No one ever remembers Colombo. He had not Van Basten's quality but according to Sacchi, he was fundamental in that position. If you see the first goal against Steaua, Gullit makes goal after Colombo's shot
I'm from Milan and grew up with Sacchi's and later Capello's AC Milan. This is a tremendous video. You nailed it. I still have goosebumps looking at Rijkaard scoring against Benfica. And now knowing that it was Sacchi's move, it takes it to another level
Van Basten's nonchalant assist and Rijkaard's perfect trap that led to the goal in a breeze. Simple yet powerful beauty of functionality symbolizing the Sacchi's philosophy.
high defensive line - very tight pressing - fast transition from defensive to offensive - all out attack - attack through the middle - flexible squad formation: aka as Jurgen Klopp's "Gegenpressing"
Even today when I hear or see the name AC Milan, for a split second I think of the Mighty AC Milan, these Milan teams of the 80's & 90's were a force to be reckoned with.. Today they're a decent side but are a shadow of their former selves.. It's fascinating how the power balance sways over the years.. Football is a beautiful game..
they won the cl twice in 2000s as well runner up twice too. Milan where actually most successfull in europe in the 2000's. The club colapsed in 2011. Sold Zlatan and Silva. at the end of the year all the leaders retiered. Rino-Ambrosini-inzagi pirlo went on a free transfer. Man UTD did the same mistake. Istead of replacing one or two at the time they released and sold their entire spine over night. you gonna have to build a new DNA identilty from scratch which take a long time. Man City and Liverpool have spent 5-6 years building to get to where they are now.
@@Bubajumba Yeah, we are a very young team, i hope this season we will qualify for the UCL... Anyway i think we need more time than City or Liverpool to come back because of financial fair play and its limitations
@@Bubajumba That's very true, no one knew who Man City were before 2010... Last 10 years and now look at them.... One of the best clubs in the world! Milan do suffered from that 2011-2012 season transfers... Needed to keep their core of the team intact but they failed to do so.. Nevertheless this new team ain't that bad I mean I have high hopes on Milan in the coming years... Hoping to see them get back to their glory days! Forza Milan, cheers!!!✌️😁
in fact the winner of Ballon d'Or in 1988 Winner 1st Marco van Basten 2nd Place Ruud Gullit 3rd Place Frank Rijkaard are all play in same team is still mind blowing for me.
Him, Michels, Cruijff, Guardiola, Van Gaal and Klopp have defined, molded, and perfected attacking football for the last 50 years. With honorable mentions to Ernst Happel, Arsene Wenger and Valeri Lobanovski
I think there must have been so much intensity demanded out of playing this 442. Its just brilliant to watch them use the offside trap. His pressing style is also suited to a high intensity play.
What a monster of a team, defensively organized with their off-side trap and their closing down on the ball holder to give him minimal time on the ball and too shut down passing lanes, attacking wise would play with a very high tempo and use vertical one touch passing to play through the lines and get the third man runner in behind the defence. The manager Saachi was a brilliant manager and very overlooked. Just like all top managers, the ability to maje tactical adjustments based on how the other team reacts to their play style is top level, great analysis.
It's effective if you have godly defenders because its hard to beat them by one on one. But I remember watching maradona beat this strategy at one time, he just dribble the ball in straight line lol.
Now you have elevated your analysis to a different level @nouman We need more videos of this. The forgotten coaches of football. Coaches like Trapattoni, the ac Milan of Carlitos Ancelotti, Marcelo lippi, the Barcelona of Johan Cruyff , the great Ajax of van gaal. Well done nouman 👏👏
I did not know so much about football around 1990, but I noticed this. Watching Milan defence back then was a pleasure. There was an extra dimension to it.
Now I understand why Klopp asked for time when he took over Liverpool. It takes time to form a team which is thinking, playing and breathing like a unit. I see 90 % Liverpool here. I hope Sacchi knows about his influence on Klopp and one day they drink a cup of cafe together.
@@icardilebavarois1286 this milan side would literally rape barcelona 2010/11 side your probably just a baby so you don't know to much about real football!
I remember seeing them moving up and down the pitch together in two banks of four, very impressive discipline and very tough to get through. Hope to see more clips of their team movement.
Ruud Gullit era una gazella todoterreno un genio que tridente Gullit-van basten-rijkard atrás liderado por baresi y comandados por el gran arrigo sacchi muchos dt toman nota de este gran dt junto con michels y luego cruiiff los mejores de la historia
And who all played with Johan Cruyff. Van Basten and Rijkaard at Ajax and Gullit at Feyenoord. Van Basten and Rijkaard also working with Cruijff as their coach at Ajax
Sacchi would disagree with you because he was inspired by Cruyff and Michels Ajax of the early '70s. Plus Gullit and the other Dutch players introduced the Dutch craving to always want to attack. They wouldn't settle for a 1-0 or 2-0 score if they knew they could score more goals
It was actually because of milan they changed the rule, it was called by italian press "the anti milan rule" as it was seen the only way to stop milan offside trap
Are you sure that is onside, I've just looked at it and due to their being 2 players in the line of the ball therefore interfering with play, doesn't that count as offside even if they don't touch the ball (feel free to correct me if I'm incorrect :) )
Sacchi Trapattoni Lippi Capello Ancelotti.. The best managers come out of Italy. Just look at the premier league in last 10 years atleast 5 came from Italians.
Music is very relaxing, good choice. One nit-pick though; was catenaccio really the popular style in the 80s? LaGrande Inter of the 60s played catenaccio but after Cruijf's total football revolution in the 70s I believe most Italian teams began to depart from old school catenaccio in favour of more modern styles of play (for the time).
@@ayyguevara8448 Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Alves (defenitely better than Tassotti) and Busquets ahead of Donadoni, Ancelotti, Colombo and Gullit. would be a 4-3-1-2 with Busquets, Rijkaard, Xavi in midfield, Iniesta as playmaker and Messi and van Basten up front.
4312 Galli Tassotti Baresi Costacurta Maldini Ancelotti (the most underrated player of all time) Rijkard Iniesta Gullit Messi Van Basten Tassotti was way better than Alves, Rijkard that season was better than Busquets was in peps Barca, Xavi/Ancelotti is debatable. (i know thats a hot take)
you forgot to mention that almost every AC Milan players at that time,specially defenders and some of the midfielders were super fast players,they could sprint like no others at that time(Baresi,Maldini,Costacurta,Tassotti, Donadoni and the three dutch)so they were able to recuperated their position very fast in the field, when they were losing the ball or when they had to press the opponents!!!
They became stronger with the hard Sacchi's training, he always asked 200% from them and they followed him with effort and respect. Before to be a Champions need to be a man; they were supermen.
In order to play these tactic nowadays, you need a Sweeper Keeper and players who are willing to track those deep runs done by midfielder and even CB's sometimes.
Better make a video with Flying Dutchmen, they were playing this since 70's. Total football, They call it. But this Milan was great, one of the greatest teams in history: Maldini, Baresi, Gullit, Van Basten etc My God!
It's an interesting video in most regards but has a number of inaccuracies. Catenaccio requires a sweeper - in that it is indeed the opposite of Sacchi because the sweeper will sit deep. In 1980s Italian football most teams had abandoned the use of a sweeper and catenaccio was no longer being used. While he deserves to be celebrated Sacchi did not quite have the influence people imagine over Italian football. The Italian dominance of Europe in the 1990s was based on much more conventional tactics, best represented by Sacchi's successor Capello. Within less than a decade Sacchi went out of fashion and would be forever tainted a 1-6 humbling by Marcello Lippi's Juventus in 1997. Offside trap: it was actually a not-so-risky strategy with the old laws in place till the 1980s. Player standing on the same line with the last defender was offside, the attacker needed to be on the same line with TWO defenders. So it was a lot more frequent for the offside flag to be raised. Once the rule was changed so that the attacker only needed to be on the same line as the last defender, it became much riskier to deploy an offside trap. Sacchi will be forever remembered for the back-to-back European Cup titles of 1989 and 1990. On the other hand he only won Serie A once in 4 years, that is not a lot when one looks at the amount spent on the squad and the insane talent in it. Capello for example won three consecutive Serie A titles and another in 1996; Lippi won 5 Serie A titles in 8 years with Juventus. Under Sacchi Milan had the Serie A's best defence nearly every season over 1987-91. But never were the league's top scoring team, despite his approach wanting to be attack-minded. In fact in Capello's first season Milan's goal output increased to 74 compared to an average of just above 50 in the 4 years of Sacchi!
Sacchi dice que Van Basten arrastra la marca y deja el espacio para reikjard. Pero cuando se hace defensa con stopper o marca al hombre el libero tiene que sobrar atrás y en esa jugada no había, si no el libero cortaba el avance y no era gol.
some says Sacchi's Milan similar with pep's barcelona high press possession football. people often try to make comparisson between this two system. but actually, its far from being similar. Barcelona only rush on the ball in 3 second they lost the ball, with no organized defense system. they just rushing out, clossing down tha opponent as fast as possible and outnumbering the one who hold the ball. their defenders have no organization system. no offside trap, no positioning. just rushing out and closing down the one who has the ball in numbers, to get the ball as fast as possible. they only conceding in low number, but it's actually not because the defense system but only because they always hold the ball almost all the time. wasting time in any giving time in enemy's territory. far from their own penalty area. and when they have the ball, they tend to hold the possession by delivering so many meaningless pass untill messi do the magic by himself. in most occasion, they creates goals not because of their system but only because messi's solo penetration. sometimes.., When messi is been locked down, they have nothing. because they always play slow tempo and make 11 player of the enemy parking infront of the penalty area and they can't play high ball. and then they just wait messi do the rest. sometimes, it makes me sleepy wacthing them holding the ball like that. Without messi's solo penetration.., their system won't be effective. for me.., in barcelona there's no pep's philosophy. there's no system at all. there's only messi. the rest is just delivering meaningless pass to wasting time so the enemy never has the chance to create since they always hold the ball. But Sacchi's Milan was special. They played quick counter attacking football but can still hold the possession by wining the ball back. they never scare to lose the ball. high risk high gain. keep tring to play openly, creating chance with ambitious pass and penetration, high rotation, so many option in creating chance, by flank or middle, playing high or low, by inside or outside of penalty area. and they defends with a well organized system.
You fail to mention that the only reason why his offside trap was successful was that because back in those days if one person is offside, it will be called whether or not he's interfering with play.
If you really see this year's Bayern played quite similar to this too, with muller always playing high to stay close to attackers and the defenders keeping a high line( althou6they didn't use the offside trap that much)
the rule of offside was change in 1990, then in 1994 then in 2004. the end of milan begins with the change of the rule of offside. many messi and ronaldo's goals were offside in that time. I remember that kind of defense, the rival shot the ball and all the defenders ran to the contrary side. sacchi was the culprit of that antifootball. in that time they played in a very reduced field with the old back-pass rule, for this reason to score goals was two times more difficult than today. now sacchi's defense system is a suicide
Hansi flick,s Bayern resembles the same philosophy Sacchi implemented. The high pressing highline 1 touch vertical passing and also they make the pitch smaller then they counter press exactly like Sacchi,s ac milan
Sacchi got his tactics from the Liverpool teams of the 1970s and early 80s, kind of the opposite of the high press where everyone gets behind the ball when possession is lost then attack when it's won back.
Coach Arrigo Sacchi had invented the football of today.....that AC MILAN was incredible!!! In the museum of Casa MILAN in MIlan city i've seen all cups won in the history of the rossoneri club.....it's an amazing football club....inside the history!! Now Mr Arrigo Sacchi is the creator of Guardiola and Sarri.
Good coach, but it helps a bit when you have Van Basten, Gullit, Rijkard, Baresi and Maldini in your side. Think they'd been successful no matter what system they played. Players win football matches more than tactics!
Nouman your tactical analysis is one of the best.. But the bgm for the video is dampening the mood of the viewers.. I was half asleep all the way through the video..
Valeri Lobanovski deserves a nod as well with what he accomplished with Dynamo Kyiv. Using the facets of basketball with 1 touch football. This coming from a Dutch guy. Something that almost every attacking coach admired at the time during their 1985/86 spectacular run in Europe and ultimately beating Atletico Madrid 3-0 in the finals. As Cruyff called it using high ball circulation and letting the ball do all the work instead of walking a bunch with the ball. Those 4 coaches helped Guardiola create and mold the best team that's ever been. His tiki-taka Barcelona
No analysis i think.. That’s pure luck in my opinion.. If it wasn’t luck, how can be sheva miss open goal just 2 metres ahead him in dying time of second half extra time??.. That’s destiny i think, not tactic at all..
For Noobs , at that time the rule says it is offside if any player was offside even if the player who received the ball was on side. This does not WORK at this time but it was briliant tactic from Milan's Sacchi
@@thegooner-49 Everyone had to be behind the line back in the day. If one was offside all of them where. Today only the last person to touch the ball is effected
3:12 the player running for the ball is not offside and the player offside is retreating so it should be play on......same with the very next play on 3:24
