Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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What on earth is that ridiculous high line by Bayern. Would like to see l'pool play them. Think they'd thrive with their pace against that.
it's because it worked, for a while, at Barca. it's a poor actual system and relies on both keeping possession but also creating so many chances the opposition can't commit more than 1 player forward. When you aren't creating the chances as Bayern now don't do, then the opposition will contain the attacks with less players, commit 2-3 players forwards and suddenly that means a full on counter with 3 on 2 over and over again.
The system only works when the team is willing to be more dynamic and less predictable upfront. Bayern just do nothing with the ball, not quite as bad as say utd, but they make it fairly easy to deal with that the opposition can burst forward at every chance and look dangerous every time.
Man utd/everton was the same. Utd couldn't actually make chances, Everton therefore felt they could commit people forward and they created great chance after great chance. You pretty much need Valdes in goal and Puyol at his best for that system to really look good. Puyol was for me the best CB in the world. He read the game great, was insanely strong, an actually brilliant defender in terms of tackling, holding up players and forcing a player where he wants them and faster than you'd think... plus a crazy intimidating haircut
