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A little bit of pressure from Mourinho (10 players statement) and home crowd impact will do just enough. We all remember how it looked like last year vs Inter. They won't be looking to injure our players deliberately (that's going too far IMO), but they'll certainly try to scare us off and...

I'm pretty sure all is set for some ankle targeting. It will not be clear instructions, but I guess some Madrid players will be advised to "go hard" on certain players.

Really? Wow, you teached me something... How many of these vile 12 year olds actually are on this forum, and why are they allowed to arrogantly babble commonplace stupidities and abuse? Raed, i read your post and agree wit most of the stuff you wrote. However, I think you slightly...

Yes, that's what I mean by "matchday tactics": fine tactical tweaking (formations switching, specific tasks etc.) for particular match. As you said, it's absolutely necessary, but certainly not the most important thing. And for some reasons (you mentioned one) people are getting obsessive with...

I agree. I noticed there is a bit of a semantic mess, so I started using term "matchday tactics". I believe that's what most "tactitians" here on the topic and fans today in general are thinking about when they say the word. That was my point in fact, overstating importance of matchday tactics...

Yes, debate has become tiresome, but I feel need again to stress one more thing. :D Jamrock mentions only the quality of players and chess games as vital factors. That's what bothers me. People are overlooking the hardest, the most demanding and complex thing in coaching the team: what you do...

Well, then you obviously haven't read what I wrote. Well of course particular game tactics are vital. You can't play without a gameplan and knowing your opponent. But there are things in football that are more vital and require more work, knowledge and methodology to achieve than making a plan...

And it would be nice, if you already have "opinion", to show what exactly that "opinion" consists of. I tried to prove my point by some sorts of arguments, all I hear from you is your "opinion" is accepted. OK, I don't need your "lesson" in football history, just explain why are my 2 mentioned...

Yeah, you throw team names and formations and that's an argument? That's the most abstract stuff that only scratches the surface of reality the game is played and means absolutely nothing by itself. That's level of a 10 year old reading journalist crap and imagining managers as wizards with...

Now, must I repeat for 5555th time that I never said tactics are not important? Again, my whole point was: 1) there are some much important things than particular game tactics 2) people tend to overstate importance of particular game tactics nowadays, and do it in irritatingly pretentious and...

I explained on what I base my opinion and which are the most important things that make a well coached team. My point was particular game tactics are, while necessary, certainly not as important as those things. Now tell me what actually posters you mentioned said that bears any kind of...

And to finish with this nonsense, this is the perfect example. Of course. It was all about "tactical masterstroke" of marking Alonso. And nobody before Pep didn't come to this idea. Does anyone see how actually retarded this is? Barcelona overwhelmed Real because they were defending high up...

Now this is what I'm talking about. I'm sure this one doesn't know very much about the game, but doesn't prevent him to feel so smart when he says "tactics". Way to go. You don't have to analyze, to verify your arguments, to study the game, just say "you don't understand tactics" or "that's...

Now that makes sense, but when or where have I disputed this? 99% of the job is done on the training ground, plan for a particular game is necessary but is just an icing on the cake. Of course tactical choices determine how your teams play and what will you do on training, but it's all generally...

Absolutely spot on. That's why Pep is brilliant coach, because he made his team to consistently play attacking, highly automatised, expansive football, with tremendous level of interplay. That's what you do day in day out on training ground and to make such a brilliant job you have to posses...

Argentina were shit because they had looney who thought some random tactical tricks can paper over the cracks and hide the fact he didn't do the basics of coaching: make his team defend and attack as a unit and reach the high level of automatism in the their game. It's not he wasn't playing...

Of course. But in majority of cases they don't win games with unexpected, genius chess moves made for particular game, like some of you imagine. They do it by coaching players at their disposal to play like a coherent unit, excercising moves and routines they train day after day on the field...

It's a strange and pretty recent phenomenon, really. It wasn't like that before. Today every schoolboy or couch potato has urge to argue which wizard is better and has better book with secret spells... They're usually very mouthy and aggresive in that, while their arguments consist of...

Wow, you two really are models of today's football fan. Alright, just stick to your video games and media BS...

:lol: I'm pretty sure you've never trained or played real football? Rarely is game won by coach playing chess and some cunning tactical decision. In fact, people who don't have much experience in coaching/training process just read too much into it and make some crazy parallel world where...