Posts Tagged ‘ catenaccio ’

Bayern dominated the game from start to finish, but it took a superb Thomas Müller goal to break the deadlock.
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ZM was planning to publish an extended article about how the defensiveness of the World Cup could result in a more defensive Premiership season.
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There are times when the hype about Jose Mourinho is frustrating and cliched, there are times when it is fully deserved. Tonight was the latter in one of the great defensive performances  in recent footballing history.
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When two teams play each other twice in quick succession, the second game is often boring and predictable – so the fact that there were eleven changes between the sides from the weekend’s line-ups was a welcome surprise.
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This Greek side achieved perhaps the most astonishing thing in the history of international football. There have been one-off shocks, games that went against the favourites because of a particular set of circumstances. USA 1-0 England in 1950. Senegal 1-0 France in 2002. But those things can happen; shocks in football happen because it’s such a...
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