Jonathan Wilson

They can just accumulate all the best players there.

And then in the domestic leagues, they never have to bother defending.

So they don't actually know how to defend them.

There's no midfields.

There's no toasted oats, if you will.

It's all too much of one thing.

And then maybe if Manuel Neuer had actually been tested at all in the Bundesliga this season, they'd have noticed that he's too old and they should have been got rid of years ago.

He had an awful night.

He was terrible.

So it was brilliant, but it was sort of a hollow brilliance, I felt.

But that's where it's the coach's job to create a situation where the fullbacks aren't isolated, to make sure you always have cover there so they can't get in front of you.

I mean, getting the balance right is what coaching is.

It's not even just that that's the gamble they've taken.

It's almost the gamble they have to take because the truth is in the domestic league, and I know Lance have pushed PSG relatively close this season, but I mean, Bayern had the one...

I mean, mathematically two or three weeks ago, but in reality in about November.

And so they never get to practice that.

So if you suddenly ask, it's like when England used to go to a World Cup and, oh, it's going to be hot, we're going to have to pass the ball.

And England had no idea how to do it and therefore were hopeless.

Don't ask players to do a thing they haven't done all season.

So you might as well attack because that is what you're good at.