This is just trying to make excuses to satisfy yourself and other fans after Bayern's whooping. Face it man, they are the better team. Heynckes got the tactics perfectly mimicking Sacchi's Milan side of the 80's. Barca are a great team but there is no point in trying to deny and fuss about every little detail against Bayern.
Since you don't seem to understand how badly we got owned on a tactical level, allow me to explain. Heynckes used a system of false and clever pressing to shut down passing space which our team relies heavily on (like Sacchi's tactics). We couldn't get the ball to our midfielders many times let alone the forwards. They took advantage of our sluggish, lethargic play that day and fought with intense energy and stamina. They are a possession based team yet had no trouble waiting for Barca to complacently pass it before taking the ball and slaughtering on the counterattack. Muller ran the show that night and his fellow teammates were uncontainable.
Barca had injuries and other problems, so what? The way we played was so dominated by Bayern that it wouldn't have mattered player for player. Tito was back for the Bayern games, cancer doesn't do anything to change that and you should seriously know that's a pathetic excuse by now. Puyol wouldn't have been able to keep out the likes of an on fire Muller and Robben. And attributing it to the referee as well? That's just having a poor attitude. They had a few bad calls but so did we as they had many plays counted offside when they weren't.
Blaming this loss on politics?!?!?!!? Seriously!?!?!? The players weren't day-dreaming about pep when they were kicking a ball around and trying to score goals, I dunno where the hell you're getting this from.
Arsenal didn't figure anything out, they caught Bayern on a complacent day and nearly made them pay for their mistakes. It wasn't any tactical genius or outplaying them in any way at all, just chance. Bayern have been this good pretty much all season. Against Barca it was obviously one of their better (if not best) days but you can't act like their true identity is reflected in the Arsenal loss.
Bayern loves slow games??? They were the ones playing fast paced football that night, not even slightly hindered by this 'watered pitch'. Barca were complacent in passing around the backline or center circle while the Bayern forwards pressed and shut down any available space.
Rough, physical football? You're making them out to be some dumbass schoolyard bullies with all brawn and no brains. Bayern have great technically advanced players (Ribery, Robben, etc.) and while Muller can't dribble 3-4 players he's FAR more intelligent than most players on our team (even a great deal of our better players, don't let bias get in the way). They play better tiki taka than we do right now ffs.
Artificial score my ass, this was hands down a pure 2 legged victory by a dominant juggernaut of a Bayern side. Seriously look at this objectively because making excuses like this is why many people hate Barca fans.
Overall, very biased and inaccurate analysis. Bayern play some of the best technical football in the world right now yet you say they play "Frankensoccer"?!?!?! If we were to meet Bayern next year with our current system and players, we'd get flattened again, except at the hands of Pep.
PS. since you've nitpicked and broken down every one of Bayern's very rare losses, think about the same for Barca. If you were to go to such depths looking for flaws based on such isolated losses Barca would look like one of the worst teams in Europe right now.
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