[Fillipo Simone]

Okay, usually we have much trouble against Palermo. This time both ours and their team look more or less horrible. We'll see what happens.

[d'Arc.LP]

Mexes must be a referal point of all our defence. He's the best we got and Allegri can't afford not to play him. Against Genoa he left him out only 'cos he was late for 10 minutes. With Mexes as a starter we would have Acerbi and Zapata fighting for a place and Bonera and Yepes for the other. Allegri got everything wrong with Acerbi. He must play the guy in the center, not on the wing. We get it that he hasn't the physical abilites to run fast, so we must get him to play in the center where he wouldn't need a run. He's good at duels and aeral challenges.

In the midfield, if we're playing a 3-5-2 with a trequartista then that's the position for Montolivo. Hopefully Allegri starts to play Emanuelson at his possition on the left. On the right, it's a tie between Abate and De Sciglio so I wouldn't debate around this. Sure De Sciglio is my personal favorite. On the center of midfield, there's defenitely a place for De Jong as a starter, while for the other one I'd let Ambrosini and Nocerino fight for the place, while in the future after players get fit that place should be a competition for Muntari/Nocerino and Boateng too. Surely rotation with De Jong and Montolivo is not out of question.

I think it's normal to start again with Pato and El Shaarawy in the attack, but if we're playing Montolivo as a trequartista, and De Sciglio and Emanuelson as wingers, then I'd like to see how Pazzini responds to that. All Bojan/Pazzini/Pato/Niang should be fighting to be El Shaarawy's companion on the attack currently.

how that would look:

Mexes - Acerbi/Zapata - Bonera/Yepes

Abate/DeSciglio - De Jong - Ambrosini/Nocerino - Emanuelson

Montolivo

Pato/Pazzini - El Shaarawy

This post has been edited by d'Arc.LP: Oct 29 2012, 06:00 PM