matbezlima
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As much as I love Guardiola's Barcelona and his work at Barcelona is one of the greatest works by any coach ever, it still was not perfect, nothing is. I conceed that Guardiola still made some mistakes at Barcelona. While that team would not reach those technical heights without him, his decision to let go of Eto'o after the 2008-2009 season, despite him being Barcelona's top striker in the season, and also using Ibrahimovic as a starter in both games against Inter against in 2010 might have cost Barcelona the UCL title in 2010. As Michael Cox's wonderful tactical reviews of both legs say, Ibrahimovic should only have come from the bench in the final stages of both matches as Barcelona's plan B after fast wingers would have tired Inter's defense throughout most of the game. Guardiola did the opposite, he mistook his plan B for his plan A. Ibrahimovic was virtually non-existent and hindered Barcelona's attacking fluency in both games. Iniesta's absence was surely a problem too. I'll make clear, though, that Inter fully deserved to go through and that they were truly great against Barcelona and a great team overall, their title was fully deserved. And while Guardiola got his tactics wrong, Mourinho got everything right. Inter truly nullified both Messi and Xavi.
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/04/20/inter-3-1-barcelona-tactics-guardiola-mourinho/
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/04/28/barcelona-inter-mourinho-tactics/
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/04/20/inter-3-1-barcelona-tactics-guardiola-mourinho/
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/04/28/barcelona-inter-mourinho-tactics/