Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola faces an array of tactical challenges amid a sense of the club's decline. This echoes Guardiola's experience at Bayern Munich in 2015, leading him to revisit fundamental principles of play.
Underlying every tactical question facing the Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is a nagging sense that none of it much matters.Underlying every tactical question facing the Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is a nagging sense that none of it much matters.An extraordinary sense of a club imploding is taking hold and the champions’ title rivals have the chance to make it worse
The space Guardiola’s teams leave behind the high defensive line had always been a vulnerability, could not but be a vulnerability, but something had gone wrong with the press, allowing Wolfsburg freedom. And if Wolfsburg could exploit it, Europe’s elite would certainly be able to.As options and ideas fizzed in his head, Guardiola decided he had to go back to first principles.
Guardiola’s bible would demand a narrow four to combat Liverpool’s three, but with Rodri and Mateo Kovacic injured and Ilkay Gündogan so washed up he could be playing for Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United, it is not at all clear they have the personnel to do that. Perhaps Bernardo Silva and Matheus Nunes could be used flanking Gündogan and, if fit, De Bruyne.
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