Football Scouting: The problem with being in the Madrid playmaker

Özil Benzema

Understand the problem as arising from overbooking now and for the past few years have Real Madrid in the area known as three quarters as the latest trends. The white team has hired in the last decade a lot of players adaptable to other positions, but nevertheless offered its best when focused their position and acted in front of the midfield and near the area. Instead of hiring specific band players or midfield, made use of a versatility that sometimes was not. Too many players for a specific area as they have had to reinvent itself and adapt to other positions.

First it should clarify that the position and its functions vary according to the system in which to develop. Not the same playmaker of a 4-2-3-1, with more responsibilities offensive that the attachment of a diamond, nor the two midfielders who play in the 4-3-3, as Xavi and Iniesta. Guti is the epitome of all this: to be the classic hook-up, in the presence of Raul Del Bosque 4-2-3-1 and other successors often relegated to a double pivot on which class was through their good performances, but that was not the position you could get more from their football.

Raul has always been a player area, ideal to play behind a reference many times was Morientes. But there came a time in your career where I wanted to cover too much ground and lost presence in the penalty area, getting too low to pick up the ball. He also had to repeatedly ram act, which lowered their performance. Zidane's arrival was not beneficial for Seven, because apart from that the team did not play for him, Zidane had his place in the top ten ideal and sometimes had to play a difficult angle on the left. When leaving the center of inertia, Raul and Zidane occupying the same space and the left was for gallops Roberto Carlos.

The post led to the Bernabeu galactic players like Robinho and Baptista, new examples of players who developed their virtues best behind the strikers but had to adapt. While Robinho was coupled smoothly to the left side, his was the playmaker. Baptista arrived from Brazil midfielder and Caparros made him top scorer in Seville a playmaker, and as such the Madrid signed him. However, the Beast played by the left and the midfield, but rarely behind the front. Cassano also came in those years, although their presence was testimonial.

With Calderon arrived in Madrid from the Dutch, that bore little resemblance to Milan Sacchi. With him came Sneijder and Van der Vaart, midfielders who had to adapt their game to the band or midfield on several occasions. At last a real player signed band like Robben, but little hard in La Castellana. Higuain was also signed, a young Argentine who rose to prominence in River starting from the right and stood out for its arrival to the area. Today is a striker who plays ends rather than create them. In what was then commissioned in El Monumental Falcao. Not a trace of that Pipit. More goal, but less football.

He returned and with it came Florentino Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, three players who frequented the area of three quarters. Christian began his career as a winger, but Ferguson focused his position to become a predator in the area. In any case a player who prefers to start from the side. Benzema Lyon was a player who liked to play the game and had good presence in the area, as the trophy for top scorer in Ligue 1 testifies, but not a center forward, and Real Madrid signed him as such. With Mourinho has won in aggressiveness, but what sets it apart from other strikers is their ability to associate, not to wait for the ball in the area.

Later came Khedira, Özil and Channels. Khedira, despite their technical limitations, such as playing in the Stuttgart midfielder arrived, but it reinvented Löw defensive midfielder in the World Cup in South Africa and so I joined Real Madrid. Canales came as a great promise of Spanish football, but the signing of Özil banished him from the title. The German is now the lucky guy who playsin the middle, but sometimes take the band according to the script of the game. What's more, a pure end as Di Maria Argentina states that allow you to join Messi and forwards. What was missing ...