QUOTE (X-Offender @ Sep 24 2014, 02:29 PM)
Very curious about the formation and men Pippo will play. I don't think Lopez has recovered yet but could be wrong, and I would never bench Menez when we only have the Serie A to play. After this game he'll have a whole week to rest.
My personal picks would be, as I mentioned in the Empoli topic, either a 4-2-3-1 or 3-4-1-2.
GK
Abate - CB - CB - MDS
Poli - NdJ
Menez - Honda - SES
Torres
or
GK
CB - CB - CB
Abate - Poli - NdJ - Armero
Honda
Torres - Menez
Still undecided about the CBs (except for Boner-head)...
The first one, definitely, I don't like a 3-man backline personally speaking, and the reason for that is because so many factors have to be right for it to work properly, a 3-man backline for us would create even more confusion and panic in an already unstable defence.
And anyway, with the first formation we could sort of switch to that by having De Jong drop back in between the 2 CBs while the FBs push up and even Poli pushes up, just like what we did in the second half vs Empoli, at certain points Poli was the one very high up and connecting the passes around the box, while Bonaventura dropped a little back and De Jong was level with the CBs.
Btw, I also really liked Jack yesterday, but atm there's so much attacking talent who are all doing so well that I really don't know how we can fit them all in, if only we had an iota of that at the centre of defence...