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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Breaking low blocks is a common occurrence for winning teams. Being particularly predictable in that would result in less success. Anyway, the argument about "robotic goals" is silly. Like blaming the team that plays in the opponents half for the...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.It just doesn't make much sense. If your teams are "particularly clueless" against low blocks, they don't score that much goals and win so many titles. The more dominant the team is, more low blocks they face. People don't like to watch lopsided...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Games were definitely better to watch.
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.There genuinely was a hate campaign from 2009 on, and it still lingers. Some of it was induced by media, some of it was good old hating on everything that sticks out too much, and some of it was people literally not being able to discern a...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Spain was not boring nor defensive team. They were not better in 2008. What happened is that teams figured they're too good and simply refused to venture out of their own halves. It almost worked because Spain didn't have Messi. Italy tried to...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Yeah, breaking goalscoring records by "passing around for the sake of it" is quite a feat. And all those proper direct teams regularly reduced to hiding in their own half? "They hid the ball, not fair." The fact that people really think along...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.And the idea that Spain played "defensive possession football" is simply wrong. Their setup was attacking by default, but they often didn't have enough sharpness upfront to deal with parked buses. And every team parked a bus against them. Now...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Maybe you are a bit biased? "Exceptionally clueless" for serial winning, high scoring teams that broke various records? Who are those other coaches whose teams are so much better and productive against low blocks?
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.Sure, all teams get tired and lose flair. No one can play free flowing football forever, especially when the opposition starts camping in their own half. But that's the thing. I will always be on the side of the team that plays the high line...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.It happens to all dominant teams when they start to face parked buses, and lose energy and freshness. To be fair, Guardiola has proven to be quite stubborn in his methodical approach, sometimes to his teams detriment. But in the end, his...
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.And at the same time they will nostalgically reminiscence about the most dire, basic and opportunistic football. Brilliant.
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.City played bad this year. But Guardiola's teams in the past usually played sublime, high scoring football. If that is 'robotic', more 'robotic' teams would be great.
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Stocar replied to the thread 2025 UEFA Champions League final — Paris Saint-Germain vs Inter Milan | 5-0.I don:t understand this. Football that teams like PSG play is exactly Guardiola's legacy in modern football. At their best, Guardiola's teams are still the benchmark for this style of football. The 'robotic' argument is just people being...
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Stocar replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.I'm not completely dismissing it, in fact in many respects I prefer the football of past eras. But despite the mythology, the overall quality simply isn't there. It's all slower, less athletic, and less organized. That's why classic creative...
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Stocar replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.It's not odd at all, just look at the pace of the game and defensive organization. So much space and time on the ball compared to today, in many ways it was better than today for talented creative types. The amount of freedom more than makes up...