lo zio
International
- 24 October 2005
- Palermo
Re: The La Liga thread - Season 2007/2008
the whole league has been disappointing this season actually. as u pointed out the only shining stars have been atletico, vilareal (i don't really like Santander, i'd rather pick betis or getafe).... and, let's face it, the only reason why we do enjoy watching espanyol playing is because they're the only team who tries to follow a different tactical path (counter attack and pressing). most of the other teams play almost the same kind of football.... pretty boring, if u ask me, and this is said by a huge fan of la liga (it used to be my favourite league till this season).
this is definitely not enough to rate this as a good season.
barca is really boring to watch... they depend too much on the individual efforts of their stars... there's clearely no plot in their football... it's like a footballing jam session and when xavi falls asleep the show is really appalling.
they're too 1 dimensional, they never change pace, not even when they are loosing! they just keep playing that horizontal football, that slow, useless, horizontal passing game, that gives to their opponents the time to move back and displace the defensive line, so that it becomes almost impossible for the blaugrana to "break the wall".
the only ones who try to give some acceleration, some change of pace, are bojan and eto'ò. messi himself, sometimes, he just loves the ball to much to get rid of it with the right timing. there are 3 teammates free, asking for the ball, but he just keeps running with it, trying some fancy useless dribblings, wich slow down the game even more.... pretty frustrating.
and the defense is not really doing better. milito is having an extremely disappointing season, and if it wasn't for yaya tourè, barca would have lost many of the matches they managed to draw.
the truth is that barca badly needs a decent coach.
i had huge expectiations on real madrid this season. i really enjoyed their football at the beginning of the season, coz, for the first time in ages they were trying something "new". for the first time in years i saw real madrid putting pressure on the ball carrier!!:w00t:
but now, at this point of the season, we can say it was just a coincidence, as they played their "usual football" for most of the season....
sevilla was a bit disappointing too... but i honestly expected it. this season, for the first time they had to face a top european competition too (i know, they played the uefa cup the last seasons, but it's a fact, the champions league is much more stressing and wearying, mentally and phisically). they had the same season lazio had.... the same season fiorentina will probably have next season... we honestly couldn't ask much more to them. but if sevilla (and lazio) will learn something from this first champions league experience and enlarge their roster, they might please us again with their fantastic footie.
but i honestly didn't expect saragoza and valencia to do such a big step backwards.
oh well, at least my beloved bilbao managed to guarrantee its presence in primera division for the next season too
the whole league has been disappointing this season actually. as u pointed out the only shining stars have been atletico, vilareal (i don't really like Santander, i'd rather pick betis or getafe).... and, let's face it, the only reason why we do enjoy watching espanyol playing is because they're the only team who tries to follow a different tactical path (counter attack and pressing). most of the other teams play almost the same kind of football.... pretty boring, if u ask me, and this is said by a huge fan of la liga (it used to be my favourite league till this season).
this is definitely not enough to rate this as a good season.
barca is really boring to watch... they depend too much on the individual efforts of their stars... there's clearely no plot in their football... it's like a footballing jam session and when xavi falls asleep the show is really appalling.
they're too 1 dimensional, they never change pace, not even when they are loosing! they just keep playing that horizontal football, that slow, useless, horizontal passing game, that gives to their opponents the time to move back and displace the defensive line, so that it becomes almost impossible for the blaugrana to "break the wall".
the only ones who try to give some acceleration, some change of pace, are bojan and eto'ò. messi himself, sometimes, he just loves the ball to much to get rid of it with the right timing. there are 3 teammates free, asking for the ball, but he just keeps running with it, trying some fancy useless dribblings, wich slow down the game even more.... pretty frustrating.
and the defense is not really doing better. milito is having an extremely disappointing season, and if it wasn't for yaya tourè, barca would have lost many of the matches they managed to draw.
the truth is that barca badly needs a decent coach.
i had huge expectiations on real madrid this season. i really enjoyed their football at the beginning of the season, coz, for the first time in ages they were trying something "new". for the first time in years i saw real madrid putting pressure on the ball carrier!!:w00t:
but now, at this point of the season, we can say it was just a coincidence, as they played their "usual football" for most of the season....
sevilla was a bit disappointing too... but i honestly expected it. this season, for the first time they had to face a top european competition too (i know, they played the uefa cup the last seasons, but it's a fact, the champions league is much more stressing and wearying, mentally and phisically). they had the same season lazio had.... the same season fiorentina will probably have next season... we honestly couldn't ask much more to them. but if sevilla (and lazio) will learn something from this first champions league experience and enlarge their roster, they might please us again with their fantastic footie.
but i honestly didn't expect saragoza and valencia to do such a big step backwards.
oh well, at least my beloved bilbao managed to guarrantee its presence in primera division for the next season too
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