re: Bastian Schweinsteiger will struggle in Pep's new system

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Serio Ramos' hair should get RM a 10 point deduction.

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No shite.



Yeah, you´re right Hendo, Javi Martínez should be playing the Busquets role at Bayern. I don´t know the other you mentioned, I´d assume he´s pretty damned good.

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Javi Martinez as the defensive midfielder, allowing Schweinsteiger to push forward.

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@HH
I don't think moving Schweinsteiger up to an offensive mid is necessarily a bad thing. I think Javi will do fine in the defensive mid role.

As much as I hate FC Hollywood, I still think they are the class of Europe. They were obviously head and shoulders above everyone last year, and I think they improved more than anyone else so far in the transfer window.

Now, it's still early, so I'm not saying all of that talent will result in another treble, but it would be a waste of talent if they don't.

I know this is some wishful thinking, but I sure would love to see my Eagles pull out a W (heck, I'll take a draw) against them this weekend.

Just complained to Hendo on Twitter about United. Think we get third this season. Chelsea and City have improved too much while we have done nothing but lose SAF...which I think hurts us more in the transfer game than on the field. Spurs also scare me.

Sorry for the hijack. Carry on.

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It's not even really an attacking midfielder position but just not as a lone defensive midfielder.

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Gotcha. Either way, I don't think it won't be a huge problem. I think any kinks will be worked out by the 5th-7th match.

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I wonder if Mario Goetze will make the roster this weekend.

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Good question. Is he injured still? Or is he having trouble adjusting to the system?

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We'll see. I think this season is going to be crazy.

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Maybe. It's too early to tell. But I don't really think anyone else improved enough to challenge FCB for an entire season.

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Good question. Is he injured still? Or is he having trouble adjusting to the system?

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Coming back from injury, he played in a friendly last Sunday and scored 2 goals in 20-30 minutes.

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Maybe. It's too early to tell. But I don't really think anyone else improved enough to challenge FCB for an entire season.

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Dortmund is pretty damn good; don't write them off, no matter how douchey their fans are.

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Coming back from injury, he played in a friendly last Sunday and scored 2 goals in 20-30 minutes

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Oh wow, yeah he's a good talent.

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Dortmund is pretty damn good; don't write them off, no matter how douchey their fans are.

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I think they've improved, and I think they will be FCB's closest challengers, and I think the spread might be closer than it was last season, but I don't think BVB has enough to take the title.

Saw that piece. Very interesting on the long balls too.

Whats Pep's ultimate goal tactics wise? Who would be his ideal XI?

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Whats Pep's ultimate goal tactics wise? Who would be his ideal XI?

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I honestly have no idea. Not everyone has been healthy so we haven't gotten to see it.

I think with the long balls is that Pep wants to have Bayern put a ton of pressure on defenses this year. With his style of high pressure and with the inverted triangle, you have 2 center mids who play high enough up the field to press the two holding mids that nearly every team uses. I think the hope is that you either spring an attacking player with the long ball or you put their defenders under enough pressure where they just give it away to you in your offensive third.

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i don't get using javi as a dedicated CB for this reason: at barca the fullbacks acted as wingers in attack, essentially, and busquets drifted back into a CB role defensively. using javi at the DM position will accomplish the same thing, where he will play a hybrid-CB role a great deal as a DM

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It makes a lot more sense to me to have Javi as a DM than a CB, I just think the idea of Javi as a CB is a way to make the lineup even more offensive though.

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why make him a dedicated CB? let bastian play a xavi-like role as midfield facilitator/organizer a little up (where he can get back if needed). pair him with a more AM like kroos/muller in the iniesta role. then you have 2 inverted wingers and goetz/mad in the attacking roles, with the fullbacks acting as support wingers/outside mids

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Pep loves Robbery, it'll be hard to put those guys on the bench. You'd need to have Muller at CF to open up one of those CM spots, then you'd have Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Thiago, Goetze who can all play the 2 center mid spots. I think Goetze will play CF or one of the wings.

Most of the time under Pep, teams have just sat back against us, so the formation actually changed quite a bit to something like this:


--------------- Dante --- Boateng ------------------


------- Alaba ----- Schweiny ------- Lahm ----------

------------ Kroos ----------- Muller ------------

Ribery -------------- Mandzo -------------- Robben





It then evolves depending on what side the ball is on, with that winger moving a bit inside and being overlapped by the wingback. It's very, very attack minded. Which is kind of the issue with Schweiny playing the DM spot, he's not a skilled enough defender to kill a counter by himself.

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Pep loves Robbery, it'll be hard to put those guys on the bench.

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i meant more for just for random games here/there to rest them and for games when either is out with injury