Francesc "Tito" Vilanova
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mitkoa7x
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who'd celebrate a league title with a home draw and an away loss to merda? No thanks Jeff.
Cule4life
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The point is we havent managed a single great performance against strong teams except vs Milan. What if Madrid hadnt dropped those points and Tito was under pressure? We would have lost the league as Tito has shown he is not capable of handling it as shown vs Bayern
And a league title won after being humiliated by Madrid is nothing to brag about. Its just something to salvage our season to distinguish us from the Arsenal's of the world
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Cule4life
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Do you even football? Do you even Cruyff?
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mitkoa7x
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Do you even Rinus Michels?
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Don_Andrés
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What does total football mean to you?
darthvader7888
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True. Our performance in big games this season has been shit, and Tito is a large part of the reason. After all, our two main problems in big games have been tactics and motivation, and those are the coach's job.
And while I think we've been fairly impressive in La Liga, we've had to rely quite a bit on individual brilliance, especially from Messi, for that.
Cule4life
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Do you even wikipedia?
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Don_Andrés
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No but I read?
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mitkoa7x
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Do you even grammar?
Cule4life
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For me it means positional interchange and hard pressing (six second rule) which signified Barca of Pep which has gone completely under Tito
ricknattery
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and the guy likes to talk about gloruyhunters when he has no clue about the origins of our style...
Paganinisrvnge
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I feel it a bit harsh to say Tito should be sacked but I do have some serious criticisms. His tactics were incredibly poor against big teams except vs Milan in the 2nd leg and my single biggest problem is that he waits until the last 10 minutes to react.
Quite literally at least like 10 times throughout the season, I watched Barcelona look completely clueless for the first 60 or so minutes and thought "Ok, time to switch things up" but Tito didn't make the subs until after the 80th minute when it barely even matters! I'll use one big example of my problems with him.
Bayern first leg: First of all, Messi shouldn't have started but I'm sure Messi had some influence on that. He should have seen Messi was not at his best and subbed him off at half time and rested him until the 2nd leg. Secondly, he should have started with a double pivot. Song's strength and athleticism would have helped a lot vs an incredibly energetic Bayern that were overrunning Busquets. Song would have provided extra numbers in midfield, height, physicality, and freed up Busquets to play some more intelligent forward passes. Thirdly and lastly, he didn't react until the very end. He should have brought on Villa at halftime or made some sort of change when we were only down 1-0. At that point, the tie was still completely open and even a 3-1 loss would not have been that bad of a result. What did Tito do? He waited until the 83rd minute to make his one substitution of bringing Villa on for Pedro when it was already 4-0. Good managers make changes as soon as they see that something is not working but Tito just waits until it's too late or until Messi saves the day.
Quite literally at least like 10 times throughout the season, I watched Barcelona look completely clueless for the first 60 or so minutes and thought "Ok, time to switch things up" but Tito didn't make the subs until after the 80th minute when it barely even matters! I'll use one big example of my problems with him.
Bayern first leg: First of all, Messi shouldn't have started but I'm sure Messi had some influence on that. He should have seen Messi was not at his best and subbed him off at half time and rested him until the 2nd leg. Secondly, he should have started with a double pivot. Song's strength and athleticism would have helped a lot vs an incredibly energetic Bayern that were overrunning Busquets. Song would have provided extra numbers in midfield, height, physicality, and freed up Busquets to play some more intelligent forward passes. Thirdly and lastly, he didn't react until the very end. He should have brought on Villa at halftime or made some sort of change when we were only down 1-0. At that point, the tie was still completely open and even a 3-1 loss would not have been that bad of a result. What did Tito do? He waited until the 83rd minute to make his one substitution of bringing Villa on for Pedro when it was already 4-0. Good managers make changes as soon as they see that something is not working but Tito just waits until it's too late or until Messi saves the day.
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