The offside strategy is an intelligent resource for realism. For too long, Barça’s defensive weakness generated grotesque disconnections. Footballers had to guard lawn estates and that required a utopian level of attention. Just as Arrigo Sacchi did in some moments of the best Milan in history, Flick understands that it is easier for him to stick to this formula, with the risks it entails, than to perpetuate a defensive system that, in practice, did not work. As happened in Milan, it is a provisional solution, until rivals learn to deactivate it. At the Bernabéu, however, with the elements most likely to break the offside tactic (Vinícius and Mbappé), Barça won brilliantly thanks to the preparation work and the robotic objectivity of the VAR. A VAR that, without serving as a precedent, applies justice with truly blindfolded eyes.
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In the months that Hansi Flick has been reaffirming himself as a crucial element of pacification, coherence, improvement and professional consistency, the temptation to analyze him following traditional precepts is strong. But, precisely for this reason, it is advisable to trust him and deactivate ourselves like little crickets intoxicated by years of Byzantinisms about the idea, the style and the mother who gave birth to us. Trust is an emotional prerogative that leaves in the hands of whoever deserves that trust the responsibility of applying, as they have done until now, a happily effective criterion.
We have understood that Flick is synonymous with work and that his criteria generate trust
When coaches are deliberately abrupt or as volatile as we are, we have a hard time trusting them. When Frank Rijkaard arrived, the needs of the club and the team prevailed over the accumulated misgivings. With the sarcasm typical of the tribe, we called him Mister Rispetto because the Dutchman introduced this concept – respect – to a repertoire of resources tainted by pretentiousness and victimhood. Result: history changed. Flick inspires (and deserves) a confidence that is becoming the most intimidating factor for rivals. And it is essential to let it act without the passionate interference that has so conditioned our state of mind – due to excess of euphoria or defeatism.
Until now we have understood that Flick is synonymous with work, clarity in ideas, modesty when presenting them and simplicity and realism in the execution of his criteria. He also treats the starters, substitutes, and rivals well and when, as happened at the Bernabéu, he detects an outbreak of gossip rivalry, he intervenes to prevent fires. In the type of joy that many culés are experiencing, the trust factor is important because it modulates the temptation of possible triumphalism and forces us to understand that managing this state of mind avoids burning everything after a few victories or defeats.
Hansi Flick controls a ball on the sideline, in the presence of Lucas Vázquez
Contrary to what has happened in recent years, it now makes less sense to look for consolation arguments in pseudo-expert analysis and rhetoric of inspiration to assimilate a reality that has often been, unfortunately, pathologically unstable. Today, trusting the team and the coach is an act of justice, simple, coherent but also an intelligent strategy against the self-serving tension that the industry and many of its media tentacles insist on exploiting.
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