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    Agreed.. the Sanchez number 9 experiment never won me over.
    Coaches trying to replicate the "false 9" shtick are delusional. There's only one Messi, tbh.

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    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

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    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 .

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    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

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    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.

  6. #306
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    Nah

    They rang

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    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.

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    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...

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    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.

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    PSG

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    Wow Lucas Perez.

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    besiktas

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    Corona and Brahimi raw dogging Leicester City lefty

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    Corona and Brahimi raw dogging Leicester City lefty


    Mahrez and Slimani are resting tbh

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    Mahrez and Slimani are resting tbh
    Helping their Algerian cousin Brahimi make it past the group stage tbh

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    Helping their Algerian cousin Brahimi make it past the group stage tbh
    Brahimi paying a tribute to Madjer by scoring a Madjer for Porto

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    Real Madrid standing second

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    ,and I quit watching the game after Real's second goal.

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    Madrid coasting tbh

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    ing stupid RMAO in the second place pool now

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    Madrid coasting tbh
    tanking for Arsenal

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    tanking for Arsenal
    tbh


    Oh and Benzema with 50 goals now in the CL, but yeah, let's roll with Girud in the Euro

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    Sidenaldo can't even poach properly now
    will get a token Golden ball

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    So Madrid plays either Monaco or Leicester.

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    Sidenaldo can't even poach properly now
    will get a token Golden ball
    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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