Seamus
Milan Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2002
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- SF - CA - USA
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- Anyone playing for AC Milan
As far as I know and how it works here is the the keeper is responsible for controling & positioning the defence on set pieces. Not that Dida is going to tell who to mark who, but he should be the one positioning everyone on free kicks and corners. It's his job to watch the tape and know how they do things. It could be different at Milan because of Maldini's experience, but I always look to a keeper to control set piece situations.
That being said sometimes Sheva defends on corners sometimes he doesn't, in the Celtic game he was supposed to but did a horrible job. He was in there to clear anything out and 1) he misjudged it look a step back instead of going forward and 2) Maldini let Varga in without much of a fight, even though he was trying to cover 2 me. In the Lazio game I would definatly put the fault of the goal on Maldini, who as Passion said has been horrible in the air so far this year. Good on the ground, but when the ball get's up he just doesn't and has been loosing him man. IN the case of Couto's goal he was Maldini. Cafu was on someone in the box and Maldini just let him Couto slip through.
Our back has been most of the concern, but I'd also like to get a right winger. We get a little too predictable at time usually attacking on the left through Seedorf and are relying on a ageing Cafu to do too much and Gattuso doesn't have the skill to do leaving the right as our weak point. I'd like to be able to switch it up some games and play a real winger on the right, but until we get one nothings going to change.
That being said sometimes Sheva defends on corners sometimes he doesn't, in the Celtic game he was supposed to but did a horrible job. He was in there to clear anything out and 1) he misjudged it look a step back instead of going forward and 2) Maldini let Varga in without much of a fight, even though he was trying to cover 2 me. In the Lazio game I would definatly put the fault of the goal on Maldini, who as Passion said has been horrible in the air so far this year. Good on the ground, but when the ball get's up he just doesn't and has been loosing him man. IN the case of Couto's goal he was Maldini. Cafu was on someone in the box and Maldini just let him Couto slip through.
Our back has been most of the concern, but I'd also like to get a right winger. We get a little too predictable at time usually attacking on the left through Seedorf and are relying on a ageing Cafu to do too much and Gattuso doesn't have the skill to do leaving the right as our weak point. I'd like to be able to switch it up some games and play a real winger on the right, but until we get one nothings going to change.
