that guy is quite the unbelievable idiot, since its acmilan themselves, who showed that a deep defensive line, with double marking and worldclass space controll, is exactly how you keep messi out of his game.
As I've been saying for the past few years, the EPL is in decline and the results (and style of play) really reflect this.
Would not surprise me to see the Bundesliga overtake them in the co-efficient rankings soon - not that it makes a difference though. But yeah, the quality of football in that league is nowhere as good as it was 4-5 years ago.
Things can always change though, given that their top clubs have seemingly never ending sums of money to spend on players, but as it stands the current "top four" are not a patch on EPL top teams of the past.
in the late 90ties and early 2000, people across the world were celebrating english teams had manager-coaches.
later came the big ass finances that gave them unpreceded wealth
Yet, they all failed to transit their great mid 2000's teams into todays football, and are falling behind. because they spend insane amounts of cash on players from other teams, instead of 4 very strong teams, the epl now has 8 potential CL teams, but bar man utd, not one is actually strong
man utd : aging central defence, weak central midfield. good offensive wingers, and excellent forwards. they will suffer vs dortmund and juve
arsenal: sold their "total football" players,and didnt even replace them.
liverpool : sold and didnt replace
chelsea : didnt replace central midfield
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