yeh madrid's style is similar to chelsea. Its a kinda english style, like man city too. But that is not ugly man. It is end-to-end exciting and fast-paced football. Sometimes ramos, alonso or pepe play long passes, but only if the option is there. It is never aimless long passes.
It takes certain type of players to play possession football. A lot of movement and interchanging positions and the barca midfielders work very hard to win the ball back quickly and constantly make runs in the box to support messi. And arsenal are very often ineffective with their beautiful short passing. So playing possession football style does not mean arsenal or barca have more teamwork than madrid. Madrid defend AS A TEAM and counter-attack AS A TEAM.
Also playing against the stronger teams madrid have always attacked and scored many goals. Look at the games vs milan, lyon and tottenham. Exciting! Madrid only play defensive when playing vs barca.......because barca are amazing.
