Stuart Robson
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But teams kept on getting caught offside and ran too early.
Now teams are looking at it and coaches are looking at it and saying, this is easy to break down.
We only have to play first time, balls in behind them, front players, don't make your run until the ball's played.
We can hit switches of play and get on the big diagonal.
And they're not doing it as well.
So I think their philosophy is totally wrong and teams are finding ways to go past it so easily.
He's got everything you want from a wide player.
There's a lot of good wide players playing throughout Europe at the moment and he's one of those players that can go past people down the outside.
He showed he's got a right foot as well because he's a left-footed player when he runs with it, scores with his right foot.
He's got that bit of pace and he looks an intelligent footballer as well.
Quite a lot of players that dribble with the ball, do it at the wrong times, they run into defenders.
It looks as though he's got a bit of that football intelligence as well.
They've got to get it right at some point.
they're not going to be... They will have to play as energetically as they did today, but they can't make that early mistake, because they could have gone one down today with that first pass, and they won it in midfield, Barcelona and Ferran Torre should have scored.
If they did that against Arsenal and Arsenal score, then they're up against it.
So they've got to make sure in that first 20 minutes they try and dominate Arsenal in terms of their intensity, and I would say get the ball into the front areas that little bit quicker, and don't give Arsenal a chance to go and press it.