QUOTE (han2503 @ Oct 25 2014, 10:46 PM)
Didn't Liverpool play a diamond last season with Sturridge and Suarez up top? And anyway they played a very fluid front 3 with those 2 plus Sterling, they'd constantly rotate their positions.
On websites it would have them down as a 4-4-2 diamond, but in reality it was more like this.
---------------- Sturridge ---------------
----------------------------- Suarez-----
---------------- Sterling ----------------
------ Coutinho-------------------------
------------------------- Henderson---
--------------- Gerrard-----------------
Was a slightly lob-sided 4-2-3-1 more than it was a 4-4-2 IMO.
He did play wider tonight than he did at Liverpool, but more or less the same kind of role.
QUOTE (han2503 @ Oct 25 2014, 10:46 PM)
Still he got the assist in the game which is more than Messi did all game long
Which is why assists are often overrated. Playing a routine ball across the field, then that player cutting inside, beating a man, and scoring from 20 yards isn't really anything to do with the pass.