He seems to be a bit of a one trick pony to me. He can set a team up for possession football but he has no plan B and his teams lack that change of pace that to me at least has always marked the great teams from the good ones. That I think is why they (and particularly the Spanish national side) can sometimes be a bit boring to watch and seem to struggle to score.
That style, that he arguably invented, or at least evolved from the total football that Cruyff bought to to Barca, was very successful for a long time but is now proven beatable with solid defending and rapid counter attacks, in fact that's exactly how Chelsea beat his Barca team in 2012 and Bayern thrashed them last year. You'd have thought he'd have learnt his lesson and evolved things by now.
When you think of really great teams, 70s Brazil, the unbeatable Milan team of the 90s, the Arsenal Invincibles, they could all play keep ball and frustrate the opposition, perhaps not to the same degree as Barca or Bayern, but it was part of their game. The important difference is that they were also fast and deadly on the counter and that's something the tiki taka style lacks. Guardiola seems to have actively beaten that out of Bayern and it's made them a weaker side. As was demonstrated again last night a pure tiki taka side is vulnerable to a thrashing from a side that defends and counters well.
Just my 2C.
I hope Chelsea make the final, it will be interesting to watch Real's array of stars try and get past Jose's 10 men behind the ball.
That style, that he arguably invented, or at least evolved from the total football that Cruyff bought to to Barca, was very successful for a long time but is now proven beatable with solid defending and rapid counter attacks, in fact that's exactly how Chelsea beat his Barca team in 2012 and Bayern thrashed them last year. You'd have thought he'd have learnt his lesson and evolved things by now.
When you think of really great teams, 70s Brazil, the unbeatable Milan team of the 90s, the Arsenal Invincibles, they could all play keep ball and frustrate the opposition, perhaps not to the same degree as Barca or Bayern, but it was part of their game. The important difference is that they were also fast and deadly on the counter and that's something the tiki taka style lacks. Guardiola seems to have actively beaten that out of Bayern and it's made them a weaker side. As was demonstrated again last night a pure tiki taka side is vulnerable to a thrashing from a side that defends and counters well.
Just my 2C.
I hope Chelsea make the final, it will be interesting to watch Real's array of stars try and get past Jose's 10 men behind the ball.
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