God is Haaland Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Gomez Draxler - Özil/Müller - Schürrle Khedira - Kroos Hector - Höwedes - Hummels - Kimmich Stegen/Trapp
Inverted Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 If we don't win then this is he last Scotland match I'll watching with Strachan as manager. The campaign will be as good as over.
Honey Honey Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Unusual shape line up. Like we are playing San Marino
The Käiser Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Was hoping to see younger 🇩🇪players get a start for today. It should be an easy win so why go all out? Löw said he would for the confederation cup. But I would like that trophy in the German display case
Honey Honey Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 This England game is going to be long and tedious since Norwich have come to park the bus
LFCMadLad Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 30 minutes ago, Toony said: I like that. Go for it. I hate it, same old formation that has seen us fail time and time again. It's enough to get us through the qualifiers because quite frankly the opposition is pub standard but in tournament football it's pre-historic. In our last friendly against Germany we tried out three at the back with wing-backs high up the pitch. We played ok and looked relatively solid, so why not continue trying to perfect it? Why go back to a formation that constantly fails?
Toony Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, LFCMadLad said: I hate it, same old formation that has seen us fail time and time again. It's enough to get us through the qualifiers because quite frankly the opposition is pub standard but in tournament football it's pre-historic. In our last friendly against Germany we tried out three at the back with wing-backs high up the pitch. We played ok and looked relatively solid, so why not continue trying to perfect it? Why go back to a formation that constantly fails? That's a fair point, but I think it's more about playing to the opposition. Against teams that we should be beating I don't see anything wrong with using this formation, it worked in the last qualifying campaign. I think in the games against the better countries, such as Germany for example, he'll use the formation he used the other night. I don't know why we'd play with three centre backs against Lithuania, the full-backs are still bombing forward today. So far I think Southgate's doing an excellent job.
God is Haaland Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 WTF Khedira is horrible. No vision and terrible passes.
LFCMadLad Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 4 minutes ago, Toony said: That's a fair point, but I think it's more about playing to the opposition. Against teams that we should be beating I don't see anything wrong with using this formation, it worked in the last qualifying campaign. I think in the games against the better countries, such as Germany for example, he'll use the formation he used the other night. I don't know why we'd play with three centre backs against Lithuania, the full-backs are still bombing forward today. So far I think Southgate's doing an excellent job. I get your point regarding using this formation against this opposition but let's be honest, we could use absolutely any formation and beat these minnows. I just think we should find a formation that suits our players (3 at the back with high wing backs perhaps?) and perfect it. Take Chelsea for example this season... Conte has come in and implemented his style and formation and he doesn't budge, regardless of the opposition. In my opinion we should play a formation, practise it and perfect it ready for the World Cup instead of trying something new for the odd game before reverting back to type.
Toony Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, LFCMadLad said: I get your point regarding using this formation against this opposition but let's be honest, we could use absolutely any formation and beat these minnows. I just think we should find a formation that suits our players (3 at the back with high wing backs perhaps?) and perfect it. Take Chelsea for example this season... Conte has come in and implemented his style and formation and he doesn't budge, regardless of the opposition. In my opinion we should play a formation, practise it and perfect it ready for the World Cup instead of trying something new for the odd game before reverting back to type. That's a fair point too, I just think the managers will see these games as the chance to rack up a few goals and would rather play an additional forward player than a third centre-back. It's a difficult one.
LFCMadLad Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Toony said: That's a fair point too, I just think the managers will see these games as the chance to rack up a few goals and would rather play an additional forward player than a third centre-back. It's a difficult one. Who'd be an England manager hey?
Toony Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, LFCMadLad said: Who'd be an England manager hey? Absolutely my thoughts.
Subscriber Dan+ Posted March 26, 2017 Subscriber Posted March 26, 2017 Agree with Mad Lad again. Find that's becoming quite a habit these days! This is all just a bit drab really. It's just a poor situation. A weekend of games cancelled for this non-event.
Honey Honey Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 zzzzzzZZZZZZ This game is enough to make you take up Church on Sundays again instead
LFCMadLad Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Seriously, I would bring on another CB and push the FB's right up to the last third as wingers to open up the pitch. Take off Dier because he's simply not needed
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