BBZ8800
Senior Member
Can you imagine Roberto trying to win header vs British teams or Rinaldo? He would get killed. First goal is just weak. Interesting fact though, both crosses actually came from Albas side.
Can you imagine anyone in our team actually winning an arial duel both in defense and attack?
Only Puyol and Umtiti can jump.
And Busquets and Rakitic sometimes.
Our team is historically built that way that we rely on short players all over the field, who move easily and pass the ball nicely.
That is all fine, UNTIL football around us evolves to a level where opponents have a lot of taller, stronger, faster players and when they use crosses and headers a lot.
Then we are in troubles.
In this moment: English teams (except Pep's short City team, of course) would win majority arial duels against us, then Juventus with CR7 and Mandzukic, Roma with their tall players, Atletico with Costa, RM with Benzema and Bale, Bayern...
We have always been one of the shortest teams both in defense and in attack.
In attack that means that we can play only through the ground.
If that works=fine.
If not=we can't have a plan B.
In defense, we are screwed against any taller team (which means EVERY SINGLE big European team).
And in Europe, our matches are usually always the same:
We rely on Messi and don't have any other options. We are easily neutralized in Europe.
While opponents kill us each season on counters and corners/crosses.
But in this moment, September 2018', majority of fans will still reply: go support Stoke if you want taller players! We are Barca, this is our style!
Well, then enjoy being outjumped heavily against any semi-decent European team.
Getafe won't outjump us, though. Because teams in La liga traditionally don't use taller players either...
About how Roberto can't jump, well watch this video against Roma, when we played Semedo-Pique-Umtiti-Alba, and watch how many crosses in our box have we lost and how many headers Roma had during that match.
Also, I talked about those Semedo's weird body-tackles in our box who could have ended as penaldos easily. He was quite dumb in those tackles.
For the end, never forget that we were knocked out of a CL when a player whom Semedo was marking at a corner scored a winning header:
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