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– What is playing well?
An answer, only one, does not exist, because there is an answer in every look and head that sees a game and if the question were for the beauty, more logical of this type we would have to inject. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the phrase is made and known, but it is said in the language most listened to and consumed, by definition, in movies, series and everything else. In English, the language spoken in the Premier League, the most mediatic, spectacular and talented championship per square meter there is, much because of the names it has.
This Saturday, two of those names met for the 24th time and again. They don’t even play, but they work and decide who and how to play. That “how” has always been what separated them the most every time their teams collided on the field and history grew old and the past was closely linked, especially from the moment one of these coaches left for Spain.
José Mourinho played Real Madrid and did his part to ignite the rivalry with Barcelona, from which Pep Guardiola would emerge exhausted, tired and dilapidated by erosion. Their lives were prolonged until they ended up in England, the two more serene and pacified in relation to their Spanish versions, which, along with other sensations, began to hit two in particular: the Portuguese got the aura of defensive football, boring, little creative and pragmatic (whatever it is); the Spanish with the representation of the game of position, of wanting to have the ball at all times, of playing it with few touches and of the vertigo of attack.
They weren’t the only collages: Mourinho took the ugly football label and Guardiola the attractive game label. When you play it good or bad, the beautiful or ugly game is in the eye of the beholder. They are forms, they are not absolute truths.
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Again, there was another reunion between José and Pep this Saturday. Tottenham, trained by the Portuguese, beat the Spaniard’s Manchester City 2-0 and the victory had a relevant practical effect: the London club jumped to the top of the Premier League where they had not slept a night since 2014. But they immediately became polarized What happened.
Tottenham only managed two shots on goal, finished with 33% possession of the ball, and built on compact defensive organization, quick starts for attack and offensive transitions with precise and worked movements. Manchester City wanted to handle the game with the ball, they had few ideas with it and were permeable when losing it and had to deal with an opponent who wanted to use it fast.
On the basis of stereotypes attached to both, it would be written that the ugly overcame the beautiful, as if a newspaper and a journalist could predict.
There is universally commendable greatness in De Bruyne, Agüero, Sterling, Bernardo Silva or Gündongan, and in Kane, Son, Lo Celso, Højbjerg or Ndombélé, but each eye has a look and behind all of them there is a particular sense of what is play good. , or bad. Manchester City lost to Tottenham and it was not a defeat from the beautiful game to the ugly game. What happened was the victory of one way of playing football against another.
It was also the first time that José Mourinho won two consecutive meetings with Pep Guardiola, which means nothing beyond the immediate consequences it causes. The London team returned to the top of the English league that they had not reached in six years and the Portuguese coach also returned with him, but without a victory of the good against the bad, the beautiful against the ugly or the outdated Against the vanguards.
There are preferences on how one likes to watch and enjoy soccer and each one will have their own, when many people seem to appreciate certain patterns of soccer or the same way of playing, they tend to have them as archetypes of the good. and beautiful, but if you are trying to answer a question that with forced labor for objectivity when all this is subjective, then the answer should be only one:
– I dont know.
