To be precise, ninety percent of the effect of tacit understanding can be replaced by tactical positioning.
Messi, Harvey, Iniesta, Busquets, they certainly can't be recreated, and their playing environment is also hard to replicate.
But the strongest aspect of Cosmic Barcelona might not actually be the endless tiki-taka ball control.
It's the 'infinite interchange' behind the endless ball control!
Both ball control and interchange aim to create a local superiority of numbers with more attacking fewer.
But most ball control teams find that passing does not achieve this effect, or it is very difficult.
The higher the level of the team, the harder it is for ball control to find flaws.
But interchange can!
This point might not have been fully grasped by Guardiola at Barcelona.
But when he was at Bayern, he actually had some realizations. This can be glimpsed from his decisive abandonment of Manzhu and repeatedly placing Lewandowski on the bench to seek more possibilities.
