Your Select Top XI from the Premiership

Royale with Cheese

Doesn't seem to be many 4-4-2's here so I'll throw one out...

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Cech

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Sagna

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Vidic

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Ferdinand

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Evra--

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Ronaldo

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Fabregas----Essien----Young-

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Torres

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Adebayor

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Toss up between Young and Joe Cole.

Evra and Clichy, went with Evra cos he's able to cross the ball and Clichy's not.

Centre mid, 2 out of Gerrard, Fabregas, Essien. Left Gerrard out. Figure Essien is the excellent holding midfielder. Cesc the playmaker with the probing passes. What I'd want from a midfield pairing. Plenty of goals on the wing from Ronaldo anyway.

Adebayor... couldn't really think of anybody else. I don't rate Rooney all that highly as an out and out striker, which is what I was going for there.

Im_No_Superman

Tauren wrote: »

............Cech

Sagna..Rio..Vidic..Evra

......Essien..Fabregas

Gerrard....Rooney...Ronaldo

............Torres

EDIT: @ Im No Superman.... i didn't actually look at your team before posting mine, honest.

Great minds and all that.....

SantryRed

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

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Reina

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--Sagna---Vidic---Rio---Evra--

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Essien

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Fabregas

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--Gerrard

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Rooney

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Ronaldo--

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Torres

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Mouth watering team imo.

Fabregas isn't a holding midfielder and Gerrard can't play on the right.

Don't pick the best players on paper. Pick the best ones in their best positions or leave them out;):p

Mitch Connor

SantryRed wrote: »

Fabregas isn't a holding midfielder and Gerrard can't play on the right.

Don't pick the best players on paper. Pick the best ones in their best positions or leave them out;):p

I disagree (i have picked the same formation)

Fabregas isn't being deployed as a holding DM - he is playing CM with Essien beside him. The same way United played Giggs, Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez as an attacking 4 at times last season with Scholes (Fabregas role) and another midfielder behind them.

As for Gerrard, imo some of his best stuff over the last few years has come when he has been given a 'free' role on th eright side of the attacking midfield 3, with the freedom to move around (and he would do, swapping positions with Ronnie and Rooney through the match)

IMO, the players have been picked as not only being the best, but fitting into the team unit for a good balance.

Im_No_Superman

SantryRed wrote: »

Fabregas isn't a holding midfielder and Gerrard can't play on the right.

Don't pick the best players on paper. Pick the best ones in their best positions or leave them out;):p

Essien is my holding midfielder and Gerrard had one of his most productive seasons with Liverpool playing on the right. :P

The trio of Gerrard, Rooney and Ronaldo would have the freedom to interchange positions anyways.

Mitch Connor

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

Essien is my holding midfielder and Gerrard had one of his most productive seasons with Liverpool playing on the right. :P

The trio of Gerrard, Rooney and Ronaldo would have the freedom to interchange positions anyways.

Great minds and all that...

Im_No_Superman

Tauren wrote: »

I disagree (i have picked the same formation)

Fabregas isn't being deployed as a holding DM - he is playing CM with Essien beside him. The same way United played Giggs, Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez as an attacking 4 at times last season with Scholes (Fabregas role) and another midfielder behind them.

As for Gerrard, imo some of his best stuff over the last few years has come when he has been given a 'free' role on th eright side of the attacking midfield 3, with the freedom to move around (and he would do, swapping positions with Ronnie and Rooney through the match)

IMO, the players have been picked as not only being the best, but fitting into the team unit for a good balance.

Tauren get out of my head!! :eek:

SantryRed

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

Essien is my holding midfielder and Gerrard had one of his most productive seasons with Liverpool playing on the right. :P

The trio of Gerrard, Rooney and Ronaldo would have the freedom to interchange positions anyways.

Well then. You should of said that:D

ibh

SantryRed wrote: »

Fabregas isn't a holding midfielder and Gerrard can't play on the right.

Don't pick the best players on paper. Pick the best ones in their best positions or leave them out;):p

That bit made me laugh... 20 odd goals from the right, albeit not as a traditional winger.

eZe^

Since when has Essien been a DMF? I've ALWAYS looked at him as a CMF... Makelele was the destroyer while Essien was the perfect mix of grit for winning the ball back and then bombing forward towards the opposition goal.

LuckyLloyd

SantryRed wrote: »

Gerrard can't play on the right.

Rofl.

eagle eye

SantryRed wrote: »

Fabregas isn't a holding midfielder and Gerrard can't play on the right.

Have you ever watched a game of football in your life?
If yes is the answer, take off the goggles next time;)

PHB

Not enough width in that imo.

Ronaldo does provide width, but he cuts in also. Ronaldo is much much more effective on the right, as it leads him to be more of a team player (when he plays on the left, he cuts in to shoot nearly every time) Gerrard cuts in all the time.

2 wingers is the way to go, and just pick between Gerrard and Rooney. Or play

---Ronaldo----Gerrard----Rooney--

SantryRed

eagle eye wrote: »

Have you ever watched a game of football in your life?
If yes is the answer, take off the goggles next time;)

What? Your telling me Fabregas is a Holding midfielder?

And Gerrard is no where near as effective on the right. Ronaldo would be the only one giving any bit of width in that team aswell.

eagle eye

SantryRed wrote: »

What? Your telling me Fabregas is a Holding midfielder?

And Gerrard is no where near as effective on the right. Ronaldo would be the only one giving any bit of width in that team aswell.

No, I did not say he was a holding midfielder, but he would be able to play it if necessary.
Nearly as effective relative to what? His own performances in midfield or somebody else performing on the right?

SantryRed

eagle eye wrote: »

No, I did not say he was a holding midfielder, but he would be able to play it if necessary.
Nearly as effective relative to what? His own performances in midfield or somebody else performing on the right?

What? He played there for Spain in the Euros and was muck! Mascherano should be there.




Yes, his performances in centre midfield. He's much better there.
In that team which was posted. Young would be a much better option. Offering width. And a cross on the ball. INstead of everything going straight down the middle.

eagle eye

SantryRed wrote: »

What? He played there for Spain in the Euros and was muck! Mascherano should be there.




Yes, his performances in centre midfield. He's much better there.
In that team which was posted. Young would be a much better option. Offering width. And a cross on the ball. INstead of everything going straight down the middle.

I'd have Cesc ahead of Mascherano any day on that team, because he can play the holding type role if necessary and his creative ability makes him a must play also. Regardless of what you think of his performances at Euro 2008 he was on the winning team. And he also made the Uefa team for that championship.
And Gerard has been played on the right and won matches almost on his own from there.

SantryRed

eagle eye wrote: »

I'd have Cesc ahead of Mascherano any day on that team, because he can play the holding type role if necessary.

No way, not if he's gonna be playing there. It's rediculous just because one players better than another you put him in the team even though that's not his position and it is Mascheranos.

Did he really make the UEFA team? Because when he played there for Spain in the Euros he was terrible.

Pepe LeFrits

Strangely large amount of agreement on the teams, particularly on the front 6! (SantryRed excepted)

The Essien/Fabregas partnership would be unbelievable. They’d be the perfect combination to dominate midfield, leaving Rooney, Ronaldo and Gerrard to float around behind Torres and cut any defence to shreds.

redzerdrog

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reina

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richards--ferdinand-carvalho--clichy

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mascherano

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fabregas

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ronaldo

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gerrard

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rooney

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torres

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couple of close calls there ferdinand or vidic, clichy or evra very very close, fabregas or essien and rooney, cole or young.

BTW has anyone got the stats that liverpool have less shots against than other team etc.????