Gab Marcotti

Because I can make a counter argument.

You tell me.

Yeah.

Because my counter argument would be, as I mentioned, Arsenal don't really do that.

I mean, they can, but Arsenal are much more multifaceted.

It's not at the heart of the game, right?

Barcelona, in theory, they press, but they also play a very high line because of it.

They take a lot of chances.

They also...

Barcelona have, certainly La Liga, they have such a talent advantage against anybody else that you can generally get away with it and you can outscore people.

And we have been saying, obviously, you can see tons at the back.

Real Madrid don't really do anything, but...

Based on how Bayer Leverkusen played last year, they don't do this obsessively in the same way Reinders teams do.

Liverpool, you could argue they're somewhere in between.

Certainly this season, they've gone in a different direction as they turn it around, packing the midfield.

Is this Pep saying, hey, I want to have, we've seen this before, right?

I want to have a different opinion around me.

But is this right?

See, this would have made a lot more sense to me if he had the defenders that he had a couple of years ago when it was basically, you know, four centre-backs.

When he lined up that way by choice, when Virgil was playing left-back and Kyle Walker was playing right-back and you had two centre-backs, you know,