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Not going to protect AVB here, but we have been playing 4-2-3-1 under AVB for a couple months before he was fired. I think he said he did that because we kept conceding goal from the left because mata was just awful defensively so mata was moved to the center. The difference between 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 is very little. It bore down on your personell, if you play 2 cm you will play 4-3-3 but if you play 1 cm and 1 am you will play 4-2-3-1

I have been saying this so many times Lampard-Ramires does not work because both of them are better playing higher, It should be either mikel/romeu - ramires/lampard We definitely need a midfielder, not sure about tiote though I much prefer getting a more creative central midfielder

I think I have said this a couple times, you are essentially playing 4-2-3-1 because oscar will be higher than ramires and you are back to 4-2-3-1

Wow I had no intention to wake up early to watch the game live because I thought it's going to be an easy game. Oops we lost against Corinth

http://news.yahoo.com/conn-school-victims-shot-rifle-multiple-times-205207737.html How in the heck you can buy rifle

To be honest, I have never tried to understand most of these guys motives, there must be something wrong with the person if he want to commit mass murder. I am more concerned that all of them were using guns and they either bought the gun by himself or stole it from their parents/relatives. So all/most of them were using Legal gun. I understand that it's impossible to outlaw gun in US but there must be a way to make it super difficult for this kind of people to get guns.

Like I said before, it is written in their constitution the right to bear firearm. it is going really difficult to outlaw gun in US

There are like 7 mass murders this year in US, it is just madness. I have been in US for 2 years now. When the first time I heard that in US you can bear firearm freely because it is written in constitution I thought he was joking.

I agree that it will not stop the whole problem but at least it will reduce it. I mean it's just ridiculous to hear that somebody can just buy a gun legally and use it for mass murder

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Superblue_1986" data-cid="560906" data-time="1355310065"><p> Are we overhyping the importance of an orthodox defensive midfielder?<br /> I look at United at the weekend and they played Carrick and Cleverley in the pivot. Cleverley is a more offensive midfielder and although Carrick is good defensively and plays a little deeper, I wouldn't say acting as a defensive shield is his strong point. None of their other midfielders (Fletcher, Anderson, Scholes) are orthodox defensive midfielders either.<br /> Real Madrid are another - the likes of Khedira, Alonso and Modric can all press and put their foot in but none are orthodox defensive midfielders with the prime target to protect the defence.<br /> If you have two midfielders with the legs to get around the park and press, but also have the intelligence not to push forward together and leave holes, this would allow us to utilise two midfielders with other strengths that are not just sitting and protecting the back 4.<br /> Just a thought...</p></blockquote> It's really depend on what you want from your midfield. The standard double pivot : a runner and a passer like you said clev/carrick or alondo/khedira. Time to time manu will play Carrick and scholes in mid if they want to boss the game better. The key is one of them have to be comfortable playing deeper and the other slighlty higher. What we have right now: Mikel/romeu : deeper not a passer Lampard: higher + passer - but is not young anymore to go up and all day Ramires: runner + higher So what we need is either an alonso type to play with rami or lampard type to play with mikel. If we can get one player who can play both it's even better. I was surprised we did not go for dembele last summer. I thought he defintely can play lampard role

He was also sucked at fk, I was confused why Barca asked him to take their FK. This season, he scored wonderful FK past casillas

Nah pep loves barca too much to do that and Thiago is xavi replacement

to be fair we actually have 2 player in every position torres/danny hazard/marin oscar/mata moses/danny rami/lamp romeu/mikel

Yap and I really hope there is going to be a big incident that will justify goal-line tech

Yap not really sure why. Early last year city was devastating, i was extremely impressed. Kolarov and richard bombed forward silva was just killing every team but since then i feel that their offense does not have any fluidity Manu in ronaldo era was just devastating in counter, this manu team can still score but I just don't feel scared whenever they attack/counter

Lol I really want to see Barca playing stoke-kind of team that is why I want Everton to qualify for UCL next season and be in the same group as Barca. I want to see how barca cope against everton who will thumb long ball to fellaini all the time.

- We don't need defenders until jt and cole are still here. - Midfield is the place where we need the most help. I really want us to get dembele last summer. Axel witsel = too expensive. Cabaya can be interesting if we can get him - Striker : I think huntelaar/lewandowski are reasonable targets

He is definitely the best player I have ever seeen The sad part about messi is that some people will still use he never win a world cup hence he cannot be considered one of the greatest TBH I don't see Argentina winning WC, you cannot win any major competition without good defense and Argentina defense is just very poor.

I have just realized after watching Manchester derby how awful top team in EPL have been this season. Our mourihno/ancelotti teams or Manu ronaldo era will win this EPL this season in landslide

Does open play excludes goal from corner and free kick ?

Quite impressed with romeu today, he looks pretty good

He still have problem adapting to the physical nature of EPL. He is not super fast nor athletic so I think it will take him a while to adapt and change his game a little bit.

Yap I thought he was quite poor defensively, he is just not suited to play double pivot in epl.

TBH changing his system to play around messi is a brilliant idea, you have a player who is that good in messi. why don't you want to bring the best out of him. Pep is not perfect, last year everybody questioned his 3-4-3 system and the way he played fabregas as left winger. He also tried to get rid of etoo . He made some questionable signing. But in the end he won 3 la liga,2 ucl, 1 quintuple (I think there was one season where they won everything) but can he be successfully in Chelsea I honestly don't' know

It does not matter who has the better team. My point is you cannot use "they have the best squad hence he is overrated"