Things that football lost during the last 10 years

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>wingers
applied at top level specially by mourinhos first chelsea, wingers as we knew them, reaching the line, disappeared in favor of opposite leg false wingers.
>true 9
le dindu nuffin but score man, unidimensional players with no hability besides taping in. Especially affected by the first point. Reminder that Europe rated Koller.
>dead balls
Applied by Guardiolas Barça, dead balls stopped looking a for player and started to look for a palce. What in appearence gave the defender the advantadge, proved itself as the best way to attack for the moment

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slide tackles
hard tackles
fouls that arent yellow cards
pace babbies without any skill
black/white boots
free kick specialists
proper ultras

Those all still exist.

>Things that Spain lost in 2017

Gibraltar

using shit pitch to beat better opponents

strike partnerships

now you have just great strikers, not a great strike partnership of 2 as a pair and you dont say ones name without the other

Aubameyang is a true 9

black boots/guayos/shoesies whatever you want to call them

Lost implies they had it before

True 10's like Rui Costa. Only a couple teams have still 10's like Arsenal which is the reason they're wank. Most attacking midfielders aren't even true 10's anymore, look at Isco for example.

Lol, probably the best true 10 in the worl is being benched right now (hamez rodrogiloguez)

hard men, guys only there to be cunts and rough the opposition up

true long ball game as a first choice option

5 at the back

My bad

Same for guys like Bacca and Dost etc. 20 years ago Bacca and Dost would both be considered worldclass.

Only England doesn't have ultras which is why a your games are library-tier

That was in 1710s if I'm not wrong.

>strike partnerships
Good times

match fixing

You are talking about players who understand how the team work and actually colaborate in high pressure or even defend.

I'm talking about guys who were either with the ball about to shoot or walking totally disconected of the game. Fatnaldo for instance.

Player's with this style hair

>tfw no more pacey lad big lad partnership

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Hitz and Sommer

fullbacks whose best asset was stamina instead of pace
and fullbacks who can both attack and defend

>fullbacks whose best asset was stamina
Lichtsteiner

perfect example are RVN/ Inzaghi and for the brits kevin phillips

literal poachers who just goalhang

they still exist but not at the top level

True #10s. Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players who didn't have to defend. The rise of defensive midfielders basically killed them. Guys like Riquelme, Ozil, Van der Vaart...they don't exist at top clubs anymore.

>one player

2006 czech republic was goddamn based, how the fuck did they not won anything?

Schmelzer too arguably. He's not particularly pacey, just keeps going all match. Durm has a pretty good mix of pace and stamina, even though he always looks flushed after 15 minutes.

Marcos Alonso, too, though obviously not as good.

target men like duncan ferguson

They can exist today but is what the dutchs considered a river player, so they ended up as fake wingers instead of classical 10. Not even Ronaldinho was able to play like that, maybe Kaká is the closest without considering Messi.

I miss those saggy shirts and shorter pants. Nowadays you can make out the nipples, but can't see the legs, that's not right.

Another thing that was lost was the parity in European competitions. Back when the likes of Ajax could legitimately challenge for the every top. Sure, CL has its upsets even now, but back then it was a lot more unpredictable.

Not every good team wins trophies.

England was pretty good at the time as well, Spain was not a bad side, either, but they were underachieving in 2002, and 2004 tournaments.

Sneijder and Cassano are probably the last 10s of that kind

>le hoofball

Good riddance desu

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>5 at the back

But 5 at the back exists nowadays too. Do you specifically mean the variant with 2 man-oriented stoppers and one libero?

Yeah but he can't do anything else, can't even cross a ball

Real men like this.

People who clearly drank multiple bottles of spirits everyday and still put in a shift.

THANK YOU BASED BULGARIAN WOLFMAN

p good but they didnt win.

I figure Torres/griezmann or gameiro/griezmann are actual strike partners. Alli/kane play like it too sometimes.

He is a winger turned striker.
If anything he is a sign of the death of true 9s.
True 9s were lampposts with a good shot.

In the modern game most fullbacks tend to have both though.

No they weren't.

Ronaldo and Batistuta are true 9s.

Literally everysingle one of the stuff listed in this thread still happens in Latin America

It still happens, see Bolivia vs Argentina last week

Griezmann/Torres, Biguain/Dybala, Alli/Kane, Ronaldo/Benzema*...

When they play in a 4-4-2, which they have done pretty frequently over the last few years with Ancelotti and Zidane.

That has more to do with money though.

It's because with the evolution of PEDs all top footballers have the athleticism to carry out hybrid roles that cover a lot of the pitch

If you watch lower tier football where they're not out of their minds on drugs then the traditional, specialist roles still exist

POGBA/IBRA

>pogba
>striker

Thats the poacher. Then there were strikers like fatnaldo who made runs from deeper positions.

id say we have 3 types here

fatnaldo was a pace babby/dribbler who could run past defenders

a classic 9 is something like shearer, can do it all but slow and immobile. usually atleast 6 feet tall

then a poacher i would say is a small fox in the box, just sitting on the 6 yard box for a goalmouth scramble, always first to rebounds and all his goals are tap ins like pippo inzaghi

>Cassano

Ever consider that maybe they're just less talented? In general PEDs are most prevalent among guys who are barely struggling to be pros, because they're desperate.

>fatnaldo was a pace babby/dribbler who could run past defenders
For about 4 years maybe then he became classic No 9.

Box to box midfielders

smoking during training

Deeney and Ighalo last season m8.

footballers that smoked/did coke

Nainggolan has admitted that he smokes regularly.

Daniel Osvaldo smokes

They just cover it because they look unprofessional

out of shape/poor diet guys, like fatnaldo was a slob but still shitting on fools

True luxury players like Matt Le Tissier

Don't forget the cl/el was a completely different formate where it was possible to get a round of 16 without a single European heavy weight...

>using shit pitch to beat better opponents
Southampton have that dodgy penalty spot though

>>true 9
Cristiano Ronaldo?

>Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players who didn't have to defend
That's the definition of Cassano, without the commas on lazy tho

>Tackling with both legs nowadays is always a foul no matter what because it's too dangerous

Disgusting

tackling with both legs is 100% useless though

The Beckham type player.

A wide midfielder that wasn't fast or a good dribbler but had great crossing ability. They would put those perfect "Bananenflanken" into the box from deep, if you gave them a bit of space.

It's easier to slide

>no more cole-yorke

:(

>true long ball game as a first choice option
fuck that

>5 at the back
pretty common at the BuLi

Did you read the part of knowledge besides memeplayers?

I'm so happy I can watch Mbappé-Falcao or Griezmann-Giroud on a weekly basis.

Wtf they are as common as ever, specially since 10's disappeared.

Box to box CM smokes in >le current year.
Holy shit.

>Things that football lost during the last 10 years
>wingers
>true 9
>dead balls

Not really senpai...

good English players

>Griezmann-giroud on a weekly basis

how the fuck do you keep up with all this shit?
t. american who barely follows two sports.

this

5 atb is going to be the new 4-2-3-1

Give me two examples of free kick specialists

Players who just get by on their talent and still make a mark.
Robbie Fowler wouldn't have made it today.

>True #10s. Slow, "lazy", clever passing-type players
This. >my team has one like that but he's getting old and now he's injured.

Just stop following those two sports and follow soccer. Like how nfl people will know what's going on in cfb, maybe even higschool level stuff. Projected draft picks, coaching personel moving, etc. The same as following soccer.

Based boca centurion crashes a car like once a month, had a DUI and carries the team playing like a fucking caniggia speed and robinho dribbles hybrid.

Good thread

Giroud scored 3 goals at the Euros plus they have a really good partnership, which is what football is about.

Messi, Neymar, Alaba, LCIM, sideways pass man, hamez.
I honestly can't take this question srsly, since most top tier strikers or midfielders have dead ball prowess in the current game.

Griezmann/gameiro is so much better though.

>i never watch Serie A

Wise up son.

Small Goalkeepers

Goat for so many years though.

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What a qt

Imagine this midget playing in 90s Serie A. Fucking lol

Why do people rate this "athlete" again?