AS Roma 3- 0 Barcelona (4-4) Roma goin through

r reading some of the comments:

So AS Rome are minions, Bayern suck, Madrid have faded and that club from Liverpool (not Everton) were not even supposed to be in the semis - WTF?
I guess the winners of this year will it be by accident...


Barca were first sloppy and then paralysed - happened to other great teams too.
Bayern were always one of the big ones over the last roughly ten years.
Real has won the last (and thus as first team ever) titles for a reason.
And ManCity is a blender team. Pep has always choked in the big games.

Back at Barca he had more or less the Spanish team of their golden era, plus Messi, and tiki-taka was new to the world.


But now he had completely different teams, football has evolved and developed tactics to counter tiki-taka, he had no longer Messi (=> an out-standing players who either can carry a team, or can make the difference).

Dr. Müller-Wohlfahrt, who was and is again, the chief medical of Bayern Munich expressed in a recent interview that this man has no idea of medicine.
That was one reason why he made M-W quit, and why his teams fail at the end of the season. The German press calls it the spring-fatigue...the players - maybe not all - pay (now) the tribute to the demanding style of Shittyola's interpretation of football.
Furthermore he always failed to adapt his tactics, or provide his teams with a new approach.
When Klopp saw that his team is on the road to lose not only the game, but maybe even the qualification for the next round, he adjusted his tactics and he was able to transfer his idea to the pitch - means the players were able to grasps, as a whole, what he had in mind, and why he had it in mind - and it worked. It was a team effort.

I think that is one pivotal characteristics of a great coach. But like in the case of a conductor, this part of the work has to be done long before the game has begun, and the audience does not see it.
To implement Plan B, C, D or a mixture or only some adjustment so that the players can apply these tactics: every single player, the particular units of the team - defence, midfield, attack, and last but not least the entire team as whole, as an army of one. To train this, to print it into the minds of the players, one needs not only time and the selection of the right players, but also an approach to teach this idea so that it is understood.
A coach must also be a good teacher or professor.

Imho Shittyola fails in all this. He has HIS idea of football, he demands tons of money to buy those players he deems best for his style, and then he goes on full attack mode from day one no matter what.
In the later stage the team is worn out, the major opponents have adapted and developed counter strategies, and the real Juggernauts can even beat his style or even enforce their style on him, and in this very moment he lacks Plan B, C, D...etc. pp. and he is helpless. Unlike Klopp or Co. he can't opt for a new approach for his players have none...in the worst case they try something on their own and the result is a total collapse for they do it on their own, detached from the rest of the team, and this is deadly against revered teams on CL-level.

He is a scam, a one hit wonder at best.