🚨| Fede Valverde starting against Chelsea is taken for granted by all the Real Madrid players. Toni Kroos should be the "sacrificed" one. @marca— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) April 4, 2022 ⤵️🚨| Another option for Ancelotti is to change the system and use 4 midfielders but that's less likely. @marca— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) April 4, 2022
I’m scared of any 4 man midfield formations from Ancelotti currently after what he did against Barca.
Fede valverde is the only midfielder that should play 100% of the time when available. all other 4 (case-kroos-luka-cama) should rotate. I just don't understand how he's not playing
Zidane did the same thing forcing KCM into the lineup and all that did was hurt the team and end up in struggle results, draws or losses. ... of course mouthbreathers put all blame on Zidane; God forbid we focus on the why we need to be so elaborate just to force certain players on the pitch
One of seven players (along with Benz, Vini, Tibo, Militao, Mendy, and Alaba) who is automatically on the team sheet if available from my perspective. Nice thing too is that it also makes it easier to pick Modric, who still has the highest ceiling of any of our midfielders but needs someone like Fede next to him at this point IMO.
I don't remember us losing a single game Zidane rolled with the 4-5-1 in, in fact he only pulled it out in the big games and we've won all of them but then again unlike Ancelotti he actually wasn't a mess tactically. I'm not suggesting we should go with 4 in midfield and i'm especially not suggesting that KMC plays, last thing i want to see but Zidane did much better than Ancelotti with that formation.
I feel for him. Because of his athleticism and KCM's lack of athleticism he gets played out of position to help them instead of being a starter in his preferred position like he should be if we are honest Played RW plenty under Zidane. Played RB against Liverpool. His versatility is going against him, but i bet he prefers playing wherever that is over not playing at all
He is great at right midfield. Probably better in the centre of the park but there is more freedom as right midfielder to use his pace.
Yep. As good as he can be as a RM who contributes centrally, he’s undoubtedly his best starting in the middle. Prior to his recurring niggling injuries starting, in 2019/20 season during his breakout year he had displaced Modric as a starter let’s not forget, a midfield of Kroos, Case, Fede was playing very solid football under Zidane.
I agree that his best position is LCM. He has all the skills there. He has a great temperament too, looks like captain material in the future to me. The choice is replace Kroos with Fede or replace Asensio/Lucas with Fede. I go with the latter all day, every day. Next season when we have a right winger we can have the luxury of dropping Kroos and Modric more and playing him and Cama in their best positions.
🎙| Ancelotti: "Valverde is a very unique football player, he always should shoot when the chance appears." #rmalive— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) May 12, 2022 Absolutely. Something we’ve been missing for years. He has a great shot from outside. Try it more often. If nothing else it keeps the opposing DM honest and creates space behind him.
He plays LCM for the NT and he looks fantastic there. We haven’t had a midfielder that can hit the ball as well as he can since… Beckham?
Sneijder had a pretty good shot too. I feel like we have had a few come over and then stop shooting all together for some reason. Kroos is a good example, used to be lethal and now he will only shoot from distance if it's his trademark pass to the net.
🎙| Federico Valverde on IG: “Being from Madrid is a privilege that not everyone can have.” #rmalive pic.twitter.com/x3ZbUuk65y— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) May 21, 2022 Love this and also what Benzema, Rodrygo posted. Hope we win the CL final.
lmao can't believe I thought this guy is a Kroos-Khedira hybrid Hes so much more, but how can you predict his development, he just keeps adding stuff to his game, first the tackles then the runs then the shots then god knows what. In the beginning he was a very timid player. I though I was being not conservative enough in my assessment, turns out I was too conservative