KyletheMuslim
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Pep is still helping barca 
Pep Guardiola
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JackaL
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It's interesting how all of a sudden things turn the other way around. I think Pep wasn't too wrong on this game, the score might be misleading. The first half, Bayern didn't know what to do, frightened, we should have closed the game in the first half. Our new direct passing (look at Raki and Iniesta always looking for the first throughball instead of gaining control first) made them crazy. In the second half, Bayern played actually how they should have played and they were doing it quite good until Messi showed up 
Stric
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It's interesting how all of a sudden things turn the other way around. I think Pep wasn't too wrong on this game, the score might be misleading. The first half, Bayern didn't know what to do, frightened, we should have closed the game in the first half. Our new direct passing (look at Raki and Iniesta always looking for the first throughball instead of gaining control first) made them crazy. In the second half, Bayern played actually how they should have played and they were doing it quite good until Messi showed up
Well put. I'm not downplaying our victory - we dominated, we played very well and we sure as hell deserved to win. But, for instance, had Lewandowski scored that tap-in that went wide, or had Alves been sent off for that foul against him near the box, it very well might have been a completely different game. Not to mention all of our wasted opportunities that could have come back to bite us in the ass. Looking at a 3:0 result seems self-explanatory, but the truth is, the dynamics change so much within the game. Pep wasn't wrong in his tactics. Hell, he had a 0:0 away draw against freaking Barcelona for 85% of the game. But eventually they broke down, and shit hit the fan after that.
bismp
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Ouch indeed.And some people were calling him GOAT
Stric
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Ouch, indeed. However, Pep has reached the CL semi-final stage in every season of his coaching career. That's just fucking fascinating.
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Nice high line that
Through on goal from a goal kick
Through on goal from a goal kick
footyfan
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He has also only coached one of the 2 best teams in the world in each of those seasons. Simply par for the course.
Stric
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That's easy to say from our perspective. Tata didn't reach the semifinals last year. LvG didn't even reach the quarter finals in 2011, despite Bayern reaching the final the previous year and the following two years. And Bayern is hardly one of the two best teams in the world this season, or last season for that matter.
Devils
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Pep got schooled by Lucho.
The highline was just suicidal. I don't think he even knew just how much workrate was in our midfield through players like Raki.
His defence was exposed, his midfield was over-run and suffocated and his attack was non-existant. Neuer saved his ass big time from further embarrassment.
Lucho killed him in every aspect.
The highline was just suicidal. I don't think he even knew just how much workrate was in our midfield through players like Raki.
His defence was exposed, his midfield was over-run and suffocated and his attack was non-existant. Neuer saved his ass big time from further embarrassment.
Lucho killed him in every aspect.
Stric
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They played extremely well and resisted Barca's relentless attacking for 77 minutes. They even dominated for a part of the second half. This was hardly a defeat by tactics primarily. Had it not been for Messi's spectacular goal, the game could have ended very differently. And that goal was a direct result of player errors, not tactics.
Devils
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Come on man, no way did they resist Barca's attacks for 77 minutes. We drove through their defence, it was more so to do with our wasteful finishing (Suarez x2 and Neymar x1) than kept it 0-0.
That's why I gave credit to Neuer, because it was literally him who kept Barca at bay for that time period.
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but what if he wins 7??
Pep went down like a man, he stuck to his way of football and lost admirably.
Much more respect to him than the likes of mou.
Much more respect to him than the likes of mou.
JamDav1982
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If you lose 3-0 and your goal keeper is your only good player it is not anything like an even match.
Part of Barcas tatics is to get the ball early to Messi so its not him just doing independent of anything else.
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