Its been a long time.. I going with:
Casillas
Maicon Terry Lucio A. Cole
Ribery Iniesta Fabregas C.Ronaldo
Drogba Messi
Mascherano and Gerrard for Fabregas and Iniesta (more defencve balance, with Gerrard still capable of being a threat from deep). Gigi Buffon for Casillas. Torres for Drogba. Vidic for Lucio.
Buffon
Maicon Terry Vidic A. Cole
Gerrard Mascherano
Ribery Messi C.Ronaldo
Torres
"Mascherano and Gerrard for Fabregas and Iniesta....." You must be was drunk and tired from a party when you thought this one up.
What wrong with two holding midfielders when you have Ribery, Ronaldo and Messi on the starting 11. That is good balance. Many coaches play with two holding midfielders....balance is essential; it's not just about the star power...
I was looking at it purely from a perspective of being a better midfielder, period. Even so, if is holding midfielder yuh looking for, Michael Essien and Lassana Diarra are a better combination that them two yuh pick. Yuh getting blade when they play defense and the Michael Essien alone is more valuable than either of your picks, and Diarra plays a more skilled game. You put Andres Iniesta and Xavi to run an attacking midfield on a World's best XI the way they run Barca's midfield and the playing balls to the wingers and forwards that you put up and you have no need for a holding midfielder anyway. You see manu get any play in the midfield (or ANY part of the field, for that matter) in the CL Final last May? Steven Gerrard works well in liverpool and the epl but for England and anywhere else, he ain't bringin' it like Essien or Xavi or Iniesta. He and Mascherano does just pelt a setta blade indiscriminately and even for a "holding midfielder" there is more to be offered in that role by better players.
I beg to disagree. Gerrard could work from deep and is effective going forward. Any team would want a versatile player like that. As for Mascherano, there must be a reason why Barca wants him. He is a ball winner. You don't have to have two pitbulls playing as holding midfielders. One could be the pitbull, and the other the "ball handler", like Xavi Alonso used to work it with Mascherano. Gerrard is equally capable of filling that role, and you only saying that because he is sometimes a victim of his own versatility. How come Capello brining out the best in Gerrard now? You just talking because yuh have a mouth.
All what you say dey I could say de same for Lampard and any of the other Chelsea midfielders outside of Michael Ballack.......don't mean they makin' a "Best World XI" in my book. (and Lampard scores more than Gerrard eh) Clearly (or maybe not so clearly) you choose to see your "World Best XI" through a liverpool lens because yuh trowin' een Xavi alonso in de discussion.....I guess Gerrard id the only midfielder that "could work from deep" because like some kinda magnet or something does prevent other players from doing it. Like Essien does only play within a small patch in the middle of the field or something. Again, I beg the question, how much of a ball winner do you really need when you have a duo like Iniesta and Xavi pulling strings in the middle? Isn't a good offense the best defense to have? Look at where that particular combination has contributed to where it have Barca in the La Liga standings......Look at where the your duo is contributing to have liverpool. Capello having gerrard play his best football is all well and good against the Belaruses, Andorras, Kazakhstans, and once-great Croatias of the world. He still have teams like Spain, Italy, Brazil and Ghana to look as good against. Don't let Barca's "interest" in Mascherano overstate his value. They are always "interested" in all kinds players.
Your above statement shows that you have very little insight when it comes to the tactical aspects of the game....I don't have to add anything after what you said...I rest my case. You make no sense bout an all all attack..and Gerrard over Essien because he score a lot more and is just as good defensively....
Your isolation of that statement shows that you have very little insight when it comes to understanding English. I used it as an example of a variation to the options I gave you in my previous post, which included players like Michael Essien and Lassana Diarra that are better picks, IMO, in a "World Best XI" than the liverpool connection you are trying to force-feed into the fray. You resting case and looking smug and foolish. If I put a four-man midfield of Essien, Diarra, Xavi and Iniesta, how am I compromising defensive tactics? If I leave out your two shit-hongs and put any three of the aforementioned midfielders with the BEST defenders in the world behind them and the three BEST forwards in the world in front ah dem, what coach would have a problem wit dat? (other than benitez, of course). Boy, go and walk alone somewhere eh!
Chow...one minute yuh talking about all out offense, hence your line-up; so I suggest a midfileder (Gerrard) who could fit that position and still score tons of goals. Now yuh talking bout Essien....Is either yuh going for real offensive power, or yuh want someone to really sit in front the back four. Which one?
But Jed......I never even posted a lineup!!! My initial involvement was to accuse you of being tired and drunk from a party to have taken Iniesta and Fabregas (wit yuh fas' self
) outta Omar lineup:
Casillas
Maicon Terry Lucio A. Cole
Ribery Iniesta Fabregas C.Ronaldo
Drogba Messi
.......and put in your two shitsnakes, Gerrard and Mascherano. Whole time you going back and forth with me and I
because you arguing with me without knowing what actual lineup
I had in mind. I was simply offering you varying reasons why, in a midfield vacuum of "The World's Best", any option/combination of either Diarra, Essien, Iniesta and Xavi would be a better one than the liverpool bias yuh was imposing on the thread. You start to tell me 'bout what I know and don't know about "tactics" and all dah chupidness and I still gettin' kicks. I doh give too much of a rat's ass about "tactics" when it comes to just throwing up a lineup of a "World's Best XI" Jed. Here IS my lineup, Boss:
GK: Gianluigi Buffon......ah love (Julio Cesar) but Mr. Consistency wins out by a hair
CD1: Lucio (Ricardo Carvalho)
CD2: Juan (John Terry)
RB: Maicon (Dani Alves)
LB: Ashley Cole (Clichy)
MF: Michael Essien (Lassana Diarra) (John Obi Frikkin' Mikel!!!)
MF: Xavi (Fabregas.....even though ah hate de lil facker!)
MF: Iniesta (Kaka)
FW: Messi (Torres)
FW: Drogba (Swan Dive-boy.....even though ah hate the lil facker!)
FW: Luis Fabiano (Eto'o) (Pato!!!)
If yuh find I like too much offense, well, like I said before, the best defense is a great offense.