Optakt: FCM vs. Napoli SSC

[Skagen]

http://mobil.bold.dk/fodbold/nyheder/st ... i-herning/

Alle stjernerne er med til Herning. Havde ellers en tro på de ville lade nogle af stjernerne blive hjemme, da de har masser af tid til at afgøre denne gruppe..

[TrueWolfMidt]

Desværre uden Peter Andersson og Kristoffer Olsson, ja og KBB men det vidste vi jo.
http://www.bold.dk/fodbold/nyheder/sist ... od-napoli/

[Skagen]

Flere spillere døjer med skavanker, det begynder efterhånden at stramme lidt til..
Tror vores trup til Brøndby kampen kommer til at se noget anderledes ud end denne trup...

Håber vi kan sætte fuld knald på stadion og HELE ende tribunen er med denne gang til at synge.. Det kunne være fantastisk..

[Uldkraemmeren]

Bedste realistiske resultat må være 0-0 hvilket vil være fantastisk. Med så vigtige spillere ude, bliver det meget svært at score mod Napoli.

[THenry]

Vi har vigtige spillere udenfor, og med både Petter og Olsson ude så bliver det spændende at se, hvordan midtbanen ser ud. Havde det været en superligakamp, så kunne det meget vel have været en 4-4-2, men mon ikke Sisto ryger ind centralt foran Polle og Sparv, og så er spørgsmålet, hvem der skal spille kanten modsat Royer. Marco er den mest løbestærke og bedst defensiv af de muligheder, der er i truppen, så jeg gætter på at han tager pladsen, selvom han ikke har spillet i lang tid..

Resten af opstillingen burde give sig selv, men ja bredden er ved at være presset af skader, og med en vigtig kamp i Brøndby søndag, så kan jeg frygte for, hvilken forfatning vi møder op i der, men først skal vi bare nyde en fed kamp i morgen. Der bliver gang i den på lægterne og de fleste af spillerne bliver matchet mod de bedste spillere, som de har spillet over for nogensinde. Det er den slags kampe og modstandere, som vi normalt drømmer om at se på MCH, så det er fandme stort

[Lupus1999]

Start 11:
Andersen
Rømer, Hansen, Sviatchenko, Novak
Sparv
Sisto, Poulsen, Larsen, Royer
Pusic

Alternativ spiller vi med både Duncan og Pusic og uden Larsen.

[pr0j3ct]

Start 11:
Andersen
Rømer, Hansen, Sviatchenko, Novak
Sparv
Sisto, Poulsen, Larsen, Royer
Pusic

Alternativ spiller vi med både Duncan og Pusic og uden Larsen.

Tror ikke at dette er helt ved siden af også mit gæt. Bliver en fed kamp. Napoli har været uhyre stærke og effektive en en god periode efterhånden, så vi får det svært. Vi har brug for et hold der er 100% klar i alle kampens minutter, held, medvind, sol i ryggen og hvad man ellers kan finde frem til at hjælpe til og så må der selvfølgeligt gerne ligge en lille overraskelse og lure til kampen

[Steffen am]

Så gætter jeg på Duelund får lov at spille og ja angriber, den er altid svær at spå om.
Er ret sikker på du i hvert fald har 9 rigtige

Noget skidt ikke en eneste svensker er blevet klar.

[NapoliFan]

Hi guys, as you see I'm a Napoli fan and I'd like to share some info waiting for the match. I've been reading news about Midtjylland big data strategy etc, but I don't know the main line-up, tactics etc, so I would be very grateful if you could tell me more. The nice thing in Europa League is that you get to see teams you've never watched a match of, before.

Here are my two(thousand)cents about Napoli. Good thing for you, you can ignore me if you don't care

1) less then 10 years ago we were in the italian Serie C due to balance issues. We made our way up to the Serie A and many things have changed since.
After two years with Benitez as a manager (2 italian cups and 1 italian supercup won, the EL semi-final lost against Dnipro last year and not such amazing results in the championship) the team was suffering for the very weak defense.
Maurizio Sarri the new coach got the first "big team" in his career this year. Napoli is not like Juve, Inter Milan and Milan AC that have won almost everything in Italian Football history, but still we managed to win something and be runner-up in many championships.
2) Sarri is a football professor. He has a very specific mindset about how to play which is based mainly on these few things:
- 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3
- very high pressing (close to the opponent's box so that you can try an extremely quick counter-attack and at the same time you make defensive phase easier for midfielders and defenders)
- always try not to touch the ball three times before passing it
He is not so inflexible anyway. At the beginning of the season we took 4 goals in two matches because of mistakes and unprotected defensive line. he then switched from 4-3-1-2 to 4-3-3 to re-plan the defensive phase and in the last 7 matches only 2 goals were taken.
3) the main line-up usually is:

Reina
Hysaj Albiol Koulibaly Ghoulam
Jorginho
Allan Hamsik
Callejon Insigne
Higuain

As you have already read on the italian newspapers there will be some reserve player in the starting line-up because some of them played already many matches both in Napoli and with their national teams in the last month (Hysaj, Ghoulam, Hamsik, Koulibaly, Insigne)
Probably the team will have at least three reserve players: Gabbiadini (replacing Higuain), El Kaddouri replacing Hamsik or Insigne and Maggio replacing Hysaj. There could also be Valdifiori replacing Jorginho.

In details:
Reina is a very good goalkeeper with great leadership. He gave confidence to the defense
Hysaj (Albania national team) is a very precise guy. Already played in a Sarri's team last year in Empoli. He knows exactly the moves Sarri wants him to do
Albiol was not great until this year, but as I told you the defense improved a lot and he is now doing a decent job.
Koulibaly is the typical young and fast defender that can be very dangerous when he gets in berserker mode but I think he's got great potential and a good coach (after the 5-0 against Brugge Sarri said: "Koulibaly played 85 minutes of perfection and 5 minutes making a complete mess... if he gets to focus during the 90 minutes he's going to be a top player")
Ghoulam (Algeria national team) he is a fighter. He has a good feeling with Insigne and Hamsik, and they quickly overlap or pass the ball each other.
Jorginho at the beginning of the season should be the reserve for Valdifiori, the playmaker that Sarri had in Empoli last year and Napoli bought during the summer. He is now the first playmaker choice for Sarri because he is quick-thinking both during the attacking and the defensive phase, with good passing and great positioning on the opponent's passing lines.
Allan is a tough midfielder with some extra tactical and technical skill when it comes to attack behind enemy lines waiting for an ball-on-the-ground assist
Hamsik is a very talented player that went through difficult times under Benitez. Anyway he has scored almost 80 goals in Napoli, so far (with less than 300 matches played). With Sarri he plays a little far from the box but he is another playmaker with great vision, ball control and easily kicking the ball with both feet.
Callejon is the most weird player. He is fast but not a Ferrari. He can shoot precisely but he's not a sniper. He has skills but not mesmerizing ones and still he is one of the key players being able to always be in the right position at the right time, giving support both attacking and defending
Insigne has great ball control (some of his controls are impressive) and a great feeling with Higuain and Callejon. He can great assists and this year he is improving on the goal-rate. He never scored 6 goals in a season, before: this year he already did in 10 matches (8 championship and 2 EL)
Higuain. NO COMMENT.

The reserve players that should play are:
Maggio - former right defender now replaced by the younger and more skillful Hysaj. Maggio was great when Napoli used to play with box-to-box counter-attacks during the time Mazzarri was the coach (before benitez). His lack of ball control made him a second choice for Sarri.
Valdifiori - last year in Empoli he made a great season and all the top teams were looking for him. This year he is not yet ready and Sarri made him a reserve playmaker to Jorginho. Anyway he has been playing with Sarri for 3 years and perfectly knows the moves, the passing, the 2-touch philosophy that the coach applies.
El Kaddouri - not very fast, with good skills he is an offensive midfielder playing both on central position or on the left side. Right footed he likes to be on the "wrong" side to have more chances to bend it on the far post.
Gabbiadini - left-foot-only player. He really could be a crack improving the right foot.
With the left one, anyway, he manages to be a killer. He can shoot from great distance with sniper precision. The bad thing for him is that there is Higuain to compete with. He does not feel very comfortable as primary-forward (in fact against Legia Warsav he did not perform well starting with the back-to-gate position and only when Higuain came in and Gabbiadini became the secondary-forward role he could be dangerous.

I hope this has been interesting for you.

Ciao and good luck for the match!

[Steffen am]

Very interessting. Thx

As you maybe have heard we have a lot of injuries.
The worst of them is 1st keeper Dahlin, Captain Bach Bak and the 2 swedish midfielders Andersson and Olsson.
Could have been great at least one of the two last players had been ready.

This is a very big match in a danish context, so a tie would feel like a great win for us.
I think your players are at least 10 times more expensive then ours.

And good match for you also

[NapoliFan]

I hope it's going to be a nice match.

which tactics do you usually apply? Is it based on high crosses, ball control, or whatev?

I'm sorry some of your best guys are injuried, because I know for young players it must be very exciting to play against the current 16th team in UEFA ranking. Anyway rankings apart, on the field everything can change. Sure Higuain is even more than 10 times the price for Pione Sisto, but football history is full of unpredictable events

One thing I forgot to add is that since Benitez left we totally changed our moves on the attack. With the spanish manager we used to keep controlling the ball for long time but when there were 11 opponents defending behind the ball-line we were always reaching for the side and wasting thousands of chances by making high crosses that nobody (we don't have a tall and great-header forward) caught.
Now we mostly play ball-on-the-ground and try to attack on the center. When we go on the side it is typically for a diagonal ground pass on the empty area behind the defenders.

the two goals against Fiorentina are probably the most "napolish" goals I can remember.

Good luck again.

[Fenris]

Hi NapoliFan,

Thanks for sharing

This is a huge game for us. The whole region, if not the whole country, is very much looking forward to it.
Will you be at the stadium? I am going and I'm very much looking forward to the experience. Our stadium may be far from the biggest in the world, but I believe that the atmosphere on a day like this, can compete with the best. That's atleast what we saw in our match against Southampton.

We just got a new coach this summer and since then our style of play has changed some. We used to go on an all out attack, sacrificing our defence some. Now our style is much more defensive based - we've only conceeded 4 goals in our domestic campaign so far (in 12 games).
We generally put a lot of faith in to our set pieces. Other than that we ususally try to set up the attack over our wings, which can change some based on who we're playing on the attack.

Good luck to you too.

[NapoliFan]

Hi, thank you for the info!


I'll be in a pub with my friends here in Napoli watching the match on TV.
I've read there should be 350 Napoli supporters there in Herning, according to the pre-sales of tickets and charter flights. I think some guys living in Denmark will be at the stadium, too.
I really hope it's going to be a very nice match. Reserve players they did not have many chances to play so far (Gabbiadini above all) and I think they will try to do their best to get some points in the coach's ranking.
After the problems he had in the match with Legia, maybe Sarri will try to have 2 forward (4-3-1-2) in order to give support to Gabbiadini and let him play facing the gate.
Defense was our big issue last year. Since in Italy philosophy and history say that the championship is won by those who conceed less goals, we had to fix it. After a clumsy start in the season (lost with Sassuolo 2-1 and a draw 2-2 with Empoli) in the last 7 matches: 20 goals scored and 2 conceeded (1 against Juventus and 1 against Fiorentina). I hope we've found a balance.

Anyway with Legia and Brugge at 0 points there is a good chance for both of us however these two matches go.
Good luck black wolves!

[TrueWolfMidt]

Det må da kunne sætte alle vores spillere op, at der er så mange scouts på stadion. Uanset om man er en af dem som scoutsene kikker på eller ej, så kan man vel godt komme på blokken i andre klubber, hvis man gør det godt i aften og prisen er den rigtige. Håber så inderligt, at vi når kampen er slut, så har vi minimum 1 point. Vi skal virkelig give den gas i aften.

http://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/europa-l ... mod-napoli

[BMBrandt]

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