i guess 4-4-2 is the best for england...with scholes and whoever replaces gerrard in the middle, beckham and dyer on both sides, i think that should be their best formation...
i think they should stick with the 4-4-2,with scholes and butt in the middle becks on the right and hopefully a fit dyer on the left but if not then probaly hargreaves.
Right and didn't they do that well when they beat Paraguay 4-0 (fool)...
I think that a 4-3-3 could be employed against Sweden with the strikers being Heskey, Vassell and Owen... the reason for this is that they do not have a winger that can break the resiliant Swedish defence so let Heskey and Vassell have a go...
I think that it may work, especially as Butt will have a little help in midfield...
Beckham would play half way between the centre and the middle so that he can still cross but also lay balls in to the paths of Vassell and Heskey...
Owen of course will be in the centre doing what he does best...
Italy would do the same Italia but they haven't got a midfield. I know Liverpool are seen as boring but Italy take the piss. As you've said Italia, they get 10 players behind the ball and just launch it up to Montella. Its called "doing a Wimbledon."
Iskydiver: In consideration of Russells point of 11 players behind the ball, I said Italy MAY have 10. It does not mean that it WILL be, if u remember.
Boring play? hmmm think its better than One-Man-Play.
Thanks for introducing that Wimbledon thing...still Sven's plan is all Beckham. 1-2-3-4-5 ...isnt it...?
BTW, couldnt find pool boring, with Riise screaming down the left and Murphy doing fast-intelligent counter-attack. wow! Sven's drooling too.
I thought you maybe knew a little about football but now i realise you don't. All Beckham???!!!! Maybe somebody should move this to the humour forum. Have you ever heard of somebody called Michael Owen? No? Well he scores most of England's goals, something you've comletely ignored in your scenario. Have you heard of Scholes? No? He plays for a big team called Man Utd (they are English and play in the Premier Division, always do better than the Italians in the Champions League). He also scores for England, passes the ball quite a lot and makes good darting runs into the area. Not something Beckham does.
So we've discovered a few things about you in this thread. You know hardly anything about football, you can count to 5 and you probably only come in here to attempt to criticize our football because you have nothing good to talk about in the Italian one. And by the way. My name is l (as in Luke) skydiver, not Iskydiver. Notice the tiny horizontal lines at the top and bottom of an "I" Good, glad we've got that sorted.
don't worry about him. I am currently having fun with him in the Italian forum (I assume that it is a he as ony men can be so bloody foolish).... I think that after 4 lines his computer crashes so that is all he is allocated...
Don't worry, insults do not actually register so you can make fun of his mind, get all the pent up anger that exists in you out... I love it
Russell: Did anyone mentioned about Italian technical and tactical superiority...how did you conclude that?
Lskydiver: Michael Owen ....Oh yes! he is great and he is one of the best in the world. Scholes...good in scoring from the midfield...but not so...when playing withdrawn Striker. But I happen to remember the TOPIC here is about TACTICS and not about views of Individual Star players. So I still think, and of course you can reject that, the Tactics which Sven likes or plans is 1 to 5. I may not be an Expert in soccer like you... but I have my views. (I hear you, do u mind that L?)
MR. Comic: who's worried. no one's in a battle field. Maybe you think you are. You are the expert too right? anyway I think the guys here are more intelligent than to need your persuasion.
You have said you are pissed. i m foolish. I know nothing about soccer. Now you reccomend others to 'get all the pent up anger that exists in you out' and make fun of my mind. what else.?
I know this thread is about tactics but the tactics you're talkign about are crap. I'm merely pointing out the other players we have which puts your so-called 1-5 tactics on the scrapheap. Your make no mention of Owen or Scholes so thats what i'm pointing out.
The same way they almost did it in Euro'2000. I would hate to see that happening again cuz I hate defensive futbol but they ARE good at that, very good.
1. Italy does not play all 4 defensive midfielders. There will be allocations for the bench.
2. Have you heard of wingers?.
3. Do u know defenders can score goals, needless to talk about defensive midfielders....
4. Plz go to relevant Forum-threads to talk about other countries or if you want to ask me about them. I do understand this place now is about England.