Champions League 2024-25

[KingLeo10]

I was surprised at the total lack of dark arts and tactical fouling by Inter.

If you're trying to shithouse the game do it properly.

There was no playacting or provoking the opponents. No plan to win the second balls.

Atleast stink up the place and break the flow of the game!

FWIW, smash and grab is normally a good idea in CL finals. But they didn't perform the dark arts today. The team looked knackered and indifferent to the occasion.

Their entire season revolved around the Barca game.

They even threw away the league and Copa (0-3 final loss to Milan) for it.

 

[Kul_z]

This is the fair scoreline because football won. If there was justice barca would have play this final. And best thing is everyone in europe knows that but they are too cocky fo admit.

 

[Porque]

I was surprised at the total lack of dark arts and tactical fouling by Inter.

If you're trying to shithouse the game do it properly.

There was no playacting or provoking the opponents. No plan to win the second balls.

Atleast stink up the place and break the flow of the game!

FWIW, smash and grab is normally a good idea in CL finals. But they didn't perform the dark arts today. The team looked knackered and indifferent to the occasion. Just a really strange performance.

After the PSG player handballed it into the hand of Bastoni, and the freekick went to PSG instead of a penalty to Inter, they knew it was all over.

 

[Birdy]

The 4-3-3 just flat out owning the 3-5-2 is also a big reason.

Everyone on PSG was passing like Xavi simply because of the holes/spaces left by 3-5-2 against 4-3-3 Lots of times I saw the PSG midfield and even their backs play uncontested 15-20 m passes deep into Inter territory just because of the space mismatch.

That's not the explanation either.
If that was something like a law of football, you would have seen that in the Inter-Barca, Inter-Bayern, inter-city, and the countless other such games this and the previous seasons

 

[jamrock]

His problem was not dominating Serie A with the best team. That's a bad look on his time at Inter so far. In CL he did very well and vastly overachieved. But titles wise, losing Serie A twice in 3 years to Napoli is really bad.

Yea questions will start to be asked soon.

Really Barca fuck ups are the reason he made it to the finals twice since being coach.

He's talented and as had to sell without buying.

But he would have won at a bare minimum 2 league titles

 

[serghei]

Their entire season revolved around the Barca game.

They even threw away the league and Copa (0-3 final loss to Milan) for it.

Or... maybe they aren't as good as people believe they are. The best team in a league wins the league. That team doesn't lose the league vs a rival that just lost their only class player midseason.

 

[Temptation]

Bayern 2010 were a possession based LVG team. Mourinho just let them have the ball and organised an airtight defensive unit. He went long to Milito and Sneijder and co won every second ball and countered ruthlessly.

Bayern had all the ball but were never in the tie. Inter controlled the game without the ball.

 

[KingLeo10]

Or... maybe they aren't as good as people believe they are. The best team in a league wins the league.

I'm the one who was saying they would go trophy less this season after our semis vs them.

Never been convinced.

 

[MonteCuler]

Spurs vs PSG supercup bruh

Ange better look for some park the plane strategy and hope he leaves with a single digit scoreline

If he plays his usual bullshit fuck knows how that will end lol

 

[Birdy]

His problem was not dominating Serie A with the best team. That's a bad look on his time at Inter so far. In CL he did very well and vastly overachieved. But titles wise, losing Serie A twice in 3 years to Napoli is really bad.

Napoli 22-23 was unplayable.
But yes, they were the better team in both 21/22 and 24/25, when Milan and Napoli won Serie A.
These two titles should have been won by Inter

 

[RedxMAK]

Inter humbled at last

 

[jamrock]

The 4-3-3 just flat out owning the 3-5-2 is also a big reason.

Everyone on PSG was passing like Xavi simply because of the holes/spaces left by 3-5-2 against 4-3-3 Lots of times I saw the PSG midfield and even their backs play uncontested 15-20 m passes deep into Inter territory just because of the space mismatch.

I told them months ago, and I think meta football on YouTube who said the same thing regarding 4231 vs 352.

433 is simply the best base system in football and better to counter 352.

Called it before a ball was kicked.

But hey, i didn't do a XG analysis to only look like a retard at the end of the game 😂.

 

[BerkeleyBernie]

@jamrock called it months ago.

PSG's midfield is the best in the world. Vitinha, Neves, and Ruiz are better than Pedri, FDJ, and Olmo/Fermin. Pedri probably still the best of the 6 when rested but not by much tbh.

That midfield combined with Mendes + Hakimi is a hell of a strong spine.

I'd say Vitinha tops Pedri, well-demonstrated in today's rout. Pedri is pretty much a ball control merchant who does everything at a sluggish jogging pace. Vitinha has a much sharper and effective game. Everything is quicker and sharper— his off the ball movement creating angles, his carrying the ball, his passes, his decisions, his release of the ball, and the pace of his passes.

 

[Temptation]

I'd say Vitinha tops Pedri, well-demonstrated in today's rout. Pedri is pretty much a ball control merchant who does everything at a sluggish jogging pace. Vitinha has a much sharper and effective game. Everything is quicker and sharper— his off the ball movement creating angles, his carrying the ball, his passes, his decisions, his release of the ball, and the pace of his passes.

What does a "ball control merchant" mean?

 

[KingLeo10]

I'd say Vitinha tops Pedri, well-demonstrated in today's rout. Pedri is pretty much a ball control merchant who does everything at a sluggish jogging pace. Vitinha has a much sharper and effective game. Everything is quicker and sharper— his off the ball movement creating angles, his carrying the ball, his passes, his decisions, his release of the ball, and the pace of his passes.

Yeah, I was making my assessment at 2-0.

jam rock and I have been gassing up the PSG midfield for months now. They remind me of Xavi-Iniesta-Busquets (like a 50% version of them) in many ways. Like you said, they are sharp, incisive, quick of mind and play, and hard working.

I rate Vitinha and Neves very highly.