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Message: [QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3041035, member: 1452"] Actually Will Trapp is that guy but you need to pair him with somebody who can "protect" him - much like Gattuso covered for Pirlo in 2006...you also need center backs who can initiate if the other team presses up on him - which Guyana did on Bradley. The question is whether Will Trapp can be that guy at the intl level. So far, the results say "no" but Berhalter has to figure out whether there is some combination of other players that will allow Trapp to do what he does best. In 2006, Lippi surrounded Pirlo with 3 hard-working , ball-winning midfielders in Camoranesi, Perrotta and, espeically, Gattuso...they did the dirty work of ball-winning and defending so that Pirlo could do what he does best. I am intrigued by GB. It is clear that he is a student of the game and I am very interested to see how he tweaks things going forward... [/QUOTE]