Friday, June 23, 2006
Football maybe? (Soccer in American)
Yeah, the world cup's going on and the group stages are ending... Now there's one team I do want to focus on which is England's national team, not only because I am a fan of English football and really like the English players but also because I am sick and tired of hearing about national teams like Brazil or Argentina.
A few tips to Eriksson (England's Swedish Manager):
4-5-1:
Let's admit, you got an injured target man (Michael Owen, hope you get back quickly) and an inexperienced, clumsy, a bit egoist striker (Peter Crouch).
If you didn't give up on real strikers other than Wayne Rooney you might as well be able to count on the attack, but instead you bring in a kid (sorry, Theo, but you will get your time) and a power line, while you can easily get top class guys like Defoe.
Let's just accept this mistake, now, you only got one striker you can count on which is Wayne Roone and a bunch of top class midfielders? so what you do, you switch tactics;
Instead of the old fashioned 4-4-2, you could switch to 4-5-1 and let Frank Lampard play as attacking midfielder, Steven Gerrard as central defender and Owen Hargreaves as defensive midfielder.
This would be terrific because you have full control in midfield and it's not like any of the strikers did anything in this campaign; goal scorers - Gerrard (2), Joe Cole (1), David Beckham (caused an own goal) and only with luck Peter Crouch (1).
We got 4 goals from the midfield and only 1 from the attack... you don't have to be a world class manager to figure that something's wrong.
Ahh, and Beckham is playing bad, take him out and put Downing on the left side, let Joe Cole play the right.
Steven Gerrard:
Quit the bullshit and don't tell Steven Gerrard to play defensively, if there's one player on England's side who can score goals out of nothing it would be Gerrard... you got Owen Hargreaves who can chase after players and bring the ball back.
Frank Lampard:
Another reason to not let Steven Gerrard play defensively is that he and Frank Lampard have to learn how too coordinate well, if they do so you just bought the best two long shooters in the world... quite dangerous.
And that's it basically, enjoy the world cup.
A few tips to Eriksson (England's Swedish Manager):
4-5-1:
Let's admit, you got an injured target man (Michael Owen, hope you get back quickly) and an inexperienced, clumsy, a bit egoist striker (Peter Crouch).
If you didn't give up on real strikers other than Wayne Rooney you might as well be able to count on the attack, but instead you bring in a kid (sorry, Theo, but you will get your time) and a power line, while you can easily get top class guys like Defoe.
Let's just accept this mistake, now, you only got one striker you can count on which is Wayne Roone and a bunch of top class midfielders? so what you do, you switch tactics;
Instead of the old fashioned 4-4-2, you could switch to 4-5-1 and let Frank Lampard play as attacking midfielder, Steven Gerrard as central defender and Owen Hargreaves as defensive midfielder.
This would be terrific because you have full control in midfield and it's not like any of the strikers did anything in this campaign; goal scorers - Gerrard (2), Joe Cole (1), David Beckham (caused an own goal) and only with luck Peter Crouch (1).
We got 4 goals from the midfield and only 1 from the attack... you don't have to be a world class manager to figure that something's wrong.
Ahh, and Beckham is playing bad, take him out and put Downing on the left side, let Joe Cole play the right.
Steven Gerrard:
Quit the bullshit and don't tell Steven Gerrard to play defensively, if there's one player on England's side who can score goals out of nothing it would be Gerrard... you got Owen Hargreaves who can chase after players and bring the ball back.
Frank Lampard:
Another reason to not let Steven Gerrard play defensively is that he and Frank Lampard have to learn how too coordinate well, if they do so you just bought the best two long shooters in the world... quite dangerous.
And that's it basically, enjoy the world cup.
# posted by Avihoo Ilan @ 4:35 AM 
