Sam Allardyce believes Diego Simeone's game plan would not go down well in the Premier League.
The Sunderland boss was assessing Atletico Madrid's 1-0 win over Bayern Munich in Wednesday night's Champions League semi-final first leg when he heaped praise on Simeone's art-form of defensive football.
Allardyce admits he is a big fan of the Argentine but concedes that although he achieves the results required, the lack of entertainment in his game plan would leave him high and dry with the press and public of England's top flight if he ever coached in the Premier League.
"Seeing Atletico Madrid last night, how they played and how they then defended what they had against a side that is one of the favourites to win the Champions League and is well ahead in the German league," he said.
"It's an art, defending - everybody has forgotten that - it's a tactical art to be able to sense danger and block people's crosses and get your toe in without fouling them now, and they are very, very good at it indeed.
"Now, everybody can say, 'Well, that's not entertaining', but everybody is eulogising Simeone's tactics now.
"I wouldn't think they would do that in the Premier League so much. 'He's boring this guy, he defends too much' - that's what he'd get here."