NilesPacMan;847971 wrote:Laley,
I would have to agree with you with 9 out of your 11. My only definite changes would be Busquets for De Rossi and Eto'o for Rooney. The reasons for these would be that I prefer Busquets out of familiarity and that Eto'o is an absolute beast on the attacking end. Your formation is pretty well suited to the players that you use, and I like that you have Iniesta and Xavi backing up Messi. Messi is an absolute fantastic player with Barcelona, but without the creativeness of his two center mids, we've seen how that can affect him (See Copa America 2011). There are so many great midfielders you could use, but using the Xavi and Iniesta pair is the best choice you can make. Individually, they are both stellar players, but together, they make up the best midfielding pair in the world due the great chemistry they have built up.
Defense is very well-suited. Like you said, the only one that can really challenge Maicon is Alves, and Alves has been strong for the most part, but he had a disappointing Copa America. Maybe on the left side, I'd suggest Patrice Evra, as a possible replacement. No argument with Casillas here, hands down the best goalkeeper in the world.
The hardest for me here is to view this from an actual footballing perspective rather than looking at it from FIFA 11. I try to watch soccer whenever possible (No FSC for me, so I'm a little limited), but it's not always the case. However, I do play a lot of FIFA, and actually, my brother and I just had a fantasy draft picking the best players in the world back and forth. If this was FIFA, I'd probably take off Messi and put on Arjen Robben (I'm not that great with Messi). Also, I'd switch the midfield formation and take off Xavi and Iniesta, using Ibrahimovic as a center attacking mid and using Yaya Toure and Busquets as holding mids.
Just to throw other names out there you hadn't used... Van Persie (when healthy), Pepe Reina, Schweinsteiger, Ozil. All great players...
Solid points, and as I said I thought of Bussie at CDM as well. I tried not to go off of how they would play together and more on who I just thought was flat out better. Otherwise I easily have Alves and Busquets in there for the "Barca" thing. Busquets, Yaya (even though at City he isnt really a holding mid), De Rossi, and Alonso are the top 4 in my eyes.
I do LOVE me some Eto'o. My favorite player aside from Messi and Bojan. He actually does give Rooney a damn good run for his money. Ibra I would say also does, but he is so limited to the style (see Spain stint). Tevez led EPL in goals...but no. Milito had a strong year, but thats it, a year. Higuain? Forlan? Van Persie if he could stay healthy? Ribery on the wing (but just not near the level of Cristiano and Leo). Its 1am, Ill come back to this tomorrow lol.
