It’s not irrelevant. Maybe just less relevant.
You kids see tactics like they’re superpowers in a magic card game. “Aha I have a Messi card!!”
Football is rock paper scissors. What do you think it’s best to do against a very high press, with slow covering defenders?
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I think the statistics tell that story as well, you just have to dive deeper. I think that nowadays most people have a functional illiteracy to math and statistics : they know the words but misunderstand the meaning. A lot of people know how points ranking is or xG, but they can’t tell you what the story behind it is.
Are you familiar with the idea of an example?