ANCELOTTI’S DIAMOND
RICHARD MICALLEF
WORDS BY
One down thirty seven to go. Our
eighth consecutive opening day win,
defence but also someone who is
a Premiership record, has seen us
able to launch a quick accurate 50
do without his most creative player
With
.
down we all expected things to turn
take off in the right direction. Deep Super Frank.
yard pass to the two strikers or my first contribution to this site by
Alonso out of the equation I end
putting the cat among the pigeons -
out easier then they did but we got Xabi Alonso was mentioned as a
could
to add the cutting edge to
Tom Huddlestone be the one
point
the three points and are now three
of Man U on goals scored. Let no
s in front of Liverpool and ahead decided this time last year he could
possible target by some when Rafa diamond?
Ancelotti's
one accuse me of being a pessimist.
On a more serious note is this nag
ging worry I have about
diamond. Call it what you like but
Ancelotti's
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Carlo's diamond looks suspiciously
like Scolari's system of last year and
we don't needing reminding of the
grief that led to.
In fairness against Hull we created
chances by the truckload. Sky stats
of which 12 were on t
showed we had 28 attempt
arget. When
s on goal,
the wheels st
season we hardly created any so
arted coming off last
one might argue that there are some
subtle differences not immediately
teur such as myself.
visible to the naked eye of an ama-
The Community Shield match and
Saturday's game finally opened my
eyes as to why Carlo has chased
Andrea Pirlo so assiduously all sum
mer. This system is very dependent
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on a creative holding midfield player
which Jon Obi Mikel is definitely not.
The young Nigerian has to pull his
socks up because twice he has been
substituted and twice we have
looked a better team.
that Mikel's substitute for the role
The problem is
has been Michael Essien, which
means we then lose his drive in mid
field.
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I confess to having only watched
brief highlight
but from what I read Carlo tried out
s of the American tour
both Deco and Ballack in that role,
tem requires not only somebody who
not without success I hear. The sys-
can provide a shield in front of the
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