Cheers, I get why you'd think that but I'm hoping that the aerial threat and Gotze in the free role will be the solution to this problem - if the opponent parks the bus, I have a very good long shot threat with Yaya & Pogba, and the aerial threat of them and Diego Costa from random(Moyes-like) crossing
Yeah it's solid criticism, hopefully I can triumph it in the matchday thread.
Cheers mate, to be honest after getting Yaya in the second round that was my aim - getting the best of the midfield and I think I've done it. Like you said, with the support of the front three I can see either Yaya/Pogba getting on the score sheet quite often wether its with a bursting run into the box, a long shot or a set piece.
Thanks mate, your team looks really good, Park-Isco-Ronaldinho is as balanced as it comes between attacking and covering, and like someone mentioned here you have the option of moving Park to the middle against certain teams like Fergie did with him to take Pirlo out of the game.
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Considered him myself as a last resort but I don't rate him too highly tbh
Has he really?
From reading the Kompany and City threads on the Caf, I'd argue that a large part of the football fans on here say that Demichelis has outperformed Kompany in the past 2 seasons. It's all a bit odd with Kompany, he's either crap or worldclass, when he's quite clearly somewhere inbetween for 3 years now.
I agree his peak is Malaga & Bayern indeed, just not rating it that high. And yeah he might have outperformed Kompany in recent years, but just like Kompany, he's so inconsistent that its too hard to judge. That's why I wanted to avoid him anyway, you don't want a question mark as CB, especially without an undeniably amazing CB next to him.
Yep, tried finding GK examples but couldn't seem to find ones, Barthez is a great example though - superb shot stopper with very bad decision making sometimes and a constant feckup basically. GK and CB are positions you just don't want to risk it. If you get Nani for the wing you don't mind him being an unpredictable bastard, that's what makes him both good and bad, but in CB I want the no nonsense type.
It's not really a deep pool of consistently good centerbacks though. I'd rather have Demichelis, who can at least put in a quality performance against anybody than someone who is generally not good enough, but at least consistent with it.
Yeah that's non debatable
He's had a patchy career but he was very good at Malaga. His reputation suffers a little here because he took some time to shake the media narrative that Kompany was infallible while he was the dodgy one.
Tbf, Yaya is shit today too
Does this mean Lavezzi as the striker and Aguero behind him?
Finally. He's one of the best right-wingers in the pool.
Yeah, I had him and Pedro as the latest options but preferred Pedro to my tactics.
Knew you were gunning for either so had to grab one
Not yet sure what formation you're planning, but the midfield core is brilliant. Not a big fan of the defense though, but it will all depend on how that midfield will end up setting up(a diamond or a 4-2-3-1-ish)
