Originally Posted by Section_31
I remember a 'fly on the wall' show about the mancs about ten years ago and Schmeical was saying Fergusson rarely if ever talked deep about tactics.
Like you say it's obviously about having good players, but other sides (especially this Arsenal side) have had top players and won fuck all because they make too much of a meal of their football.
Also while I agree that they don't whip the ball in the way they used to, the Mancs' play is and always has been about the flanks, it's about stretching teams and you'll often see Brown and especially Evra overlaping down the flanks, with midfielders following into the box. They just swamp the box and more often than not there's someone there to get on the end of it.
I think the Italian league has proven over the last few years that you can't play footy as if it's chess and expect to refine it to a science, nobody deploys a drilled defence like the italians, and nobody obsesses over coaching badges and tactical play as much as they do, and yet they've all been royally buttfucked this year by sides that just depend on pure athleticism and individual skill to take them down.
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The best players don't play in Italy anymore though, they play here, so that's why we have three out of four in the semi-finals. The Italians won the World Cup mate, there's still a lot to be said for their tactical way of playing if you have the quality to compete.
Inter got put out by Rafa, AC got put out by the pass the ball to death merchants and Roma went out to United. That's three vastly different styles that they got buttfucked by Section.