The article analyzes the recent struggles of Manchester City, attributing them partly to Pep Guardiola's high-pressing style and the mismatch between it and Erling Haaland's playing style.
Luis de la Fuente’s Spain won the Euros by adding a pair of direct wingers to the Guardiola blueprint. This strategy has only come to seem more important since suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Spanish managers won the Premier League, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 last season. No fewer than five Premier League clubs are managed by Spaniards.
It has been another year of Spanish domination but the manager who more than anybody has been the architect of what is now considered the Spanish style is facing the biggest crisis of his career. The speed of Manchester City’s unravelling has been remarkable. It is only two months ago that everything began to go wrong asFirst, that pressing is a high-risk way of playing the game. Operating with a high line squeezes the play and employs offside as an offensive tool, helping a side regain the ball, but it leaves an obvious vulnerability if insufficient pressure is put on an opponent in possession. Liverpool suffered similarly in 2020-21, minor glitches leading to a meltdown when they lost eight times in a run of 12 games – although there was never such a sense of distance between coach and squad as there appears to be at City. This is one of football’s great strengths as a sport: almost any ploy comes with jeopardy, strengths can readily become weaknesses. Second, that the flower can never be allowed to come fully into bloom. Erling Haaland has never been a natural fit for Guardiola demands control. He wants his teams to hold possession until they get themselves into a position from which they can thwart a breakaway should possession be lost. Haaland likes the ball played forward quickly. Kevin De Bruyne is extremely adept at playing those instant passes but, necessarily, that means City are not so well set if the more direct ball leads to a turnove
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