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Originally Posted by Kjeldoran
This is just how they play. Alot of possession, one-time football and just keep passing and passing on and on until they see a gap. IT's infact a very efficient gameplay as it tires the other team big team, which means that after a while more gaps occur.
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I think this is a bit of a one-sided view. It's a very similar style of play Barcelona's known to be succesfull with. However, when faced with Jose Mourinho's Inter, they kept finding a brick wall with little creative ideas to change tactics to find alternative ways in. They were heavily hit back on the break - which Inter as a bit of a bigger team had the creative and fast attacking options to go with.
It's of course "easy" to box defend, but the real question is how you break such defenses. The ones set up by Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jose Mourinho for Swizerland and Inter were too solid for Spain and Barcelona, respectively. The games shared many similarities, moreso than the previous one, was it Uruguay France, seemed like.