While Barcelona play their usual tiki-taka style-of-play, the teams are often left to park the bus against them and Pedro Rodriguez believes that the defensive strategy is not the right attitude.
Whenever Barcelona play their usual passing game, the opponents are left to back down and park the bus against them.
It all started when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan managed to beat Barcelona in the Champions League by using the same tactics in the semi-final stage of the competition.
Later, the same tactics were used by the Premier League giants, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786, who were able to hold off Barcelona in the semi-final of the Champions League last season and then later managed to win the UEFA Champions League as well.
The Catalan giants are considered to be one of the best football playing sides in the world and there is no doubt that teams which are below par do not even try to make a mark against Barcelona and they park the bus in order to avoid embarrassment.
However, the Spanish winger, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-c29582 Rodriguez, recently revealed that it is frustrating how the other teams do not want to fight Barcelona.
The Catalan player said that when a team defends with 10-men behind the ball, it is hard for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 to find spaces in order to score goals.
While speaking about such teams, Pedro Rodriguez said:
“We expect all our opponents to defend. We always have to take the initiative, to control the ball and to create the chances.”
“When they defend with 10 behind the ball it is always difficult to create chances and win games. For us it is unfortunate that we have to face this type of game, but many teams do it and we have to adapt to it. For the moment we are facing these games.”
Barcelona most recently won the game against Celtic, who they managed to beat 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League.
Celtic were also seen parking the bus against Barcelona after they managed to take the lead during the first half.
However, Barcelona were later able to equalize with the help of Andres Iniesta and then http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordi-Alba-c19111 scored a winner in stoppage time in order to give Barcelona the all-important three points in the European competition.
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