All of that does not match with reality.
You describe the basics of parking the bus and resorting to antics/tricks to steal a result
That's an archetypical approach that was invented by Italians (if you want to pick one) and has been universalized all across the globe
It's been done by all teams from any country that simply wants to steal a result against a top team.
It is far from something Spanish teams do since CR7/Messi times
On the contrary, Spanish teams lost the edge they had during Cr7/Messi golden years.
Back then even the Sevillas, the Villareals, the Valencias, the Atleticos (even before Simeone) were instilling fear on similar tier opposition from other leagues because of the dominant football they could play
Who invented it is a mute point, who makes fear in Europe is also irrelevant.
And get out of the "bubble discussion" about better league, that isn't what I am discussing.
I wasn't describing parking the bus either, that is very simplistic way to understand my post.
Liga clubs, in Spain, has learned how to slow the game down shamelessly in every legal and illegal (time wasting and fouling) way. And it actually match the reality (as I mentioned, La Liga was always the slowest pace league, least amount of minutes actually played with around 5 less than EPL in some leagues in some seasons.
Here is some numbers about actual minutes played:
Issue number 242 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post relies on InStat data to present the average effective time of games in 37 European competitions. The Swedish Allsvenskan is the league with the most fluid matches (60.4% of effective time), just ahead the UEFA Champions League (60.2%). The Portuguese Primeira Liga finds itself in the opposite position (50.9%).
The highest effective playing time among the five major European leagues was recorded for the
German Bundesliga (58.5%),
while the lowest was measured for the Spanish Liga (55.8%). As for the Champions League, Europa League games are more fluid than the average observed at the level of the 35 competitions surveyed: 57.1% of effective time compared to 55.3%.
The highest percentage of minutes in which the ball was in play for clubs in national competitions was recorded for matches of the Swedish side
GIF Sundsvall (63.7%). This is 18% more than for games of the Portuguese team
Feirense. Club Brugge tops the Champions League table (66.2%), while
Borussia Mönchengladbach (62.5%),
Liverpool (62.2%),
Milan AC (61.2%),
Barcelona (60.3%) and
Paris St-Germain (60.1%) present the greatest figures for the big-5 leagues.
See also the exclusive CIES Football Observatory
Performance Atlas
Another numbers is fouls:
Issue number 255 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks big-5 league teams according to the ratio between fouls suffered and committed during the current season using data from OptaPro. FC Barcelona players suffered the most fouls with respect to those committed (1.5 times). At the opposite end is Brighton & Hove with a ratio of 0.68.
The highest
number of fouls committed per match was measured for Getafe (17.1). In the other leagues, the top values were recorded for Torino (16.8), Dijon (15.8), Augsburg (14.2) and Brighton & Hove (12.8). Conversely,
Borussia Dortmund players have on average committed the least fouls per game (8.4). In the other championships of the big-5, the lowest figures were observed for Manchester City (8.5), Barcelona (10.5), Napoli (10.7) and Nice (11.2).
The average number of fouls per fixture varies between
20.9 in the Premier League and 27.0 in the Liga. This strong gap partially reflects the existence of different styles of refereeing. In the remaining leagues, these values are 24.0 in Bundesliga, 26.4 in Ligue 1 and 26.6 in Serie A. Among players fielded for at least 1,000 domestic league minutes,
Moussa Doumbia (Reims),
Amine Harit (Schalke 04) and
Borja García (Girona) are those fouled most often.
Same for cards btw, 5.5 cards per game, Italy is 2nd among big leagues with 5 cards per game.
La liga again has more fouls, plays less minutes
Those are your favourite thing: Data.
It isn't only real, it is factual.
This is actually better than past few years, and Barcelona games is actually the one with the most minutes in Spain because we try the high pace, and it is still lower than any of the oher top 4 leagues. Only team worse than us? PSG with a former Barca coach and a league that is now designed to try defend one team dominance. And even them the difference with us is lower than the difference between any of the other top teams.
This is btw a slander to the league, not the opposite. It makes watching experience worse and the league being less entertainment.
Back to the actual topic, this makes Flick job in Liga the most challenging for him than in any other league, it is a fit thing. It is not better league or worse league, it isn't better tactically or worse tactically, because those are naive discussions anyway.
It is a question of fit and who is better for whom.
You think Flick actually is a better fit in Liga than in tournaments that allows more minutes played? less fouling and time wasting?
