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God bless this man. The bit in bold especially is an absolutely brilliant point. I agree with you and that was my point with my earlier post. Sacking Tata or not is not the issue. The issue is this cringey obsession with possession and "dominating" your opponents that it has seriously crippled...

They were a possession based team, but had variety under Heynkenes, they had 35% posssesion against us last season for christ sakes!

Lol...You people just don't get it, I have been banging on about this since the start of this season. Possession football has been sussed out for the most part. This started in 2009 with Chelsea, but teams wisened up over the years to the point that even teams like Valladoid can now succesfully...

Feel sorry for Dortmund, 5-0 would not have flattered them. Madrid, AKA the most overrated team of the past 20 years gets shown up again. I have never seen a team get by on undeserved reputation in any sport, its incredible really.

Man, you know I'm starting to think they can really win it. Carlo playing Di maria in midfield is a blessing for the Argies, he's basically had a season long of preparation in that role and to be fair he's done brilliantly. Their defence is their weak point but in Zabaleta they will have the...

You played a very strong defensive game, marked messi and Iniesta out of the game, limited us to very few chances (1 shot on target), got a break from a setpiece and countered well when we pushed forward. Chelsea played a very strong defensive game,marked messi and Iniesta out of the game...

Nope. First of all, even last season, they were never 4-0 better than Barcelona in the first leg. The scoreline flattered them immensely as they scored at least 2 of their goals from fouls. They were fantastic in terms of defensive play and organisation. They never played off us the park via...

You will struggle against them, trust me. ;)

Arsenal aren't losing tonight.

Fantastic post, God bless you!

Well, the narrative here is that we're far away from the team we once were. Anybody that has followed my posts will know that I never once thought we were invincible at any point in time even during Pep's years as we have always struggled against parked buses in the big games. It's either we...

You think Tata has better players?

I'm not surprised he isn't getting as much credit as he deserves. People are seriously underestimating the significance of this win. We just completely shut out a team that has scored 117 goals this season, and did so comfortably while in 3rd gear, all with our "pathetic defenders". I don't...

Agreed. Those games are a reminder than Tactics mean everything at the highest of levels. It's almost as important as the quality of the players, maybe even more. Owing to my curiosity as a football fan, I'd like us to play Bayern again actually with both teams at their best. It'll be...

:lol: As ridiculous as it sounds under normal circumstances. I actually think last season during Tito's relapse, between say Feb and April when Roura was in charge, It wouldn't have been far off to say we probably spent little time on tactics and studying the opponents, at least not what you'd...

One of the best posts I've ever seen on this website. They won't hear you though. I said this a couple of weeks ago while watching a Madrid game: I just wasn't able to do a comparative analysis like you did and articulate it so well. It's incredible how such a fundamental factor is ignored...

I agree with him actually. I think it'll be a very conservative match IF city try to play defensive and counter, like the Madrid game in CL semi's at the Bernebau in 10/11. If they leave spaces behind, of course we'll attempt to exploit it, but I don't think we will go aggressive in attack...

Not in the first half he didn't. Rayo are one of the most intense pressing teams out there, they are the sixth best possession team in ALL of Europe for a reason. They may be shite in defence, but as a midfielder, you wont get many sterner tests than today in terms of being harrassed in...

How on earth is he a backup player? I know i'll probably get a lot of flack for this. But he should be starting ahead of Alba. He's a more reliable player defensively and though may not be as good in linking up in attack, he offers far more goal threat which is a powerful tool for packed buses...

Yup, I've been banging on this drum the whole time. Plus, FCBarca, I don't think it's fair to judge him without our best players having a run of games together, considering he's got us top of the league despite so many important players being out for months, I'd say he's done a very good job...