Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 35493438)

more prove zonal marking never works a zone has never ever scored a goal players do mark players not zones simple

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35493424)

The process that led to the current Barcelona generation pre-dates Guardiola's stint as manager and actually dates back to when he was a player at the club under Rijkaard and Louis van Gaal. That's when Barcelona decided to focus a lot on their youth players. This was in large part to their upper management included their President, Laporta. All this sort of started in 2002 and since then they focused a lot more on their academy and ensuring players like Inestia were considered the future of their team as opposed to big, strong, fast players.

Guardiola arrived as the first generation of this new era Barcelona team came to their peak. However it was the product of 10 years of work. He had all that going for him as well as a bigger budget in a less challenging league.

I think he is still a great manager. His team play good football and it takes a certain strength to cope with the pressure he was under. You may have the best players in the world but you still need to manage them. However we have no idea how Guardiola will do outside Barcelona, a team he knew well, a culture he understood and the organisation he grew up in.

Importantly we haven't seen how he would cope in a set-up and scenario that would meet him at Arsenal. He has one real job in management and it wasn't one that had the challenges he would face in England or at Arsenal.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35493424)

Remember it's not playing how he wants. It's playing how Barcelona want. The kids in the youth team are taught to play in that way from the day they join. You can't export that style of play and impose it on other players. Arsenal want to do the same, Wilshere being our best product of that system so far, but it's difficult.

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 35493455)

that was a decent team goal. 2 nil. Giroud. its starting to come together again!

Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK (Post 35493457)

Wenger for president now?

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 35493455)

that was a decent team goal. 2 nil. Giroud. its starting to come together again!

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35493472)

Think we might lose this game...

Originally Posted by colin25 (Post 35493518)

Aquero needed that, been disappointing this season