text: I would rather mix it like the French, long passes like Sagnol can do when it's called for or the passing, passing, passing when you have the midfielders to carry the ball to the strikers like Zidane could do. As we saw at the WC, the Italians couldn't really do the passing style technique because the French defense was so great and most of the time stole the ball there.\n\nEdit: Good question by the way.