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Top teams squads in Epl.

Banning me on his behalf or should I pass the word

Lol the person I got it from still in dreamland, and totally forgot terry

Hazard: costa who's your competition upfront since Drogba is injured Costa: Torres

It's all hazards fault,

Can't believe how good he is. Only a little pace prevents him from being as good as vidal to me. Yes he is that good.

Top teams squads in Epl. Arsenal don't have a good striker or centerbacks, but their overall squad looks stronger than I thought.

Top teams squads in Europe. Who wins the Champions League.

Finally a post that talks about tactics, I liked your post just for that.Mourinho didn't copy 3-5-2 from vangaal, he used it last season against Norwich, Everton and some other teams at the beginning of last season. Now we have a left footed starter in Luis and à striker that moves, so it will feel more natural to the team. But I'm not sure if Mourinho play terry because that formation requires 3fast centerbacks. Mourinho obviously still loves his 4-2-3-1 and ramires will play more than we think. I liked salahs linkup play yesterday, the fact he would pass and go for the return instead of standing like willian in the firsthalf made me happy because we need a lot of movement in our team to make our teamplay fluid. I'm happy we are playing smaller teams because we all know that is what cost us the title last season. He has been tweaking the formations all pre-season to find the best style that opens up parked buses. So far this 3-5-2 was the best in terms of fluid movement, especially when moses played RWB but without fast centerbacks we will suffer on the counter. There has to be a balance.

But sadly he doesn't use his dribbling. He rarely makes 3dribbles per match. He is not a player to take initiative but he follows tactical instructions so is important for the team. We need a mixture of Schurrle goal threat, and attacking mentality and Willian techniques.

He was linking up and playing one twos with hazard and fabregas. Very good performance

Nope, cuadrado actually attempts to dribble his marker and gets past him into dangerous positions because of his fantastic technique and dribbling skills. Willian pushes the ball forward and tries a low cross or he passes back to oscar. Similar technical abilities but different mentality. I've studied our style of play and we are more of an individual team in possession than a team play style. I said in some thread that we needed another winger on the right that has 1. Close control dribbler (which means the ball sticks to his feet when dribbling. Eg. Robben, Ribery, Dimaria, hazard, reus, shaqiri, cuadrado, Sanchez, benarfa etc) this type of players are important against parked buses when there is no space. If we have another on the right, hazard will be a free man. 2. Contributes to goals or assists because of accurate crossing, finishing or vision. Because of our style of dribbling through defenses rather than passing through defenses, this type of player on both wings instead of only hazard will elevate our play badly.

We changed to a more attacking formation especially after we brought on Hazard. Only 3 defenders with Matic is enough for these small teams

It's not about the quality. It's the fact that oscar cannot pass to willian and move for the return pass.(1-2) Its the fact that the tempo is still too slow and this means we will depend on hazards dribbles to make things happen before we speed up our attacking play. If we do a linkups and the players overhit the pass then I'll understand, but it's beginning to worry me that there's no passing movement in our play when lallana/Rodriguez/lambert were linking up in attack last season but are not near the quality of Oscar/willian/schurlle

We don't move after passing. We don't look like we've practiced any passing moves. It's worrying. It always seems like people who met each other are playing together for the first time. No one twos, no nothing.

Top teams squads in Europe. http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066796_Real_Madrid_CF.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1065897_FC_Barcelona.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066530_C_Atletico_Madrid_SAD.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066448_FC_Bayern_Munchen.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1063929_Borussia_Dortmund.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066653_Liverpool.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066440_Manchester_City.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1064586_Manchester_United.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1063756_Arsenal.jpg Who wins the Champions League.

Top teams squads in Europe. http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1064873_Chelsea.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066796_Real_Madrid_CF.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1065897_FC_Barcelona.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066530_C_Atletico_Madrid_SAD.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066448_FC_Bayern_Munchen.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1063929_Borussia_Dortmund.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066653_Liverpool.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1066440_Manchester_City.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1064586_Manchester_United.jpg http://www.footballuser.com/formations/2014/08/1063756_Arsenal.jpg Who wins the Champions League.

Looking at the lineup, I feel it's going to be a boring match. Hope I'm wrong

True about that

Ramsey is some player(he reminds me of lampard so much). Has to be one of the best box to box midfielders imo. In fact arsenal dropped off the title race because he got injured and they closed in again when he came back and finished 3points behind us.

He seems like a deep lying playmaker to me. And they blossom later in their careers like modric and xavi.

If they get Dimaria, I wouldn't put it past them to outscore their problems like Liverpool did last season. Let's see how things pan out

If Dimaria moves to manutd, vangaal will have his robben. I fear that will put them as joint title favourites since they don't play in Europe

I edited my post. But most of the time, that slowing down is the wrong decision. If he quickly gets at the defender and he gets into the 18box, he has provided a shorter route to the box. A lot of chances created by Holland in the worldcup was due to how quickly robben attacked the box, the hazard method of waiting only works when you have runners off the ball or worldclass attacking teammates which we lacked in Chelsea last season. Maybe now costa and schurlle will help with that slowing down style with their runs but hazard has to play like the onus is on him to do something more often to reach his potential. His technique and dribbling is already worldclass IMO, he has nothing left to develop except this and finishing and mentality to attack his marker, or else he could still be at the same level in 2-3years time like wilshere/nani/quarezma and many others with ballon d'or potential at 22.

He slows down too much for my liking. That is why it seems he is crowded out EVERY single time. People like robben/Dimaria are far more dangerous for both club and country but he doesn't seem to be as crowded as Hazard. It's not because opposition is stupid to notice their dangerous, it's because hazard slows down too much when he can take advantage of a 1on1 situation.