Has Football ACTUALLY Got Worse? 

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Personally I thought they still looked like the two best teams in the league

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@@solarmaru49 the two best teams in the league w/ their attackers having an off day. Defenders was still great tho.

​@@Lilleh__ 8 CBs and 4 DMs were on the field at the same time 😭😭😭

Lmfao!!😂😂😂

Alfie of 2020 would've made one

@@waffle.supplyno longer the peoples channel

Only if he does all time long hair XI

Zidane, Charlton, Leboeuf, Robben, Stam, Gravesen, Kompany, Vially, Cambiasso, Zabaleta. Goalkeeper: Barthez Referee and most bald of all: Collina

CRAZY TIMES. mid table teams would clap your cheeks if you were caught lacking 😂.

Slower, less fit, less developed than current generation.

most of those players would struggle against mid table teams in the prem today

@@lenneth1188 Just to make clear, I meant the international squads at the 2006 World Cup.

​@@lenneth1188goid joke

Maybe in terms of athletic ability and tactical efficiency. Which means modern teams would most likely beat teams from back then. But football is meant to be a spectator sport so it has gone down in quality.

the average player is more talented, but the top players not so much.

Is it just me or we barely see any free kick or longe range goals nowdays, while before those were regular?

@@stefan5730 Juninho 🙌🙌. Now that guy was gifted.

I think individual talent, Passion and fighting spirit has decreased in today's football, but tactically today's football is better

VAR started when both Messi and Ronaldo were on the edge of their prime, thing is, all of Barca and Real UCL wins, also copa america being like every 3 months and WC 2022 in Qatar, all of that was a clear push for the biggest stars to get their trophies. every year there is some match that is questionable referee calls...

​@@ST-tf4sqyeah..copa America every 3 month..sure mate.. keep on being salty

I would say players have become better tactically and become efficient , however the reason why people think old is better than new because of How open ended games used to be, now most games are very tactical and cagey

As someone watching both regional and top flight football i can say you this: No. VAR makes the game worse. You also can accept a bad call way better when there isnt a second referee using 5 minutes of our time and modern technology withseveral replays and angles and still make a bad call. The fact that people stay quite after a goal when there is even the slightest chance of something, somewhere, maybe, possibly wrong 5 minutes earlier is a death sentence. Either copy it from the sports that know how to do it (eg everyone else), including imposing a strict timelimit and assess the quality of refereeing or let it be. But since football officials are unable to not want to reinvent the wheel our best shot is getting rid of it.

​​@@LiftandCoaAccepting a bad call better without VAR? Nearly 38 years and Peter Shilton still can't accept a bad call without VAR...

I genuinely think the English press back then were just that stupid

Yeah, that conference statement sounded very clear

Excuse me? Then tell me what it was they understood that I don't if you think you know what he was saying.

The idea is that the press reporters are seagulls waiting for him to throw them metaphorical sardines, which he wasnt going to do. It's hard to know if that was intentional, but it makes sense. There is an irony in that his seagull speech was a massive news story though. @@TheEyeball37

Watching city win things is about as satisfying and authentic as watching a computer winning a chess match. Soulless and boring. That's not even counting the off field stuff.

Came to comment this myself. Had to run it back because I thought I was tripping. 🤣

Guardiola at Villa Park 💀💀💀

i just heard that and lost it 😂😂

You will probably see this video in 1-4 weeks now lol good stuff

Jack Guardiola 😅

I mean he was the greatest

Well, now Ronaldinho has overshadowed his football career in retirement after trying to circumvent a travel ban (his Spanish and Brazilian passports were confiscated for tax offences) by travelling with a fake Paraguayan passport to Paraguay. He sat 5 months in prison and house arrest for it, and IMO should have been convicted for it. But I guess "Rules for thee but not for me" does work because he was allowed to leave Paraguay completely unscathed. And THAT is not an April Fools Joke.

​@@bundesautobahn7Blud NOBODY thinks about his controversies before his actual quality 😐

Sorry mate but we have to go back 20 years to see Ronaldinho still in his prime. 15 years ago was 2009 😱

Who talks about the circumstances football is played in. People who are passionate about football still talk about the football games somewhat. Money and tranfers should not distract you between football game, when that would be weird, if it did distract you.😂

Backgammon was not on my bingo card of anticipated responses. Kudos to you good sir.

​@@lesbo37 if Alfie made a video about high-stakes backgammon it would be AMAZING! Brilliant comment by the op!

This is what's happening to baseball now its been effiencied down to the 3 true outcomes of walk strikeout or home run. It sucks but you can't really help modern analytics.

@@corbing7786 Juiced balls and perfectly groomed fields have a lot to do with that The 3 outcomes becomes less viable if the home runs become long fly balls and bunts and slow grounders become an adventure to field

Very interesting to read, my only hope is that while we feel close to a solved game of fitness and positional play, there will still be tactical geniuses waiting in the wings ready to reinvent peak football.

Nah, our youth peaked in 2006...I barely watch any football now, but I mostly blame my age

I was still 25/26 around that time, yeah I’m an old grumpy man now 😅😂

@@marko39383 your age is a shitty excuse , there’s 80 year olds that go to every match

​@@Lukemasonmedia and waste their time and money watching a corporate dance.

@@mohmmadnabeehasan4672 But they’re not miserable and bitter like yourself.

More like back then squads coaches gave their players more freedom to do what they wanted compared to today where you can't do what u want

Its the age of the internet, their are no secrets. In the past you needed to find someone that spent their days studying cwrtain tactics and revealing strategies. Nowadays their are no secrets so you cant get away with w6you could in the past. Just how all industries have affected, look at music. Everyone sounds the same, in my youth we had so many different sounding rappers and artists it was amazing

Agreed but i would put Edgar Davids out of that list tho, as he was a kinda well rounded player, probably one of the most well rounded of his generation. It's true that he was mostly known for his aggressive defense but he also got skills (unlike Gattuso). He gave the best as a cm but he also used to play winger early in his career, he was a good dribbler , could carry the ball up the field and had a deadly long shot too.

It’s rare to have real dribblers now. I can only think of Mitoma. And he uses his pace a lot, rather than feints.

You should look up a match Chile - Italy at the 1962 World Cup. The battle of Santiago. They have karate kicks, boxing, rugby tackles, a player removed from the pitch by the police. There's a video I'd recommend "Italy v Chile World Cup 1962 The Battle of Santiago" from a channel called broodje80. It has the reporter at the start questioning whether the World Cup can survive that match, calling it "the most stupid, disgusting exhibition of football in history". So... check it out! 😀

Every team is a Dutch bogey team

Holland also lost to Portugal on three other occassions that were significant: In late 2000, they lost 2-0 at home to Portugal in Wcup qualifying which proved decisive. They lost 2-1 in the Euro 2004 semi-final, and then 2-1 again at Euro 2012 in the group stage.

@@jammybizzle666 cap

@@hiranom20 the pain..

Acting as if there weren't 0-0's back in the day

@@arjunghanekar6140 Serie A at its peak had so many 0-0's and 1-0's yet no one was complaining like people are now lol

yea man there were no 0-0s or 1-0s in the prime of Serie A. nostaliga merchants are my least favorite brand of football fans

Shades of Spain-Russia in the 2018 World Cup

The Liverpool - Man City game last month was very good though, end to end and enjoyable. And as long as I’ve watched football, there have been good games and there have been bad games. The reality is yesterday we had two teams who were scared to lose, that has always happened too.

It's pretty obvious that Cantona is the trawler and the media are the seagulls. My interpretation was always that it was Cantona's way of saying, "You're only here to try and goad me into another controversy. I'm not going to give you that satisfaction. Goodbye."

Yeah and Brazil hasn’t won in what will be 24-25 years by next WC. All that hype and posturing only to get smoked….that’s really what lead to the shift

@@maseratimitch531 Brazil didn't get "smoked", you clown; it was just 1-0 to France (the finalists!) in the quarter finals. Bet you love an embellishment

That was not always true. Entertainment came first before there was this much money and financial stakes in the sport.

Funny how no one ever thinks about this. Coaches get sacked if they don't win. Obvious remedy is to create a system to get the players to win.

And let’s not forget that players are getting paid to do their job on the field. Part of that, is to do what their boss tells them to do. Freedom on the pitch is not given or earned, it is a privilege and coaches will only allow it as long as it fits within their philosophy and system. The rate at which your creative freedom on the pitch is allowed will depend on the high percentage of its output.

Je ne suis pas d'accord, la qualité technique de footballeurs à baisser.

Bielsa favors high-pressing, short-passing possession-based teams playing out of a fluid 3-4-3 or 4-3-3 formation. His training is high-intensity repetition of basic situations, such that no situation faced in a game will be entirely novel, allowing players to improvise within a fixed system. This is essentially an extension of the Michels-Cruyff system from Ajax and Barcelona (though Bielsa developed it from Argentine sources). It surprises me not one bit that Guardiola esteems him so. Other followers of Bielsa: Mauricio Pocchetino, Jorge Sampaoli, Tata Martinez, and Diego Simeone (though Simeone is far more defensive-minded than the others). Bielsa's downfall has always been the exhaustion of his team at the end of a season due to the intensity of his training and playing styles (usually with a small squad) -- and this you can definitely see with his Leeds teams. "If players were not human," he is said to have said, "I would never lose."

@@drs-xj3pb I agree, it's not surprising as Bielsa's Leeds were build on a mix of high fitness levels and being exceptionally well drilled on certain movements and passes - for example there were a lot of very similar goals scored in terms of the patterns of play that led to them. While it probably looked chaotic to someone who hadn't seen much of them it was extremely well organised but took a lot of calculated risks in the build up play and often shunned the more 'pragmatic' side of the game (e.g. continuing to attack with the same levels of risk rather than slowing the game down to hold onto a narrow lead) That said, I disagree completely on the exhaustion part (at Leeds anyway). Leeds were still going very strongly at the end of the second and third seasons under Bielsa. The year it fell apart was in part due to his insistence on having a small squad mixed with very inadequate PL recruitment from the DoF (outside of one or two exceptions). That and an injury crisis which saw them having a squad of about 9 fit senior players at one point and a bench in at least one match consisting entirely of a bunch of extremely inexperienced young players (the oldest being 21, the youngest being a 15 year old) who are now mostly league 1- national league players. You could point to the injury crisis as an example of exhaustion, but I don't think that's entirely fair as iirc it was the newer signings who were often the ones most frequently out injured alongside players with lingering issues from previous injuries. It was more the importance and positions of the injured players that caused problems; 3 CB's, 1 LB and 2 ST's, which exposed the lack of depth in other areas too with a lot of the squad having to play out of position to cover for absences (e.g Ayling at CB and Dan James as a striker), not fully fit when playing (Bamford, Rodrigo, Firpo) or simply not good enough for the premier league at that point in their career.

Yep. Same thing is happening in the actual world as well with every western country following in the steps of America (again, due to social media). Globalisation. Honestly reminds me of in the Bible when it speaks about how the “whole world” will all come to be doing the exact same things.

Yes I used to watch certain leagues play to see the different styles of play but now it just seems like I'm watching the same thing with a different name.

Chiellini said a few years ago how Italy had lost its style trying to copy Spain and Guardiola. Instead of realising the veracity of what he said, people mostly vented against him. Italy were much better when they played their fierce defend and break style.

Unfortunately everything has gotten universal. The early days of MMA used to be one martial art against another like boxing versus wrestling but now everybody practices the same things. Even cities have lost their own uniqueness. They have the exact same stores and restaurants that you can find anywhere. It’s pretty sad

​​​​@@pritapp788 Was italy really better because of their style of play or they just had better players? I do tend for the second one. Italy couldn't even manage to win a WC in their golden era and played awful football besides having a dream team. They managed to lose a WC besides having Baggio whose probably was the most talented italian player ever. On the other hand , in recent yearrs they were somehow able to win a European cup besides possessin one of the least talented squads ever.

Interesting points to ponder 👍🏽.

"The game also has too much cheating which slows the game down " Ain't no way you said that like the 00's and 90s didn't have that with the Catenaccio from Italian teams

Not that I'm disagreeing with you but Brazilians are still physically finished before they reach 30. And as a United fan i'd take the technically gifted Anderson or Nani over the more physically gifted Anthony if that guy even excels at anything. Carrick vs Mctominay - Skill vs Physicality. Dutch football from the 90's vs today. Sure they are fitter but my gawd total football was legendary. Sports science doesn't increase player skill and only benefits super disciplined players like Ronaldo or Ibra but you could argue that they are genetically superior to begin with. Didn't help Rooney. Neymar has also left the building.

@@paquinraino8180 yeah the cheating/diving is a major issue which i am dumbfounded there isnt done anything about. But it's always been like this, and has actually been worse before. Still, now that we have VAR, we definitely should focus on improving the referees to the point that they can use it to the fullest extent and go harsh on things like diving because it ruins the game

@@maciejbala477they have, there are cards for diving and time wasting now and there is more time added than ever before

When Neymar got booked a few years ago for doing skills perfectly illustrates what just said here

I do not really agree. Skills need to be effective. Ronaldinho for example was showing off while being effective and its the greatest thing I've ever seen! Richarlison and Anthony do skills for the sake of skills and it's only right to critique it.

There has to be a balance here. I may be speaking from a biased point of view, as a teenage football fan, but we can't pretend that the current tactical chess has become a bad idea. Recently i watched an "old school" Premier League game from the 90's and i was WIDELY surprised by the lack of quality. It was just throwing the ball long all the time, losing turnovers at the most dangerous areas. No... "La Pausa" as they call it now. Just throw, throw, kick, kick and rush. I didn't like it one bit. I mean, are those types of games the ones people are missing? Its one thing to be spineless and not try to attack, another to run like headless chickens for the goals.

​@@catmeowing4329nostalgia blinds people. we'll look back at games in 30 years from now and be astonished at the lack of proper initiative and positioning too.

That's just nostalgia bias. People complained about elite club football being nothing but "parking the bus" and athleticism all through the 2000s especially in the EPL. A lot of big games in the 2000s were absolute snoozefests, people talked about it constantly back then too. High stakes games like WC and UCL semis and finals used to have a reputation for being guaranteed to be cagey and boring but have been much more exciting lately, the 2018 and 2022 WC finals and SFs were some of the most exciting ever. The 1990, 1994, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 WC finals had 7 total goals between them and 4 red cards (should've been 5 for De Jong). It was 0-0 at full time in 1994, 2010 and 2014. Both the 2018 and 2022 final had more goals than 90/94/06/10/14 finals combined

​@@catmeowing4329well yh, same reason why it looks like players like ronaldhino or okocha are no more while it actually isn't true, it's that now you can't make those skills without big risk of losing the ball bc back then they gave so much space

@@catmeowing4329 Premier League in the 90's was shyte. Serie A and La Liga and maybe even Bundesliga were of superior quality as Premier League as English football was trying to recover from the 5 year European ban that was imposed onto English clubs because of what Liverpool fans did at Heysel.

You just saying BS just to say BS, there's still baller nowadays just like in any generation, you might not look at the right place

The thing that bothers me the most is how the players today suck at shooting the ball. Mbappe literally never scored a free kick in his life, Haaland has like maybe two goals from outside of the box in his career.

@@paquinraino8180 He watched the whole video and decided to ignore anything that was said.

​@@stefan5730well, maybe because almost no-one tries to score from direct free-kick nowadays?

​@@paquinraino8180 found the "just look in the right place" guy

It's the same with Riquelme with Villareal, week in week out

@@spacecamel2501 Riquelme is one of the best footballers to ever grace the planet, but English media will have people convinced they had better players lol

interesting

Watch Quang Hải - you will be amazed He is one of the few, top class, hyperexpressive ballers in the game - putting his art on the pitch against all top players from Asia and other teams for 8 years and counting. He is the reason why I watch Vietnamese football. Football is not just Premier League

Never heard anyone say this until recently

Wow

You either didn't watch football in the 2000s or you're just saying this to be different

The true star player of Trinidad & Tobago was Latapy, Ironically he hardly played in the world cup because we had to play boring football to survive. His style of play and age would have been a liability. The death of genius in the game.

@@ttvikingaming Russell Latapy is someone i only knew by name, so thanks for sharing

Never thought the person who made the upload of "Unavoidable Battle" I have been listening to for at the very least 8 years would be in one of Alfie's videos. I agree btw

@@Tougedrift Once in a while, I do peek in and leave a comment here, especially considering how long the sport has been a part of my life, haha. Usually when it relates to the Bundesliga or a German player in some shape or form (as a Werder Bremen fan, I really have been feeling that part of being priced out and then forced into risky gambles on the transfer market, as the early 10s have shown. I miss the years during which we got great players like Micoud for dirt cheap...).

Prices got out of hand because of private ownership. Billionaires and countries owning football clubs

@@colinodere7222 yeah. you get more and more clubs which just throw cash at problems, so everyone realizes they can demand more. Can just take a look at Chelsea under Boehly as a prime example and the prices they paid for players lol

@@segafreak2000When you said teams who gamble on transfers and end up falling away I immediately thought about Werder Bremen and in your next comment you say you are a Werder fan. Hope Werder can return where it belongs. Micoud,Diego,Ailton,Klose…just wow! Miss when “my” Bayern had Werder as they’re biggest rival and Thomas Schaaf on the bench. So many great memories come across.

One thing that annoyed me (and this started around 2010-ish) was slo-mo close up facial reactions, especially England during the 🇿🇦 WC. I don’t wanna see every bearded scruff close up shouting something or looking stupid open mouthed dumbfounded all because “Add drama”

@@simontravers2715 I think the first question in the job interview for camera director at football broadcasting is "do you like football?" And if the answer is no you are hired. 🤣

Same with the NBA, wonder which other sport.😂

That knowledge is out there though, nothing we can do about it now

Facts. The nostalgia argument is dismissive.

And gaming, dating, the economy, globalisation etc. People are sick of this new world and rightfully want tradition back.

This. Modern football requires that all players fullfill their role in the system at all times, or your team will lose because of your mistakes. Everyone is good at transitions, so ironing out mistakes is so, so important.

Very good point

Absolute 100% facts. The sport has become too mechanical and has kicked out naturalness & soul in the name of stats, probability, and mechanisms. If this football today was the football we grew up watching, we’d have never fallen in love with the sport.

Sums up modern football perfectly. It's a borefest.

Ye but when players don't play like fucking robots people complain bcuz football fans forget its a fucking game its meant to be entertaining at the end if the day winning shouldn't matter (to a certain extent)

Pep 😂😂 no way mate, Pep had 12 years or so without a UCL. It is literally impossible to ruin football as a single manager.

IMO the period between 07 and 15 was peak football simply because it wasn't either tactics-driven or individual brilliance, it was both. It should be both managers coaching players to efficiently do their job but also understand that those players are human beings...

Ward-Prowse should be in every England squad until he retires.

​@@ricaard6959When Pep went full system mode it killed the need for specialist players. Even deadball specialist since he's always gonna favour the short pass. So 😴

⁠@@ricaard6959this stuff makes me believe in the bibles end time prophecy 😂 the 07-15 era was so unbelievably blessed that we experienced the best before nwo comes in. See the super league prequel in the new champions league format.

It’s deeper than that the Messi cr7 era is ending. The sport is changing for the worse

I feel like it’s the era of billionaires rather than coaches

Football as entertainment

English teams are always overrated.

​@@user-fd3hd3yy3x How original

I get this is a joke, but it sounds like "everything started being bad when I stopped being a child"

​@@man4437That's all it is.

Everything went down hill after 1970

​@man4437 go watch Brazil from 80s 90s and mid 2000s and watch Brazil now 😅😅

@@carlosbarton763 Social Media. It sanitised the world of entertainment generally.

The thing is that quality was more spread around back in those days. Now you just have Man City, PSG, Bayern and Madrid, even Barcelona isn't that good. Before you Henry in Arsenal, Zidane in Madrid, Ronaldinho in Barcelona etc.

Sure recency bias exists but I don't remember a single person in the 90's or 2000's saying football had got worse. Not one person. Boxing in the 90's.... No one said it was better in the 1950's. Plus isn't it ironic that most of the modern players you named struggled early in the their careers when they weren't being picked over past greats. Even Modric played nearly 300 games before he even got to Madrid and became the player we love today. Kroo's has been a boss from the very beginning.

I mean, Modric and De Bruyne are great but when they are the best players of your generation yes the level has decreased... athletically and tactically it is better and because of that there's less space and time to think so there is less time to show or even invest in your individual quality. Saka is the prime example of that... the modern player, a good technically and athletic winger but with no magic to him in my opinion. Not that I wouldn't love to have him on my team, I would coz he does everything by the manual, protects the ball and all but really for his abilities there's a lack of magic, of taking people on or taking risks. Coz today you are not alloewed to lose the ball 5 or more times so one would only attack in a very favorable situation, otherwise just pass it back. I mean, Salah in my opinion is a bit worse than Figo and no one was claiming he Figo was the best of his generation even if he won a Ballon' dor (don't care much about the award). Across the entire world teams rarely if ever had 80% of the points in a season, a 90 point league season was an absolute gem, nowadays it is necessary to win the league and that's basically because the mid and botton table teams have gotten so much worse, talent is concentrated in fewer squads where their bench players would be starting for the 10th team in the league 20 years ago

It's true that every generation has their share of nostalgia. But there is a small point to be made about football getting worse. Think of the champions league line up of teams in say between 2000 and 2006. Each team had a rich stock of technically gifted players. As someone pointed out above, the talents were spread out. Today it's concentrated in small teams. Today there is no Man Utd player that can be nominated as the player of the season. No AC milan or Barça player can contend for European player of the year. Gone, it seems, are the days when a Champions League night featured Nedved, Shevchenko, Pirlo, Kaka Trezeguet, Figo, Zidane, Zanetti, Samuel, Maldini, Raul, Henry, Nistelroy, Lampard, Gerrard, Cannavaro, Campbell, Pires, Cole, Ronaldinho, Deco, Seedorf, Makalele, Gattuso,Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Cafu, Nesta, Carlos, Ballack, Rui Costa, etc. Maybe because we watch more games now and watch more clips. But there seemed to be an aura around those people back then that we don't have now.

Quality was more spread around in the 2000s...even "lesser" teams had surprisingly skilled stars like DiNatale. The game back then was much more direct so there were naturally more changes in possession even when the other team was defending for dear life.

Right. You never see young stars really making it anymore. It’s always a player who was in the shadows till he was 21-23 years old who comes onto the scene and is now the best.

​@@FullyOnVolksMbappe, Bellingham, Wirtz, etc. The problem is you don't know which young players will succeed until they already have. There are good young players now who might fizzle out, and others who will live up to expectations, but we don't know who yet.

Russia 2018 was better, Brazil 2014 was so much better Qatar was poop

qatar had the best group stage and knockout games .Its not even a debate@@uriustosh

For sure, your first world cup is always the best! Espana 82 for me 😂❤

@@uriustosh ehhhh Everyone has their opinions. 2006 Germany was probably the more entertaining to watch due to level of players that were competing at the time. A lot of legends played their last World Cup in 2006.

Nah! I think u are the one who has been pooping alot since Dec the 18th event in Qatar.I can easily tell a salty mourner almost 2 yrs on lol! Cope son,we feel ur pain.

"People bringing in politics" eh? Just to remind you, people's existence (and persecution for existing) isn't politics- it's something that has been *politicised* for the sake of attempting to suppress the fact. ;)

Bringing in politics into football has happened for as long as you can think though, lol. It's not a recent thing at all. Why do you think one of the very first world cups went to Italy, for example? Or why Argentina or Spain were allowed to hold one despite dictatorship circumstances in both of these countries at the time (though by the time it happened in Spain, that one had fallen already, more that there was one when they were picked).

@@alexisauld7781 Not THAT kind of "politics". I'm talking about local and global governance, that kind of politics. What you're talking about is common human decency, which I think shouldn't even need to be debated about whether people of different backgrounds should be allowed to be left alone and be comfortable with who they are. I'm talking about politics like how Saudi is trying to "sports wash" it's contentious history by hosting the World Cup and pretending to be a fully civilized nation.

@@segafreak2000 I know, that's why I made the point its more on the nose nowadays. Like Saudi hosting an upcoming World Cup.

@alexisauld7781 just to remind you that social issues have always been political in nature

Lol, I'd take that 0-0 over getting piped by city any day of the week 😂😂😂

Im a City fan and that was a result i would take

That wasn't the point, now was it, ​@@abasudoh7459? 😑

That's just one match. I remember a match when I was younger, in my country's championship, I think it was in 2000 or around that time, it was such a beautiful match in that, absolutely nothing happened, none of the teams had any shots on goal, in fact, I don't remember them having shots towards the goal. 90% of the match was played at the midfield, just slow, lazy passing on a spring day, you could see that the players weren't in the mood... that was it. It was the most uneventful match I've ever seen. So you can't really draw conclusions based on 1 match.

@@abasudoh7459 maybe because you are arsenal fan but for neutrals no, city had like 75% possession in the 2nd half and didn't register a single shot on target (only 3 shots taken and hardly any touches in the opposition box) I'm all in for the "technical aspects" of the game to improve football and i know football is not only about goals but there's a sense of excitement when the ball is in the opposition box, football is also about making risky last man tackles, having amazing counterattacks, taking shots and missing them by inches, line breaking through balls but yesterday it was just 2 teams playing too safe take the example of united vs liverpool in the fa cup, it was a complete chaos, after united's 2nd goal there were no tactics those types of games make people love football

29:50 Morten Gamst Pedersen at Blackburn, Bolton was amazing to watch back then and the magic of Arsenal vs the more aggressive Manutd.

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We believe in you

Yes! Still going strong!

Uwe Rosler?

Why? No way a stat is the worst thing to ever happen to football.

@@user-fd3hd3yy3x the stat - no The obsession over it - absolutely yes. Quote by Bill Russell: “The only important statistic is the final score.”

@@user-fd3hd3yy3x I didn't say the stat was the problem, I said the obsession over it was. Just look at the ridiculous nonsense Poch said last week that Chelsea should be 4th because of the statistics. They are 4th on xG but every other stat has them at mid table or worse, it's weapons grade nonsense. To quote Bill Russell: “The only important statistic is the final score.”

@@jbbresers Thats just a coach being delusional.