To be fair the other false 9's dont have Xavi and Inesta tbh
Coaches trying to replicate the "false 9" shtick are delusional. There's only one Messi, tbh.
To be fair the other false 9's dont have Xavi and Inesta tbh
Spain does and they are still looking for a number 9. They even have to nationalize players from other countries to see if anyone plays something worth a .
The 9 position wasnt a problem for Spain when they had prime Xaviniesta
Mmh, yeah. Yes it was. Even when they won the WC they had problems with it. They dominated every ing game but since they didn't have anyone that would score consistantly they often had to suffer till the last moment to barely win 1-0. They are the team to win a WC with the least amount of goals scored.
son they dominanted defensively, by obnoxiously keeping the ball. While this might not be pleasing aesthetically it was an excellent strategy with a very high success rate (considering that roster). Having a target man up front just felt wrong given their entire team style, and given the fact that the were rotating everything in midfield. That's the true purpuse of the false nine, to enable rotations, which lead to more space , which leads to streching the other team, which leads to constriction. Imo they couldn't have played that style with a true 9, as a true 9 can't rotate in midfield.
They conceded once, in their first game when they were a bit rusty, after that they manhandled teams. Those 1-0 felt like 5-0 tbh, when they went one up I knew it was OVER.
The false nine would work with true offensive midfielders in a stacked midfield team: e.g.: misty at barca, peak fabregas with spain, ronaldinho at barca, rivaldo at barca. The strategy is not a gimmick imo, it just has really high personnel requirements.
Spain played with a 9 the entire world cup they won... David Villa... and yeah, he played CF... they had Pedro playing in the wing...
villa as well as pedro played more cf-wing, they played a lot of barca diagonals for them which opened the middle for runs. A standard 9 is imo more of a box poacher and aerial threat. They tried that with costa in '13 and '14 and it was (expectedly) disastrous. If not for '10 Del bosque would've been seriously hammered for wasting the '14 roster like that.
Corona and Brahimi raw dogging Leicester City lefty
Mahrez and Slimani are resting tbh
Helping their Algerian cousin Brahimi make it past the group stage tbh
Brahimi paying a tribute to Madjer by scoring a Madjer for Porto
,and I quit watching the game after Real's second goal.
tanking for Arsenal
tbh
Oh and Benzema with 50 goals now in the CL, but yeah, let's roll with Girud in the Euro
Madrid
Sidenaldo can't even poach properly now
will get a token Golden ball
So Madrid plays either Monaco or Leicester.
Champions League, Euro, and soon to be Liga champion all in one season son
Not everyone can stat pad their CL stats against Celtic and Monchengladbach
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