The top tier of greatest teams ever

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Luck can be a factor in a one-off cup run, but it’s pretty irrelevant in multiple wins in the same era. Liverpool were not lucky cup specialists, they fully dominated the English game by winning 7 league titles in 9 years. And it was clearly a strong league given the competition of Nottingham Forest and the simple fact that English sides won the European Cup six years in a row. Ultimately Liverpool were unquestionably the best team of their era because they consistently beat these 'better teams' and have the domestic and continental trophy haul to back it up.

I meant in comparison to Atletico — Ramos' goal in the extra time vs Grobbellar's spaghetti... But yeah, perhaps I didn't highlight it more, their ability to get the needed result was incredible and definitely not luck-based.

 

[harms]

To this day, I never understood why Pep didn't just play Yaya at right back and keep our trusty Pique-Puyol CB duo together.

Perhaps he thought that Yaya didn't have the workrate to play as right back?

Because Puyol had lots of experience at right back and I doubt that Yaya had played there even once? Yaya's playmaking and physicality are also more suited to a central role, and a role out wide requires so much running throughout the entire 90 minutes, and Yaya was always a player that saves his energy for a sudden burst of acceleration, not an energetic runner like Davids.