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This is part one of a two-part article discussing Barcelona and the upcoming El Clasio which is written by our guest writer Masoud Rahal.
We are obliged to agree that Barcelona is very well capable of returning to their winning ways soon enough as they have proven time and time again. We must tip the hat to Pep Guardiola and his men for that amazing performance of beautiful football that they put on the pitch which continues to entertain football fans all around the globe.
Yet I feel, as a football fan an immense amount of sorrow at the lack of tactical genius when it comes to countering the effect of the “tiki-taka” of El Blaugrana and it’s control of the midfield.
After all we have yet to forget the 2010 FIFA World Cup and it’s poor showing of talent and attacking football.
Case in point is the Final of the World Cup; Holland played defensively and committed atrocious fouls, while still having had a lot of counter-football chances and a straight-on-goal chance, which was wasted by Robben at the dead lock. Yet Spain scraped the win by a goal signed by Ineista. At the end, the victory was to that of beautiful football and possession football.
I attribute the poor showing of attacking football that we have seen due to the poor tactical planning and solving it by following Mourinho’s park the bus approach against Spain.
Thus as of this moment, there yet to see a coach able to come up with an attacking plan that would stop Barcelona or the Spanish National team who shadows Barcelona style of play and not only having it’s majority of players from the Catalan club.
No one was able to counter this type of football with a style of play that is remotely attacking, therefore the solution for all is to defend with 11 players and depend on counter attacks. This from my point of view as a football fan shows a lack of tactical genius, leading to a dip in form and a lack of technical brilliance. One of the advantages at least for that type of play that it does not need amazingly expensive footballers for it to work; all you need is a tennis player or what not given that they stick to the plan.
What is worrisome is the direction those coaches take in trying to stop the flow of the style of play that Barcelona so well does.
So is it truly that hard for other club’s coaches to stop the flow of the Catalan Club? If it is the case (which in truth it is, indeed) we must congratulate the club from the head of the coaching staff Senior Guardiola, then we must clearly state that this squad of players are hands down the best that played on stadiums of international football and only because we are yet to see a tactical plan able to fully diminish the danger of L'equip blaugrana.
Anyways, it was obvious in the latest El Clasico that Mourinho requested of his players not to commit any fouls inside the six-yard box and only commit them outside of the box, which is the build-up area for Barca thus cutting the rhythm of the “tiki-taka” and suppress any chances on goal. The threat of spot-kicks as Mourinho isn’t really Barca’s strongest point thus we must have everything I said before into consideration
A win in the next outing for Barcelona is viable only with a tactic that I shall describe in the next article, stay tuned.
After all we have yet to forget the 2010 FIFA World Cup and it’s poor showing of talent and attacking football.
Case in point is the Final of the World Cup; Holland played defensively and committed atrocious fouls, while still having had a lot of counter-football chances and a straight-on-goal chance, which was wasted by Robben at the dead lock. Yet Spain scraped the win by a goal signed by Ineista. At the end, the victory was to that of beautiful football and possession football.
I attribute the poor showing of attacking football that we have seen due to the poor tactical planning and solving it by following Mourinho’s park the bus approach against Spain.
Thus as of this moment, there yet to see a coach able to come up with an attacking plan that would stop Barcelona or the Spanish National team who shadows Barcelona style of play and not only having it’s majority of players from the Catalan club.
No one was able to counter this type of football with a style of play that is remotely attacking, therefore the solution for all is to defend with 11 players and depend on counter attacks. This from my point of view as a football fan shows a lack of tactical genius, leading to a dip in form and a lack of technical brilliance. One of the advantages at least for that type of play that it does not need amazingly expensive footballers for it to work; all you need is a tennis player or what not given that they stick to the plan.
What is worrisome is the direction those coaches take in trying to stop the flow of the style of play that Barcelona so well does.
So is it truly that hard for other club’s coaches to stop the flow of the Catalan Club? If it is the case (which in truth it is, indeed) we must congratulate the club from the head of the coaching staff Senior Guardiola, then we must clearly state that this squad of players are hands down the best that played on stadiums of international football and only because we are yet to see a tactical plan able to fully diminish the danger of L'equip blaugrana.
Anyways, it was obvious in the latest El Clasico that Mourinho requested of his players not to commit any fouls inside the six-yard box and only commit them outside of the box, which is the build-up area for Barca thus cutting the rhythm of the “tiki-taka” and suppress any chances on goal. The threat of spot-kicks as Mourinho isn’t really Barca’s strongest point thus we must have everything I said before into consideration
A win in the next outing for Barcelona is viable only with a tactic that I shall describe in the next article, stay tuned.
-Masoud Rahal.
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