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Originally Posted by Ceceves
Of course, you can't help but notice that  . But I remember Kaká saying two years ago (when asked how come Milan ruled the CL but sucked in Serie A - it wasn't quite phrased like that!) that Milan struggled in the Serie A because most teams played with 10 men behind the ball, while in the CL the teams tried to attack, leaving more space for Milan. |
Actually, the Chelsea-Barcelona game is a good example of the variation between our teams:
Chelsea played a kind of Catenaccio
but they attacked anyway, at start it was just with Drogba (so it was of course hard for Barcelona to counter-attack as there were a 9-man-defence + the GK), and progressively, more players from Chelsea tried to attack, but Barcelona didn't manage to counter-attack quickly even there.
What would have happened with us ? We would have maybe struggle to counter-attack quickly, so we would have given the ball to Pirlo to allow him to launch a run by one of our fast players (Kaka', Pato nowadays) with long balls.
And it's what Kaka' says: when a team in CL plays a 10-man-defence, they end by trying to score with more players and open spaces because to qualify in CL, you need to score goals. In Serie A, when a team decides to play a 10-man-defence against us, they have no problem to do it for 90 minutes as a 0-0 is a good result against a team like Milan ...