(Assuming Brooks is healthy enough to give it a go). Hybrid 4-1-2-3/4-2-3-1/4-2-2-2 for tactical flexibility as the game changes. Back 4 is simple - play them in their best/preferred/club positions! Conceding some space in wide midfield; the hope is DeAndre and Castillo will make up for it with smart positioning and PACE. Bradley shields the back 4 and sprays passes from deep, and Nagbe is rewarded for a good showing Friday with a box-to-box role. Bring in the young boy Christian Pulisic for an injection of creativity and invention that this team sorely lacks. Any semblance of dangerous crossing was missed Friday - enter Finlay. Zardes has showed some ability down the left and will be relied upon for back-post runs or getting to the baseline and setting up danger man Jozy. Nagbe can drop next to Bradley with Gyasi and Ethan moving to LAM and RAM respectively alongside Pulisic's CAM if we need to sit deeper, and it also provides the capability to have Pulisic wide left (as he had been to good effect for Dortmund a on a few occasions) and Finlay wide right with Gyasi and Jozy up top -- Nagbe would sit next to Lex Luthor with instruction to push up the middle should he be afforded room.
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M.D. Linn
about 8 years
(Assuming Brooks is healthy enough to give it a go). Hybrid 4-1-2-3/4-2-3-1/4-2-2-2 for tactical flexibility as the game changes. Back 4 is simple - play them in their best/preferred/club positions! Conceding some space in wide midfield; the hope is DeAndre and Castillo will make up for it with smart positioning and PACE. Bradley shields the back 4 and sprays passes from deep, and Nagbe is rewarded for a good showing Friday with a box-to-box role. Bring in the young boy Christian Pulisic for an injection of creativity and invention that this team sorely lacks. Any semblance of dangerous crossing was missed Friday - enter Finlay. Zardes has showed some ability down the left and will be relied upon for back-post runs or getting to the baseline and setting up danger man Jozy. Nagbe can drop next to Bradley with Gyasi and Ethan moving to LAM and RAM respectively alongside Pulisic's CAM if we need to sit deeper, and it also provides the capability to have Pulisic wide left (as he had been to good effect for Dortmund a on a few occasions) and Finlay wide right with Gyasi and Jozy up top -- Nagbe would sit next to Lex Luthor with instruction to push up the middle should he be afforded room.