I don't like el Cholo in general. I think that he has lost many games during his Aleti's carreer for being extremely pragmatic, too much for my taste. I preffer more laisse fairez coaches too, I don't need everyone hustling all the time, just my taste. I don't want him near the NT, yet I can bet that he might pull out the job, I don't want to try it, I preffer other type of coaches.
Yet not recognizing that he has a lot of authority to manage lots of different players, with diff personalities, that looks like he can bring order to any big club and that always managed himself mostly with what he had and the club can, while having great campagins and sometimes great results, it's being daft.
He did and does a great job in Aleti and he had also many great games where he played great football, at the same time I hate when he tries to close a match too early, I hate such thing and he shot his foot in more than in one ocasion for doing that.
Back to this CL, he had a great match against Leverkusen. He survived against PSG more or less a la Pool in the first leg and from these last two matches against Real, there is not much inherently wrong to be said.
With a middle ground approach between the PSG and the Leverkusen match, he created more than Real Madrid, looked more dangerous when having the ball and was set to go as much as he could on the break, it was no just park the bus and send the ball to the crowd waiting for the end.
He could have risk a bit more in some instances? YEAH, specially in this last one in extra time, or in some instances in the second half of the last match.
Yet at the same time, it was REAL MADRID. This critic has more weight if it was another rival, yet Real that has their number (everyones number) when comes to punish you in just ONE or half chance (see Mbappes penalty), there wasn't much wrong in how things happened.
He clearly didn't want to give Real a single thing, he nulified Jude, Killian, Vini, etc...many of his players played great like Barrios, De Paul, Giezmann (till he could) and Alvarez. He lacked timing/luck or whatever in some of Aleti's best chances that could have paint this match way diff, his subs this time were active, yet a lot less effective than in other matches. So it's not precisly these two matches or this CL in general sthg to fall heavy on him.
YET Real fans have every right to make fun of him and Aleti, they just can do it in CL agaisnt them, leaving any analysis aside.
This kind of victory for Madrid fans tastes even better. Tomorrow would be another day to really go after Carletto and the boys and how they played, this is pure folklore football at the max. Winning playing badly, with a giant of a keeper and with a rival slipping? come on! it's poetry.
And here it's were the critic to at least try a bit more has more weight, this was a very predicatble ending if sometimes you don't risk just a bit more and that Vini missed whould have been read it as a sign to thsi si the time, but it's not that they didn't try either, they weren't clinical enough.