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CatalinR10
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He really is in form, its truly wonderful to see him play, he is a must on Tuesday.
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Man, I think Barca fans have really lost their perception for "space". If what Real Sociedad did was "giving space" a few days ago (especially under the circumstances that they were a) playing at home and b) had to win by 3 goals to get into the Cup final), La Liga is a Catenaccio league right now. Let me show you a few pictures from Bayern's home game today:
The 4 white guys you can see there around the center circle? Yes, you got that right. That is Freiburg's backline.
Those 6 white shirts pushed forward deep into Bayern's half when Bayern are building from the back to win the ball from them? Yes, that is right again. Freiburg.
Another picture a few minutes later so you don't think this is a one off situation that I have just cherry-picked:
This is how Bundesliga teams play against Bayern in Bayern's stadium.
This is how Real Sociedad play against Barca in their own stadium when they must win:
http://s1.directupload.net/images/140216/2c65kegd.png (only 5 images allowed, click the link)
Barca never get space anymore. Teams like Rayo with "we will die with this philosophy" attitude are the exception once in a bluemoon. Talking about bluemoon. Watch one of the most expensive teams ever assembled line up in 4-4-2 deep in their own half, playing exclusively on the break, squeezing the lines like a rape victim would squeeze its butt cheecks on Tuesday.
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The Observer
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A few more pictures from the Bayern game:
This is the Freiburg goalkeeper after a back pass from Freiburgs' defender. You can't even see the Freiburg backline in their own half because he made that pass from around the halfway line.
Freiburg trying to win the ball in Bayern's buildup.
2nd half. Bayern's half is on the left side now. Where you can see the 6 - 7 Freiburg shirts.
In Spain most teams have adopted Mourinho's tactics against Barca. This one:
In Germany that is absolutely frowned upon. When we played Leverkusen and they parked the bus in the first half at home, they got heavily criticized here in Germany. Next game they had to play more openly and conceded 7 goals in 1 game. That's how Bundesliga rolls.
This is the Freiburg goalkeeper after a back pass from Freiburgs' defender. You can't even see the Freiburg backline in their own half because he made that pass from around the halfway line.
Freiburg trying to win the ball in Bayern's buildup.
2nd half. Bayern's half is on the left side now. Where you can see the 6 - 7 Freiburg shirts.
In Spain most teams have adopted Mourinho's tactics against Barca. This one:
In Germany that is absolutely frowned upon. When we played Leverkusen and they parked the bus in the first half at home, they got heavily criticized here in Germany. Next game they had to play more openly and conceded 7 goals in 1 game. That's how Bundesliga rolls.
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Luftstalag14
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The Observer. 
A few more pictures from the Bayern game:
This is the Freiburg goalkeeper after a back pass from Freiburgs' defender. You can't even see the Freiburg backline in their own half because he made that pass from around the halfway line.
Freiburg trying to win the ball in Bayern's buildup.
2nd half. Bayern's half is on the left side now. Where you can see the 6 - 7 Freiburg shirts.
In Spain most teams have adopted Mourinho's tactics against Barca. This one:
In Germany that is absolutely frowned upon. When we played Leverkusen and they parked the bus in the first half at home, they got heavily criticized here in Germany. Next game they had to play more openly and conceded 7 goals in 1 game. That's how Bundesliga rolls.
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 while judging our team performances. I urge anyone to go and look at our games in 08/09 and see how teams open up against us, and how we struggled in games when the big teams parked the bus. Teams are still playing Bayern like they did us back in those games, not too worry though, that'll all change soon.
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Luftstalag14
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Not sure about that, most Buli teams have long surrendered to Bayern that they could careless, so much so that Ralph Honigstein said he hopes Buli teams would raise the bar in front of Bayern instead of just raising the white flag.
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