Hello fellow bloggers and Santistas. I am excited to be a part of the team to bring the news for the legendary Santos FC in English. As a relatively new fan, I hope to learn more about the club as this venture continues. Now on to my first post.
Training
Globoesporte are reporting that in his first training session Vanderlei Luxemburgo put Felipe in goal for Douglas. It seems that he has a high opinion of the young keeper.
For the first part of training, Luxemburgo played a 4-5-1. Felipe was in goal with a back four of Luizinho, Domingos, Fabão and Léo. The midfield five consisted of three defensive midfielders, Roberto Brum, Rodrigo Souto and Germano with Madson and Robson playing in front of them. Roni was the lone front man.
In the second part of training, the 4-5-1 became a 4-3-3. The defense remained the same. The midfielder three were Madson, Rodrigo Souto and Germano with Neymar, Roni and Paulo Henrique Lima as the front three.
This seems to be a foreshadowing of Luxa’s new tactics. As a loose rule of thumb tough away games would have a 4-5-1 formation while 4-3-3 would be the preferred formation for home games. To be honest I’m not a big fan of a three volantes. There is no creativity in the heart of the midfield. Neither am I a fan of Roni, he has not shown anything of note so far. However, it is far too early for me to criticize anything. New tactics can only be truly assessed under match conditions.
The Santos FC published the stats on our home games with Luxa as our team's coach during the years of 1997, 2004, 2006 and 2007 (including last game againg Atletico-PR) They were 112 games in the Vila Belmiro. We won a impressive 80,85 % of the points possibles. 86 wins, 14 ties and 12 losses.
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