Balu & Pedro's homage to Béla Guttmann
The game is tricky, EAP has an excellent team and we can't counter all his strength, so we need to go with what is our by far strongest formation. We combine the best out of two of the greatest attacking teams of all time and balance it with incredible workrate from all eleven players, after all more than anything else, that's part of Guttmann's legacy, using versatility and workrate throughout the whole team to make his top heavy formations work.
"Guttmann was a part of the sub culture of football thinkers who were catalysts for a very early foundation for Total Football. The 1930’s had seen the Austria Wunderteam develop a style of quick passing taken from the legendary Scotsman Jimmy Hogan. The triumvirate of Gusztáv Sebes, Márton Bukovi and Béla Guttmann adapted this to include rigorous training regimes, fluid movement and versatility amongst players. The Hungarian side also featured perhaps the earliest incarnation of the false 9, a tactic that was unprecedented at the time. The great Barça team masterminded by Pep Guardiola has its roots in the Hungarian football constructed by those three men. The successes of many other famous sides can also be linked back to their tactical innovations."
More than anything, that's what we want. Quick passing, fluidity in movement and workrate from front to back. The wonderful Zoltán Czibor comes in to play on the left wing, famous for his impressive dribbling skills and his perfect crosses and passes to the strikers. He completes an attacking formation, that offers everything: skill, intelligence, movement, physicality and of course deadly finishing from every angle.
During the draft we created a short journey along Guttmann's career with a few great stories and a bit of background information on our players. You can find them 'here'. Our first and second game also give a lot of insight into Guttmann and the players.
In possession:
We're back to the Benfica blueprint, the 3-3-4 with Boszik pulling the strings in midfield and Coluna and Eusebio driving the ball forward. Joya moved to the right and will keep Maldini busy, stretch the play and make sure that Maldini can't tuck in to help the defense. Czibor will isolate Cafu on the left wing and look to connect with his favourite finisher Puskás.
In defense:
We'll get in trouble from time to time, no doubt about that. A lot depends on our players being able to delay attacks until we drop deeper into a well organised 352 shape. Puskás and Eusebio aren't lazy, they'll put pressure on Baresi and Redondo. Tito follows Gullit and turns our defensive shape in a solid 442 when Gullit makes runs into the box. It's all not that complicated, we work hard as a team and we'll pull it off.
Final words:
If there's an attack to score against that Milan backline, then it's no doubt ours. They never faced anything like the hurricane we send towards them and with shakiness appearing in the heart of Capello's team, who knows what would happen?
------------------------------Balu/Pedro Guttman--------------------------------------------------------------The Capillows(EAP)
Edgar Allan Pillow
Capello
The Capillows
Improvements to the team:
Ruud Gullit has joined his strike partner in van Basten. A 'Total Football'er he easily fits into many positions. Athletic, strong, aabundanceof stamina, intelligent, aware of spaces and had talent to exploit them, Ruud is a icon!
Cafu has agreed to join the team to replace Panucci who decided to go on a sabbatical post the encounter with CR7. Amongst the top 3 RB's of all time, he certainly adds to the solidity and a attacking outlet to the team.
Tactics:
Formation: 4-2-3-1
Nothing much to be said, that I've not said before.
Defence:
+ Arguably the greatest defensive unit in history.
+ The famed Milan defence just got better with the addition of Cafu and Redondo. Cafu in right back is a more improved link between defence and attack when compared to Panucci. Redondo is a incomaprable genius in controlling a game from that position. Presence of the solid Desailly allows him a bit more freedom to move up when in possession and dictate the like few midfielders can dream of.
+ Milan remained unbeaten for 58 league games, between 19 May 1991 and 21 March 1993, which included an entire season in the league. Milan won the 1991-92 title undefeated, going unbeaten for an Italian record of 58 matches. During the 1993-94 season, Baresi helped Milan concede a mere 15 goals in Serie A, helping the club to finish the season with the best defence.
(Milan also scored a record 74 goals that season. This clearly shows Milan not a all defensive 'park a tank' team. They were fully capable of scoring in abundance too.)
Midfield:
A slight change from the standard 4-4-2 employed by Capello fit in perfectly with the improvements made to the team.
+ As mentioned before defensively Redondo and Deailly complement each other perfectly. The power of face and Desailly gels with the intelligence and positioning of Redondo. Both are top DM's and Redondo is so much more and his presence there provides a ideal platform to control the midfield and launch attacks from.
+ The addition of Nedved creates a potent link on the left flank. Presence of Maldini there allows him to focus more on attack and midfield.
+ Gullit in a AM rather than a SS position gets more out of his talents. His workrate will be a valuable addition to the spine. With 2 DM's (one of them Redondo), he cannot ask for a better launch pad to ply his magic.
Attack:
Marco van Basten - Very underrated, but one of the best strikers in the history of the game.
Winning formula:
1) DEFENSIVE SOLIDITY - When your opponents are Puskas and Eusebio, underestimating them would be disaster. The defence should be rock solid to cater to both Puskas trickery and sheer power/pace of Eusebio. In that sense you can't ask for anything better than what my team has.
2) PACE - This is one of the incredible fast attacks in the draft. Nedved, Savicevic, Gullit are all incredibly quick and capable of latching on the a genius pass from Redondo. With van Baeten waiting to provide genius finishes, it will be near impossible to stop us from scoring.
+ Bozsik is a great deep lying playmaker, but pace is not one one his strengths. Hi facing Nedved will be one of the better routes for me to get straight to his defence. Goncalves may be a competent defender, but he is against Gullit. I'm not underestimating the defensive cover, but simply put, the advantage Nedved has and the presence of Gullit tilts this in my favour.
3) FLEXIBILITY - The front 3 is so flexible with all 3 capable of interchanging positions, dragging their markers and defenders out of position depends on the flow of the game. Presence of Cafu to that wing provides so much ammunition to Savicevic to take advantage of.
Good luck to Balu. In real life this will be a match to drool upon for generations.[/QUOTE]
The game is tricky, EAP has an excellent team and we can't counter all his strength, so we need to go with what is our by far strongest formation. We combine the best out of two of the greatest attacking teams of all time and balance it with incredible workrate from all eleven players, after all more than anything else, that's part of Guttmann's legacy, using versatility and workrate throughout the whole team to make his top heavy formations work.
"Guttmann was a part of the sub culture of football thinkers who were catalysts for a very early foundation for Total Football. The 1930’s had seen the Austria Wunderteam develop a style of quick passing taken from the legendary Scotsman Jimmy Hogan. The triumvirate of Gusztáv Sebes, Márton Bukovi and Béla Guttmann adapted this to include rigorous training regimes, fluid movement and versatility amongst players. The Hungarian side also featured perhaps the earliest incarnation of the false 9, a tactic that was unprecedented at the time. The great Barça team masterminded by Pep Guardiola has its roots in the Hungarian football constructed by those three men. The successes of many other famous sides can also be linked back to their tactical innovations."
More than anything, that's what we want. Quick passing, fluidity in movement and workrate from front to back. The wonderful Zoltán Czibor comes in to play on the left wing, famous for his impressive dribbling skills and his perfect crosses and passes to the strikers. He completes an attacking formation, that offers everything: skill, intelligence, movement, physicality and of course deadly finishing from every angle.
During the draft we created a short journey along Guttmann's career with a few great stories and a bit of background information on our players. You can find them 'here'. Our first and second game also give a lot of insight into Guttmann and the players.
In possession:
We're back to the Benfica blueprint, the 3-3-4 with Boszik pulling the strings in midfield and Coluna and Eusebio driving the ball forward. Joya moved to the right and will keep Maldini busy, stretch the play and make sure that Maldini can't tuck in to help the defense. Czibor will isolate Cafu on the left wing and look to connect with his favourite finisher Puskás.
In defense:
We'll get in trouble from time to time, no doubt about that. A lot depends on our players being able to delay attacks until we drop deeper into a well organised 352 shape. Puskás and Eusebio aren't lazy, they'll put pressure on Baresi and Redondo. Tito follows Gullit and turns our defensive shape in a solid 442 when Gullit makes runs into the box. It's all not that complicated, we work hard as a team and we'll pull it off.
Final words:
If there's an attack to score against that Milan backline, then it's no doubt ours. They never faced anything like the hurricane we send towards them and with shakiness appearing in the heart of Capello's team, who knows what would happen?
------------------------------Balu/Pedro Guttman--------------------------------------------------------------The Capillows(EAP)
Edgar Allan Pillow
Capello
The Capillows
Improvements to the team:
Ruud Gullit has joined his strike partner in van Basten. A 'Total Football'er he easily fits into many positions. Athletic, strong, aabundanceof stamina, intelligent, aware of spaces and had talent to exploit them, Ruud is a icon!
Cafu has agreed to join the team to replace Panucci who decided to go on a sabbatical post the encounter with CR7. Amongst the top 3 RB's of all time, he certainly adds to the solidity and a attacking outlet to the team.
Tactics:
Formation: 4-2-3-1
Nothing much to be said, that I've not said before.
Defence:
+ Arguably the greatest defensive unit in history.
+ The famed Milan defence just got better with the addition of Cafu and Redondo. Cafu in right back is a more improved link between defence and attack when compared to Panucci. Redondo is a incomaprable genius in controlling a game from that position. Presence of the solid Desailly allows him a bit more freedom to move up when in possession and dictate the like few midfielders can dream of.
+ Milan remained unbeaten for 58 league games, between 19 May 1991 and 21 March 1993, which included an entire season in the league. Milan won the 1991-92 title undefeated, going unbeaten for an Italian record of 58 matches. During the 1993-94 season, Baresi helped Milan concede a mere 15 goals in Serie A, helping the club to finish the season with the best defence.
(Milan also scored a record 74 goals that season. This clearly shows Milan not a all defensive 'park a tank' team. They were fully capable of scoring in abundance too.)
Midfield:
A slight change from the standard 4-4-2 employed by Capello fit in perfectly with the improvements made to the team.
+ As mentioned before defensively Redondo and Deailly complement each other perfectly. The power of face and Desailly gels with the intelligence and positioning of Redondo. Both are top DM's and Redondo is so much more and his presence there provides a ideal platform to control the midfield and launch attacks from.
+ The addition of Nedved creates a potent link on the left flank. Presence of Maldini there allows him to focus more on attack and midfield.
+ Gullit in a AM rather than a SS position gets more out of his talents. His workrate will be a valuable addition to the spine. With 2 DM's (one of them Redondo), he cannot ask for a better launch pad to ply his magic.
Attack:
Marco van Basten - Very underrated, but one of the best strikers in the history of the game.
Winning formula:
1) DEFENSIVE SOLIDITY - When your opponents are Puskas and Eusebio, underestimating them would be disaster. The defence should be rock solid to cater to both Puskas trickery and sheer power/pace of Eusebio. In that sense you can't ask for anything better than what my team has.
2) PACE - This is one of the incredible fast attacks in the draft. Nedved, Savicevic, Gullit are all incredibly quick and capable of latching on the a genius pass from Redondo. With van Baeten waiting to provide genius finishes, it will be near impossible to stop us from scoring.
+ Bozsik is a great deep lying playmaker, but pace is not one one his strengths. Hi facing Nedved will be one of the better routes for me to get straight to his defence. Goncalves may be a competent defender, but he is against Gullit. I'm not underestimating the defensive cover, but simply put, the advantage Nedved has and the presence of Gullit tilts this in my favour.
3) FLEXIBILITY - The front 3 is so flexible with all 3 capable of interchanging positions, dragging their markers and defenders out of position depends on the flow of the game. Presence of Cafu to that wing provides so much ammunition to Savicevic to take advantage of.
Good luck to Balu. In real life this will be a match to drool upon for generations.[/QUOTE]
