Rijkaard ?! .
Anyway, back to Capello. If you compare Capello to more 'modern' coaches, such as Benitez and Wenger; Capello was totally outcoached when they met, during respectively juve vs liverpool and juve vs arsenal. That Juventus was squad was among the best, if not the best squad in the world(especially the one facing Arsenal), and to be knocked out so helplessly was so indicative of Capello's old-fashioned tactics. Drowning in defence and creating almost no chances, letting the techincal players suffers and creating almost no chances. He needed a keeper blunder, to even get past freaking Werder Bremen, before facing Arsenal.
well mate, honestly i find a little tough to consider rafa a "modern" coach. comparing capello's tactical knoledge to rafa's one.... well let's just say i really disagree with u on that :mrgreen:
moreover the same rafa often said his model was sacchi (wich is an insult to sacchi imo :mrgreen: ).
i'm not disrespecting benitez, but capello imo is on another level.
i don't think cups (like champions league) are a good "turf" to evaluate a coach's ability. single match tournament are something really special, those kind of competitions involve a lot of factors (coolness, confidence, fear of losing). i think that the leagues are the real test for a coach, and talking about this, capello is the master.
capello's teams are like a diesel. it takes time for a team to understand exactly what he wants by his players... and it takes even more time to do it; the situation was pretty different at juventus coz juventus philosophy was very close to capello's one, so when capello came in torino the change wasn't so radical.
but real madrid needed a reconstruction imo, and that's why, when he came in madrid, the first thig he said was "give me time and u'll start seeing some changes in a couple of months (optimistic forecast :mrgreen: ).
but Don, don't misunderstand capello. he's not a defensive coach (like benitez or trapattoni). he just has pure passion for balance. his teams are PERFECT in defence (when his players perfectly apply his game plan... wich is not easy), they never do any mistake talking about positioning (and that's why u might have the feeling he's a defensive coach)...... but if u look carefully,
u'll see his side defenders flying, and by noticing this u'll realize his game plan is not a defensive game plan
we could say his approach to the match is the approach of a chess player.
let's put it this way. if i have to choose what match follow, then i prefere to see wenger's football, schaaf's football, puel's football, spalletti's football. but if i'd have to choose the coach for my team, then i would pick capello with no hesitation.
anyway that's just my opinion, and of course, i could be totally wrong
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