Well originally I was talking about Top teams in Spain and top teams in England on the basis of last nights game and lots of game before that. However I agree we only see Barca and Madrid play another team every week on Sky. However given the fact that these teams are playing a better team you would expect them to be defensive. However I find that they have a refreshing way of playing football so I can only guess that when they play a team of their own level that they are more attacking. In addition, Revista Da Lige does show highlights and there seems to be a fair few goals and good goals at that. I have also been over in Spain for a few games when on Holidays and I found the overall mentality is better in that teams try to win.
If you look at the EPL most teams are geared no to lose. This was said by Andy Gray at the weekend and he found its amazing that team talks nowadays are based on how not to lose the mattch. In his day he said they only chatted about how to beat the other team. This is from a man whois paid very well to sell the EPL on behalf of Sky.
The facts for me are Barcelona are a joy to watch whereas Chelsea are a pain to watch. Its really as simple as that. Their is an onus on the top team in a country to set the standard and dictate how teams throughout the league will play. YOu only have to look at how many teams have copied Chelsea and Man utd are included in this to see the effect the culture at a top club has on the rest of the league. It is the same in GAA as everybody copies the All Ireland Champions. That is why I wouls say that Chelseas brand of football is having an overall negative effect on the EPL as most managers are now copying this hard working, physical, defensive style of football. Mourninhio was like this at Porto and he is the same at Chelsea even though they have loads of money and woudl win with whatever style of playi they wanted.
