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Tiki Taka Liverpool?

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doctor_mac

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How can we make it work? It seems to me that Tiki Taka relies upon having brilliant offensive players to break the opposition as Tiki Taka almost invites opponents to park the bus. We couldn't solve that problem last year, so how will we next season?
 
doctor_mac said:
How can we make it work? It seems to me that Tiki Taka relies upon having brilliant offensive players to break the opposition as Tiki Taka almost invites opponents to park the bus. We couldn't solve that problem last year, so how will we next season?
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I just touched on this in the other thread. I don't think we tried tika taka last season at all, we seemed to revert to type, throwing everything at sides without any kind of patience or subtlety. People pointed to all the shots on goal etc, but the truth of it was we weren't really creating many clear cut one on one chances. I'm hoping Rodgers is a alot more measured in his approach, with more focus on building moves and creating openings, as we did in the latter half of 2010/11 season.

At the end of the day though the truth will be in the personnel, we need quality to stretch teams AND to open them up AND to finish them off. A winger, a creator and a forward, as we all know.
 
So sick of the phrase 'tika taka'

Its about as annoying as teh fucking Meerkat shit.
 
Tiki tika relies heavily on clever movement as well as clever passing.

We were bloody rubbish at both last year
 
Tiki-taka

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Tiki-taka (commonly spelled tiqui-taca in Spanish; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtiki ˈtaka] ) is a style of play in association football, characterised by short passing and movement, working the ball through various channels, and maintaining possession. The style is primarily associated with La Liga club FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team under managers Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque, whose national squads have featured Barça players.
 
it's funny , i used to really like watching barca and the spain team a few yrs ago , the possession football and some of the goals were great to watch . But now surprisingly i find it really boring at times .

anyway barcelona didn't invent pass and move or nice football so yeah we can adapt some aspects of it but also put our own in place to use the players we have to try and play decent stuff .
 
I have both Tiki-Taka Bellend and Tappa-Tappa Bellend in my xperteleven team.

I call them the Bellend brothers...
 
For all the hype with Barca, they're very reliant on having the best player in the world to score goals and assists. Last season it was something ludicrous like 80 goals he either scored or assisted (or more, was it?)

When he wasn't on it, Barca found it difficult to break teams down, despite having 70% possession. We don't have Messi, or anyone approaching that level. So how is it going to work for us?
 
doctor_mac said:
For all the hype with Barca, they're very reliant on having the best player in the world to score goals and assists. Last season it was something ludicrous like 80 goals he either scored or assisted (or more, was it?)

When he wasn't on it, Barca found it difficult to break teams down, despite having 70% possession. We don't have Messi, or anyone approaching that level. So how is it going to work for us?
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I don't think we're looking to solely replicate what Barca have done (and to a lesser extent, Arsenal). There's an emphasis on his sides defending and attacking as a team. Barca are Arsenal like in that they constantly try to penetrate the back line of the opposition, to the point of overdoing it sometimes. I'm hoping Rodgers being used to the way teams play in this country, will recognise the need for a plan B (or C,D etc) that's workable, and to not be solely reliant on tippy-tappy bollocks. We have alot of power in the side, why not use that too? We need to strike a balance. We don't want to be trying to constantly walk it in, but by the same token we don't want to be pumping aimless hoofs up to Andy Carroll either. It should be measured but with variety too, the ability to play ourselves beyond the opposition, but not just through them, stretch them, get to the byline aswell, get bodies into the box, have a more able wide player who can get the cross in, who we can play in behind with the knowledge they have the pace to get there and put the ball in. Too many times in the past we've played everything infront of the opposition, we need to be able to thread the passes, to have good movement off the ball that will drag players from their positions and force openings, but not just centrally, outwide too. If we can get another creative force in the centre, a wide player with genuine ability to get in behind AND another finisher, then we'll be on our way.
 
Herr Onceared said:
So sick of the phrase 'tika taka'

Its about as annoying as teh fucking Meerkat shit.
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Yes. And it's not that different to how the team played anyway. If the tippy tappy strikers tika taka tonk a few more goals into the net it'll be job done. Evolution not revolution.
 
Hansern said:
We were far from a tiki taka team last season. Maybe in 40% of the games.
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Yup

Anyone who thought differently clearly hadn't seen barca at their best/average. we couldn't get near the box. I'd say 70%+ of our chances were created or attempted by suarez because he was the only cunt who wasn't terrified of going near the box
 
mark1975 said:
I think we were trying to encourage it, we just didn't have/use/buy the players to make it work.
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You see, we were brilliant at getting to the edge of the opposition box...then no one knew what to do. No would would strike it, no one would dart into the box...nothing. It more often than not was up to suarez
 
We did have one of the highest levels of possession in the opposition half of any team in the league though. We were just shit at doing anything with all that possession.
 
doctor_mac said:
We did have one of the highest levels of possession in the opposition half of any team in the league though. We were just shit at doing anything with all that possession.
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Exactly. We park the bus on the oppositions half, but we're just as fucking immobile as said bus.


Static mother fuckers
 
Possession based football with clever movement. Will be interesting to see how it works, we played some great pass and move football in kennys 1st 6 months in charge. I don't think the squad is that bad but we do need to sign at least 3 1st team players. Good ones not shit ones for a change.
 
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