Against Granada, their precision and pace on the break was wonderful, led by Nabil El Zhar and Jonathan Viera and … oh, what the hell, they were all pretty brilliant.
On Saturday night they took advantage of their superior precision and pace on the edges, with wingers Ryan Hall and Josh Charnley scoring twice each before half-time.
Away to Köln, Thomas Tuchel's maddeningly inconsistent men had absurdly high possession numbers last seen in Munich in the Guardiola days but there was neither precision nor pace in the attacking areas against a side playing "clever, high-quality, underdog football", as Süddeutsche Zeitung said.
Tennis is a game of matchups and Ferreira, for all his success over the seasons against Pete Sampras, matches up remarkably poorly with Agassi, in large part because Agassi knows that Ferreira's backhand is his weak wing and has the precision and pace to find it repeatedly.
When Santiago Cordero finished a length-of-the-field move one minute after the restart, the one time the Pumas passed with the precision and pace they showed during the World Cup, the prospect of a second victory over England here flickered.
True to their style, one that has made them arguably the most enjoyable team to watch in Spain this season, the team that went on a 28-game run of scoring in every match, Villarreal showed personality as well as precision and pace.
Opening with a plane crash from which there are only two survivors, Hawley peels back the layers of each passenger's previous life with all the precision and pacing of a great suspense writer.
There is little of the pace, precision or control that had once defined Barcelona; the chances they made came by a more direct route.
Best try Nehe Milner-Skudder's for New Zealand in the final showed why they are a class apart, power, pace, precision.
But he could, with a gift that inspired the film "Bend It Like Beckham," impart pace, precision and swerve to his crosses and free kicks.
