Aidan0s1. I feel there is no need to explain the inclusions of casillas, marcelo, carvalh, and pepe
2. Altintop is right back as he has played there before and is far better offensively than arbeloa.
3. Ramos is in midfield instead of Pepe because of his supperior passing skills and the fact he his more comfortable on the ball
4. Sahin is instead of alonso because he is A. simply better and b. more mobile
5. granero is selected instead of Khedira and Lass as he is more mobile than khedira and better offensively at everything than both and will allow the team to retain possession and has excellent long passing which can be helpful for switching the play over to di maria
6. Kaka is selected over ozil and ronald has he wins the ball back more often than both and retains possession better than ronaldo while being more of a goal threat than ozil.
7 Di maria is there as he is the only attacking player at madrid who will cover alves and still cause alves alot of problems
8 Benzema is there because he retains possession better than ronaldo and higuain and more of a goal threat than ozil and works harder than all of them aswell

1. Id like the defense to remain compact but still have the fullbacks pushing up pedro and villa occasionally let the full backs get away from them and when they do follow them messi pushes up and id like ramos to follow him which is a good situation as you can have healthy balance of offence and defence as there wont be gaps as the other defenders will cover.
2 Id like ramos to stay close to messi while also trying to set the platform for madrids attacks and occasionally surging far forward as i dont think messi will follow him too deep
3. Sahin should mainly focus on lessening xavi's influence on the game and try to impose himself on it like he did against Schweinsteiger twice this year although xavi would be a more difficult task.
4 I expect granero to try and stop iniesta while also providing an option in attack and trying to switch the play over to di maria
5 Kaka would be instructed to loosely pick busquets up but mainly providing a passing option to the other midfielders which is a problem alot of teams have against barca is that they win the ball back in midfield but they dont have any passing options
6 Di maria would cover alves while hugging the touchline and cutting less than usual
7.benzema would pretty much do exactly what villa does for barca

The team should try and build slowly from the back with so many players al ready playing deep allowing all the players to be involved offensively as even though xavi iniesta messi pedro and villa work hard if they have to defend deeper than usual and they cant exactly read the game like maldini
even though if possible madrid should try and break quickly to catch them off guard and madrid would be less predictable than usual
p.s Ronaldos impressive goal tally does not warrant him a place on this team as he is too defensively weak and also positionally indisciplined aswell as constanly losing the ball

id be curious as to what other people think there teams should do beat barca

08.06.2011

Aidan0s The formation is in the other one

08.06.2011