Hans-Dieter Flick

[Birdy]

You don’t need to tweak the system, but there is little sense to try to play a high line and press up high when you’re leading, with few mins left to play and with two chaotic midfielders in Fermin and Gavi there.

What are you even trying to achieve at that point? Win the ball up high with players that are positionally indisciplined and more prone to actually leave their man and leave tonnes of space behind?

Sometimes you need to adapt to the situation. He has done that the last few games to his credit, BUT the same approach with these subs is just asking for trouble.

You make 0 sense
High line and high pressure practically neutralized Pathetico from min. 10 to min 80
They could not string 4 passes together
That made us dominate them throughout the game
Teams don't change identity to 'protect a lead' as some stupidly believe.

 

[M3ls]

We heavily outplayed Atletico. Props to Flick. Defense organisation will have to be addressed seriously though. We get exposed from those crosses from the flanks too often.

+ passes from deep behind our defenders.

These two tools are the biggest threat against our high defense.

 

[Birdy]

If something different was needed at the end is what people above say: hold on more to the ball and make them chase more to no avail.

Other than not wasting sitters: 3 sitters tonight, on the top of 5 sitters in the LL games:
we have wasted 8 clear goals against Pathetico this season

 

[Porque]

So, we'll concede 3 or 4 vs Benfica in the first match? My money is on 3-3.

Depends if it's raining.

 

[Birdy]

+ passes from deep behind our defenders.

These two tools are the biggest threat against our high defense.

If you think that 2 of their goals tonight had nothing to do with that play you describe,
and the other 2 were Kounde's gifts

I don't see how they created chances like what you say

 

[Haraldinho]

Guys it is possible that we lose all. I dont want to but it could be. But we played the best football. Hahahahah

 

[jamrock]

If something different was needed at the end is what people above say: hold on more to the ball and make them chase more to no avail.

Other than not wasting sitters: 3 sitters tonight, on the top of 5 sitters in the LL games:
we have wasted 8 clear goals against Pathetico this season

Part of the game, only way for us to win is to take 90% of our big chances?.

 

[Birdy]

Part of the game, only way for us to win is to take 90% of our big chances?.

100% not 90%

Big changes are BIG CHANCES, sitters...
Not half-chances, not semi-chances

no excuse to miss even one of them

 

[DonAK]

No team scores on all their big chances.

That's lunacy.

 

[Birdy]

No team scores on all their big chances.

That's lunacy.

Oh yeah?
But pathetico took them all tonight
Lunacy huh?

 

[jamrock]

Should have just gone with the C team like I said, all this effort to draw 4-4, in a comp we don't care About unless it's a double or a win vs Madrid.

I'm not upset through, just C team next time

 

[Nello]

No team scores on all their big chances.

That's lunacy.

ye no ofc not, but is it too much to ask for our strikers two convert atleast 2-3/4 of 2 tap ins and 2 1 on 1 with the keeper

 

[M3ls]

Lenglet - 2 assists today.

One of the costs of a high defensive line is you don't have to give a lot of decision making time to opposing players. This, by the way, is what Cubarsi (or Inigo) talked about in his interview.

Kounde was trying to create an offside trap. Wrong decision - you have to correctly assess the episode when an offside trap is worth creating.

 

[JamDav1982]

Kounde 3 assists,

Sadly 2 of them for Atletico.

 

[Joan]

Final result is extremely unfair to us, Ferran missing open net there will haunt me this week.

That said, I wouldn’t have taken Pedri off and would’ve preferred Casado on.