jcolomerBest Cruyff's squad was formed in 1993-94 thanks to the arrival of the amazing Romario. Even so, just a season before (in 1992-93) Dream Team achieves, in my opinion, its higher level. That was caused mainly by an unseen system which was based on having no center stricker. Exactly the same that yesteday happened. Both Messi and Cesc playing as fake 9. Almost 20 years before, Laudrup and Bakero used to perform that way. Equally, wingers played touching side lines, opening the court as much as possible, creating big spaces in the middle, between each oponent's defender. Finally, a continous position movement by the inners. To sum up, more than a 3-4-3 a 3-3-4! Just a big difference in terms of structure: 1993's team was really asymetric on porpouse -as you can see in shown 11. Current one, is much more symetric.

By the way, Cruyff's team got 2 brains: Koeman... and, of course, Guardiola.

30.08.2011