BBZ8800
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From what I have seen, they press much less.
Just like in Italy.
In England and Spain, all players are moving, running and pressing almost all the time, both when their team and their opponents have the ball.
Italy and France, you can see more often a situation where a player with the ball can do "whatever he wants" and he has way more space and time to make a decision.
Also, the whole team isn't pressing like crazy all the time.
Somewhat slower players can cope better in those 2 countries than in EPL/Spain.
And France having some physicaly strong players don't have anything to do with pressing and having more time to think what you will do with the ball.
About a bare minimum, I am exagerrating.
Even Rakitic has a bare minimum of physical skills.
But that is a few levels below players from RM, for example.
If we can't get players like Real, we should at least make a few steps towards that direction and not collection tons of players like Arda, Rakitic, Seri etc, since we already have lots of other who are very slow (Gomes, Busi, Iniesta, Rafinha).
We bought some pace in Semedo and Dembele and even in Lord Paulinho.
Let's continue in that direction.
Nobody watched Seri until spring of 2017.
Plus again, he played awesome in a French league1 where teams don't press and give you tons of time and space to decide what you will do with a ball.
Either Napoli was just a bad match for him (2 bad matches), or it is a hint how he would cope against faster teams who press more.
Even though Napoli is from Italy, but they are one of top3 sides and they do press.
He had problems against Napoli.
Imagine him against Real, Bayern, Atletico.
Turtle Busi, physicaly weak Seri, granny Iniesta.
Looks promising.
He would be good at Camp Nou against Getafe, though.
Not too much pressing in those matches.
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he was a very mediocre coach. Tata level at best and certainly worse than Lucho who himself had more than his fair share of problems.
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