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What's with this hate on Pep and his style of play? Is it really bad to have actual goal scoring plan and exciting football throughout the season ?
I much rather we have a coach like Pep and destroy every team in the league and build a big team mentality rather than boring 1-0 football with bringing defenders to protect it.
I much rather we have a coach like Pep and destroy every team in the league and build a big team mentality rather than boring 1-0 football with bringing defenders to protect it.
You’ve gotta give praise to managers like Pep. He has his ideas and philosophy and brings energy. That’s the type of manager I’d like. Watched an interview from him the other week where he says it’s his job to get the team to take the ball towards the box and it’s then the job of the forwards to take it from there. I don’t have a favourite. But either Zidane, Pep or even Sarri I’d take. All who like to play football. None of this we score and sit back and watch you play bollocks.
Allegri is a fantastic coach in the fact that he bring results, so in Serie A its an absolute guarantee we're gonna win the league every year since we have such depth and we play the games safely; usually 1-0 or 2-0 and sit back after the 75th minute. Our game style is not intensive pressing, nor is it fast paced tiki taka. It's slow build up play with usually high possession levels where we try to grind out gaps to cross or pass to the middle for our strikers. If we can't find any, we roll the ball back to the CBs or GK to try again from the start.
However in the CL the quality gap is absolutely massive and this style doesn't work, as we don't ever have to face the likes of Atletico or Bayern there. When we go in the games with a play-it-safe mentality while the opposition goes in pressing like mad dogs, we become overwhelmed. We pass around our own 16 yard box until we are forced to cross it right into the opposition who starts the attacks again. Our mids constantly misplace passes since our players don't actively search for passing lanes and we let them run right over us.
We have the players to win these games, but our tactical approach is all wrong, and Allegri is doing the Einstein quote of insanity by keeping the 4-3-3 with three strikers and starting De Shitlio and Khedira. I'd suggest we should try a 3-4-3 to get another extra man in CB for solidity and allowing Bonucci more freedom to get long passes to our attackers and wings. We have to get through the wings as we only have two quality midfielders. Khedira is ass, Bentancur is ass and Can is ass. Matuidi and Pjanic are the only ones that are CL-quality mids and we need to play to our real strengths. This the formation Conte used to bulldoze the PL, as the team played to its strengths. There's unfortunately no space for Dybala, who needs to play in a 3-5-2 or a 4-2-3-1 to be at his best. He sucks ass when played out of position.
---------------------Szcesny---------------------
----------Rugani-Bonucci-Chiellini------
-Cancelo--Pjanic--Matuidi--Sandro-
-------Costa-----Mandzu---Ronaldo-----
However in the CL the quality gap is absolutely massive and this style doesn't work, as we don't ever have to face the likes of Atletico or Bayern there. When we go in the games with a play-it-safe mentality while the opposition goes in pressing like mad dogs, we become overwhelmed. We pass around our own 16 yard box until we are forced to cross it right into the opposition who starts the attacks again. Our mids constantly misplace passes since our players don't actively search for passing lanes and we let them run right over us.
We have the players to win these games, but our tactical approach is all wrong, and Allegri is doing the Einstein quote of insanity by keeping the 4-3-3 with three strikers and starting De Shitlio and Khedira. I'd suggest we should try a 3-4-3 to get another extra man in CB for solidity and allowing Bonucci more freedom to get long passes to our attackers and wings. We have to get through the wings as we only have two quality midfielders. Khedira is ass, Bentancur is ass and Can is ass. Matuidi and Pjanic are the only ones that are CL-quality mids and we need to play to our real strengths. This the formation Conte used to bulldoze the PL, as the team played to its strengths. There's unfortunately no space for Dybala, who needs to play in a 3-5-2 or a 4-2-3-1 to be at his best. He sucks ass when played out of position.
---------------------Szcesny---------------------
----------Rugani-Bonucci-Chiellini------
-Cancelo--Pjanic--Matuidi--Sandro-
-------Costa-----Mandzu---Ronaldo-----
I agree and I wouldnt hold it against him. Having one of the best players in the world doesnt automatically make you CL winner or finalist. Messi and Barca would have been undisputed winners or finalists over the last decade. However this isnt an excuse for uninspiring and gutless performance against Atletico, where we lacked any kind of structure or cohesion.
I believe for return leg Allegri can at least set up a team that would keep QF hopes alive, where would be chasing 1 goal for most of the game. It's far from over. He has made very few mistakes over the last 5 years and he reads the game better than any other coach, hence my optimism we could pull this off.
I believe for return leg Allegri can at least set up a team that would keep QF hopes alive, where would be chasing 1 goal for most of the game. It's far from over. He has made very few mistakes over the last 5 years and he reads the game better than any other coach, hence my optimism we could pull this off.
True, that is what bothers me the most. We got bullied around without throwing back any punch. Most of our attempts were easily shut down in areas Atletico lured us in. We lacked organization in the final third and initiative to put up a fight when they came at us. For the return leg however all bets are off and there wont be time for cautious approach.
