Ok, this is probably how people might expect my team to look versus yours when I'm in possession and attacking.
The reality is, particularly when Bale is driving down the wing and theres simply no point of carlos overlapping, then It might look something like this;
Now Baresi has enough intelligence to not get caught out with a simple ball over the top. Vidic will dominate all of these players in the air ( it's not even a contest ) and as you can see from Carlos and Cafu's positioning, they are hardly exposed and both have enough pace to get back in and disrupt the play of your forwards.
Now of course there are occasions when carlos/ cafu may go a bit further and it'll be an extra 10 yards to make up, but you've made out like De Rossi, Vidic and Baresi are on their own for the entire game. Seedorf, as mentioned in the write up, is more defensively focussed so thats one more helping out, and its not like they have to worry about some speedsters coming through the middle, xavi and souness as good as they are are both slow and if they are the ones launching a quick counter then they are going to take a while to catch up with play. Baresi, Vidic, De Rossi and Seedorf are more than capable of holding up your attack, and its only a few seconds at most before Cafu and Carlos are their helping and a few more seconds on top of that before you have everyone back except Pele.