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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


EverTheOptimist said:
Carlos and Cafu were up down and whipping crosses in , they didn't show playmaker skills in half spaces the TAA and Cancelo, both of there starting positions are inside left and right, Cafu, Maldini and Carlos never came inside dictating play like a CM like TAA and Cancelo.

Hakemi, James, Robertson are classic up and down FBs a threat in final third, they don't have the play making ability of TAA and Cancelo.

I don't know any FB besides them who play that way in the game right now, both can hit 60 yard passes on a six pence switching play with ease, comfortable being in the centre of the park while also doing the work of a classic FB.

No surprise a new definition of the FB role is because of the 2 best managers in the game who have made a FB on their team the vocal point of playmaking in their teams.
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EverTheOptimist said:
Carlos and Cafu were up down and whipping crosses in , they didn't show playmaker skills in half spaces the TAA and Cancelo, both of there starting positions are inside left and right, Cafu, Maldini and Carlos never came inside dictating play like a CM like TAA and Cancelo.

Hakemi, James, Robertson are classic up and down FBs a threat in final third, they don't have the play making ability of TAA and Cancelo.

I don't know any FB besides them who play that way in the game right now, both can hit 60 yard passes on a six pence switching play with ease, comfortable being in the centre of the park while also doing the work of a classic FB.

No surprise a new definition of the FB role is because of the 2 best managers in the game who have made a FB on their team the vocal point of playmaking in their teams.
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I'm not aware Ancelotti has done that with his full backs. But then hes won leagues in the top 5 countries, so what would he know?
 

EverTheOptimist said:
Carlos and Cafu were up down and whipping crosses in , they didn't show playmaker skills in half spaces the TAA and Cancelo, both of there starting positions are inside left and right, Cafu, Maldini and Carlos never came inside dictating play like a CM like TAA and Cancelo.

Hakemi, James, Robertson are classic up and down FBs a threat in final third, they don't have the play making ability of TAA and Cancelo.

I don't know any FB besides them who play that way in the game right now, both can hit 60 yard passes on a six pence switching play with ease, comfortable being in the centre of the park while also doing the work of a classic FB.

No surprise a new definition of the FB role is because of the 2 best managers in the game who have made a FB on their team the vocal point of playmaking in their teams.
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Come on let's not get silly now.

Nobody has mentioned Lahm, maybe he did not exactly play like the players you mention but he was literally top class when moving to the midfield, so to start this they are 'unique', they are 'special', they can play 'half spaces like nobody else' (whatever that guff means) is just plain nonsense.

99.9% of what every footballer is doing today has been done before. There are slight adaptations and developments of roles but that is more in relation to how the whole 11 function rather than an individual role. Full backs have played narrow before, full backs have been technically good players before, full backs have been used as a main creative base before, full backs have been more like wingers before, it is not new. Your manager is not a godlike genius for finding a way to play this game any different to hundreds of managers before him. He has a set of 11 players who do what he asks and are good at what he asks them to do, again just like hundreds, maybe thousands of managers before him.

Nobody doubts that they are good players, very good players in some ways but the constant barrage of cult like praise is vomit inducing and you have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
 
Thomasc said:
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Seen this a few times and every time it makes me laugh.

Regardless of the obvious bias and outrageous hypocrisy, the line 'No matter your allegiance' is the line that gets me. I would like to say to this guy 'Welcome to football, you have a lot to learn'. This is the only explanation, that he has only been watching football for a very short time, although one of the first things you do learn is tribalism (good and bad), so he is a very slow learner, in that respect.
 
For what it's worth, I reckon they'll win a 7th CL but fail to win the league or the FA Cup, purely based on the fact that I had a dream the other night and that's exactly how it panned out for them lol
 

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