Man U slammed for negative football

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Anyone notice that Rikaard has slagged off Man U for defensive play? He's right of course but all this bleating when you don't get the result you want should be in the dictionary for the definition of sour grapes.

 

Seems to me that this style of play is the most effective and therefore who can blame anyone for using it?

 

Being a great tactician is knowing the best tactics to use for the situation and then using them well to get a result.

 

What do teams like Barcelona want the opposition to do? The fact is that when you play skillful, fast passing football, you are actually forcing the the other team to defend in numbers. There is cause and effect here, yin and yang - Barcelona are creating the yin and so the opposition have to provide the yang.

 

Then you have to admit that teams like Barca also play their own negative brand of football in defence. When was the last time you saw Barcelona give a team space to play "beautiful football"? This is what got me when they complained about Rangers. How can our players hope to try and play fantastic football when they are closed down immediately and given no room at all?

 

Again it's the likes of Barcelona who are the architects of less than aesthetic football. I proposed before that they are the anti-football team and I stick by it due to the above reasons.

 

The team who plays anti-football is the team that doesn't allow the other team time to play good football. It's self explanatory - and Barcelona fit the bill.

 

Fiorentina, also follow this model, how can they complain that we didn't create chances when they harried our players so much we often went all the way back into their own half before passing to the keeper?

 

How is that our fault? They gave us no room to play - anti-football again. Then they passed the ball around well keep possession - so what do they expect our players to do?

 

Perhaps these two clubs should get together and form a football Harlem Globe Trotters where the defence says, "after you" and everyone plays tricks etc instead of actually trying to win a game.

 

I think the criticism of Man U just shows how unjustified all the criticism of Rangers has been - we may not entertain, but were intelligent enough to know how to play football to win, and we also have dignity in defeat.

[ian1964 10,761]

The thing about being a hard team to beat is that defending well is actually a skill,down to good organisation and discipline,it's not down to LUCK that a team hardly loses any goals.The Italians have done this,very successfully,for years and were described as MASTERS at defending and sneaking a goal.More of the same'' anti football tonight '' please Rangers.

[Guest Ibroxian]

Anyone in 2008 who has a eurobarnet from the mid 1980s should not be listened to.

 

The Dutch always went for that look-at-me-don't-I-look-stupid type hairdo.

 

The Dutch were worse than the Germans for the 80s cool American hip-hop pretense, shame they never grew out of it.