To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Marcelo Bielsa. The schemes are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of cerebral football most of the tactics will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Bielsa’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisati
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Most coaches would keep playing their very good goalkeeper who carried them the past 3 years to a semifinal & World Cup qualification. Most coaches wouldn’t dump a goalkeeper like that. But that’s just the genius of Marcelo Bielsa.
