in the long run tactics like that will kill the FA Cup.
Professionalism will kill the FA Cup! They said in the 1880's. I think it will do just fine.
Just imagine if all teams played that way, just get a replay and maybe win on penalties each round.
So a League Two club plays defensively against a Premier League side away from home and all of a sudden you're imagining if all teams play that way? Why? I don't even understand the generalization. For me it's pretty obvious that no, not all teams will ever play that way.
And if truth be told, most of the time a L2 side even tries to do that, the EPL club manages to score anyway such is the disparity in quality, which throws their plan in the garbage bin straight away. It just happens that this time we couldn't, so they persisted with it.
I'm finding this topic seriously strange. I see people either dismissing Plymouth for playing like, err, the League Two club that they are, or dismissing the young players we had in the game. I don't see the need to do either.
It wasn't a great performance but there were lots of mitigating circumstances, and it was only one game after all, so no reason to be too harsh with an inexperienced team. If anything, I was particularly disappointed with the more senior players on the pitch, such as Emre Can. And on the other hand, the generalizations being made on a L2 club playing unattractive football are beyond comprehension - no, this is not the reason why England are crap at international football, and this is also not the competition's death sentence.
Sometimes it's alright to be somewhere in the middle. We don't need to sound radical on the internet all the time just for the likes.
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