What I want to see is a team of players that are demanding the ball. A team that knows where all of his team mates are and where they will be. A team that when they are on the ball actually look for openings all the time and try slide the ball past the opponents defense instead of being cowardly and going back to our defenders constantly. Quit this 2 man holding midfield and get two central midfielders (give Aquilani something to do!) All of this just reminds you of one team, Barcelona. What team are currently copying Barca? Arsenal are, and how are they doing? Even without Van Persie and playing without Fabregas right now.
You can say trying to copy a team is bad, but realistically you can't. Playing the way the the European Champs do we can do, we have the same types of players
Better goalkeeper by miles
Johnson can attack as well, if not better than Alves, but just can't defend as well.
Kyrgiakos is like Pique, both big, can attack and can defend brilliantly. Although Kyrgi isn't a starter, he's our best CB, imo.
Alongside Agger is our current best at the back at the moment, in my eyes Agger is better than that fat Puyol boy.
Insua at left back? Damn that's a blow. Barca have Maxwell and Abidal for theres, where they have an upper advantage on us.
Mascherano is the world's best defensive midfielder and is why Barca want him, way better than Bushquets and Toure.
At the current time you'd argue that Iniesta and Xavi are better than any of our midfielders, but give Aquilani a run out in a position that they play in, always going forward helping the attackers, the boy would perform. Alongside Gerrard and hopefully getting more from our "Captain" could reignite his flair.
Do we have a Messi on our team? A play who's quick on the ball, can take on players and play either left, center and right? We do have one, maybe not the most stable and much bigger than Messi, but I could see this helping his game, Babel has been really let down by Benitez in his Liverpool career, I feel for him and would love to see him in this kind of position, going into the center when attacking and letting Gerrard roam to the right, creating a big attacking threat for us. If all fails, Pacheco can also do that job and has the height to pass for a Messi and has Barca blood in him.
Henry and Pedro are currently battling it out for the left of Barca's attack at the moment, both talented, but can we match? Benayoun, Riera, Maxi? Personally I'd go for Yossi and the reason is simple, playing on the left on the Barca team simply means you're going to be switching over alot, going central most of the time when attacking, allowing the left back to overlap you and making more options available when in possession. Riera can't do this, he's a winger and just a winger. Maxi could do this, but yet to see any real ability from him at all this season.
Upfront Torres could benefit from this system because he's a play that can score goals the way Ibrahamovic is made to, getting the ball in the box and skinning players to take a shot is what Torres can easily do and can see this working great for him, not only that but with Gerrard and Aquilani always looking for that good run from our number 9, both have the ability to make that pass.
Will this ever happen? No, but fun to think about.
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