Originally Posted by Hatred
Newcastle have better attacking players than 16/15 of the sides in this league and a manager who uses the approach you're advocating and I guarantee they'll not be in the top 5 or 6 next season.
Infact a better example would be Barcelona. They're 3rd in their league and were put out of the CL by a United side who are inferrior and the same thing happened last year to them against us. Why are a team that have all their attacking prowess struggling? The middle and bottom of the Spanish league is even worse than this country.
As Stu summed up , gameplans are very important at this level.
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Football can be won with many different styles. Man United have won the last 2 league titles with good attacking play.... the current CL winners are the most attacking team in Italy. United might win the CL this season... and Barcelona won the CL in 2006 along with 2 La Liga titles... so I'd say the last 4 years have been just as much about attacking teams (if not more so) then defensive ones.
People say caution can help poorer teams to match the bigger ones through organisation and worth ethic, but Arsenal who have far a inferior player for player team (versus the big 3) seem to be able to compete playing a game that encourages tehm to keep the ball and have won an FA Cup and got to a CL final spending significantly less money than us.
So to say attacking teams are all struggling is a bit of a nonsense isn't it?