Pep Guardiola

Windhook

Windhook

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Against PSG Pep proved the values of total football taught by Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff. Defenders can move out of position and play in midfield and even attack, while others take defensive tasks. No one else does that this efficient in football.
 
serghei

serghei

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Windhook said:
Against PSG Pep proved the values of total football taught by Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff. Defenders can move out of position and play in midfield and even attack, while others take defensive tasks. No one else does that this efficient in football.
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That sort of stuff never goes out of style. It's just a matter of having the right manager who knows what he is doing (and the right players, but you don't necessarily need all-time greats like Iniesta, Xavi, Messi, Alves, to make it work, regular good players will do, with some world-class quality in some key positions). Never in a million years would you qualify anything that Luis Enrique, Tata Martino, Valverde (lol), and Koeman (so far) played is anything close to the fluid football of Guardiola.

So, when I hear that technical fluid football is out of style because of what some conservatives did as Barca managers I chuckle right away.

Let's see what Xavi will do when he'll get the job (hopefully sooner rather than later).
 
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BBZ8800

BBZ8800

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Pep played fluid attacking football with Barca in a CL.

With Bayern, he ruined a German machine and turned them into a slower, sterile possession team.

With City in Europe, he was a disaster till now and this season won against 2 German midtable teams and in the first real test played 460-pig in the middle-no attackers-everyone interchanging positions and doing absolutely nothing in attack.

Comparing Pep's Barca with what is City doing in Europe is a blasphemy.

Cruyff and Dutch football always wanted to attack.
Pep either couldn't or didn't want to attack vs Psg.
 
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Porque

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Never in knockout away games though. He was always reserved in his tactics and never fluid and attacking. His strength was the home games.

Draws/Losses against Stuttgart, Arsenal(x2), Chelsea (x2), Lyon, Bayern, Inter, Real, Milan while at Barcelona.

PSG away with City was more of the same, just that the margins went their way with 2 weak goals conceded by PSG.
 
fergus90

fergus90

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Since Pep took over City, goals in all comps

Man City - 700
Liverpool - 543
Tottenham - 532
Arsenal - 522
Chelsea - 515
Man United - 512
 
KingLeo10

KingLeo10

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BBZ8800 said:
Pep played fluid attacking football with Barca in a CL.

With Bayern, he ruined a German machine and turned them into a slower, sterile possession team.

With City in Europe, he was a disaster till now and this season won against 2 German midtable teams and in the first real test played 460-pig in the middle-no attackers-everyone interchanging positions and doing absolutely nothing in attack.

Comparing Pep's Barca with what is City doing in Europe is a blasphemy.

Cruyff and Dutch football always wanted to attack.
Pep either couldn't or didn't want to attack vs Psg.
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The difference is in the players Pep had before (legit 4 GOAT tiers in their position in 1 team) and the players he has now at City.

Pep didn't change much IMO.
 
jairzinho

jairzinho

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serghei said:
Great, great manager. Now he has learned to adapt to having mortal players. Still keeps his style though.
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His style has evolved. City are more dynamic, energetic, direct, aggressive etc as opposed to mere possession based. At the same time they are still capable of elegant football. All their midfielders can shoot, make runs into the box, defend, press etc. Total team. Midfielders like Foden represent his new style as opposed to players that we are still stuck with in the old style like Puig, Pedri etc.
 
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