The discussion about keita's quality is irrerevant.
The mistake was pep's decision. and the discussion should have been centered around this and the tactics involved.
We played something like a hybrid with alves somewhere between the 4-3-3 and the 3-4-3..
In any case keita's selection hampered our attack, because iniesta whenever he plays out wide, his natural tendency is to cut in..
Plus that Alexis also drifts centrally.
This was devastating for our functionality.
Look how narrow we were.. the center of the pitch was always overcrowded..
When guardiola corrected his mistakes with Tello and Pedro it was already too late..
And the truth is that Milan is weak in the FB area. Fact! exploited by many other teams.
we played in their hands with pep's selection (in the case of barcelona, playing in the hands means only not dominating..)
Given the plan A, our 4-3-3, (and this the point where you can bring on keita's qualities and inabilities..)i (and much more people i think) prefer iniesta to play in the md and not keita.
I dont agree with your arguments about ball retention, physicality and steel.. Ok, you are right that Keita did his job.
But was that job needed?
Why on earth would we want to play like that? Why? We are the best team in the world, the other teams should adapt to our way of play, not we to them.
we didnt even play madrid. we played Ac milan FFS..
i really dont get your point on that.
Besides you go there to score much, and you have the ability to do it and sweep from the first leg..
Pep really underperformed tonight. Reminded me of the night almost 2 years ago, when he made an awful selection to allow inter to dominate(3-1).
San siro, fucking stadium of bad luck!
i dont like the whole scenatio at all..
