Barcelona was the dominating force.
The play RM has now is tailored to counter Barcelona, made by Mourinho.
RM style is perfect against Barcelona. Barcelona style against RM is quite bad. The style we met when we won 5-0 is not the same as RM plays now.
Most other teams have tried to copy RMs playstyle. "If you beat Barcelona, you beat them all"
Every team we meet in CL plays the same. Back home, close down middle to shut down Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, dont worry about sides since Barcelona are not good in air, then counterattack.
Unfortunally, Barcelona have said over and over that theyll stick to "their idea" of football, aka posession. Its the football i love, but its not effective anymore.
Sorry but you're completely clueless, two years back, Barcelona was a caricature of herself, we were trying to apply the principles acquired back in Peps era without the necessary tools (mouvement, fast and short passing, permutation, pressing, intelligence, space creation), under Lucho it's even worst since we are completely denying our philosophy which is based primarily on a perfect creation game aiming to create the needed space to place accelerations.
Under Lucho the midfield is not our hub, the wings are, although they are completely useless when playing with three axial strikers (no combination game), worst the three strikers do not participate in the defensive game, which weaken our first defensive line and thus cut the team in two, in this particular case the pressing lack coordination.
It's not a matter of possession it's a matter of how to use this possession, and it seems we have completely forget.