serghei
Senior Member
There is not just black and white.
You can sit rather deep and start pressing in midfield. Squeeze everything there and leave a rather small space between defense and goal. The likes of Verratti are allowed to get the ball round the center circle (where our strikers operate and try to close down lanes) instead of giving them freedom between our lines ~40m away from goal.
That has nothing to do with bus parking.
And what kind of reasoning is that we would lose the match anyway under any circumstances so going for a bit more entertainment in attack would make sense? That is just bullshit. That is how you concede 8 in a game.
Sure, you can "park the bus" and defend deep with pressure. Pressure can exist without a high line if you are scared to death of runs behind your defense from the likes of Mbappe. The problem is you have very low counter ability, so the zones where you win the ball are far from PSG's goal. And another problem is that the weakest part of PSG, which is the back 4 goes basically untested the whole match. Kurzawa was defensively a mess, and we never really tested that at all. Because we never assumed advanced positions and took that risk.
And for what? If PSG tried harder, they would've scored 6 easily. Luckily they just cooled off. If it was Bayern, it's another historic trashing. With chickenshit, conservative tactics.
You do not progress with damage limitation tactics. You have to go at teams and put pressure to get something in a game like this.
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