⚽️ FIFA WORLD CUP : 2018 - RUSSIA ⚽️ ഭൂഗോളമാകെ ഫുട്ബോൾ ലഹരിയിൽ ⚽️

maradona okke vere level aanu bro...Messi onnum athrem varilla

 

Disagree with you bro..to me messi and ronnie is above maradona. They r more consistent and technically superior. Maradona has international glory, while CR7 and messi is too big in terms of club football.

 

Germanyil bayern influence oru factor aan..guardiola has made german football more horizontal and possession oriented. That played a part in their downfall. i think.

 

Little would please the traditionalists of English football more than the downfall of the tiki-taka movement that revolutionised the game through Pep Guardiola's Barcelona and a world-dominating Spain a decade ago.

A year after Barcelona passed their way to the treble, Spain won their first ever World Cup by playing their opponents off the park with near total control of the ball. The basic idea was: 'If you have possession, the opposition cannot score'. And it worked.

These were two of the best and most successful sides in recent memory. It was little surprise that they - and Guardiola in particular - inspired others to follow suit.
A year into Pep's reign at Bayern Munich, after his side had won the Bundesliga title losing only two games, Germany were at it in on the world stage. They romped to World Cup glory with the lion's share of possession.

But at this year's World Cup it has been a different story. Just like when Leicester won the Premier League, possession has not been king.
Three teams averaged more than 65 per cent possession in the group stage: Spain (72.8 per cent), Germany (72.0 per cent) and Argentina (67.8 per cent). All three struggled.

Spain finished top of Group B, but scarcely deserved to, and could easily have ended up crashing out, so troubling have they found all three of their games.

Germany, of course, did go out at the group stage, after defeats to Mexico and South Korea in which they were hit ruthlessly on the break.

And Argentina were five minutes away from elimination before Marcos Rojo proved their unlikely saviour against Nigeria.

For each side, relentless possession, aimed at wearing their opponents down by tiring them out, became passive passing. Where they wanted incisive passing-and-moving they produced ponderous football.
Credit where it's due to the teams they faced. Morocco gave Spain a real scare, while Iceland caused Argentina all kinds of problems with just 22 per cent of the ball, and South Korea killed Germany's World Cup hopes with a similar share of possession. These performances follow a discernible 2018 World Cup pattern.

In the 48 group stage games, there were 14 instances of a team recording more than 65 per cent possession in a match. Of those 14, only five won the game.

What's more, of those five, three - Germany against Sweden, Brazil against Costa Rica and Argentina against Nigeria - required a winning goal after the 85th minute. Two of them needed an injury-time winner.
Another of those games saw Spain scrape to a 1-0 win against Iran, while the fifth match in which a team won with more than 65 per cent of the ball was Tunisia against Panama on Thursday night. And we know a great deal about the limitations of that Panama team, don't we?

So, what can we glean from this?

Well, let's not start suggesting that teams like Spain should start lumping the ball up the pitch when they face Russia on Sunday.

But perhaps they should recognise that this group of players is rather more limited than their predecessors. Germany's 2018 squad were patently incapable of matching the intensity that their 2014 bunch had maintained in Brazil. Lesser opponents have woken up to that fact.

Deep-set defences are getting better at staying narrow and disciplined for an entire 90 minutes, and the result is that teams that slow the game down, probing for an opening, struggle to ever find a way through. As patience wears thin and they commit more men forwards, they leave themselves open to counter-attacks.

The truth is, there is no team in Russia anywhere near as complete as the winner of either of the last two tournaments. And so death by passing is no longer as effective a means of attack. Spain and Argentina could do with mixing things up a little as the tournament progresses.

 

Hmm kandayirunnu...

 

Maradona kalichath onumallatha napoliyilum messi n rono lokathw eatavum mikacha clubilumaanu avideyum diff und.. Pinne wc il arkumillatha melkai und.. Messi or maradona nu chodichal njan kuzhangipokum.. Enik athinu utharamilla..

Pakshe messikum ronokum illatha onnund.. Knock out stagile goal athum verum goalalle historyile thanne eatavum mikacha goal..

 

@Anand Jay Kay

Messid eofficial news vallom undo.. Midfiled ilek vannal pushpam pole next wc full time kalikamalo...

 

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