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>wingers applied at top level specially by mourinhos first chelsea, wingers as we knew them, reaching the line, disappeared in favor of opposite leg false wingers. >true 9 le dindu nuffin but score man, unidimensional players with no hability besides taping in. Especially affected by the first point. Reminder that Europe rated Koller. >dead balls Applied by Guardiolas Barça, dead balls stopped looking a for player and started to look for a palce. What in appearence gave the defender the advantadge, proved itself as the best way to attack for the moment
slide tackles hard tackles fouls that arent yellow cards pace babbies without any skill black/white boots free kick specialists proper ultras
Cameron King
Those all still exist.
Owen Reed
>Things that Spain lost in 2017
Gibraltar
Jaxon Thompson
using shit pitch to beat better opponents
Samuel Jones
strike partnerships
now you have just great strikers, not a great strike partnership of 2 as a pair and you dont say ones name without the other
Jordan Carter
Aubameyang is a true 9
Jack Johnson
black boots/guayos/shoesies whatever you want to call them
Jordan Howard
Lost implies they had it before
Jaxson Campbell
True 10's like Rui Costa. Only a couple teams have still 10's like Arsenal which is the reason they're wank. Most attacking midfielders aren't even true 10's anymore, look at Isco for example.
Lol, probably the best true 10 in the worl is being benched right now (hamez rodrogiloguez)
Samuel Bennett
hard men, guys only there to be cunts and rough the opposition up
true long ball game as a first choice option
5 at the back
Jason Ortiz
My bad
Ethan Thomas
Same for guys like Bacca and Dost etc. 20 years ago Bacca and Dost would both be considered worldclass.
Only England doesn't have ultras which is why a your games are library-tier
Isaiah Jones
That was in 1710s if I'm not wrong.
Dominic Phillips
>strike partnerships Good times
Cameron Garcia
match fixing
Leo Rodriguez
You are talking about players who understand how the team work and actually colaborate in high pressure or even defend.
I'm talking about guys who were either with the ball about to shoot or walking totally disconected of the game. Fatnaldo for instance.
Jason Cooper
Player's with this style hair
Sebastian Jackson
>tfw no more pacey lad big lad partnership
Isaac Bell
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Asher Mitchell
Hitz and Sommer
Alexander Green
fullbacks whose best asset was stamina instead of pace and fullbacks who can both attack and defend
Henry Bennett
>fullbacks whose best asset was stamina Lichtsteiner
Thomas Parker
perfect example are RVN/ Inzaghi and for the brits kevin phillips
literal poachers who just goalhang
they still exist but not at the top level
Nathaniel Hughes
True #10s. Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players who didn't have to defend. The rise of defensive midfielders basically killed them. Guys like Riquelme, Ozil, Van der Vaart...they don't exist at top clubs anymore.
Jose Mitchell
>one player
Zachary Flores
2006 czech republic was goddamn based, how the fuck did they not won anything?
Dylan Hernandez
Schmelzer too arguably. He's not particularly pacey, just keeps going all match. Durm has a pretty good mix of pace and stamina, even though he always looks flushed after 15 minutes.
Isaac Bailey
Marcos Alonso, too, though obviously not as good.
Levi Watson
target men like duncan ferguson
Colton Sanchez
They can exist today but is what the dutchs considered a river player, so they ended up as fake wingers instead of classical 10. Not even Ronaldinho was able to play like that, maybe Kaká is the closest without considering Messi.
Samuel Perry
I miss those saggy shirts and shorter pants. Nowadays you can make out the nipples, but can't see the legs, that's not right.
Another thing that was lost was the parity in European competitions. Back when the likes of Ajax could legitimately challenge for the every top. Sure, CL has its upsets even now, but back then it was a lot more unpredictable.
Zachary Clark
Not every good team wins trophies.
England was pretty good at the time as well, Spain was not a bad side, either, but they were underachieving in 2002, and 2004 tournaments.
Noah Clark
Sneijder and Cassano are probably the last 10s of that kind
When they play in a 4-4-2, which they have done pretty frequently over the last few years with Ancelotti and Zidane.
Jason Campbell
That has more to do with money though.
Aiden Bell
It's because with the evolution of PEDs all top footballers have the athleticism to carry out hybrid roles that cover a lot of the pitch
If you watch lower tier football where they're not out of their minds on drugs then the traditional, specialist roles still exist
Daniel Gray
POGBA/IBRA
Sebastian Powell
>pogba >striker
Justin Williams
Thats the poacher. Then there were strikers like fatnaldo who made runs from deeper positions.
Zachary Carter
id say we have 3 types here
fatnaldo was a pace babby/dribbler who could run past defenders
a classic 9 is something like shearer, can do it all but slow and immobile. usually atleast 6 feet tall
then a poacher i would say is a small fox in the box, just sitting on the 6 yard box for a goalmouth scramble, always first to rebounds and all his goals are tap ins like pippo inzaghi
Connor King
>Cassano
Brody Hughes
Ever consider that maybe they're just less talented? In general PEDs are most prevalent among guys who are barely struggling to be pros, because they're desperate.
Nathaniel Gray
>fatnaldo was a pace babby/dribbler who could run past defenders For about 4 years maybe then he became classic No 9.
John Thompson
Box to box midfielders
Hudson Bell
smoking during training
Kevin Carter
Deeney and Ighalo last season m8.
Zachary Walker
footballers that smoked/did coke
Jack Diaz
Nainggolan has admitted that he smokes regularly.
William Wood
Daniel Osvaldo smokes
They just cover it because they look unprofessional
Justin Harris
out of shape/poor diet guys, like fatnaldo was a slob but still shitting on fools
Adam Cox
True luxury players like Matt Le Tissier
Logan Price
Don't forget the cl/el was a completely different formate where it was possible to get a round of 16 without a single European heavy weight...
Matthew Torres
>using shit pitch to beat better opponents Southampton have that dodgy penalty spot though
Kevin Davis
>>true 9 Cristiano Ronaldo?
William Rivera
>Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players who didn't have to defend That's the definition of Cassano, without the commas on lazy tho
Cooper Green
>Tackling with both legs nowadays is always a foul no matter what because it's too dangerous
Disgusting
Nathaniel Thompson
tackling with both legs is 100% useless though
Charles Ramirez
The Beckham type player.
A wide midfielder that wasn't fast or a good dribbler but had great crossing ability. They would put those perfect "Bananenflanken" into the box from deep, if you gave them a bit of space.
Oliver Ortiz
It's easier to slide
Matthew Brown
>no more cole-yorke
:(
Camden Phillips
>true long ball game as a first choice option fuck that
>5 at the back pretty common at the BuLi
Michael Perry
Did you read the part of knowledge besides memeplayers?
Caleb Smith
I'm so happy I can watch Mbappé-Falcao or Griezmann-Giroud on a weekly basis.
Mason Allen
Wtf they are as common as ever, specially since 10's disappeared.
William Gomez
Box to box CM smokes in >le current year. Holy shit.
Robert Morales
>Things that football lost during the last 10 years >wingers >true 9 >dead balls
Not really senpai...
Grayson Hernandez
good English players
Thomas Rivera
>Griezmann-giroud on a weekly basis
William Sanchez
how the fuck do you keep up with all this shit? t. american who barely follows two sports.
Carson Ramirez
this
Jordan Robinson
5 atb is going to be the new 4-2-3-1
John Harris
Give me two examples of free kick specialists
Julian Long
Players who just get by on their talent and still make a mark. Robbie Fowler wouldn't have made it today.
Ryder Powell
>True #10s. Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players This. >my team has one like that but he's getting old and now he's injured.
Blake Bailey
Just stop following those two sports and follow soccer. Like how nfl people will know what's going on in cfb, maybe even higschool level stuff. Projected draft picks, coaching personel moving, etc. The same as following soccer.
Oliver Reed
Based boca centurion crashes a car like once a month, had a DUI and carries the team playing like a fucking caniggia speed and robinho dribbles hybrid.
Elijah Richardson
Good thread
Daniel Cox
Giroud scored 3 goals at the Euros plus they have a really good partnership, which is what football is about.
Jack Richardson
Messi, Neymar, Alaba, LCIM, sideways pass man, hamez. I honestly can't take this question srsly, since most top tier strikers or midfielders have dead ball prowess in the current game.
Jaxson Rogers
Griezmann/gameiro is so much better though.
Bentley Rodriguez
>i never watch Serie A
Wise up son.
Ayden Sanchez
Small Goalkeepers
Gavin Perez
Goat for so many years though.
Austin Morgan
...
Dylan Cooper
What a qt
Andrew Clark
Imagine this midget playing in 90s Serie A. Fucking lol