lexluchor wrote:Zenith wrote:Sims wrote:Sampaoli also slowly becoming my second choice cos Alexis will stay if he comes in
Would increase the likelihood of Arsenal playing a formation that uses three at the back.
He wouldn't get away with his Chile 3-3-3-1, but a variant of 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 would be highly likely.
Not against the idea, in fact I favor it looking at how Conte's Chelsea and even Spurs sat up last weekend, but it requires the right personel for it to be succesful or we'd end up like City, leaking goals left right and centre.
Bellerín is a player who would excell in a formation like this imo.
Bielsa, Berizzo, Sampaoli, Guardiola all them try to play very similar, with some differences...
Berizzo: still dont try in a big team, needs more left hand to deal with egos and build a team with figures.
Sampaoli: A perfect copy of Bielsa, but without the integrity of Bielsa, he run out of Chile when the President of the Football Asociation falls in the FBI hands, then Sampaoli shows his real face, lot of problems of money, and payments under the table...
Guardiola: he had a team around Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, needs a lot of money to rebuild a winner team like that, in Bayern he had the team and almost not opposition
Bielsa: before was acused of dont know how to adaptate his system, but with Chile and Athletic he change his mind and was much more flexible
I see ....
-------------- Cech --------------
-------??--------Mustafi-----Koscielny
Bellerin-----------Xhaka--------??------
------------------Ozil------------------
Wallcott------- Perez-----Alexis
With Bielsa could be an abuse...! passing in attacking position to:
------------------------ Cech --------------------
------------??--------Mustafi-----Koscielny---------
Bellerin---------Ozil-----Xhaka--------??------
Wallcott---------------------------------Alexis
------------------------ Perez-----------------------
Cazorla, Ox, Giroud, Iowi like a good bench... and not anymore with Ramsey, Monreal, Rafael, Gibbs and cople more.