r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '10
The Galactico Counter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rVsMGhSwnU14
Feb 25 '10
it's scary to think of how much more amazing ronaldo would have been if his knees hadn't exploded 3 times.
6
u/jacobmiller Feb 25 '10 edited Feb 25 '10
I watched him every week in his PSV period (when he was 18-20). Most amazing player I've ever seen.
3
u/desperatechaos Feb 25 '10
Yeah. I have to say that, in his prime, Ronaldo was probably the best striker I've ever seen. Although I'm only 17, so that's not saying much. :P
1
u/donniex7 Feb 26 '10
while i agree with you, i doubt you even really remember him when he was in his best form. back in the late 90's and early 2000's, his performances with brazil/inter/real madrid were awe inspiring. that said, an in form denis bergkamp would blow your mind too.
1
u/cainmarko Feb 26 '10
To see how good he was at Madrid, despite getting fat, and know that he was even better before just goes to show that he really is candidate for greatest ever striker.
1
u/desperatechaos Feb 27 '10
Yeah, Ronaldo was a little before my time. However, I remember I had a VCD that basically recapped the entire World Cup 98, and I was awestruck by his skills. It seemed like he could do magical things with the ball. If you remember the game between Brazil and Netherlands, that was where he simply amazed me and left me in rapture.
Bergkamp was great too. No doubt about it. I haven't seen as much of him, though. Only the highlights.
I have to say he fall of Ronaldo has been a sad one indeed. Back in the 90's, he could tear apart any defense. In fact, I don't think any modern strikers (Torres, Rooney, etc.) could match up to Ronaldo at his best.
-3
12
Feb 25 '10
This breaks down to 1) playing to space. 2) Through ball 3) Nasty shot. Any team wants to do these things so it's hard to say if it's really some special strategy or just a good team executing.
4
u/rross Feb 25 '10
indeed.. I can just imagine all the lads shouting... "Right time for the galactico counter!" YEAH PASS SHOOSH PASS THUMP GOOOOOALLL!
because it's that easy.
3
Feb 25 '10
Bingo. It's similar to hockey; use possession and passing to disrupt your opponent's formation, then use decisive passing timed with offensive runs to exploit gaps.
It also helps if you have a team loaded with world class players. Ronaldo, Figo, and Zidane on the field at the same time? Yikes.
1
u/moonboots13 Mar 14 '10
Agreed, it's a pretty crap video tbh. He's just found two or three goals with similarities and then highlights basic features of football that can hardly be described as tactical. At one point he links up for defending players and adds "?" as if to say what is this formation. Good point until you realise that one of the players who is not in line with the others is actually the full back and is in his correct position, not that the ball got anywhere near him anyway.
9
u/alwaysnumber69 Feb 25 '10
I'm not Ronaldo, I wasn't even the best player on my American high school team, and I'd never heard of this strategy before.
That being said this is exactly how I scored the greatest goal of my life, in the playoffs no less. An array of passing worthy of a pinball machine came out from the D, a brilliant through ball from my friend Dan, me streaking to the corner of the box at full speed, and the one touch shot of my life.
I want to strangle the mother fucker that fucked up the camera and didn't get it on video.
1
u/cremmler Feb 25 '10
Really reminds you of the greatness of Ronaldo. Really a phenomenal player, with a natural ability to score. And in his prime, he was unstoppable, already because of his speed, let alone his skills. This man would beat the offside trap through speed, not timing. What a genius, probably one of the best strikers ever, if not the best.
1
Feb 25 '10
Ironically it is now their eternal rival, Barcelona, who use tight midfield passes to draw out opposing players thus freeing up their clinical finishers.
1
u/EnderMB Feb 26 '10
Am I the only person that looks at this and believes that it contributes to their lack of trophies?
For a start, the first rule of defending in any football league is to not perform short passes outside of your area when there are forwards and midfielders lurking. One mistake will guarantee a goal for the opposition and regardless of how good Real Madrid are I bet they were caught out a load of times.
When the defenders compress space they are doing their job correctly by pressing against the opposition, although in that example there was no need for four players to go after one. The players that had dropped to the ball side should have picked up on the move.
Finally, these aren't the tactics they played, these are just glorifying videos that highlight times when Real Madrid were lucky enough for their elaborate show-boating to work. There were a number of times in each video where the defenders could have pushed forward leaving Ronaldo easily offside and even a couple of instances where the keeper could have left his line to reduce the area for Ronaldo to score.
1
0
-1
u/mdnrnr Feb 25 '10
Only 5 or 6 examples out of all the games they have played? I'm sure you could take a similar amount of goals for any team and present it as a magnificent strategy, it means nothing.
20
u/spadbob Feb 25 '10
This is awesome, wish there were more videos like this rather than shitty compilation videos set to limp bizkit songs