Hans-Dieter Flick

Hansi Flick - how do we rate him?


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MasQueCulé

Ter Stegen Hater
At this point, this looks closer to the end of his time here than next gear from last season as we hoped. And the worst part is nothing is happening, not a single thing is changed, we look worse and worse. It seems like the more time he has to train the defense the dumber we get.
Damn thanks to you guys i'm losing hope :/
 

serghei

Senior Member
anyone can put 5 past us, that's the issue. we need balance. Flick had fuxked up, and it's fine, but what isn't , is his amazing stubbornness.
this system is not viable for this squad (or any other imo). just play regularl defensive line you German twat.

There are some types of squads who could carry this system, especially if you are loaded with athletic players left and right capable of running at the intensity he naively expects for 90 mins. But even in perfect conditions, with this much chaos at the back, any good team can fuck you up.

Anyhow, if his plan is to basically run like crazy non-stop, and that's it, there's nothing else behind it to support it tactically, it's a folly. No matter if you don't run at the level of last season, you can't make teams like Brugges cut you apart almost at will.
 

serghei

Senior Member
The way we defend, you can't help but get the feeling that the players have no real template to work with. It's all very chaotic off the ball. Nobody knows what to do, players missing from positions regularly to do some Rambo style press up front, completely broken apart.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
For his system to work you need the pressing to be great and cohesive.

You also need athletic defenders and midfielders that aren't mentally retarded.
Our defenders are slow and lack brain cells. Kounde and Araujo are not technically slow, but the former turns around like a ship and Araujo is just dumb.

You have to adjust.
 

serghei

Senior Member
For his system to work you need the pressing to be great and cohesive.

You also need athletic defenders and midfielders that aren't mentally retarded.
Our defenders are slow and lack brain cells. Kounde and Araujo are not technically slow, but the former turns around like a ship and Araujo is just dumb.

You have to adjust.

Pressing like he does it is only as good as your worst presser off the ball. It's as simple as that. He sets no scale of priorities. It's press everything that moves. It's all nice in theory, but it's rather shite in practice.

With all the top tier managers, you see plans in motion and fallback actions. What to do here if press fails, how to contain zones positionally. With Flick, the only outcome is picking the ball from your own net.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
Pressing like he does it is only as good as your worst presser off the ball. It's as simple as that. He sets no scale of priorities. It's press everything that moves.

I don't think he want three of his players to press one guy to be honest.

It's a combination of not very good tactics, at least in our current situation, and dumbass players as I said in the chat.
 

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