banduan Different era, so numbers comparisons are quite invalid. The Wenger 4-4-2 was so dissimilar to the way we play now.
I like the Ødegaard–Bergkamp comparison because their elite touch, vision and use of the body are comparable in economy and sheer elegance, if not the same. These two embody for football technique the virtues in software that a programmer will call "elegance" or "terseness".
The way Øde is making guys fall over with a drop of his shoulder … poker champs should be taking notes. He has to know all the places he could take his first touch, know the places his marker is smart enough to have thought of, commit to an option, and use his movement to convincingly bluff a different option, all as he judges the trajectory of the arriving ball.
