Pep after Barca plays a lot of crosses. At Bayern he used to isolate the winger with the defender (Coman and Costa) and they would whip a ball inside the box. At City he uses Bruyne's low crosses.
Yes, he uses some crosses.
But his target man is Jesus or Aguero.
That's a weird way to use crosses or an alibi way to use crosses.
When I say crosses, I mean: what RM used to do with Cr7.
In the last match, Rakitic crossed to Messi but that was useless.
The fact is: Pep hates tall no9.
Pep hates true crosses.
Pep hated true corners for majority of his career.
Pep doesn't allow long range attempts.
Pep is all about maths and efficiency in a one-dimensional way: keep possession and try a shot mostly when the opportunity is perfect.
Otherwise he doesn't like to lose possession to actions with lower efficiency like good old crosses and long range attempts.
Just look at Barca after Rijkaard:
We stopped using long balls
We stopped using crosses
We stopped using classical corners and invented those shit onedimensional short corners
We stopped using Deco's longshots
When Pep came, everything was reseted to=keep the ball, play one style till death.
And there is no plan B.
Yes, it worked for 3-4 years, but what now?
Players, coaches and fans are still obssessed with that style and this is why we build a team in this shitty way.
Which sane club in the world would buy a 175cm Lautaro as their target man?
No one.
Who would do something like that?
Only Pep.
And clubs who are still blindly follow all of his ideas even though they stopped working long time ago. Read: Barca.
