Who's stopping this team?
Let's analyze each specific type. This first one seems to be built on tremendous confidence in the club's finances. It is surely impossible to assemble such a lineup, but it looks great. Which of those things is more important? It's hard to decide.
There also tend to be a few recurring traits in these lineups. First off, many of them include Borussia Dortmund's Erling Haaland at striker. In the past, the likes of Dayot Upamecano and Paul Pogba seen similar levels of popularity.
Then, there is usually one "wildcard" signing that the creator throws in to spice things up. This player tends to be young, attack-minded, relatively cheap (€10M-€25M), and playing for a midtable side or outside of the big five leagues altogether.
This wildcard serves two main functions in the side: First, to prove that the creator "knows ball", and has an incredible eye for under-the-radar talent, and, second, to try and justify the fees required on the other players by bringing down the mean expenditure.
Next up is the academy lineup. These usually come from supporters of a club with a storied history, distinct style on the pitch, and even the slightest bit of production from their youth academy graduates.
The key here is potential. All of these players *could be* really good, so why not throw them all out on the pitch together right now?
Usually, though, there are some spots still reserved for veteran players. One of these tends to be an older midfielder, who will use his wisdom and experience like Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda - magically elevating the performance and maturity of everyone around him.
The other tends to be the team's one star attacker who is loved by all fans and has seemingly "carried" the side for years. Thus, he will still be able to produce, even with the dramatic change in supporting cast. He will score, the team will win - it's simple.
Lastly, we come to what might be the most popular, and the most powerful, of all the lineups - the "Attacking Overload." Essentially, this lineup builds off of the idea that scoring goals is good, and tries to push things to the limit.
There are almost too many defining traits of this type of side to count, but let's go over a few. First off, many of these teams will line up with three at the back. If you need to score goals to win, why waste another defender (remember, defenders do not contribute to scoring)?
It also helps if one of these three defenders is actually an attacking full back by nature. They give the back line pace, which solves almost every problem, and, you guessed it, more attacking prowess.
Moving up, the midfield is often made up of a black defensive midfielder, and two heliocentric attacking midfielders who put in very little defensive work (we like to call these "free 8's").
But wait, there's more. The attack tends to be crowded with another player who demands the ball to be effective, a winger on the opposite flank of where he's best-suited (he's a professional, he'll figure it out), and two strikers.
It's always a good sign if one of these strikers is completely immobile, and totally unsuited to playing with the profiles of these other players. His partner up top can tend to be someone coming off of the first ridiculous hot streak of their career.
For this overperformer, think along the lines of 15 goals from 8.2 xG in the previous season. We care about scoring, though, not whether or not the player expects to score (we can work on his confidence).
Ultimately, these types of lineups can even be mixed with one another. You can take traits of one and apply them to another, which is part of what makes them so magical.
Which type of lineup is your favorite? Which one do you think is the best? Have you seen any other types?
Feel free to reach out with examples. Hopefully you found this thread helpful!
Feel free to reach out with examples. Hopefully you found this thread helpful!
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