Jonathan Liew
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
rebalances the game to a huge extent.
You're playing a kind of different game because your only real option against that is to defend in numbers, which is obviously what most League One teams do.
It's what most Bundesliga teams do against Bayern when they come up against Bayern.
Having multiple players of that quality, and there's actually not that many.
If you think about players who you can't leave one-on-one,
There's maybe like two dozen who in that situation will almost inevitably get a shot away or create a big chance.
And once you have multiple players of that quality, it does make a completely different game because you are then forcing the opposition to really almost change the way that they want to set up.
Yeah, it was a bit harsh.
It was a bit harsh.
I don't have a huge amount more to say than that.
Kane thought that Bayern had enough chances to make the game safe early on, which I think raises an interesting question.
How many goals would you have needed to make that game safe?
I still think Paris will do it.
But Bayern will definitely go into that game.
They will believe that, you know, in front of a home crowd, that if they can get an early goal, certainly that they can...
You know, they can overturn that, you know, and I think the belief in that team that we saw at 5-2 down is that whatever you score, we'll just score one more.
You score 12, we'll score 13.
And, you know, that can be incredibly powerful, an incredibly powerful belief when you're chasing a game.
But as Barcelona discovered against Inter last season, it could also be a kind of...
because teams are always finding ways to cut you open and you can never really put a game to bed.