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Originally Posted by daca
REAL MADRID: Casilla - Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo - Kovacic, Casemiro, Isco - Lucas Vázquez, Morata, Asensio.
SEVILLA: Sergio Rico - Mariano, Pareja, Carriço, Kolo - Iborra, N'Zonzi - Vitolo, Franco Vázquez, Kiyotake - Vietto.
Sevilla losing Ever, Krychowiak, Krohn-Dehli and Gameiro makes them look so much worse on paper, but I guess they usually figure it out.
Krychowiak played at such a high level that he is the really tough one to replace. In this lineup there is still physicality in midfield but not the overall game.
However I'm looking at their transfers and Atletico have actually loaned them Kranevitter who was supposed to be their near-future in central midfield. I think Sampaoli definitely needed someone with that kind of controlling on and off-ball midfield potential. Staying in central midfield I could also see Cristoforo taking a bigger role. As well as Carrico further back. Those players in the EL rotation actually outperformed others playing more in La Liga if I remember (and saw) correctly.
I also still kind of believe in Vietto and then Ben Yedder who I've only seen sporadically over the years, yet he seems like a very dependable choice to contribute many of the things that Garmeiro did + sporting director Moncho prides himself on his expertise on the Ligue 1. market:
Incidentally maybe the only place where he hasn't had a great hand has been with the Serie A players, granted it's not many, that he has brought in over the years so both Franco Vasquez and Joaquín Correa will be interesting to follow.
They've spent enough money on them that it's hard to imagine them not really trying to fit them in and Correa for starters with his attacking midfield/playmaker talent at 21 seems like a bargain.
He already seems like an improved version of the kind of number 10s (Valdivia or Matias Fernandez) that Sampaoli/Bielsa/Chile have in their systems sometimes.
Franco Vasquez is sometimes more in second-striker territory but can also be a number 10 typo I think. I really don't know if he can press but I guess that he can or why buy him. He is just a skilled very clever operator finding space both with his movements (even if not fast) and his passes.
If that's not enough potential number 10s for this team they've even bought freaking GANSO! Neymar left him way behind early on career-wise and I wasn't sure if he was ever coming to Europe after injuries (I think I remember) and unstable form but he is a masterful passer with a lot of flair (maybe too much) of course and then we'll see if he'll have enough mentally, tactically and physically to thrive. Tempo can definitely be a challenge.
At right-back for Argentina and River when I've seen him Gabriel Mercado mostly makes his mark with physical play but he is another player who should be on wave-length with the new coach and he is probably better than Coke. For more attacking skill they can still use Mariano.
Their middle from solid centrebacks, some of them also defensive midfielders to attacking midfielders to number 10s to forwards they look pretty stacked to me but almost no matter what the key question will be just how well Sampaoli manages to install Bielsa and just how reliably will it function? It seems like it's Sevilla's biggest change in a long time and it's quite the difference from Emery.
Last edited by Bjørn; 08-09-2016 at 02:25 PM.