Oh boy!
I am a die-hard Barcelona fan since the days when Cryuff played there... The Guardiola Barza will go into the history books as one of the best clubs in the history of the game. However, we all saw the beautiful style of Barza's game go into a coma in the last Liga season.... Bayern collapsed against RM using the same tiki taka strategy.
Is today's embarrassing loss to the Dutch team the nail that closes the coffin of tiki taka forever?
Mourinho figured out how to play against it. Simeone shut them down completely this entire last season (Liga and Champions). Now the Dutch team is making this style of play appear completely inadequate to compete against teams that can do two things: defend with pressure and counterattack with speed.
Possession without productivity is useless. Barza learned that, Bayern learned that, can Spain adjust? Many of us thought that the 3-0 loss to Brazil in the Confederations Cup was a fluke. I guess we now know it wasn't.
Thoughts?
PS. Refereeing continues to be pitiful: a) unfair annulments of 2 Mexico goals and b) Penalty in favor or Spain was highly doubtful
