Originally Posted by Stu Monty
"...the current CL winners are the most attacking team in Italy".
Surely this has to be the feintest praise that anyone or anything has ever been damned with. Quite simply the funniest, and most rubbish, angle to help an argument ever!
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Milan have always been known not to play the "Italian Way".... in case you didn't notice... but then Milan, Barcelona and Man United - great successes in recent times, some domestically, some in Europe and some both don't further the pragmatic argument by much do they?
It would be stupid to think that Mourinho and Fergie don't "do tactics" of course they do and it would be madness not to at the highest level. But different managers have different tactics... e.g. Luis Van Gaal is the most gung-ho manager in world football but he is a world class tactician who has won lots of trophies often without spending much e.g. Ajax.
Tactics don't mean you are attacking or defensive, it means you have a "plan". That plan could be offensive or defensive... the difference is that some managers are cautious and some aren't, some choose to pass and move, some choose to get the ball forward as quickly as possible.
I'd say the braver you are, the more chance you have of winning the league with 3 points for a win.. where as in Europe, you can draw every game after the group stages and still win the European Cup - it lends itself to cagey football.