It is common currency to know this Pep Guardiola experience football with an intensity rarely seen. The Spanish coach is constantly giving instructions to his players or talking to his assistants about some aspect to improve. He is rarely completely comfortable with the collective performance achieved by his players. And his actions during the 3-0 win against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the quarter-finals of Champions Leagueeven if he set foot in the next round.
The former Barcelona manager had a camera that captured his movements for a good part of the match and the way he expresses himself and lives every second bears his trademark. He jumps, makes hand movements, crouches, runs to talk to his helpers and walks from side to side.
Pep’s stress and anxiety make him seem like a different person. “Today I have aged 10 years“, said the coach himself in a post-match press conference.
From what was captured by the recording, it was possible to summarize in two minutes everything the City coach gives of himself to achieve the desired result. His intensity seems to be the cost of being one of the best coaches in the world.
Regardless of the importance of figures such as Erling Haaland AND Kevin DeBruyne, all players must listen to and follow his constant instructions. Even the Belgian player didn’t greet him when he was replaced by Giuliano Alvarez due to the inconvenience caused by the change. But even this situation didn’t worry the coach enough, who concentrated only on widening the gap in the standings.
The match was intense, with a barely justified score difference at the end of the game but which could have made Bayern Munich take something more from the Etihad.
After an uncomfortable first half for the English team, messy when it came to applying pressure, Guardiola fixed the pieces at the interval and unraveled a process that seemed adverse. Such mental strain took its toll in a press conference where he looked as exhausted as if he had been running along with his players.
Guardiola’s match against Bayern Munich
Source: Clarin
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