Ok, I'm quickly writing this as i wait for today's Champions League games to start. i'm always so excited about the CL. it should be the best football we get to see each season. especially when you get to the second round and beyond. but it is so often a huge disappointment. the games are often very defensive and played at a slow pace. managers are so worried about conceding goals, especially an away goal, that attacking football plays a backseat to a tight defensive strategy. the games end up being Chelsea-Liverpool type snoozefests even when neither of those clubs are involved.
This same problem seems to take hold in all big international competitions as well. recent World Cups havent exactly been the most thrilling things in the world. sure there are some great matches here and there, but a cautious approach often leads to less than exciting matches. the occasional quality of the players seems to be the only thing that saves us at times from managers sending out boring 451s that bog down the midfield. and of course the final often ends up as the most boring match of the whole tournament since the managers are more scared of failure than actually trying to win the match.
now that i totally lost the ideas i had when i sat down to write this i'll wrap this up as the games are about to start. maybe arsenal and/or milan will prove me wrong today. i certainly hope so. and if not i'll still get excited in two weeks when the second legs approach. i guess the hope of a classic match outways the all too often disappointing reality.
-shitty rant by Jim.
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4-4-2 or 3-4-3 are the tits.
And imagine if we only saw highlights of games (like Match of the Day highlights) and never the full matches, I wonder how most of us would think.
-Rory
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