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Yes, I know a very harsh title. But hold your horses and let me explain. This was the subject between me and Roger a rainy easter day on a cafè outside the Camp Nou.
Saviola, Kluivert and Rivaldo are all excellent players. But they don`t work together because they are all too similar. They all wants to go down and meet up the ball. They all want to hold the ball. They all work on the same areas.
The tridente works against weaker teams when Kluivert, Rivaldo or Saviola can win the match on induvidual skills. But against better teams and more defensly orintated once it gets much tougher. Just because they are too invidualy too skillfull to play together. I`m sure that for exampel Kluivert would rather play together with the type of player like Dani for exampel than Rivaldo or/and Saviola. Why? Because the type of player like Dani is the perfect compliment for him. Dani doesn`t go down and meet the ball, he`s an attacker who always is in the front line. Because he doesn`t have the skills to go deeper down like Kluivert, Rivaldo and Saviola does.
The tridente looks good on paper, but in reality it doesn`t work. One or two of them has to go. I would take away Rivaldo who`s far from in good shape. Kluivert and Saviola also needs a new player to comliment them in attack. This is of course too late to do anything about now. But for next season the future coach has to fix this. The likley arrivel of Riquelme will mean another player who plays on the same area. Niether would a signing like Tristàn work either together with Rivaldo, Saviola or Kluivert. A proper coach would have relized this a long time ago. And with a worldclass coach we wouldn`t have seen the Tridente toghter.
Saviola, Kluivert and Rivaldo are all excellent players. But they don`t work together because they are all too similar. They all wants to go down and meet up the ball. They all want to hold the ball. They all work on the same areas.
The tridente works against weaker teams when Kluivert, Rivaldo or Saviola can win the match on induvidual skills. But against better teams and more defensly orintated once it gets much tougher. Just because they are too invidualy too skillfull to play together. I`m sure that for exampel Kluivert would rather play together with the type of player like Dani for exampel than Rivaldo or/and Saviola. Why? Because the type of player like Dani is the perfect compliment for him. Dani doesn`t go down and meet the ball, he`s an attacker who always is in the front line. Because he doesn`t have the skills to go deeper down like Kluivert, Rivaldo and Saviola does.
The tridente looks good on paper, but in reality it doesn`t work. One or two of them has to go. I would take away Rivaldo who`s far from in good shape. Kluivert and Saviola also needs a new player to comliment them in attack. This is of course too late to do anything about now. But for next season the future coach has to fix this. The likley arrivel of Riquelme will mean another player who plays on the same area. Niether would a signing like Tristàn work either together with Rivaldo, Saviola or Kluivert. A proper coach would have relized this a long time ago. And with a worldclass coach we wouldn`t have seen the Tridente toghter.