Alarcón
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The football that Bayern are playing right now has very little to do with the original idea of tiki-taka. Their positioning and decision-making is bad, they resort to crossing way too often, their full-backs rarely overlap and even then they just stand there cluelessly which makes their team very vulnerable to counter attacks, they don't play with a false 9 but rather with 2 central midfielders and 2 strikers in front of them which is totally contrary to Pep's idea of football and Cruyff's diamond formation, they move very little compared to how they played at the beginning of the season and compared to Barça under Pep.
Bayern looked great the first couple of months of the season, actually a lot better than any other team in Europe, especially when they played with a false 9; but Pep dropped the ball and started using Mandzukic more and with Mandzukic in front and Müller behind him, which leads to a severe lack of creativity, he just put the icing on the cake. Müller or Götze should have started as false 9 with Martínez or Lahm being the sole DM.
This Bayern team is somewhat of a mixture between Pep's tiki-taka and the Bayern of least year, and a bad one at that. Pep should have continued to execute the playing style he introduced at the beginning of the season instead of getting into compromises because tiki-taka is a style that doesn't tolerate the least bit of compromise and has to be played in perfection to work well.
