re: 2021/22 Leeds United szn long thread: Gracias Marcelo

There was a time around 2010 when I thought, and others thought, that the role Alex Song played for Arsenal and Felipe Melo played for Brazil would morph into a 3 at the back in possession, effectively giving the "free role" to the DM instead of the AM. It's odd that in the rush to use the 3 at the back, we haven't seen that. A player like Casemiro would seemingly excel. Maybe Melo's stamp on Robben killed that system.

Bielsa's system would work pretty well for most of the big teams. Arteta tried to use this double triangle system, which is similar to the 3 v 2 and 5 v 4 overloads the 3-3-1-3 creates, and that worked pretty well until teams figured out that Granit Xhaka acts like a wounded deer if you come at him from the center of the field when he is facing toward goal. Some straight psychopathic shite too. Falling on the ball, being like Zoolander himself with an inability to turn right, with his version of Blue Steel being when he decided to pass to his right one time and sent the ball straight into Chris Wood's face and then into the goal.