Louis van Gaal are you listening.
In football normally if you have the ball the other side can’t score. Simple really.
That is a logical way at looking at things certainly but unfortunately, as any football fans knows, the game isn’t logical.
Fans want to see goals, they want excitement, and they don’t want to see Joe Allen like crab passing backwards and sideways just for the sake of it.
So we can feel for Chile manager Jorge Sampaoli after he saw his side lose 3-0 to Uruguay this week in a World Cup qualifier, despite owning the ball for the 90 minutes and ending the game with a possession high of 73%.
How on earth do you lose a game after having the ball for 73% of the entire game?
We don’t know, but it did prompt the manager to try and explain the bizarre situation in his best Swiss Toni style
https://twitter.com/JuanG_Arango/status/667063170431852544
“One night, I went to a bar, I was with a woman. We talked all night. We laughed, we flirted, I paid for several drinks of hers.
“At around 5am, a guy came in, grabbed her by the arm and took her to the bathroom. He made love to her and she left with him. That doesn’t matter, because I had most of the possession on that night.”
When you think about it, he’s right. Just like Swiss Toni always was.
