Gab Marcotti

One Zimbabwe and Bellingham and all these other guys are fit.

So it's a question now of how Valverde channels it.

But I was just struck.

You're playing Simeone through the middle.

There's no, again, there's no Schurke or Foden, which means you don't have the creativity against a team that's going to, that will sit and play in transition.

I thought the whole thing made very little sense.

I don't need to see so much of Simeone so quickly.

I think a lot of this is on him.

You're playing around Madrid side who are wounded, who have a lot of absentees.

And then you reshuffle things again.

And so... Not reshuffle, not too much.

Okay.

Well, I think it is because... Not really.

I would dispute that.

When he's played Marmouch and Haaland, for example, Semenyo's not hanging out in the middle, right?

I haven't seen the 4-2-2-2 with him playing with two outright wingers as well.

And how often has it been Savinho and Doku?

Whether it's asymmetrical or symmetrical, the two doesn't matter, but usually... I think it does matter if you're playing against essentially a back five.

Yeah, he's played like that in both.

But you agree it's a different interpretation.