Italy Football Formation

Lineup (4-2-3-1)

A 4-2-3-1 Formation as you can see.With the players we have I expect us to play Possession Based Football.We have some excellent passers and readers of the game in Suarez,Rijkaard and Rivera.

1,Rijkaard will be the anchor man in the midfield,making his presence felt throughout the game providing space and time on the ball for the likes of Rivera and Miramontes to execute and create chances for the attackers to work through.Suarez plays the DLP sitting deep providing those long killer through balls for the front 3 to exploit and take on their defenders.Rivera plays the connector between the attack and midfield,he usually drops deep to collect the ball adding numbers centrally and thus taking the ball forward for the attackers and with the opponent not having that steel in that midfield I expect him to do the job easily without getting much trouble.

Attack comprises of Dzajic-MvB-Jairzinho as the Front 3.With these three players we have got some fantastic individual brilliance and total complete players.MvB will look their defensive pair of Desailly and Nesta which is a tough task but with the help of Rivera's movements and Suarez's long balls we expect him to do the job as well.

Jairzinho starts on the Right taking on his markers acting as a cutting winger,always looking to cut inside and combine with MvB or overlapping Rivera to create oppurtunites and score.

Dzajic on the Left playing his natural game hugging the touchline or trying to drift inside providing space for Karl-Heinz Schellinger to make those forward runs to trouble their RB to the fullest.

Jairzinho and Dzajic are both instructed to track back and help out their Fullbacks.

Lastly,the defense has the legendary center back pair Gentile and Baresi with Schellinger and Thuram as Fullbacks.Thuram highly capable of keeping Rivelinho quiet on the other hand Schellinger nullifying Best's effect on the game to some extent.If he fails to do that RIjkaard is instructed to help him out on ocassions plus Baresi helping him out to never create a one on one situation with G.Best.All in all Defense to work as a unit always having each other's back.

SUBS:
--Winning--
Hamrin on Jairzinho around 60mins to bring some fresh legs in and tire out Maldini to some extent.

Effenberg ON Rivera OFF around 70mins changing to a 4-3-3 formation.

Ayala On for Dzajic around 80mins changing to 5-3-2 Formation.

--Losing or While Drawing---
60mins Effenberg ON Suarez to add more versatility to the midfield

70mins Rivera OFF Baggio ON changing to a 4-2-1-3 Formation as well