We've got over that and the players realise the importance of attacking while thinking defensively about positioning".
"But later," Guardiola admits, "I came to really value something else Andrés does, something that he had made me see with time: the importance of attacking the centre-backs.
He retained this position until 1911, teaching the lessons of the Russo-Japanese War and emphasising the importance of "attacking dash" as the best means of overcoming entrenched positions.
And, given that we measure the importance of attacks in part by their numbers relative to other incidents, the fact that this nightclub shooting happened just over a month after Omar Mateen's massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, about three hours away the largest mass shooting in modern American history might have compressed the impact of its overall body count.
Reason for optimism: The importance of the attack unit has been punctuated by the impending season-long absences of midfielders Joel Tinney (28 goals and 10 assists; suspension) and Connor Reed (10 G, 16 A; knee injury).
Jonathan Wilson has covered the issue in great detail, but one clear cause for their popularity is the importance of the attacking full-back; a winger staying wide will eat up their space, but one who looks to move inside will open up the flank for an attack from deep.
The importance of such attacks is also related to the fact that they may in fact compromise the feasibility of CR solutions and applications.
It is very much in vogue for European coaches to talk about the importance of counter-attacking, where opponents have little time to recover to form a block defence, and Dortmund have had a lot of success with this method in the Bundesliga, having scored eight counter-attacking goals this season, just one behind Bayern Munich and Schalke.
One of the main messages of the videos is the importance of suicide attacks and that this is the ultimate honor, in what can be read as an encouragement to WS to limit their engagement hit-and-run attacks due to its inability to sustain that given its shortage in numbers.
India clinched a place in the semi-finals by defeating a dispirited Australia at Chelmsford, their 118 run victory highlighting the growing importance of their seam attack as the tournament reached the business end.
