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The Spanish Brendan Rodgers.
He’s a good coach but he can’t manage his squad well when it matters.
Terrible at transfers as well. They’ve been through 4 keepers, spent 40m on Jesus who can’t finish, and 65m on Havertz who can’t play midfield or striker at a decent level.
Spending 160m on your midfield just to make it worse is quite an accomplishment.
Notice that Saka starts to pull up there, right at the last second.
This is what I was talking about with these tacticos, they think football is played on paper and don't understand the mental side of the game, and probably never will.
Late in the game muscle memory
It was a true win for real football last night. All this tippy tappy zonal triangle passing juego de position bollocks blown away by some mentality and will to win.
That guy is not a "tactico". He is just mentally retarded.
It’s why I loved watching Messi in his prime, no amount of formations, styles, tactics would work. Just pure natural talent and mentality overriding all game plans.
This is one of the funniest things. They could have just made Emi Martinez number one and they'd be in a much better position.
They've probably never been to a match in their lives. Can't sit at home pretending you know everything and have a strong opinion on the game if you never actually go to a stadium and watch matches, of any team.
Better team on paper is debatable anyway. Kimmich, Goretzka, Kane, Neuer, Musiala, Davies all definitely start for Woolwich - argue the likes of Sane if you want. They're pretty even teams in terms of quality with Bayern having more depth.
I never understood why our fans thought they'd easily beat Bayern. They have zero top level European experience in that team, the Porto tie showed that. Tuchel is a much better coach in knockout situations, his record there is excellent.
Bayern have under-performed this season and then fell off a cliff when they realised Leverkusen had it won ... but they have quality throughout. Woolwich also have quality but most of their players are inexperienced, tiring and not 100% focused due to fighting still on two fronts. This was always Bayern's to lose.
It's because Bayern have been playing like a load of dogs in the Bundesliga and have been under performing this season so on paper it looked like Woolwich were stronger.
Or never replaced Bernd Leno with Aaron Ramsdale. These guys had both Martinez and Leno and now they have Raya and Ramsdale. Insane.
Not really. Most of this season they have been absolutely fine in terms of points. But Leverkusen have a freak season which make Bayern look worse than they are.
Yes really, they've been turd in the the Bundesliga and Levverkusen having a freak season doesn't take away from the fact that Bayern have been poor, if you actually watch them they play at such low intensity and as a group they have much more off days than Leverkusen.
True but never really thought it would apply to the CL. Different approach entirely, the players who have lost interest in the Bundesliga will be up for it in Europe. Tuchel prefers knockout games as well. And the experienced core they have know these occasions.