World Cup and tactics

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An article in a Hungarian newspaper pointed out that all of Argentina's attacks on Serbia Montenegro came from the left side. They seemed to put a large concentration of players in one place, and broke through the defences that way. That certainly makes sense to me from looking at the replay. Such a strategy, if not countered or imitated by other teams, would very much put the chances of the Cup in their favour.

What'd you all think?
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A flood attack? Are you telling me that the WC has been around for 75 years and they are just now discovering how to overload? :blink:

Err, what a novel idea. Perhaps some of the other major sports can copy that groundbreaking tactic. Next thing you know Basketball, Football, and Hockey will all be doing the same thing :rolleyes:

In my opinion in oh about another 50 years futbol coaches will start sliding extra protection to the overloaded side and 50-60 years after that coaches will use that to their advantage and try to get a playmaker on one side then overload the other to create space for their playmaker.
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No, don't be silly. I phrased it too strongly; this requires a very stupid opponent, and S&M's superb idiocy was perfect for this. The trick was that they spotted that they could do that early on, by noticing the deficiencies in the other team rapidly.
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Sounds like a good tactic. If they didn't break any rules, then good for them. Obviously, someone on the other teams will figure this out and counter it, but it was prolly a one time thing. Overloads work well on a team that is disorganized, or really dumb.

I'd like to see them try that against a good team and watch it blow up in there face.
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Post by Gen. Volkov »

Well if it's as Beatles said, I don't think that they would try it on a good team.

But I like Nuke's response anyway cause I like humor. *laughs*.

But is this the first time those tactics have been used? Cause if it is, that's rather astonishing.
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Very doubtful. But perhaps the first time it has been successfully utilized on the World Cup level (e.g. a team bad enough to fall for it)?
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