Personally like all avenues of the game though, sometimes the dirty gritty side is cool tbh.
Yeah you belong in the Serie A school of catenaccio, your football hipster quiz result would read as this (borrowed from the quiz):
"You say Italian teams in an Italian accent, love stories of tactical innovations of the 1950s and prefer a well-executed lateral five-yard pass to a 30-yard screamer into the top corner"
continued top 4 my friend! Also is anyone here a fan of their team before the game?
Tbh I agree with Jam. I'd rather see a solid defensive performance than a high-goal scoring game- and by that I don't mean a drab 0-0 draw with 3 shots between the teams on target; I mean cagey 1-0 and 2-1 wins where teams defend and attack well. I'm more of a pragmatist than a purist tbh.
Yeah you belong in the Serie A school of catenaccio, your football hipster quiz result would read as this (borrowed from the quiz):
"You say Italian teams in an Italian accent, love stories of tactical innovations of the 1950s and prefer a well-executed lateral five-yard pass to a 30-yard screamer into the top corner"
I took the football quiz and it said that I don't know what a false 9 is because I didn't want to watch malmo vs whatever.
Firstly it was originally invented in the 1930s by switzerland but got popular in italy in the 60s.
Funnily enough, I am a big football hipster though and know loads about football history.
'Inverting the pyramid' from Jonathan Wilson is a superb book to read on the beach this summer mate, really traces the history of tactics since the year dot
Apparently Fabregas may want to move back to Arsenal. It might just be transfer BS but a midfield of Fabregas, Ozil, Ramsey, Cazorla, Wilshire, Flamini would be ridiculously good :|
Aguero and Henry aren't really too far apart from each other tbf.
I can see the arguments for each person.
Henry has won everything there is to win in club & international football, had been consistently world class for a decade, spearheaded the attack of the greatest ever team in the PL era, and had the ability to both create goals and score goals from either flank, as a striker or as a center forward. You are talking about one of the most intelligent and most complete players to ever grace the Premier League and comparing him to an injury-prone, bit-part player who has yet to achieve anything Henry did. Compare him to Henry after 5 or so years and I guarantee you this will not even be up for debate.
As for Vela over Pires, lol, Pires in his prime was regarded as probably one of the best natural wingers in the world. There was a reason Madrid wanted him before Figo.