World XI

[Bourky23]

pick one.

now.

4-3-3, 4-4-2 and 4-1-2-2-1 are the only formations I shall accept.

- criteria is basically if you had a match tomorrow and had to pick a side to play, who would you choose.

 

[Coledinho]

To play for my life tomorrow

Casillas
Maicon Subotic Hummels A.Cole
Alonso Khedira
Messi Krasic Ronaldo
Villa

Would pick Alonso Khedira and Subotic/Hummels for understanding purposes.

 

[Jessica Watson]

Torres

 

[Coledinho]

Torres

Would tear his hammy putting on the g-string you call a uniform.

I think its time for you to build a bridge, to say Sunderland and get over it

Gyan > Torres

 

[cesc fabregas]

------------Casillas----------
--Sagna--Vidic--Puyol--Cole--
-------Alonso-Schweinsteiger-
--Messi----Sniejder--Ronaldo--
------------Drogba-----------

I so wanted to include Nasri, but not just yet. End of the season maybe.

 

[Bourky23]

WTF is with everyone picking Alonso?

a good player yes, but I can think of at least 5 better CM's.

FWIW my team.


------------- Neuer --------------
----------------------------------
-- Lahm -- Vidic - Pique --- Bastos -
----------------------------------
---------- Schweinsteiger ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

Casillas is a better keeper than Neuer but I think Neuer is in better form at present.

No real standout at Left Back, nearly picked Cole but I'll give Bastos a crack.

handful of CB options, viewers choice there.

Lahm, Ramos, Maicon, Alves all have a case for RB but with Bastos on the left I want the best defender and it's Lahm.

Midfield pretty easy, don't need a destroyer because those three would never lose the ball, Bastian can do the little required dirty work. Sneijder for Iniesta is the only change I'd accept in the middle.

front three is a lock.

 

[Butts_JZZ30]

I wish I could squeeze in Robben over Messi or Ronaldo...annoying

 

[Bourky23]

I wish I could squeeze in Robben over Messi or Ronaldo...annoying

Messi can play as the striker?

 

[Jessica Watson]

Would tear his hammy putting on the g-string you call a uniform.

I think its time for you to build a bridge, to say Sunderland and get over it

Gyan > Torres

This is why no-one takes what you're saying seriously, ever.

 

[Jessica Watson]

WTF is with everyone picking Alonso?

a good player yes, but I can think of at least 5 better CM's.

FWIW my team.


------------- Neuer --------------
----------------------------------
-- Lahm -- Vidic - Pique --- Bastos -
----------------------------------
---------- Schweinsteiger ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

Casillas is a better keeper than Neuer but I think Neuer is in better form at present.

No real standout at Left Back, nearly picked Cole but I'll give Bastos a crack.

handful of CB options, viewers choice there.

Lahm, Ramos, Maicon, Alves all have a case for RB but with Bastos on the left I want the best defender and it's Lahm.

Midfield pretty easy, don't need a destroyer because those three would never lose the ball, Bastian can do the little required dirty work. Sneijder for Iniesta is the only change I'd accept in the middle.

front three is a lock.

Lol, anti-Madrid bias - you don't even have Casillas in there.

Ramos > Lahm as well.

 

[Coledinho]

Lahm is insanely overrated. If only he was half as effective as he was pretty.

In all seriousness TIG its time to tone down the Torres love. Hes still a star but hes not the goliath he once was

 

[Jessica Watson]

Yet, you still think Gyan is actually going to be a good player.

He had a good world cup - he's like El-Hadji Diouf, as I said the other day.

 

[Bourky23]

Lol, anti-Madrid bias - you don't even have Casillas in there.

Missed the first part of the post did we? Iker is easily the best keeper in the world but he's been in horrid form since the world cup.

As for Alonso, I never said he wasn't good, I just don't think he's anywhere near "World XI" quality.

Xavi, Iniesta, Sneijder, Bastian, Essien etc. are all better options in the centre of the park.

Ramos > Lahm as well.

I'm not getting into this debate again but I've never seen Lahm get pantsed defensively and yet it happens to Ramos frequently.

When it gets ugly for Sergio, it gets really ugly. cards, horrid tackles, beaten by his man time after time.

regularly puts in a 7/10 performance with the occasional 8 or 9 but when he has a stinker it's a 1/10. Lahm never worse than a 5 but probably never better than an 8.

 

[Coledinho]

Yet, you still think Gyan is actually going to be a good player.

He had a good world cup - he's like El-Hadji Diouf, as I said the other day.

I think everyone thinks hes actually going to be a good player besides you.

 

[saintkildaman]

------------- Casillas --------------
----------------------------------
-- Ramos -- Vidic - Puyol --- Alves -
----------------------------------
--------------Ribery ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

 

[Bourky23]

------------- Casillas --------------
----------------------------------
-- Ramos -- Vidic - Puyol --- Alves -
----------------------------------
--------------Ribery ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

ummm...

 

[Jessica Watson]

Missed the first part of the post did we? Iker is easily the best keeper in the world but he's been in horrid form since the world cup.

As for Alonso, I never said he wasn't good, I just don't think he's anywhere near "World XI" quality.

Xavi, Iniesta, Sneijder, Bastian, Essien etc. are all better options in the centre of the park.



I'm not getting into this debate again but I've never seen Lahm get pantsed defensively and yet it happens to Ramos frequently.

When it gets ugly for Sergio, it gets really ugly. cards, horrid tackles, beaten by his man time after time.

regularly puts in a 7/10 performance with the occasional 8 or 9 but when he has a stinker it's a 1/10. Lahm never worse than a 5 but probably never better than an 8.

If he's the best keeper in the world - then he should be in the World XI.

I think everyone thinks hes actually going to be a good player besides you.

No, just no.

------------- Casillas --------------
----------------------------------
-- Ramos -- Vidic - Puyol --- Alves -
----------------------------------
--------------Ribery ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

Ribery... Alves at LB?...

 

[RickSanchez]

Ramos?

ewww ill take the crab juice.

 

[Dagger5]

One bad performance doesn't mean Ramos isn't the best RB.

 

[cesc fabregas]

------------- Casillas --------------
----------------------------------
-- Ramos -- Vidic - Puyol --- Alves -
----------------------------------
--------------Ribery ---------
--------- Xavi ---- Iniesta --------
-----------------------------------
----- Messi ----------- Ronaldo ----
-------------- Villa ----------------

Two (and a half) defensively apt players in a team of 11. If that team ever played they would get more over run on counter attacks than Arsenal do, and that is saying something.

I think everyone thinks hes actually going to be a good player besides you.

I agree with sailor girl, he is good at Sunderland. If he moved to a bigger team I reckon he would be another Robbie Keane.

 

[Crimson King]

------------Casillas-----------
------------------------------
Sagna---Pique------Vidic----Cole
-------------------------------
---------Schweinsteiger--------
--------Xavi------Sneijder------
--------------------------------
Messi--------------------Ronaldo
------------Drogba--------------

Subs: Cesar, Lucio, Maicon, Iniesta, Robben, Forlan, Villa

 

[Bourky23]

One bad performance doesn't mean Ramos isn't the best RB.

That's the thing, it's happened more than once.

He's lucky that he plays for two bloody good sides, because when he's under the pump he crumbles. mentally and physically.

Go through the games where Madrid has been eliminated from the CL in recent history or when he's come up against Ronaldinho in El Clasico.

 

[Crimson King]

To be fair to him, not many defenders could handle Ronaldinho during his peak.

 

[Deledinho]

 

[Bourky23]

To be fair to him, not many defenders could handle Ronaldinho during his peak.

indeed.