GYBS wrote:Avi Cohen wrote:Scottbot wrote:Avi Cohen wrote:Scottbot wrote:Avi Cohen wrote:There's a lot of optimism floating around today - some even say we're back in with a shout in the prem.
Nonsense.
I want to post today after we WIN and not be accused of a Rafa hater only after we lose.
Is it great to beat Real Madrid at the Bernebau and put one foot in the next round? Sure!A! Brilliant! Lovely! Etc.
Yet, it was the same old dour performance that has haunted us the last couple of seasons - poor possession of the ball, poor passing, lack of ambition - an attitude of 'let's contain them and nick one.'
Some posters here don't care. We won 1-0. Some posters don't care that if we played like this week in, week out (like we have been doing) as long as we win the Prem. Trophies in the cabinet - that's all that matters. That's it and that's all.
That's not all, I'm afraid.
Say we do win the Prem? We break our duck. The drought is over.
What then? Would these posters watch this tepid uninspiring football every week? Because the football won't change. It will never change. It will be 4-5-1 every week. Home and away. No invention, no creativity, no X-factor. Boring, one-dimensional football played by a manager who doesn't trust his players to play football.
I was watching the RTE punditry after the game and Eamonn Dunphy had this to say: "If Liverpool are successful, this style will be copied and copied and football, the great game, will suffer."
Some care about lovely football. Some care about results.
What everyone is forgetting is that both are possible.
REGARDLESS of what you tihnk about the teams' performances in the league recently (or at any other time for that matter) can you not give some credit where it is due?
That last night, was a European MASTERCLASS in how to play the away leg. What if others try to copy it you ask? What, you mean other teams might start playing as a compact defensive unit and look to score on the break or to grab a late goal? Not exaclty a revolutionary new way to play in Europe is it? We're just better at it than every other team in Europe. It (and we) might not cut it in the Premier League but it does my brain in to sit and read posters using last nights result AS A STICK TO BEAT THE MANAGER WITH.
I'm not using last night's result as a stick to beat the manager with. I'm using the consistently uninventive tactics that Rafa champions as a stick to beat him with.
The day after a win at the Bernabau, you can't even stop for a minute to say "fu...c..kin ell, well in lads, well in Rafa"?
You call that a great Real Madrid team?
Do you mean the reigning Spanish Champs who have won nine games in a row and scored ten goals in two games .
If you think La Liga is all that, think again. It's a fading force like Serie A.
A few years ago, Real had Zidane, Roberto Carlos, Makelele, etc.
Who lined up for them last night?
