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Old 05-01-2014, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ticos_stick View Post
Pep aint all he's cracked up to be either.
Yeah, easy to say that after mid-season we were invincible and playing the most attractive football ever and what not, all that bullshit.

Real deserved to go through, but it was 3 set pieces that they scored from. Set pieces tat we defended so poorly that even Wigan would have done a better job. Surely, that's not Pep's fault. When Barcelona beat us 4-0 in 2009, that was being outclassed. This was just odd. Don't get me wrong, again, Real deserved to go through, yet it's only because of individual mistakes, not because of a better playing philosophy. Bayern's players have fallen into some sort of pit. There's 3 or 4 events that triggered it. Winning the Bundesliga early on. Alcantara being injured. Ribery not winning the Ballon d'Or and Hoeness being sentenced to jail. They all happened at the same time, and suddenly, the spark was gone. You need total belief in your skill to successfully play the way Bayern played and that was shattered. Yet I have no doubt whatsoever that we'll be back next season, playing the final in Berlin

As about the actual final...ah well, fingers crossed for Atletico. Refreshing to see a team like that take on the big boys.
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