Quote:
Originally Posted by kogalo
"Regarding the defence, it is strong or weak depending on the work they do in midfield and attack. It's all a question of balance that Allegri has probably not found just yet," Ancelloti being modest on Allegri...
Why hasn't Allegri ever played all the 4( dinho, binho, ibra, pato) forwards together when they are healthy? Many will say because its a defensive suicide and Allegri clearly thinks so. But this is the best possible defense Ac Milan could ever field. The day you will see the four all together on the field , you will see a Milan that looks like barca or brazil.. Three forward are easily shut down if there isnt a supportive midfield.
Think about it this way... barcelona plays Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, Villa and Messi.. these are five forwards with very little defensive capabilities except for a bit of Xavi.. and still destroy teams. Even a defensive coach as Mourinho still fields four forward(ozil, di maria, ronaldo, higuain). Brazil does it, Arsenal does it but Allegri is scared to death. Instead he would rather play an old seedorf and have ronaldinho or Robinho or Pato on the bench. Seriously speaking, does anyone here believe that seedorf will offer anything on the pitch better than Robinho, or Dinho or Pato? If Seedorf was a Mascherano or a Yaya Toure, maybe I could buy that. This ideology of playing seedorf ahead of the geniuses is enough to tell me all I need to know about Allegri. He is clueless.
|
I strongly disagree, you want to know why ?
Pato, Ronaldinho and Ibrahimovic are "lazy" forwards, what I mean by saying such a thing is that they don't track back when they lose the ball (they do it once here and there) ... Their workrate is very poor with and without the ball.
Did you notice how it is difficult to give them the ball sometimes ? It's because they don't move.
You want to compare to Real Madrid ? All the players you quoted press, track back if they lose the ball, and when they don't have the ball, they don't wait for a pass, they move, giving solutions to their partners (and as a consequence, losing less often the ball, and as a consequence, needing to track back less often).
You want to compare to Barcelona ? It's the same thing, the workrate off the ball if huge, and as a consequence, a player always has two or more solutions to make a pass, ...
Nowadays, regarding talent, I don't think we're second to any team in the world, our team could easily be back to the top (of course, we still need some additions here and there, especially in defence and midfield), but the main difference between us and the best teams right now is the workrate of our players. Our players don't really press, they rarely track back, and when they don't have the ball, they wait for the pass. It's a combination of factors making me think that having the 4 attacking players on the pitch at the same time
nowadays would be suicidal !!