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“Set Piece goals, Long Balls & Headed Goals are up. Passes completed, short goal kicks & goals per game are down. As Guardiola's 'boring' influence on the PL wanes, it begs the question: “Is This the (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] stonkage@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Football (like most things) cyclical, watch it long enough and the same thing gets rolled out as new.

[–] stonkage@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I can't understand the hate Pep gets, he didn't make other teams try to play out from the back or try to play possession based football without having the players.

For their dominance in the EPL their record in Europe is underwhelming for a supposed juggahnaut. Maybe the European teams while obviously better may also be more tactically astute on how to counter Man City.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paywalled so I couldn't read past the first couple paragraphs but it sounds like football needs something like the "small ball" shift that made basketball more exciting