I think it’s incredible that they’re still so motivated and driven to perform.
20+ years of footballing excellence, week in & week out, and they’re still pushing themselves to the limits.
I don’t think people quite realise how astonishingly impressive this is.
Xabi Alonso, first and foremost, has got Madrid doing the fundamentals right. Good profiling, assertiveness in possession, more proactive in the counter press — it makes a world of difference.
For a side with this much individuality, there’s really no need to over-complicate it.
Sacrificing our evolution as a side towards the obvious 433 as the next step trying to fit in Olmo, who has 1 good game per month and an absolute abomination in the rest makes zero sense in the world.
It's hard to pinpoint this goal to a single individual when there are multiple errors in the sequence:
- Lamine not closing down Pacho;
- Kounde having to cover an entire half of the field(because PSG pulled its fullbacks deeper, classic tactic teams use against us)
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This is such a primitive way of looking at things.
The height of your block depends on many things, pressure and intensity is just one of them.
Too much talk of philosophy when it's about evolution and sometimes the basic principles, no pressure on the ball, you drop.
One may not approve of Arsenal's methods but they are an incredibly dominant side. Horrible to play against and so well drilled with solutions to almost everything. You hardly find their players isolated and them vulnerable as a unit.
Araujo will get a lot of the blame and he should but he SAVED HIS MANAGER from a ton of criticism, as the first half was another schooling from an opposition manager who absolutely battered us, outcoached and out thought. Every half decent manager that comes against us, same...
Lamine Yamal vs Chelsea (All 1st half touches)
long short short, Lamine wasn't bad, and Cucurella didn't lock him up. Flick's system just set him up.
So let's talk about the environment Flick - Maresca put their best player in.
Teams are finding CBs in January, we somehow cannot. He'd also have cost less than half of what Cancelo did FFP wise but since his agent isn't...
There are always a million excuses for incompetency, one mustn't forget.
RUBEN AMORIM SAID MAINOO CAN'T PLAY IN HIS TEAM OVER MANUEL UGARTE.
The fact that he survived all this time is one of the shameful things in United history.
I don’t even mind if that’s considered a foul but it’s not consistent. Consistency is key, you can’t allow a Royal Rumble during a corner and then disallow goals for the tiniest of contacts