BBZ8800
Senior Member
Hahaha RM were floundering about for years with the likes of Khedira, Alonso, Lass, etc. manning their midfield with "muscles" and aggression. They add Kroos, Modric, and Isco and win 4 CL's.
But yeah, muscles won them the CL eh? Argentina weren't fairing too well with "thugs" like Perez and Mascherano out there at CM over a guy like Banega who could actually make plays.
And this idea that Kroos is a physical player with high motor and intensity just because he's 6ft tall is funny. Thiago is far more active on the defensive end, hell there are quite a few "midgets" more defensively active than Kroos.
The entire discussion about the sweet spot between "thugs" and "schoolboys" is just ridiculous.
Good stuff.
So, let me get this:
1. When Barca wins with Xavi and Iniesta=that is a proof how light midfielders is the way to go?
2. When Barca is not winning with Xavi, Iniesta and similar type of players=then it is a bad coach, bad luck, volcanoes and similar
3. Further, when Real was not winning with Khedira and Xabi=that was because they didn't have light, technical players, and NOT about a bad coach, bad balance, bad luck, bad mental strength
4. When Rm is winning today=it is not about a good coach, a balance of technique, muscles and thugs (Casemiro, Ramos), a multidimensional attack.
It is all about light Modric and Isco, right?
5. The same, why Spain sucks with their slow, onedimensional football with light midfielders then?
They don't play with 3 light players, they play with 5 clones in the middle.
With your logic, they should be dominating and winning against everyone, since at the end of the day, the only thing that matters in football is having 3 light midfielders.
A coach doesn't matter.
Some muscles, strength, pace=irrelevant.
Thugs=who need them when we can have 5 Iscos or Iniestas?
Mental strength=not needed
Btw, if you were Rm's coach, be honest, you would bench Casemiro for some lighter, more mobile and more technical guy?
Also, you would bench Benzema for some lighter, mobile, technical guy like Gabriel Jesus or Aguero, right?
You guys really need to wake up.
It is a summer of 2018, not 2009-2011 anymore.
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