Tik(i) Tok(a) must die at once

Tiki Taka, or as some people say on Twitter... the Tik Tok of Luis Enrique's Spain, must die after this World Cup. We no longer have Xavi-Iniesta at the age of 25, nor Messi nor anyone who really sets us apart, so the horizontal touch is absolutely useless when it comes to real games, good defences, moments of tension.

It happens to Barça going to the Europa League with that same midfield, even if they have Lewandowski or Dembele up top who undoubtedly have more hierarchy than Morata.

Yesterday I wrote about Luis Enrique's clichés, and the statements of the footballers after the elimination have added a few more. It is a metastasis of anti-competitiveness that goes from Llorente saying that they don't beat us in 120 minutes, to Ferrán Torres explaining that football "owes us one" and that "they played us defensively", to our press insisting that we played well. The apotheosis of this, for me, came when Juan Carlos Rivero (TVE), after Sarabia's penalty, said that he had shot it well. If the ball did not go to goal! I forgive Rivero, for being the MVP of the game calling Dani "Olmo" (a tree in spanish) Dani "Árbol" (Tree in spanish).

Nothing Luis Enrique has done in the match has a pass. He has gone crazy like Simeone in the big games (how well he fits in at Atleti, by the way). He doesn't give a ball to Sarabia (oh, if he were from La Masía!) in the entire World Cup and he takes him out for Williams (the only one who did something biting) to shoot the penalty. Pressure for him! Of course he missed it. Not to mention that we go out with midfielders (the BPG that always ends up in the Europa League) plus Rodri as a central defender (Hello, Ramos; Hello, Nacho) plus Llorente as a winger. Lucho's things. All the midfielders of the planet La Masía so that the best of the game is Amrabat.

There is a football God, and he is a Real Madrid supporter. All ordinary Real Madrid fans know that. And the God of football has not liked LuisEnriquethings so much. That is why we are going home after 120 minutes of tocomocho, not scoring a goal or a penalty. Three penalties, neither more nor less, we failed.

And Achraf, born in Madrid, celebrating the goal -shot through the center like Ramos- as he has celebrated goals before at PSG with Sergio. Trolling.

We said yesterday that the call could have been another. And that's how it is, because we didn't have plan B. We was like Celta dressing but without Iago Aspas. Without the Panda but with Ansu, who has given the entire World Cup a feeling of not being anywhere near what he painted he was going to be. Pedro, gloomy. He removes Gavi, who is not as bright as they sell us but without a doubt puts his leg in, and Asensio, who can score a goal from 30 meters. Carvajal without playing. What a nonsense all.

Barça's midfield gives way to win in Spain because of the network that the opponents, the system, the arbitration and the press put on La Liga, but in Europe the fakething has already become extremely obsolete. The biggest topic, Luis Enrique, is that this kind of play is playing well, or playing offensive. There is nothing more defensive than these horizontal passes. Two minutes into the game, I already missed Modric, Valverde, not to mention Vinicius or even the freshness of Camavinga. No, what Spain does is not to play well, it is La Masia State of Mind.

Imagine what Real Madrid of Valverde - Modric - Vinicius would do to this boredom team. It would be obscene.

In short, TikiTaka, TikTok, El Tokomocho has to die at once. If good football was played like this, it would never have been the king of sports.

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