I personally think it's better to come out and attack us than sit back. Atletico are a team centered on sitting deep and exploding forward on the counter with resilient, organized defending. For the most part, we have bettered them we played them and crucially, this Barça is very different to the Barça who were a Messi penalty away from beating Chelsea and the Sunday league Barça that rightfully got decimated by Bayern.
The evidence of that I'll cite of why I think it's better to attack us is a long time ago: vs Atletico 2009 at the Vincente when they bested Pep's Barça, right when we started to click. Messi and Henry both scored golazos that game but they attacked us, pressed as high as we were pressing and most importantly, weren't afraid to play an actual game against us.
Granted that was a quality Atletico with an in form Aguero and Forlan up front, but a team has similar quality on the ball and is lethal with their chances can definitely beat us if they attack us, even if we are playing well.
Again, Arsenal played very well and I think a lot of people on here are jaded and dismissive of the quality they have just because of how unpresidented our team and its not fair at all to write them off. They lost because they didn't take their chances and like Wenger said, they switched off for 5 minutes total throughout the game and that's all we needed. Wenger's Arsenal has had a continual Achilles heel and its is their game management. It's why they have been inconsistent in the PL forever and can't string enough wins together to mount a serious title push and why they have such disappointment in Europe. This is what I mean when I say Arsenal are tactical naïve, they lack maturity at times in how they manage and approach games and at the world class level, it's a huge flaw. That's why I think they need to move on from Wenger and on to someone who can instill it in their club.
This year, the 4-0 Bilbao, were they sitting back playing park the bus football with their tail between their legs? No, they pressed high, won the ball in our half and took their chances lethally. So I think it's a myth created by Mourinho and the English press machine that "parking the bus" is the magical antidote to Barça.
