I've watched Pep sides especially when they have Rodri and prime KDB or even Kovacic they break up the game with dozens of cynical fouls, they control and move the football with loads of precise one twos, they are the poorest comparison there is with Angeball.
They rest often and tire the oposition with the ball, it's not all hundreds of runs in field to find the next overload. They do not play football like us. That's point one. Point two Klopps hard running Gengen pressing team is out of date even he had moved on. They were much more controlled at the end, choosing when and in which third they press.
I said this ages ago Ange is actually arrived late to a party his style is old and the game has moved on. Its applying his beliefs in a much more controlled way. I know you will not accept it, but I firmly believe it. I think it is very evident if watch the teams. It's also a mark of how Sharp Arne Slot is, he's taken it even further.His Liverpool are patience and wait resting before executing the press. It's less all action.
It's funny but it's another reason I don't think swaping Ange for a younger more savy coach will be as bad as some think. Ange is an old dog who learn his trick and hasn't realised disco is dead. We don't stop...not the cure all he thinks.
So by all means you can wave Pep and Klopp and say but they press too! But I don't accept in any way that this means what you believe it too. Pressing is a much abused notion in modern fandom, it can and is applied in myriad ways.
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