The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Goatseye]

Ka-pi96 said:

Goatseye said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Hence why I said Brazil at their best

The modern defensive Brazil are boring and just not that good anymore. Thankfully they were absolutely destroyed by Germany so hopefully they will see the error of their ways and return to the Brazil of old.

Brazil of old is the same as Brazil of today. They put little emphasis on defensive tactics.

They need to get with times or hire an European coach. Their coaches suck.

Germany beat them because their coaches couldn't, for their lives, get a cohesive defensive unit for ages.

Germany only impressed in that game. Up until that moment, it never revealed itself as a steam rolling machine.

Brazil of today is much more defensively focused than Brazil of old. How many good well known attacking Brazillian players are there these days compared to good well known defensive? There's not as many, while the very best Brazil teams have almost no memorable defenders or goalkeepers the recent teams have seemed to be centred around those types of players. While I agree their coaches suck I think that is because they are all overly defensive and not capable of playing the kind of good attacking football that Brazil are known for and that wins trophies.

Nothing changed my friend. Brazil stopped in the soccer evolution ladder for a long time.

They play with 2 Wing Backs, 2 Center Defenders, 2 Center Midefielders, 3 Attacking Midfielders and 1 Striker.

Old Brazilian squads had way more revered defenders than nowadays. Cafu, Geraldao, Branco, Lucio, Emerson, Taffarel, Maycon, Beletti, Roque Junior, Juan etc...

Brazilian defenders nowadays are not that very well fitted for European clubs or world tournaments.