Milan with Sacchi and Parma/Scala should be more than enough to refute the stereotype as well as the National Team coached by Sacchi. However, I do not see any harm in having a certain identity, especially if you check the results obtained. Among other things it is not written anywhere that a deftly conscious game is more difficult to interpret than an offensive game.
A player like Mbappè is devastating already of his, frankly uncontrollable when he starts from afar. Anyone would set a type of game that marries these characteristics and even more if I look at those who have available in midfield. All this regardless from the fact that they can hurt you in every occasion as we saw in the semifinal. Should they lose in the final we would say that they played badly in the 2018WC?
We're just going to have philosophical differences about this because I hated Sacchi's 'destroy the game & let our superior star-power decide the match' style despite the dominance of his Milan in the late 80s/early 90s
...an oversimplification, I know, but that was the element of his style that I found disappointing even if it made a lot more sense before the offsides & backpass rules were changed, as well as the shift in how fouls are called.
But I'm a fan of a small team who will never have the wealth to qualify for the CL, and our identity is wrapped up in not selling out, embracing progress football, and an anti-authority ethos that stems back to our rivalry with the Stazi-supported BFC Dynamo back in the DDR.
