I hate conservative coaches...

[EKBATAN]

buffon
santon cannavaro chiellini cristico
marchisio pirlo de rossi
totti(montolivo)
rossi di natale

i like that line up except cannavaro for NESTA he's playing great
and di natale in totti's spot, move a big guy like iaquinta in di natale's spot or good ol' gilardino

[persiangodfather]

i like that line up except cannavaro for NESTA he's playing great
and di natale in totti's spot, move a big guy like iaquinta in di natale's spot or good ol' gilardino

nesta is retired i dont think hell come out of retirement

[EKBATAN]

nesta is retired i dont think hell come out of retirement

i know but if he keeps playing like this and stays healthy, he needs to! cannavaro makes dumb ass mistakes now days...he's not focused at all...maybe he's getting too much ass these days or something

[abtin_32]

I also thought Nesta wouldn't reconsider playing for the azzurri again, but lately, there has been different voices. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up coming back for the WC. I actually kinda hope he does. Cannavaro is no good in his current form. As it stands, i think the ideal line-up for italy would be (given the few injured players recover):

-------------------------------Buffon

---Zambrotta-------Nesta-------Chiellini-------Grosso


----------------------Pirlo----De Rossi

-------Camoranesi--------Totti--------------Di Natale

-----------------------Gilardino

or without Totti:


-------------------------------Buffon

---Zambrotta-------Nesta-------Chiellini-------Grosso


---------------De Rossi-------Pirlo----Marchisio

-------Camoranesi-----------------------Di Natale

-----------------------Gilardino

key subs:

Iaquinta for Gila
Rossi for Di Natale or Camo
Ambrosini for Ant of the midfielders (although he will never be called by Lippi unfortunately)

[abtin_32]

Now, I know Zamb and Grosso aren't really anywhere near their best, but
Santon and Criscito are too inexperienced to play in the world cup. If they had the chance to play more games before the WC, I would be all for them playing fixed. But WC is no place to have young inexperienced players make mistakes and gain experience in the expense of the team losing.

Plus,

it's a big advantage to have same-team player "blocks" (Milan: Zamb-Nesta and Juve: Chiellini-Grosso) as they are used to playing beside each other all year long, so it saves the coach a lot of time and work.

[soheil86]

luca toni on form is 3 times the player iawinta and gialrdona are.

[soheil86]

------------------------Buffon
--marco motta----Nesta------Chiellini-------zambro
-----------------------DDRossi-------------------
-----------------pirlo--------marchisio
-------------------------------------------di natale
---------------------totti-------------------
---------------------------------toni

[EKBATAN]

i prefer some young players cuz these are pro euro players and they're used to playing against good players, its top competition....in case of IRAN yes i would go for more experience....


in the italy squads u guys picked its pretty much all the old timers with like one or two new players.....to me thats disaster cuz theres the same chance of mistake from the young ones and the old ones.....cannavaro is sleeping these days and zambrotta likes to push up so he's slow on coming back as he was back in the days.....he should be a right midfielder as opposed to attack, toni and totti are not nearly the same as back then...personally i think Lippi's smokin CRACK if he doesnt take Rossi and Di Natale

[the-ali]

luca toni on form is 3 times the player iawinta and gialrdona are.

lol typical romanista.

[the-ali]

do any of you even watch serie a or your just writing down famous names you know?

[elnino99]

If all players are in-form for the WC this is the team I would play
hopefulyl Nesta and king TOTTI will be back


-----------------Buffon------------------
Motta-----Nesta---------Chiellni----Grosso (he is good for NT)
-----------------DDR--------------------
----------Pirlo---------Aquilani-----------
-----------------Totti-------------------
-----------Di Natale----Iaquinta---------

Aquilani is a genius, watching him for Liverpool I have discovered it, some of his passes are unreal, however, he is still a little rusty. but in his 4 starts he has given 2 assists and Liverpool have won all those games in which he started

[K.C.I.N.]

I'd def. call up Mario Balotelli for the NT

[the-ali]

Marchisio is a fix in the middle. lol @ people putting Aqualani.