We are better now because of EV. Under lucho it was total mess. No attacking urgency and the team looked in shambles.
I would say neymar was one of the reason we made that small amount of attacking contributions as a team under lucho. Bar messi there was no attacking threat and messidependencia was again visible. Under EV neymar would have been killing it. The reason why we look like a different and a better team is better tactics and a much better coach. But bbz will keep up with this propaganda about how ney was always weighing us down and shit.
Because of posts like this one, I would like to write a letter to Valverde and ask him: dear EV, please play 5 matches with 433, then people we'll see that we still suck in 433 even though Lucho is gone and maybe we'll close that chapter.
This: 433 wasn't a problem, it was Lucho will be a new alibi for the next 5 years, just like a few years ago when TikiTaka was not dead.
The problem was that we aren't pressing anymore, lol.
So, TikiTaka was "fine and working" as good as in 2009.
It was "not" about the opponents who evolved and figured out TikiTaka. It was only because we didn't press and move off the ball as before.
Lol, we didn't move off the ball as before because teams figured out our movements and neutralized our key moving lines and left spaces only for inefficient moves and actions.
About your remark about Neymar under EV, lol.
With Neymar we would play 433, so say goodbye to +20 lead over RM and goodbye to over defensive stability.
With Neymar, we would play MSN in attack and granny Iniesta, slow Raki and slow Busi in midfield.
Sounds like a masterplan.
Semedo wouldn't play, because EV likes Roberto.
Basically, we would have exactly the same team as in the last 2 Lucho's years and you are expecting that the same starting 11 in the same formation would play better... well, just because of a few tactical instructions.
As I have said to DonAk yesterday, we can go in circles with 20 000 posts now.
You'll say: Lucho is guilty
Me: No. A lot of factors. 433, Neymar, Lucho, midfield
You: No, 433 is fine. Neymar is fine, blah blah
Me: lol, they are not fine.
And then repeat it 20 000 times.
The reason why we look like a different and a better team is better tactics and a much better coach.
We have different tactics because we are playing with a different formation and with different players.
Wanna bet? Just look matches from now on. Whenever we will move away from EV's balanced 442 from this or that reason (Coutinho, Dembele, both of them, trying to fit too many superstars into a team), we will look less and less like EV's Barca and more and more like Lucho's messy Barca.
Again, you can't have MSN, 433 in 2018 and a defensive balance.
That is a romantic sci fi for kids.