The Double Draft

Gio said:
We haven't seen many top calibre defensively focused XIs. Joga had a fearsome unit in the Euros draft, then replicated it in the last all-time draft, but even they were perhaps too attacking for your stingy tastes. Cutch has tried a couple over the years, but they've not carried much favour with the voters.
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Aye, the former had Platini at it's helm (from the semis) and Elkenigge which was received pretty well. The defense carried me to the semis no doubt, but after that it was arguably the fire-power which just gave me the edge. Likewise, the sheer influence of Maradona in the latter but both were water-tight defensive set-ups.

I quite liked anto's 6-1-3 or 4-2-1-3 or whatever it could be labelled as. Some of the defensive personnel could obviously be improved upon but the concept of the double-lock with two full backs cum midfielders seemed interesting to me, and it was topped off nicely with the wing-backs and the CM being the shuttlers, and a formidable forward trio which posed a significant threat on the counter. An intriguing tactical set-up

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Wow Messi fits harms' team like a glove.
 
Mazhar13 - 1. M Le Tissier 2. Gento 3. Sammer 4. Pirri 5. Cristiano
Joga bonito - 1. Carrick 2. Breitner 3. Facchetti 4. Burgnich 5. Kalle Rummenigge
Cal? - 1. M Scholl 2. Desailly 3. N Santos 4. Cannavaro 5. Cruyff
harms - 1. Éder Assis 2. Luis Suárez Miramontes 3. Cafu 4. J. Masopust 5. Messi
RedTiger/Marty - 1. A di Livio 2. K-H. Schnellinger 3. Lahm 4. F. Hierro 5. van Basten
Tuppet - 1. B Schneider 2. Gullit 3. Passarella 4. D. Santos 5. Romario
P-Nut - 1. Ince 2. Batistuta 3. Baresi 4. Alaba 5. Ronaldo (fenomeno)
Chesterlestreet - 1. T. Motta 2. L. Thuram 3. Moore 4. J. Santamaría 5. Baggio
DavidG - 1. Petit. 2. Hugo Sanchez 3. Maldini 4. Duncan Edwards 5. Gerd Muller
Sjor - 1. Camoranesi 2. Schweinsteiger 3. Krol 4. Ferdinand 5. Di Stefano
Invictus - 1. O Hargreaves 2. Redondo 3. Nesta 4. Brehme 5. Eusebio
Enigma - 1. Ze Roberto 2. Rivaldo 3. Figueroa 4. Bergomi 5. Pele
Raees - 1. D Baggio 2. Figo 3. Vogts 4. Charles 5. Best
Skizzo/Pat - 1. Solskjaer 2. Van Hanegem 3. Kohler 4. Zanetti 5. Henry
ctp - 1. Ginola 2. Netzer 3. Beckenbauer 4. Carlos Alberto 5. Garrincha
Downcast - 1. Wes Brown 2. Robben 3. Scirea 4. Roberto Carlos 5. Puskas

@mazhar13 your pick now. 8 hrs to go.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
Thanks mate.

I moved midfielder last this time around as that'll bring the biggest meltdowns...followed immediately by T-Bola!
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Yep the midfielder round is going to be completely mental.. When the players range from Xavi to Ronaldinho theres real potential to really cock up the balance of some of these sides.
 
Tuppet said:
EAP's manager draft winning side was the best defensive side I saw in drafts. The midfield of Desailly - Redondo - Rijkaard was incredible.
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Good shout.
Šjor Bepo said:
I had a fantastic defensive side in last auction draft. Lost in the second round but thats because of the manager, the team was great.
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Right enough, that was ridiculously strong.
 
@harms I'd be tempted to use the Messi / alves combination with Cafu , who is 10x the player IMO
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
In hindsight this may be a bit harsh on Skizzo/Pat as Henry is a step below the rest. I didn't notice the difference before, else would have balanced it better.
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I think Henry was mentioned, unless I'm mistaken - during that whole Scholes debate. Or not - can't remember. He's obviously a great player with all sorts of accomplishments to his name, and not in the Ibra range, but still. He's the worst of an extremely good lot, I suppose.

What could have been done in hindsight is to replace him with one of the AM/SS/WF types in the midfielder pool - and then give the last midfield place to...whoever: Several candidates there, including both of harms' snake picks.
 
Don't know if I should feel a bit disappointed with my Vogts and Best gifts.. are they rated as top tier by you lot?
 
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