Respect players for what they are, not for you'd like them to be. We have enough tiki-taka players who can pass and pass and pass and pass in tight spaces. If only we had Alexis when we were 1-0 on Meazza with Inter and knew how to play on the counter. It might have turned out differently than 1-3.
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most of the people cant understand that the dominance of barca 2008-2011 couldnt be keeped eternally by playing all the time with the same way(tiki taka way).
thats why pep wanted alexis and cesc so much and thats why he played them so often (despite it was their first season) against moourinhos real with quite success back then.
im convinced that specially alexis was the answer to moourinhos tactics to eliminate the tiki taka system.
generally it didnt go wrong but when pep gone alexis seems to lost his role in the team.
luckily tata is trying to find it again and barca can only be benefited from this.