Im usually with you in ur viewns Lopan, but not this time.
From some time now, people have been lying to themselves and saying that "we soaked up pressure, we let them...." when clearly it is the other way round. What Linebbreak said is true and we should accept that in those games we were stripped of possesion in midfield. And if i remember correctly, we stayed in game because Vidal did a fantastic work in the marking and tackling department in those games.
Truth is...lately we have been losing on midfield encounters, and that just worrysome. Today it was exposed at its fullest.
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Sadly, this is the truth we need to face now.
We needed an away goal soo much because we knew of what bayern was capable of. And at this stages...when teams have wonderful attackers and masters of the game..keeping clean sheets is a luxury practically. We needed to score in munich if we were defeated and fight to the death in turin....
Now..... without 2 of our pillars on the defense.... i just dont see how we will score 2 goals...or even 3 if needed....without scoring a goal....
It will be almost impossible...
I had mentioned that we at back, OR were forced to...Mr Hydde. And yes, I had misread linebreak's post. I had thought he had written that we had MORE possession in the celtic games...whereas with my own eyes I had seen us on the backfoot for most of the away tie and hardly owning the ball from start to finish at home.
Our team is not set-up to sit back and absorb pressure and we spend most of our games with the lionshare of possession, unless we play against teams who adopt a very high tempo, constant pressing on our back line. Its no secret that no matter what, we try to play the ball out of defence. Which makes things rather tricky if we are playing a team eager enough to give our back three very little time or space. For large chunks of the game, Bayern were simply waiting for us to give them the ball, marking our forwards, not worrying about marchisio who was invisible. All that was left was for someone to play it long...straight back to our opponents.
I agree with you that we are not set-up to soak up pressure and when it looks like we are doing that, its usually due to us been pinned back in our own half!
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and yes...apologies for misreading your earlier post regarding possession. My heavily fatigued, hungover and bothered with the defeat mind was moving in anything but a straight line.
Vidal will be a huge miss but it's still far from over.
