Real Sociedad - Inter (20 Sep 23) [1-1]

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Real Sociedad is very much built with players from their academy. Massive respect to that historic club.

I recommend watching Japan's NT, they never had such a good team before. Mitoma, Kubo, Kamada, Tomiyasu, Endo, Tanaka, Asano,..
They had Tsubasa Ozora,Genzo Wakabayashi,Ryo Ishizaki...back in the days so not impressed.
 
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Time for Pavard, maybe Frattesi & Barella for sweeping midfield, then do direct counter?
yea I really didn't want to draw Real S. but here we are.
We know about Spanish teams as Inter fans, but tbh this time it feels different, cause we have Inzaghi; also we were able to fuck Barca, this should be nothing in comparison, just don't be cocky, take them seriously, we should handle this.

Also another good thing is they seem very vulnerable with the spaces they leave behind.
 

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Now that is interesting, seems like we are trying to keep one side of the CB more active in attack; imagine switching the focal point through the game.
 

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counter-attack, your team controls the ball and we get 3 points
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Sky also predicting Frattesi and Pavard starting... i am surprised about Pavard, but if Bastoni is on the bench and Acerbi covers the left side, will De Vrij play the center? Or will they put Pavard on the left?
 

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I think it will be more like Acerbi-SDV-Pavard trying to keep one side more invasive. The thing is this style might work better with Cuadrado than Dumfries maybe, but who knows, I don't think we should over-rotate:

I personally prefer to experiment something like this, but it takes away some of the game controlling element, but stronger in defense and forward runs.
It is kinda hard to play Frattesi and Barella together

----------LM---Thuram-----
---Frattesi--Hakan--Barella--
Dimarco-----------Dumfries
----Acerbi-SDV-Pavard-----

tbh I don't know who to start for the midfield, I think Inzaghi would start Mkhitaryan for sure, just not sure it would be Barella or Frattesi.
 

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Sky also predicting Frattesi and Pavard starting... i am surprised about Pavard, but if Bastoni is on the bench and Acerbi covers the left side, will De Vrij play the center? Or will they put Pavard on the left?
De Vrij can’t play anywhere else besides that center spot. I’m not too fond of Acerbi playing LCB though.
 

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De Vrij can’t play anywhere else besides that center spot. I’m not too fond of Acerbi playing LCB though.
I suspect we will be sitting pretty deep as to not expose our CBs too much, but I don’t like Acerbi starting at LCB from minute one playing against a young pacy side. I’m guessing we’ll go with something like Pavard De Vrij Acerbi. I think Darmian could use the rest after having to deal with Leao at the weekend. If Bastoni is being rested it would be nice to have Pavard in there to add an additional attacking element.
 

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I'd rather play Darmian on the left than Acerbi tbh, especially if that left-sided defender will be coming up against Kubo. Obviously Bastoni would be preferred.
 

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I was pretty busy in the past week and missed the derby. Hopefully I'll be able to watch this. Forza Inter!
 

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Lol I love how everyone worries for Acerbi against Kubo, seems like they all forgot how Acerbi ate Chiesa alive, and thinking Acerbi will not be fast enough :yao:

He is not Huth.
 

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Not a bad team. I had honestly completely forgotten that they'd been in CL before. I hope our experience gives us the edge.
 

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It is a time for little rotation.

Fratessi for Mikhi
Augusto for Dimarco
Pavard for Darmian
Vrij for Acerbi

Others remain same
Not really, Frattesi should start Empoli game, not CL game. I will keep, Miki, Dimarco, Darmian and maybe play DeVrij.

Miki is the one with big CL experience left in the team. No way Inzaghi benching him after Milan Derby performance and playing CL game on the road.
 
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Gonna repost what I did in the La Liga thread since it'll get more attention here and it's topically relevant.

The entirety of the Sociedad attack came through Kubo in yesterday's game. Once Garcia and Kroos began to mark him tighter in the 2nd half, along with limiting his service, Sociedad produced just about nothing of substance. I will also say that, while I didn't tend to watch him defensively during the game, he could've done more in helping close down Garcia on the cross that led to the winning goal for Madrid, although the criticism on that one certainly lies harder on Le Normand and Traore for that one.
 

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I was wrong that this jersey is ugly. I actually like it. What was the season that we also had orange combination? Early 00?
 

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Then De Vrij and Dumfries must play:)
 
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