Monday 29 May 2023

TRANSFERS .

 since the season has completed or will get complete in a week or so . the teams had started looking for players that improve their squad and can add depth and quality . i will start with man utd since i had posted about man utd in december of last year . man utd are linked with mason mount and declan rice . first off mason mount a player who cannot secure place in his own team and is more interested in his hair than his football . what is his position isnt a wide player hasnt got pace hasnt got the creativity and wont do the defensive work that is required of midfielder utterly hopeless .  ten heg should remain clear of this player . on the other hand rice is quite decent . the only drawback is that he will need carving out by ten hag but has good defensive sense so can be a buy is absolutely require is  not the case . if declan rice has some sense then he should sign up for utd . the other player that is linked with utd and will be hot this summer is kane for who madrid will too try to sign him . kane is definitely the player whom utd should sign because he is quite a good alround player and good striker but dealing with daniel levy is big headache and i think kane will have to force a move to sign for utd. utd dont need centre backs or full backs but they can cull the squad wan bisaka is better than dalot and he can be sold with maguire lindelof and many others . man utd need a midfielder and can they pursue 

lets talk about chelsea what had happened at bayern has happened at chelsea . the result of this chaos was at the start of the season when stupid players were brought in where as they just needed one or two players they brought one too many. why was sterling purchased while he is just washed out player. to add to that misery they brought a lot in december . some of the players are ok but it takes time to gel plus a good manager not some one like lampard who is idiot . pochettino should do good . he has a good squad and if he makes proper choices and keeps proper players and releases medicore ones then i think next season chelsea can challenge the title which will be expected of them . 

i like to talk players . now messi is leaving psg and whether mbappe will follow the suit is there to be seen . first off i think if psg are wise then they should not pursue and get head over heels for him to play next season for them . instead they can get some very good players for his price like randall kolo nuani or rafael leao who are good . atleast kolo nuani had impressed me and he can be player that real madrid will go after if they cant mbappe . i think there is a season or two with benzema but they need to have a good player in place who can do things for them and kolo nuani or rafael leao can be one of them . there are some good players who should be looked at is salemackers of ac milan and strasbourgh striker habib diallo. 

i think that the reason dortmund lost the title was because there is something wrong between edin tedric and bellingham . why didnt bellingham played in the last two matches . he wasnt even brought on as the substitute . i think he could be the next one to be fire just as touchel has . i had already called for kahn head which has happened . if tottenham have any sense then they will appoint potter at the next manager . 


Tuesday 16 May 2023

MY TAKE ON S/F GAMES .

 real madrid played man city in s/f of the ucl first leg . real madrid started the game with 4-2-3-1 allthough on paper it would look like 4-3-3 but valverde was played in a more defensive role along with kroos to give him cover and that they dont expose . man city started the game with 4-3-3 formation. the game started with city dominating the possession and real playing on the counter offense . both the team had 3 players upfront for counter attack. . now when you see man city attack at that time you can see that while grealish and de bruyne were direct gundogan and silva would take the ball deep and would prefer to pass the ball rather than crossing the ball or doing something with it . to be honest there are some thing which the managers miss . rudiger was getting very tight on hallanad and you cannot complain about that .but at the very start of the match if you had notice then halland got the better of rudiger . he could outmuscle rudiger and was able to turn on him. i think that gaurdiola should had played more balls to halland and try to play through him. 

the game had good pace to it . both the teams started with three uptop trying to put pressure on the opposition . both the teams played a very cautious game . they never tried to a high line both the teams had respect for the opposition and both the teams centre backs stayed on the goal side . city had experimented with stones playing as a extra player in the middle of the park when they are on offense but he swithches to his centre backs role when they loose possession . the thing is that city are not able to fully exploit this advantage unless they can exploit this advantage . grealish was very handy and most importantly he needs to work with halland as to what he will do and where should halland expect the ball in the box if he is going to cross . the most interesting fact about this game is that what man city did in first was used by ancelotti in the second half . in the first half stones was coming into the midfield from defense to help move the ball and help dominate that possession . in the second half ancelotti did that . he brought camavinga from left back into midfield to dominate that possession . while doing that had he given some freedom to valverde then i think the game would had been more interesting . 

both the teams struggled to score . there are multiple reasons for that . first off city now as i had said that silva and grealish were playing wide to halland . the trouble with city is that gaurdiola hasnt taken into consideration as to what halland needs to do when the ball is with which player and how should he position(halland) and against whom . this is the main reason that even though city dominated the possession they were not able to create clear cut chances . let me tell you . garudiola hasnt made clear as to what halland needs to do . halland nees to make better reads of the situation first off when the ball is with de bruyne he tens to cross the ball as to what hallands positions . so when the ball is passed to de bruyne then he needs to take the best position and let de bruyne sees it so that he can cross it . de bruyne will the get the ball to you . most importantly what gaurdiola needs to work is what positions halland should take inside the box . whether he shoudl try to be first to the ball or try to outjump the centre backs . gaurdiola needs to work halland positions to make city more potent . 

real madrid played with 4-2-3-1 . now why do i say that is because valverde was played along side kroos . real madrid relied on slick crisp passing to open up man city and they were good . ancelotti had really drilled his team on how they would his team would counter . most importantly man city had specifically played walker to counter vinicius's pace . but i think he had learnt that he didnt need to engage in running battle instead kept on cutting inside and most importantly benzema linked with him very well . the only think that was lacking was that they couldnt bring valverde more into game . he is the most underrated passer and finisher . real needs to drop kroos and bring valverde into the game and play Tchouaméni in place of kroos . 

inter vs milan was good game what ac milan lacked inter had that . ac milan just didnt had that necessary cohesion which was required and inter had that . inter were playing on the counter but they had that necessary cohesion  which is required on counter attack or in football. the game can be summed up by the battles between inter's forwards vs milan's centre back and milans forwars vs inter's centre back . just look at the number of duels that dzeko won compared to the number of duels that giroud won against inter's centre backs particularly acerbi. the game is not over yet and if milan can just get that necessary cohesion then they can reverse the fixture and we can have interesting game on our hands . between city and madrid i think that halland's position and valverde's involvement into the game will deceide that tie .