dreamlord wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
He's a superb motivator, superb man manager, and he is good at getting his team's to play one particular way, but overall I think he's way behind the best managers out there tactically.
Yeah, I feel the same way and said as much earlier this season. Maybe he'll prove the doubters wrong next season once he gets some signings in, but without CL it's an uphill task. Managing to get top 4 would be an overachieving for Pool, such is the difficulty now.
Yeah, it's a pivotal loss for them. With UCL he will be able to attract star names and rebuild his squad. The only saving grace from this is that he can concentrate on the league next season. I wouldn't particularly blame Klopp on this defeat. His tactical knowledge is always underrated but over the years we have seen how he turn games around with subs impressively. Of course he is not as crazy as Emery with his hours of video editing and team talk homework for the players but he is still a very good manager tactically and one of the very best in europe.
I particularly like how Emery didn't concede the game and superiority to Liverpool even when they are 3-1 up. He subbed in like for like and continue to push forward forcing Liverpool back as Klopp teams have a tendency to tire in the last 20 minutes. Attack was the best form of defence for them, and Wenger could learn from not subbing in stupid players who can't hold possession like Gibbs and invite teams to attack us.
Ricky1985 wrote:
I think it's largely because most of the teams in La Liga are built around inteligence; generally and tactically, whereas the Premier League is built on athleticism over and above everything else.
And for that very same reason it is also why La Liga games always seem more open than usual. It's not really bad defending per se when we see high scoring games but more of how good the players are in the league when attacking and splitting defences. Their teams have really dominated the last decade of europe like no others.
jones wrote:
Pretty much. Loads of players in England have talked about how youth coaches generally field the biggest, strongest and quickest and ignore actual talent on the ball far too often.
I also think ironically the comparative lack of money in Spain has forced them to improve in ways that English coaches never deemed necessary to achieve results. Like Wenger said once success makes stupid people more stupid and money and success go hand in hand.
This is an excellent point and described best by Monchi. Really interesting to see how they cope with so many key players moving every year and still win major trophies year in year out.
A cash-rich import market, England is useful too. Gary Medel, Alberto Moreno, Navas, Reyes and Negredo went to the Premier League, their fees totalling more than £65m. “England’s a good client,” Monchi says. A stupid one, with more money than sense? Monchi says no, but there are differences he discovered when he set up in London for six months to analyse it better.
“There are loads of off-field things in which they beat us easily,” he says. “And on the football side, I saw very good work being done. But there’s a disconnect between that work and the advantage they glean from it. I know English clubs that are very professional, scouts everywhere, but the information they gather isn’t always applied. Why? Because they have money. That enables them to take fewer risks: ‘I’m not going to discover Keita at Lens; let Sevilla do that and then buy Keita from Sevilla.’”
And so Keita goes to Sevilla first, then moves on, which is good for everyone. But first: football. “Winning has given us sporting glory and that has a knock-on effect economically,” Monchi says. “We’ve created an environment conducive to players succeeding and improving. I went down to the dressing room after the semi-final and Adil Rami, who’s been at Lille, Valencia and Milan, hugged me and said: ‘I don’t know what it is about this club but I’ve never played a final in my life before and in one year I’m playing three.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/17/sevilla-monchi-liverpool-europa-league-final
