Late Tackle

WIN, LOSE OR SNORE

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
15 August 2012

Critics of Spain’s tika-taka style have branded it boring. For ALEX KEBLE that’s tantamount to blasphemy…

SO here are the stats: 65.2 per cent possession, 4,506 passes made with 88.5 per cent completed, 16.7 shots per game with seven on target, 8.3 shots against them per game with only one goal conceded. And yet people still moan that the World and European Champions are ‘boring’.
Barcelona’s and Spain's unparalleled 21st century successes has revolutionised football tactics, creating, developing and instigating a new philosophy that has outrigh...

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