2 - Pau Cubarsí

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ajnotkeith

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KingLeo10 said:
I rate him highly as a manager on the attacking side of the game (easily best in the world, especially given the player limitations he has).

But this defensive tactic is more prone to coming apart against more serious opponents in high leverage situations, which we will face more and more en route to a CL win.

Dortmund, Bayern/Inter, RM/Pool is the likely path.

Yes, we destroyed RM and Bayern already. But I'm not too sure if we can do it again in a CL semi or final with these same tactics.

I'm hopeful, but I see potential for disaster.
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The reason I am confident in him both offensively and defensively is that it's clear he knows what he's doing. I trust him to see the game better than we do. Which wasn't the case under previous managers.

We didn't have tactical vision under Koeman and Xavi. We played nothing football.

But we have a clear attacking style AND clear defensive tactic now which we continue to refine. That is 5 clean sheets in 7 games now despite playing with the same defensive technique.

So even despite the issues we can point out, in this case, I genuinely think we can say that Flick's analysis and tactical vision is good enough such that he sees what we see and he knows the pros and cons of this style.
 
Gazzznigga

Gazzznigga

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serghei said:
Tie is not over. Not even close actually.
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Tie is over. 11 vs 11, Barca will put them to the sword at the Montjuic.

Not really worried about Benfica, tie is done.. the likely opponents after this should be the worry.
 
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JamDav1982

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Ideal world the 2nd leg is a nice calm victory while Atletico knock their pan in against Real Madrid before the following weekend.
 
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JamDav1982

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Pedri too weak in the challenge and the one who played it through not the striker.

That put them all off balance while trying to play offside.

Breakdown all round.
 
Gazzznigga

Gazzznigga

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JamDav1982 said:
Pedri too weak in the challenge and the one who played it through not the striker.

That put them all off balance while trying to play offside.

Breakdown all round.
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Correct!
As the last man on being slightly disadvantaged by positioning because both CDs did not think Pedri would lose the ball that softly, he had to intervene. I am sure he must have felt confident of getting the ball before going for the tackle.....hence that option. Replay showed he went for the ball, would have got it if not for that slight bubble.

Being a CD myself, I was not a fan before now but have been super impressed by this kid. Good decision-making. With more years, he will be great.
 
Valiant

Valiant

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KingLeo10 said:
I rate him highly as a manager on the attacking side of the game (easily best in the world, especially given the player limitations he has).

But this defensive tactic is more prone to coming apart against more serious opponents in high leverage situations, which we will face more and more en route to a CL win.

Dortmund, Bayern/Inter, RM/Pool is the likely path.

Yes, we destroyed RM and Bayern already. But I'm not too sure if we can do it again in a CL semi or final with these same tactics.

I'm hopeful, but I see potential for disaster.
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You have to remember that this is his first season. It's important to establish a base that the players understand perfectly well so they can get used to it and become less prone to errors. After that confidence has been built up, then the system can be tweaked. I bet that from next season we'll start to see him adapting to each game as it comes, but for now he needs to instill that confidence in the players. Flick is an intelligent manager so I have no doubt he can do it
 
Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

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I wonder if his red card would have cost us the tie, if some fans would have treated him the same way as they did Don Araujo.

Pau is young, a work in progress, on his way to becoming a legendary centre back. There will be bumps, brainfarts and mistakes, like yesterday, along the way. I've no doubt he will learn from it and come back stronger.

Maybe it is a sad indictment of the state of the world today, but it seems everyone has the mindset of what are you going to do for me today, rather than remembering what you did for me the whole of last year.
 
companyofcules

companyofcules

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Don Juan Laporta Estruch said:
I wonder if his red card would have cost us the tie, if some fans would have treated him the same way as they did Don Araujo.

Pau is young, a work in progress, on his way to becoming a legendary centre back. There will be bumps, brainfarts and mistakes, like yesterday, along the way. I've no doubt he will learn from it and come back stronger.

Maybe it is a sad indictment of the state of the world today, but it seems everyone has the mindset of what are you going to do for me today, rather than remembering what you did for me the whole of last year.
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He made a fine tackle but he was pushed and missed the ball by an inch and that is the whole story. The VAR check was for penalty not a foul on Cubarsi. In my opinion your elbow can't be in the chest of your opponent.
His decision is not that crazy, he has confidence to do important tackles. The Uruguayan had no intention to play the ball. Probably more musckles will make this situations rare and not demanding from him to be a screening wall like Pique.
 
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