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Who is the spectator or fan who has an inevitable gravitation or affinity towards only mediocre footballers or coaches? You already know the answer: the one who himself is mediocre, feels the best surrounded by similar entities, listens to bad or artificial music, reads bad literature, never...

Now you can clearly see the commando of the talentless is well on the way to kill the honorable Mammoth. These are only preliminary training sessions. Just wait until they put on the shirt and step foot on the pitch! They are very good armchair observers, so they know that nowadays an average...

Yeah, Lucho is not the greatest on the planet, for sure. But the team - regardless some of the results - was the best on Earth in 2015-16. Things got worse by 2017 and there is a good reason why Lucho didn't want to carry on.

Of course there is an explanation, probably it is just YOU who can't see it. Once again you come with 2-3 years of history and you can't avoid mentioning some results, which have nothing to do with the present situation we were talking about. But I'm in a good mood, so will tell ya: - 2016 was...

If Messi is neutralized by 3-4 defenders as you say, it is a great thing because he occupies 3-4 defenders, so the OTHERS should step up in a much easier tactical scenario. The actual problem is that those others cannot step up and if Messi doesn't DO BOTH CREATION and EXECUTION, with at least...

I guess it is most definitely EV who lays out the principal formation. We all know that the right expression is "Messi starts from the RW" but that in itself influences how the midfielders are spread and never forget that Barca traditionally had good attacking RBs, which Roberto is not and...

No need for compensation. It's a simple tactical matter as I tried to mention. He always compensates himself by pulling 1-2 opponents by simply being there and it has always been the case. Better we watch the PSG-Marseille "classico", it's so enjoyable, specially to see a coach who has the...

Well said. Any opponent is so scared of Messi, that even if he does nothing else but stands static anywhere, there will be one, often two, defenders marking him or minimally keeping an eye of him. It is simply a matter of tactical awareness how to circumvent his lack of kilometers, which is too...

As a matter of fact, there is no need to even acknowledge a poor performance, because a few million people saw the game and it's very unlikely that all of them are delusional. He just said it was a bad performance (like the other mentioned ones were) nothing interesting about that, it would be...

Are you sure it worth it to question the semantics of Messi's interview? We all know what he meant, he wants to play more as a creator, we have been seeing that for quite some time by now. It's nothing new, he does that and still he could make yet another golden-shoe for last season. He has...

No. EV doesn't have the KNOWLEDGE to coach those seniors, which is a huge difference. The coach could be as aggressive as he is capable to, the players wouldn't listen to him, unless he says something meaningful, and I doubt he says meaningful things. Most probably the seniors have a better...

That's good! Rofl...

Some players can be in a mentally indisposed state but it rarely or never happens collectively. Lack of motivation is usually the culprit in these cases, but it's a matter that is largely on the coach's shoulder, as he is the one to actually motivate his team. Not one by one but collectively...

You have no choices guys. Either you leave this partially cursed forum for good, or the next two years you will have to read all these absolute boolshit, that the unsound BBZ guy and his commando will serve you almost daily about Messi. I guess the BBZ guy has been waiting for a long time to...

Done.

Nice try, specially to show off your continuity in simply judging others, while trying to hold on to the illusion that you are unquestionable. Of course I could tell you the same thing, to look up related posts. Only a couple of days ago (when had the privilege of exchanging some rare words...

There isn't a single explicit post on EV's actual tactics here. Rather there are good and well observed mentions of the lack of tactics related to his rein. Unfortunately until you are also capable of mentioning at least a few things, that you confidently state to be factual, there's no common...

Wall of text, yes, depending on the demand of the actual topic. One cannot talk about tactics or qualities of coaching in football, with 3-4 emotional sentences only. Neither serghei nor myself or anyone else wants to be too much on the others by writing novels, but there is simply no other way...

Thanks serghei, but you know it well that this is the bare minimum one needs to understand about tactics, that so many mention and talk about, without knowing almost anything about it. Folks can't distinguish formation from tactical elements, they think coaching is to substitute their beloved or...

Good post and yes, 75% of the fans will not understand what you are trying to convey. Let me be even worse this time... But (and there is always one) you actually talk less about the real tactics than it would be fruitful, specially that it seems only a few actually know anything about tactics...