Ovo je dobar blog koga interesira. Frajer je bas sve dobro napisao, posebno 8 i 9. Isto se nadam da je dobro pogodio i broj 13.
Sa http://www.runofplay.com/2010/07/09/thirteen-world-cup-theses/
1) Nobody plays “total football” any more, so please
stop referring to it unless you are providing helpful historical
context. Even if you call it Totaalvoetbal, teams would get
slaughtered if they tried it against modern tactical sides.
2) The current Dutch team aren’t the
“heirs” of anything except perhaps the drills created and overseen by
coaches and trainers at Ajax’s football academy.
3) I love Wesley Sneijder, but he has
been amazingly lucky in this World Cup.
4) If Dirk Kuyt could run faster than my
mother, he might well be the best player in the world.
5) Nobody has said anything about this
World Cup smarter than Jonathan
Wilson’s comment that “Formations are one thing, their employment
something else.” What matters is not how the players are deployed on the
whiteboard, but how they deploy themselves in conditions of stress or
opportunity.
6) Much has been made, in some quarters,
of the passing accuracy of the Spanish midfielders, especially Xavi and
Xabi Alonso (and in the Germany match Busquets).
And it is remarkable, and worthy of praise. But here’s the key thing:
in the Spanish offense there’s always someone to pass to. You
can’t have a high percentage of completions if you’re regularly trying
to pass to tightly marked teammates.
7) Thus the key stat about Xavi in the
Germany match was not his high number of passages and high completion
percentage, but the fact that he ran
farther than any other player: he continually moves to open spots on
the pitch to receive passes—and his teammates do the same.
8 ) It’s this circulatory movement that
makes Spain so efficient; but while the constant weaving and unweaving
is mesmerizing to some, it is boring
and frustrating to others. But the way Spain plays bears no
resemblance to Coldplay’s music, okay? Random associations of things you
vaguely dislike do not rise to the dignity of metaphor.
9) Spain always plays the ball to the
open spot on the pitch; if the open spot on the pitch is not close to
the goal, then alas. They just don’t make chancy passes: the
low-percentage opportunity, seized in a moment of insightful ambition
(if it works) or thoughtlessness (if it doesn’t). Sooner or later, the
Spanish players think, space will open in a position from which we can
attack, and when that happens we’ll be clinical.
10) But of course against well-organized
defenses that opening will indeed happen later rather than sooner,
which accounts for the Spanish scorelines: 0-1, 2-0, 2-1, 1-0, 1-0, 1-0
(with the goals in those last three matches scored at the 62nd, 82nd,
and 72nd minutes respectively).
11) Meanwhile, as long as Spain have the
ball . . . you know where I’m going with this. Possession percentages
in Spain’s matches: 67%, 66%, 59%, 62%, 62%, 61%. Chile has been the
only team to hold the ball more than 39% of the time.
12) All this said, the Dutch don’t need
as many chances as most teams do: one moment of individual brilliance
from Sneijder or Kuyt or Robben or Van Persie (who looked good, for
once, against Uruguay) or even van Bronckhorst can disrupt the Spanish
plan. If they get behind, the Spaniards will almost certainly maintain
their patience—but that might work against them as time wears on.
13) The prediction, then: a relatively
early (first half-hour) goal from Robben; Spanish tiki-taka for
much of the next hour; finally, when Spain begins to push harder than
usual, a counter-attack and another Dutch goal. Spain will pull one back
late, but in the end the Dutch will win 2-1, and Spain’s chief
consolation and frustration will be its highest possession percentage of
the tournament.
“Kam hit this tight end SO HARD, I swear I saw that TE’s soul leave Qwest Field right on that 35 yard line.”
osim ako noć prije nije malo popio, onda mu se vrti u glavi i baca netočne prognoze.
