Rodri compares football to handball. What’s the reason?

It’s no secret that football is a dynamic sport that evolves almost daily. However, Manchester City midfielder Rodri believes that the game could soon start resembling another ball game.

Details: According to the Spanish player, this game could be handball, and the recent Ballon d'Or winner has some strong reasons for thinking this.

Quote: “I think it will be very similar to handball. You know handball, right? It's something I talk a lot about with my friends. They stay in their zone, just blocking. They don’t try to separate, they just stand still.

In my opinion, it’s chaos, but right now we see that when a team feels they’re maybe inferior to the other, they defend like this, with almost 11 players in the penalty box. This is the new football. The team that defends plays on the counterattack, and the team that tries to break them down is very stretched out.

That’s how I see football in the future. In the past, even between two big teams, the game was open. Now it doesn’t matter if the teams are of the same level. When they defend, they drop back,” Rodri told FourFourTwo in an interview.