Maurice (Taylor's Version)

@fmeetsdata Who got the spot last year aka this season after psg won? Curious what team

It's not yet mathematically confirmed, but it's clear that this season's 🔵 UCL winner WILL qualify for UCL via domestic league (before EPS slots are awarded). 🇫🇷 PSG ➡️ ~100% to finish Top 3 🇩🇪 Bayern ✅ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal ➡️ ~100% to finish Top 4 🇪🇸 Atléti ➡️ 99.7% to finish Top 4 This means there WILL be 🔵 UCL title-holder rebalancing and the best ranked champion in 🔵 UCL qualifiers WILL move up and enter UCL directly! Currently 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers are projected to be that club.

@rajsinghchohan He's at fault for the kane goal. Militao is 1v2 as Trent is too far away outside

Trent producing the best passes on the pitch with players of this quality. Nothing more needs to be said.

@GamerBr0ski hart aber vertretbar, camavinga ist selber schuld in erster linie

Was sagt ihr zur gelb roten Karte?

@GamerBr0ski time to retire für neuer. painfully obvious. statt 2 tore vorne steht es unentschieden lol.

Entspanntes Spiel da zwischen Madrid und München

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@NealGardner_ Flick already had 5 years for finding a balance. Same reason why bayern and Germany didn't work out. Kompany found it in a short time too

While I hear the high line concerns, it’s also obvious how enabling it is. The next step isn’t abandoning it, but rather finding a middle ground. I’d look towards PSG under Lucho, another side that defendeds extremely high, but have the physical/technical combo to make it work.

@Real1_balogun If you have messi for over a decade it's a failure of the club to win only 3. 2006 he wasn't really a part of the team yet so can't really count that. Lamine has a poor start now too, history repeats itself

The UCL is hard to win. It’s always been. That loss yesterday it 11 years since Barcelona last made the finals. Before 2006, they went 14 years. They won it for the first time in 1992, thirty-seven years after the first European Cup game was played. Their best period remains 2006 to 2015 when they won it four times. That competition is so wicked that they may not win it again for another decade. It’s possible. Real Madrid went 32 years without a UCL trophy. Between 1966 and 1998. In that period, they won the league 16 times. Between 2003 and 2011, they made the semifinal only once. For context, Pep Guardiola didn’t make a single UCL final at Bayern Munich. It took him five years or so to make his first at Man City. He spent a truckload of money to achieve that feat. Consecutive quarterfinal exits in the hands of teams you’ll expect them to steamroller. Jose Mourinho won and became everything he could at Chelsea but he never made a UCL final with them. You know who did? Avram Grant. Roberto Di Matteo. Two coaches who can’t be heard near Mourinho’s level. If Arsenal make it to the semifinal, they’ll be the only English team in the semifinal for the second year running. Same Arsenal didn’t even qualify for the UCL for seven years. They’ve seen a final once. They’ve only gone as far as the semifinal three times. In Wenger’s 22 years at Arsenal, they made the semifinal only twice. The first didn’t come until nearly a decade after he joined. The Premier League had six teams in the UCL this season. Only one of them is likely to make the semis. Only two made the quarters. And that’s a league that spent £3.4bn in last summer’s transfer window alone. Diego Simeone has made the final twice and he hasn’t won it. He’s spent 15 years at Atletico Madrid. In that period, ATM have only gone as far as the semifinals four times. Simeone may yet leave ATM without winning it. It’s why Zidane’s achievements sits gently and pretty. He lived a charmed life. That achievement is rare. A league title rewards consistency, the UCL rewards a combination of too many factors, some of which are outside your control. My name is Rilwan, I love and write about football systems, memories and the depths behind the game. Follow me and repost if you want more of this.

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I can already envision that red card in the KOs of next seasons CL. Poor fella, at least at this point the fans realise it isn’t wholly on the players.

@ReshadFCB Looks like a tactical flaw too me. System issue. Same pattern over and over again.

is this some sort of joke

@NealGardner_ Nobody this system is too flawed and unbalanced to begin with even with the perfect players it's way too risky and extreme.

Genuine question: who is the perfect defender for this Hansi Flick system? Saliba is the most obvious one that comes to mind, but he’s not realsitic yet, who else?

@EBL2017 Flicks football was too extreme at bayern and Germany too. Bayern in first full season after cl win he never found a balance, didn't find a balance for Germany either. Where's the progress? Did he learn anything in the last 5 years how to make his idea of football more balanced

Flick's Barca are too extreme. Not necessarily the game-model itself (even though it is extreme), but more so the balance of the squad. Part of the reason Barca are so good going forwards is why they are vulnerable defensively - lots of technicians, but a lack of physicality 🛑

Plus, as much as Newcastle exploited them, they wiped the floor with them over two legs. Flick's Barca are very close to reaching the next steps in the Champions League, but their style doesn't exert optimal control because of their physical profile and tactical idea combined.

@1893robbie Selbst wenn du 4 upamecano oder 4 gvardiol hinten hast kannst du mit dieser offside trap nicht spielen. Das ist Selbstmord. Barca ist fun aber Flick sein fußball ist immer noch der gleiche unbalanced harakiri Fußball wie den Bayern am Ende. Volles Risiko at all times

Bei Gott wer diesen Kader von Barca zusammenstellt gehört gekündigt 2 mal fliegst du raus obwohl du 2 gute Leistungen in KO Spielen zeigst weil dir weltklasse IVs fehlen vor allem bei einer high line wie bei Flick ist das von immenser Bedeutung

@htomufc It's fun but a flawed model. Too chaotic and unbalanced. They can't defend and manage a lead properly at all. That's flick dna, won't change

Not enjoyed a game like Barca / Atleti tonight in a long time. Understandable Barca fans are gutted but some of their attacks are fuckin’ beautiful, proper infectious football. The ball speed, unique angles, connectivity in the middle, proper enjoyed it. Happy for Atleti though, though Musso, Llorente & Lookman were SO good. Had a bit of everything, big space attacks, flowing moves, bite, drama, really enjoyed it. I know Barca fans won’t care but I proper love how they play, Rashford / Roony subs came to late for me though, the idea to work in-swingers was there from the start.

@markrstats Only need 4 gvardiol to make it work

Very soon, all top European coaches will start adopting Hansi Flick’s offside trap. It is clear this strategy gives defenders a solid foundation to perform

I’ll say this: While the photos raised questions, if male insiders were held to a similar standard of ethics, none of them would exist.

@NealGardner_ flick football dna. wont change ever. same issues for years with his super risky full attack football. he doesnt care for any balance

It’s the same goal over and over again 😭😭😭

@NealGardner_ lenglet has some bets on barca

LAMINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Upstate Liberty mod for GTA III is out, and it lets us do what everyone dreamed about since 2001. It's so good, and the playable area is huge.

@EBL2017 Buying the worst 9 in the league will cost them a title most likely. Only wolves (after strand larsen left) and Burnley don't have at least one better striker than gyokeres in their team probably

“All of the teams who won major titles over the years did so as a consequence of superstars elevating tactics. Think Drogba, Lampard, Hazard, Costa, Gerrard, Rooney, van Persie, Agüero, Yaya, Kompany, Henry, Vieira… Arsenal. I’m looking at you. Who’s gonna reach that level?”

@tliiasaw13 Laura freigang ist echt gut

Ich schreie Das ist ein Meisterwerk