I know it's not likely but I would like to see a 4-3-1-2:

-----------------Buffon
Darmian----Barzagli----Chiellini----De Sciglio
-------De Rossi----Pirlo----Marchisio
-----------------Verratti
------------Balotelli----Cassano

I expect a 4-5-1:

----------------Buffon
Abate----Barzagli----Chiellini----De Sciglio
-----De Rossi----Pirlo----Verratti/Aquilani
------Candreva--------Marchisio
---------------Balotelli

:wallbang:

 

top one is pretty much my lineup as well

team will need to be explosive on counter-attack down the middle

 

If we start having 3 formations a game at the World Cup we will not win a game for sure.

We also had 3 formations at the Euro...well sort of 2.5 formations but still...

England only has 1 formation...it's hilarious reading English press on England tactics and stuff...there's nothing new but the new tactic always involves a new player being slotted somewhere...:tongue:

 

I think the 4-3-1-2 will be used or perhaps even a 4-3-3 with Insigne and Candreva as the wide players. Like you I prefer 4-3-1-2 though

 

I knew it already but reading how we have been royally screwed by the draw and fixtures. We play in the Amazon in match 1. Less than a week later we have a 1pm kick off in the North East of Brazil. A part of Brazil where even locals stay in as it is too hot. Just 4 days later we play at 1pm again and once again in the North East of Brazil.

Looks like a rotation game if we are to survive.

Dr Turibio Leite has said "it would be better not to play at these times. In the case of some players we tested, their temperature rose above 40C, which can cause neurological problems leading to coma or even death"

 

Don't worry, Deano. Prandelli, Castellacci & Co have selected and now are preparing our marò (marines) so that they will survive in the Brazilian jungle. Dr Turibio Leite is just trying to threaten them so that they don't field Cassano but I'm sure the ones who suggest that Cassano might die after 5 minutes on the pitch are Brazilian spies.

 

Let's do this.

 

England should use players who were born and maybe grown in Jamaica, or at least didn't live in England for too long. I'd also suggest India, but I guess Indian people only play boring cricket.

 

We have a few blacks.

 

Racist!

 

How about some info where the game is being played, did they stick our group in a jungle?

 

You are online, use google or smth.

 

'Welcome to the Jungle'

Our other 2 games aren't in the jungle but in the North still where climate is much more difficult. We are strangely based in Rio. We will click up 8,000 a Air Miles in the groups alone.

 

F-uck:

Italy sell only 200 tickets for opening World Cup clash with England

Italy have sold 200 tickets for England game in Manaus on June 14
The rest of their allocation has been returned
England have sold 2,500 tickets to the official supporters club


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wo...48286/Italy-sell-200-tickets-opening-World-Cup-clash-England.html#ixzz33lZh2SOF
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Lol just have to hope a lot of Brazilians like Italy :howler:

 

Reuters: Fifa considering bringing african vuvuzela fans to Manaous.

 

Stadium will be half empty it seems.

 

At least we did not diss the city like Hogdson so the locals should support Italy

 

The traveling and heat are ridiculous it must be said. On a larger scale, I must also say that Sepp Blatter is an absolute embarrassment to the sport. I love World Cups more than any sporting event, more than almost anything in life. But even I have reached a boiling point watching this corrupt bozo schedule things. Don't even get me going on Qatar and the corruption in awarding the cup. Slave laborers dying, payoffs, 113 degree heat in the summer. So we can sit and cheer. It's sick.

 

Oh please.

Pretty much everything you own has some link to people suffering. The computer parts used in the PC and Mobile phones comes from exploited Africans and the people making the parts are Chinese workers possibly under 16 and there's are suicides and other health problems with the workers due to overworking.

In Brazil there are millions struggling and yet the state is spending billions on staging an event for entertainment.

You should be against the WC in Brazil just as much as the Qatar WC...

 

Most Brazilians havent been to Manaus - Sandro

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ll/article-2522459/Sandro-Most-Brazilians-havent-Manaus--good-luck-England.html

 

Brazilians with their mind games and trying to get psychological advantage for the competition as a whole.

Manaus isn't a log town. It's a biggish city even if the region is sparse and in the middle of nowhere. As you said if anybody is interested in looking at it Google Maps extends to every state and city now in Brazil with their street view.

Will be very humid and hot but there is rain there at the moment, like rain every day so this weather may carry on until the date of the match who knows. Rain will make the humidity more bearable. Also rain atm in Recife and Natal but not as much as Manuas.

Conditions will be the same for both teams. Maybe even advantage for Italy. Are there any deep south Italian players?

The european players will end up beating themselves if they fixate too much on conditions. Of course make preparations for it and be ready for it as best you can but don't fixate on it. That's what the Brazilians want to happen.

 

Conditions will be the same for both teams. Maybe even advantage for Italy. Are there any deep south Italian players?

I was thinking about it. We would need people from the inland of Sicilia and Sardinia in particular. p We have Sirigu, but it's a goalie.

 

You sound like u been to Manaus?


Who am i kidding, you sound like u live in Manaus.

 

It's such a small world now isn't it Stephan.

And you don't even have to live in these places to have an idea and some knowledge about them

These players are not fvcking playing on Mars. :howler: That's what the Brazilians want. For the europeans to dwell on conditions.

 

Mars would be cool though.

 

Still problems with breathing though I would presume.

Heat is not the major problem in Brazil. Humidity will be more of an issue than heat. But it can be combated and these problems won't be a huge issue in every match. Just some of them.

 

Well, they say water breaks will be allowed in this match, so they could easily have oxygen breaks in mars.

 

Or just play like this:

 

Am I the only one who thinks
CP was trying to throw off Hodgson
with that 5 man midfield?


Balotelli is a global star.

 

I would start vs. the english with something like this

----------------Buffon
Darmian----Barzagli----Chiellini----De Sciglio
-----De Rossi----Pirlo----Verratti
------Cerci--------Marchisio
---------------Balotelli

 

Politicians funneling money where they shouldn't, or at least not where it would be best utilized, is one thing. But workforce deaths to build the facilities, in the numbers that are being reported, are a bit of a different topic.

 

Sounds like it's going to be sweaty.