stretch the play, they'll leave Conti and Boniek, without defensive duties, to run onto the defense, creating a 3v3 or 3v4 with van Basten against the three CBs or with Deschamps maybe there.
Playing the Great Marco Van Basten: We gave up on Rio & Lahm because we understood that we can stop him defensively without them, but Annah's strength is in defense and we wanted to avoid a 0-0 situation, so we pulled up the big gun. Three time Ballon'dor winner Van Basten goes in, Ruud goes out. Van Basten offers us much more threat in play. He has this ability to score any way he wants - inside,outside the box, header, volley etc. With Boniek and Conti staying so high the team has many ways of scoring, because van Basten will offer much more threat and will take a lot more concentration from Annah's defenders, giving more space for Boniek and Conti, as well as for Riquelme for his magic.
Tactical Change : Redondo and Lothar have a quick re-group with their managers. Redondo will now be sitting in front of the defense, dictating the game from the deep and closing out any space for any CMs running at the central defense.
Lothar will be running at Diego, not man marking but making sure that when he enters our half -
- he is not free to dribble past the whole team.
- Play a through pass to his front man
- If Diego plans to drop into his own half and play long passes from there, he if free to do so. Lothar won't be chasing him to his own half.
Key point - Even when Maradona does tackle past Lothar he would still have the obstacle of Redondo to overcome either by dribbling past him or slipping a pass around him.
Change - (after changing the formation)
- Redondo and Lothar fall back to form a defensive wall in front of the back 4.
- Ruud provides support to MVB up front.
- Boniek gets the free role in the middle to pressure his CMs or run out wide as appropiate.
TEAM VIVACRAPPY
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