Barça – Bayern Match Comments Thread

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It's unfair to criticize Bayern, I think they were sabotaged. Someone must have snuck in behind them and stuck a banana in their exhaust pipe, because that engine did not start. It sputtered and coughed and appeared to want to start, but then....nothing. Later, just a few cranks of the ignition to show that there was still an engine there...Reminded me of an old german car I used to have ;)

Colin: Hiddink broke up with RM for non sport reasons after continuous conflicts with RM board regarding transfers and budget.

He won the Intercontinental Cup with RM, Lead South Korea to forth place in world cup (with some referee assistant), lead Australia to the second round in world cup 2006 (and that’s impressive for them), and recreated the glory of Russian national team after a long nap. And its unfair to judge him for failing against that great Spanish squad. Without taking Russia game against Neitherland in consideration.
That’s all outside Netherlands.

Hiddink is a school in Tactics. He is one of the main Lecturers for the UEFA License for a reason. His problem is that he turns to become over dominate with time and thats why he had short life cycles with clubs. He likes to robotize his players with tactical instructions, and that’s why he succeeds more with low quality teams, where players are more welling to be over disciplined tactically. Superstars do not accept that. If he stayed in Chelsea, sooner or later you will see conflicts. But till now, he is their survivor, and the players still can't complain, till the ship settle down.

Saying so, I by no mean underestimating Guardiola qualities. He may end up proving he is much better than Hiddink. But I am pointing on the fact that this coach –Hiddink- know how to prepare his team for a game. His basic methodology is based on two factors with this priority order:

- Screwing the opponent tactical system.
- Keeping in mind the need to create damage, not only through defending but also through focusing on one of the opponent weaknesses and try to get advantage of it.
Against Liverpool it was obvious, and against Netherlands in euro it was a lesson to learn.

Lot of Analysts in UK are wondering today why no one thought of applying a tight marking strategy against Gerard before. So there is something new about what Hiddink did last night. Beside, it was widely expected that Mickel will be the one who mark gerrard, not essien. So asking Essien to mark Gerrard instead was one of the tactical surprises.

hahaha, Hector, I just put up a new post. Naturally you'd have to be the last one to post on this one. Oh man.

Seconded on the Getafe tape. That's a valuable lesson right there. No lead is truly safe. The part that really impacted me was that Klinsmann, Beckenbauer, and their GM (Rumm..?), straight up said after the game that their CL hopes were busted and they should now just concentrate on the Bundesliga and getting back into the CL spots for next year. Either they are VERY good at getting other teams to put their guard down or they are genuinely going to field a B team for the return leg and focus on the Bundesliga. How can players not give up, when the coach and management staff already did? Which Bayern fan in their right mind would want to go to that game?

The thing with Chelsea is that they have three of the best box to box midfielders in the world playing together: Essien (IMO THE best), Lampard, and Ballack. Those three guys, especially Essien and Ballack, are very good physical defenders who can break up a midfield, then they have pace down the wings. Kalou and Malouda are a hell of a far cry from the old Duff-Robben combo but they are fast, you can't deny that. Now, they have the guy who still IMO is the best out and out lone striker in the world in Drogba who is scarily getting back his best form. Not to mention a true tactical genius in Hiddink.

Their achilles heel, IMO is their defense which is a far cry from their glory days. Terry is grossly overrated IMO albeit still a good player, Carvahlo (one of the dirtiest players I know) is still getting his form back and is getting over the hill, Alex is Alex, Ashley Cole is a shadow of his former self, and Boswinga is Dani Alves minus the being decent at defending part. However, now with the beast that is Essien covering their backsides once again, they have not been tested as often. The key to that game will be getting through Ballack and Essien (Lampard not so much, he's a decent defender but would rather attack). Liverpool without Mascherano couldn't overpower that physical midfield and paid dearly. Essien owned Gerrard stifling most of their creativity on the last third.

Our advantage over Liverpool is that we have multiple creative "cracks" who can change the game. With Liverpool, you take away Gerrard and they are reduced to hoping Torres pulls some magic out of his hat. With us, Essien can man mark Xavi and we'll switch the 4 to Iniesta, They can put Ballack on Iniesta, that means Messi or Henry will be single teamed. We have too many creative players for it to be possible to man mark one single key influence out of the game. The Iniesta-Xavi combo will be vital in a series against Chelsea because you know Essien will man mark the hell out of Xavi, and if anybody can do a good job of that its that Ghanian nightmare.