Luke_25 wrote:How insightful.
Honestly, this strawberry floating thread, heaps praise on and jumps to defend that Chelsea performance last night, yet chastises anyone who praises one of the best football sides in the history of the game. Why do you lot even watch football, is it to be entertained, or just to have something to talk about with your mates in the pub?
Chastises? What you talking about?
So if Celtic won the champions league like that, would you be complaining? You don't really seem to grasp that defence is apart of football. And think every team should go and just attack like headless chickens. You keep saying AVB is some tactical genius, and have a go at RDM.
Did you watch Germany vs Spain last world cup? Germans couldn't play their usual style due to Spain keeping the ball well. Despite both teams having some of the best players in the world. Same in the final. Dutch had a lot of good players, but were forced into playing counter attack. The only team who had a go at Spain was Chile. Does that make the Dutch and German team poor? Chelsea couldn't do that against Barca or Bayern. I'm sure they would have loved to attack more, but Barca and Bayern were good at keeping possession. Same Bayern who outplayed Madrid over two legs.
Chelsea couldn't just go all out attack especially when there were concerns about both their centre backs fitness wise. So they needed protection.
I don't understand what is hard to grasp that you are going to find teams that are better at keeping the ball than you and you have to adapt to that.