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Physio
Formation - 4411
Defensive Line - Deep
Marking - Zonal
Style - counter attacking through Overath, Batista and Tresor's passing unleashing Littbarski, Robben and Blokhin. The devastating pace and dribbling of these three will create loads of chances for the most clinical striker in history, Der Bomber. The front two and wingers are highly industrious so will engage in counter-pressing to allow the rest of the team to get back into their positions for the defensive phase.
Two banks of four with great work rate and positional nous plus the extremely industrious Muller and Blokhin will provide one of the most immovable buses of all-time. Even if harms' players infiltrates the bus, they will not survive Harald Schumacher.
Info on some lesser known players -
Jimmy Armfield - has great chest hair and was one of the first overlapping right-backs. Had good positioning and was a strong tackler. Hailed as "the best right back in the world" during the 1962 World Cup. Also voted the best right back in Europe between 1962 and 1964.
Sergio Batista - The defensive shield for Argentina's 1986 World Cup winning side. An excellent reader of the game, solid tackler and a tidy passer.
Paolo Montero - Uruguay legend playing for them for 14 years. Considered by Giggs and Ferrara to be the "toughest defender they played against". Not only was he a combative and tenacious defender who was also an intelligent defender and skilful on the ball.
Harms
General tactics
The idea was to built a team suited to play a possession-based football in an entertaining manner. All three of my midfielders were magical with the ball and had a great engine to boot — and the addition of Alves and Best will guarantee some breath-taking attacking plays all over the pitch.
Personally, I think that both my goalkeeper, my defence and my midfield are a notch above Physiocrat's. Especially his midfield is something that I struggle to visualise (I guess he can play Litti centrally or use one of his sheep), and that's where the game would be won. His front three is absolutely devastating, but I think I've covered it quite effectively. Müller will probably score, but I'll score more. I wouldn't be surprised if Best or one of my midfielders will be the reason behind Montero's sending off.
Dani Alves is pretty important for this team and you'll see that I chose him over Matthews (Faubert can play both roles), because I believe that he'll be a bigger influence here. A good lyrical video about him by Tifo:
Why Faubert?
I have opted for Faubert in the place of Stanley Matthews for this game and, hopefully, it'll pay off. After watching some of his games, I was positively impressed by his skillset, despite his hopeless stint at Real Madrid. Nicknamed "The express train" he was built very much like Valencia — huge and insanely fast, and also played both as a winger and as a fullback (I'll post some highlights in the thread). His main task would be to adjust to Alves' movement, who is given pretty much a free reign on the right. It's also important to limit Physio's threat from the wings, so I have Tigana and Jonquet covering for Cole on the left and Vierchowod and Faubert covering for Alves on the right.
Fantastic through-ball
A pretty standard for him run and cross
Also a trademark piece from him — a strong shot from outside the box
A pretty standard for him run and cross
Also a trademark piece from him — a strong shot from outside the box
In focus: Robert Jonquet
Robert Jonquet will be forever remembered in France as a key figure in one of their biggest "what if" moments. On the 37' minute of the 1958 World Cup semi-final between France and Brazil, Vava broke Jonquet's leg in two places. There were no substitutions at the time, so they didn't only lost their best defender, they were forced to finish the game with only 10 players. With Jonquet on the pitch, France were as good as Brazil and equalised through Fontaine, seven minutes after the Brazilians had gone ahead. But two minutes after his departure, Didi scored, and in the second half Pele hit three more to round off a 5-2 victory.
Jonquet's club career was even more impressive. With Stade de Reimse he had won 5 league titles and reached 4 European finals — 2 European Cup and 1 Latino Cup finals were lost to Di Stefano's Real Madrid, but they've managed to beat AC Milan 3:0 to win Latino Cup in 1953.
"Football," Jonquet was wont to say, "is made to create, not to destroy." Few centre-halves of his time had such a philosophy. He was adept at coolly bringing the ball down with his chest, composed in the penalty box, before stroking it accurately to a colleague. Timing and anticipation were the essence of his game. Frankly, I haven't seen a better ball-playing defender in the 50's, not that the competition is very impressive though. He was widely recognised as one of the best center backs in the world — in 1955 he featured in the Great Britain vs The Rest of Europe game and in 1956 he was a Ballon d'Or nominee. When IFFHS compiled their century elections, he was voted 6th best outfield player in France's history: