Alan wrote:To be fair to Lucas he has had two very bad injuries, and he might need until next season before we see him back to his consistant best.
I think his form before injury was over rated. He had a few very good games but his glaring weaknesses were still apparent in all of the others.
Moriarty wrote:"Pirlo - Gerrard
Marchisio - Henderson
Vidal - Lucas"
Those players are on completely different levels. Lucas is our only midfielder who is even good enough to be a squad player for Juventus.
Of course they're on different levels. I'm not comparing their ability, I'm comparing the playing style. And Juventus wouldn't even consider Lucas. Not even as a squad player.
SBSP wrote:None of those players really play the same roles at all. I'd say Gerrard and Vidal is a closer pairing.
I know they don't, because we play a completely different system. But if we were to play similar to how they do, that is how we should do it. Gerrard of today and Vidal are nothing like each other, Vidal's energy is out of this world. He's a DM that can play as a box to box midfielder, Gerrard could also play box to box in his younger days but he never played DM.
In our team Gerrard has played as a regista this season, with others around him doing more running, just like Vidal and Marchisio do Pirlo's running for him at Juve. Henderson in particular is a great athlete and our team functions much better with him in it at the moment, which is why he should play more from now to the end of the season.
The big Villa man was terrified.
