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Originally Posted by jem
leaving aside my comment above about simply swapping one player for another (50/50 on whether you are being #@&%!ed or deliberately annoying)....
I wanted us to play mct, cassie and fred. all of them. with either eriksen or bruno ahead of them and two quick split strikers. the team is unbalanced and eriksen is never a defensive midfielder.
if you simply swap mct and eriksen for cassie and fred, you are still not stopping city's midfield.
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Casemiro + Fred for McT + Eriksen/Bruno is not "swapping one player for another"? But maybe I'm just #@&%!ed as you say and struggle with the numbers.
Yes, you've said you wanted to play a diamond formation before (I'm presuming that's how the formation translates), but it does not address that i) there is then even less protection for the wing backs (and several of City's goals came down the wing) and ii) City at their weakest are most susceptible down the wings (St Maximin, Bailey, Eze etc doing jobs against them of late). They are a hard side to play against at the best of times clearly, but the common denominator for sides that do well is having legs in midfield and the pace to break out wide when they are dispossessed. They are easier to counter on with Haaland in their team.
Agreed that Eriksen is clearly not a conventional central midfielder .. may get away with a Bruno/Eriksen pairing away against bottom-of-the-table rabble like Leicester/Southampton/Wolves but will be found out quickly otherwise .. needs to be 1 or the other.