y va marquer wrote:
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Really enjoyed that half. Ramos and Alonso are such idiots though...
You don't see it? This is the exact reverse of Bayern's semi last year.
It's not really helping when you don't say why that's so 🙂
Going beyond the tippy tappy versus pace and power parallel that is.
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One of the things is that Heynckes' Bayern only last year were a lot more aggressive in winning the ball back than the current incarnation is. They also varied their game; they had spells of possession football, but they also counter attacked. Quite often they played the long ball to Mandzukic or the big diagonal, then had runners coming at teams from all over the place. That is pretty much how Real Madrid played over these two legs. Now, everything is slow and looks labored for Bayern, and they struggle to create chances. That pretty much sums up how Barcelona played last year.
I think it is absolute madness what Guardiola has done here. He has devastating counter attacking players in Robben, Müller and Ribery, one of the best target forwards in the world to get the ball to stick in Mandzukic, top class CMs in Kroos and Schweinsteiger to hit the longer ball, and two of the best attacking fullbacks in world football in Lahm and Alaba. Guardiola has completely taken the high risk balls out of their game in favor of safer, shorter passes. The high risk balls meant that they misplaced a lot more passes, and thus had less possession than this year, but they also never left themselves as exposed as they do now. They now also ALWAYS face 10 players in defensive positions instead of disorganized teams struggling to track back.
I hope the likes of Beckenbauer are still influential enough at Bayern to make them sack Guardiola. He has in one year managed to turn the best team in the world, which also played some of the most entertaining football around, into a boring, labored, ineffective team. Another year or two of this shit and he will have destroyed them completely. Turns out that Guardiola is just a one trick pony after all.
