AN UGLY FINAL?
From latin espn
In the last weeks, the international press, but specially the Spanish and the English, dealt with all means to discredit Italian soccer.
The Spaniards bled by the wound of two teams - Valencia and Barcelona - eliminated by the Italians when everything seemed to indicate the opposite, and the English watched over by the lost occasion by Manchester United to play the end in their own field.
Again, interminable discussions on "catenaccio", "anti soccer" and similars filled the pages of newspapers. Now, inevitably, there is one who suggests final will be ugly, because carried out by two Italian teams.
They are right. Probably, the end will not offer the spectacle that is customary to see in those kind oaf games. It will be different, as it is it Italian soccer.
Personally, it enchants the pretty game to us, but also it displeases to us, and much, the tactical naivete. If the pretty game is obtained because the defenders mark like Hierro, De Boer or Rio Ferdinand, we say "No, thanks, I remain with which I have".
Somebody thinks that DEl Piero had been able to leave "seated" Nesta or Cannavaro since it did it with Hierro? Please...
The Italians have a very serious guilty: they do not leave anything freed to the case. They study all the details, based on the excellence. So that side to face a defender, who zone of the field prefers a creation steering wheel, so that side knows to hook a forward better: everything is analyzed with a true scientific criterion, all the variants evaluated, discarded or chosen on the base of kind observations and ample experience.
Real Madrid sinned of an inconceivable tactical naivete, before Juventus, an error that surely Milan will not repeat.
Before an average zone formed by Edgard Davids, Alessio Tacchinardi, Pavel Nedved and Gianluca Zambrotta (about 20 lungs between the 4), and without Makelele, DelBosque presented/displayed to Esteban Cambiasso and Flavio Conceiçao, giving them to a true soccer massacre.
A tactical naivete that, in Italy, not even a technician of second division had committed. As well as, surely, Ancelotti will not commit, that surely washed his hands when Nedved saw the yellow that will marginalize him for the final clash.
Bond to remember an episode: in the away game of the local championship, in Turin, Milan presented/displayed the central zone with Pirlo, Rui Costa, Seedorf and the single Gattuso like containment man. The pressure of Juventus (including a the limit of the lack) twice managed to steal the ball from `pirlo, and thus both goals arrived from the 2 at 1.
Ancelotti learned the lesson, and in the return match it put to Ambrosini near Gattuso. Milan was not overflowed by the dynamics of Juventus in the central zone, and gave return to the result as well winning by 2 to 1.
It is clear? It will not be an opened game, it will be a battle, physics, nervous and mental, that will define by tactical details and some technical genius of its protagonists. Thanks to God, in the field will exceed champions: Inzaghi, Shevchenko, Maldini, Nesta, Thuram, Davids, DelPiero, Trezeguet. All names that guarantee the punishment of the first opposing error.
Perhaps the spectators, specially the English owners of house, would prefer a different spectacle, but surely all the trainers of Europe and the world (including a English and Spanish) will be in the field, or in front of the television, to learn something. Because, we are spoken of tactics, the Serie A "Calccio" is without a doubt some the best University, and Lippi and Ancelotti university professors universally recognized