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Guardiola is a coach who prefers defense, but through possession. As long as the ball is at the feet of his players, the team cannot receive opportunities. Everything happens with the ball, as the coach described it in an old dialogue at the beginning of his career with Barcelona.
This appeared in what the coach presented with Barcelona, when Victor Valdez succeeded in winning the Zamora Award as the least goal-receiving goalkeeper in La Liga in 4 consecutive years.
And when he left to coach Bayern Munich, it was also the team that conceded the least goals in 3 consecutive seasons, meaning that Guardiola's team in 7 different seasons showed significant defensive strength, but only in an unusual way.
My pleasure, an insightful blog like yours, will tend to attract analysers.🙂
Well, on this your latest note, it happens that I have replied it above already. Like I said people often forget the FEROCIOUS PRESSING OF BARCA WHEN THEY LOOSE POSSESSION, this is also key to Pep's style– City does this press too.
Yup eventhough he described his possession style in the old dialogue you talked about, there has been so many other dialogues and publications after then, that we have monitored.
So the truth is, his defensive masterstroke is not only about possession, it also includes quickly recovering the ball when you loose it. He once gave his players an exact number of seconds by which time he expects them to retrieve the ball, if they loose it.
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