Franco, Then you think were the players in the pitch the ones to blame for lost in Milan-Liverpool final, and not Ancellotti for his tactics and style?
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You are either missing my point or trying to get at me, but to no avail!
Ancelotti is an excellent coach at preparing the team for big matches, but not so intuitive when it comes to make changes as the game is underway. But regardless, ultimately it was the players on the pitch that lost (actually drew) that game, not him.
If Milan is acknowledged as an attacking-minded team, if we can afford to display a particular "style", it's not thanks to Ancelotti's philosophy of football (which btw has drastically changed since the days he coached Parma), it's because we have Pirlo, Kakà, Sheva & co in our team. The same applied to Sacchi's Milan. That team had the best defence, best midfield, best attacking duo in the world by a mile, so all the hype about Sacchi's genius was just that : hype. Witness the dullness of his game as Italy's coach, when -surprise! - Casiraghi somehow couldn't manage to be as incisive as Van Basten. Trap is labelled as defensivist, yet in the 80's he would not hesitate to play Tardelli, Boniek, Platini and Rossi at the same time. And why did he do that? Because he COULD!
I am not saying that coaches don't have any impact on the team or that some of them don't actually develop a very particular approach to the game and stick to it no matter what (see Helenio Herrera or a famous recent example : Zeman, though even he has turned more cautious a few times this year). I am just trying to put things into perspective and debunk a few myths. But I am lacking time atm so if you want my full take on the subject read this post I wrote a few months back:
http://www.juventuz.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7803&highlight=relative+importance+of
Ancelotti is an excellent coach at preparing the team for big matches, but not so intuitive when it comes to make changes as the game is underway. But regardless, ultimately it was the players on the pitch that lost (actually drew) that game, not him.
If Milan is acknowledged as an attacking-minded team, if we can afford to display a particular "style", it's not thanks to Ancelotti's philosophy of football (which btw has drastically changed since the days he coached Parma), it's because we have Pirlo, Kakà, Sheva & co in our team. The same applied to Sacchi's Milan. That team had the best defence, best midfield, best attacking duo in the world by a mile, so all the hype about Sacchi's genius was just that : hype. Witness the dullness of his game as Italy's coach, when -surprise! - Casiraghi somehow couldn't manage to be as incisive as Van Basten. Trap is labelled as defensivist, yet in the 80's he would not hesitate to play Tardelli, Boniek, Platini and Rossi at the same time. And why did he do that? Because he COULD!
I am not saying that coaches don't have any impact on the team or that some of them don't actually develop a very particular approach to the game and stick to it no matter what (see Helenio Herrera or a famous recent example : Zeman, though even he has turned more cautious a few times this year). I am just trying to put things into perspective and debunk a few myths. But I am lacking time atm so if you want my full take on the subject read this post I wrote a few months back:
http://www.juventuz.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7803&highlight=relative+importance+of