Recent content by kaiser1

For those Spain wins in 2008, 2010 and 2012, there was hardly any standout player. You could have picked any of Puyol Xavi Iniesta, Busquets Senna(2008), Villa(2010) in any of those years without an argument In 2004, Greece defeated Portugal the host twice France the defending champions Czech...

Following All the recommendation he made on the first page moved to bigger teams and are doing well

A great coach needs to have both excellent tactics and great man management Tuchels man management is bottom tier. Likely to get into fights with players management probably fans too at some point.

Same argument can be made about Xavi in 2008. I don't recall him being better than others in the tournament. As with Spain in their glory years, no single player stood out, it was more of a collective effort. Maybe Marcus Senna was more influential. I thought Ballack was more influential than...

Zagorakis was also voted the Player of the Tournament. https://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/07/05/euro.team/index.html https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/news/0253-0d7da72393c9-783fb60a56f0-1000--euro-2004-team-of-the-tournament/

How is Greece 2004 different?

Zagorakis won the player of Euro 2004 iirc

Maybe different tactics work for league and knockout competitions. Cos the new football crap seem to win leagues more often

Check your sarcasm meter

Barcelona before Pep were not said to have a dominant midfield or attack. Barcelona dominant team included a Pique who couldn't get game time at Man utd. All these changed with Pep but he gets no credit for it. After Pep they made 1 CL final in the last 12yrs. Pique Pedro Busquets were players...

Mourinho played Madrid in the group stages and got smashed

No. The team of Mancini had several winners. Tevez, Clichy, Aguero Yaya Dzeko D.Silva, Zabaleta, Kompany DeJong, Kolarov, Balotelli etc Many of these players have played the CL at previous clubs some won CL titles, leagues, domestic cups so its incorrect to say they had zero knowledge of high...

Did he mention that he wanted Godin and Boateng

Anyone can be in a semi final of a knockout competition. Coventry was within inches of being in a final, Does not make them a better team than Liverpool or Arsenal Dortmund is in the semi final of the CL and are currently 5th in Bundesliga Pointing to a CL semi final run is not evidence of the...

It seems to me that in Penalty shootouts, the teams that were dominant and missing the most chances in regulation time most time end up losing in shootouts