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El Rondo
Topic Started: Oct 14 2011, 05:41 PM (1,906 Views)
KOL
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Yet again, in a big game a "tika-taka team" has been destroyed by a direct, counter-attacking side. Happened so many times over the last 2 years and these occurrences seem to happen more & more each year. Is this trend gonna continue for the next few years? What can sides like Barca, Spain, Arsenal and now Bayern do to avoid more batterings like the one we saw today?

Seems that Heynckes' Bayern, and specifically their 7-0 win over Barca, might've started a new era in World Football. Something to keep tabs on over the next few years. So many teams are catching on now, and so many of those teams are reeping the rewards. Are the aforementioned sides gonna try and go down the same route eventually?
Edited by KOL, Jun 13 2014, 09:45 PM.
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Clancy
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Well, Arsenal should become more counter-attacking based. We have a set of players more suited to that kind of game anyway.
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Teams have been playing 'power football' against Barca and co for two years now. That was figured out a long time ago, I just think it's becoming more apparent because of the diminishing quality of Barca's stars. A peak Barca/Spain would still be cruising past the likes of today's Netherlands.
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Spain/Barca are still phenomenal in possession but it seems to mean a lot less now that teams are prepared, I think there's more to it than the decline of a few players . Each year now teams are approaching controlling sides with more freedom and confidence than before, knowing that the opponents are vulnerable (this goes for Bayern as well now, not just Barca). In the space of 2 years possession has gone from meaning everything to almost nothing, these days possession rarely seems to have any correlation with the actual scoreline or balance of play. It's gone way beyond just being down to Barca now as well, in every division teams & managers have adopted a different approach based on the shift in dominance at the top. Very few sides actually try and play like Barca these days, 3 years ago everybody was trying to do it.

We'll find out more in the coming years, but if you look at all the big-game beatings that have been handed out recently, it's almost always inflicted through direct football. That suggests that there's a shift in style going on, and it's more so down to tactics & mentality than it is personnel.
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One of the biggest things for me is Barca/Spain don't press sides with the same intensity they did before and coupled with the decline of a few players it's made it much easier to play against them. They've always given chances away but when they were pressing high up the pitch using the six second rule other sides weren't having the ball long enough to get too many chances.
Edited by Goonie, Jun 14 2014, 08:22 AM.
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