No because there's only one Cesc Fabregas! One Cesc Fabregas!
Hey, Arsenal are managing > 3 goals a game in the league with a new system.
True. Getting a run now so we'll see if he can recapture the attacking part of his game. He's just decent at it now.
What new system? It's still the one touch, making space and options, short passing football.
Torres, yes, but he's arguably the best in the world just now. Drogba? Well, it's apples and oranges, isn't it? Drogba's an old-fashioned "English" centre-forward and Rooney's a second striker more comfortable with a target man to play off. It's not coincidence that he scores more goals pro rata for England than Man U when he's given one.
In depth explanation of Man Utd's "new system" please, no help from anyone who actually knows what they are talking about.
New formation. 4-3-3.
4-1-4-1, tbh.
I think it's to Drogba's credit that you put him in any(most) sides around the world and he'll core you a fair amount of goals, no matter what. The fact that Rooney is one of the best in the world playing of a target man but merely very good without one is what makes Drogba the better striker. Call it versatility or adaptability but it's something that Drogba has over Rooney.
Thought it was accepted that it's 4-3-3? Certainly what Wenger refers to it as IIRC. Whatever it is it's here to stay as it's being used by every Arsenal side from U11s up.
Am did i miss something in recent seasons?, because since Henry left i'm sure Arsenal have been playing with these formations - especially 4-3-3.BoyBrumby said:
That's quite well put. Even if Rooney is world class when he's given a target man (which I'd dispute), Drogba still trumps him because he's world class no matter what.
Not if Tony Adams is to be believed. He said he was speaking to Wenger last week and told him how much he liked the 4-3-3 and Wenger himself said, no its's really more of a 4-1-4-1, with Song screening the back four and Arshavin and Eduardo/Bendtner/Walcott pushing up from the flanks to support Van Persie up top.
Yeah you must have as it was nearly always 4-4-2 until we played the likes of United and switched to 4-5-1.
Haa..interesting
Haha, dubious start to any sentence tbh.
No longer using Ronaldo as an outlet when playing 4-3-3. When playing that formation, Ronaldo used to drift inside, Rooney and Tevez out wide. The ball was worked through to him as his pace and skill allowed him to make much better use of it than Berbatov or Rooney can. Neither are that fast or skillful so they're easier to mark out than Ronaldo. Leads to isolation sometimes and them having to drop deeper to get involved in play, plus in the air he's much more sure so the crosses that came in were put to much better use.
Hmm. IIRC Cesc also gave an interview saying he enjoyed how much more freedom he was being given with the 4-3-3. I mean Song himself gets forward pretty regularly and the widemen always seem to be much more advanced than the central players.
