How Guardiola CHANGED His Football Identity & GOT BETTER | Explained

In some ways, 2022/23 saw peak Guardiola in English football. Not only did City win the league, but this time their closest rivals, Arsenal, were playing a form of Pep-ball, while Championship winners Burnley also were building on foundations laid by the Catalan. And with principles of Pep’s beloved juego de posicion visible in sides like Brighton, it seemed like the manager had succeeded in moulding the league to him - but ironically, this City side also represented a departure from what he’d done before.


Of course, the foundations remain the same. This is a dominant possession team, and the fluid interchange of roles and positions has become natural to anyone watching Guardiola’s career. But in other ways, it feels like this iteration of City has been as much about the talent available as Pep’s larger philosophy - and blending the two has created perhaps the most effective outfit of his spell in the Prem.


So what has changed at the Etihad? How did Pep reinvent the Cityzens once again - and reinvent himself? Let’s find out.

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[GIBBO]

Just when teams adapt to him, he changes it up again

[kingnyovane]

Basically, Pep revived the role of a sweeper. Back into football one of the best sweeper is Franz Beckenbauer. He was a excellent forward passer and he was able to control the tempo of the game. Check out FIFA world cup 74 Germany v Holland. Pep is a absolute genius

[JakeT]

He's not changed his philosophy whatsoever, he's just evolved it. The man is a genius!

[fpl_djhammer]

Pep might honestly be the best manager of ALL TIME

not because of any "peaks" or "primes" but the very fact that he's able to be SO CONSISTENTLY adaptable

no matter what tactics he employs, it works to a really good level at all times

[apagoogootwo]

it is a testament to foden's talent that he has the second highest number of goals despite rarely being among the starting eleven.

[maxpollack]

Liverpool fan here. Peps so good he makes football boring. Im anxiously anticipating when he leaves because, until then city are just going to be miles better than everyone and win everything

[gn]

There was a wise man named Paul Levesque who said "adapt or perish". Pep is clearly a fan of that man.

[NXaiUL]

The quality of this video analysis is spectacular.

[deoganchev]

This is simply one of the most detailed and educated videos I have ever watched regarding any form of football analysis. Great job.

[steve]

Only guardiola can play attacking football with 4 CBs in starting XI

[kakarotchundu]

The real thanos of the football world a mad titan football Genius🙌🏽👑

[DaveyDavester]

I think if he wins the UCL Today I think he is the best manager in football history.

[DatBoySax]

He never ditched hus philosophy he evolved it there's a difference

[bythecliff]

Pep went from False striker to False CB

[sebenfc]

When he retires, that would be a big loss to football.

[danielgan]

People always say Pep changes football when he wins, overthinking when he lost.

[yester]

When you have a generational talent, you have to adapt.

[arjunkishore]

For me, the top three is currently pretty nebulous between Pep, Cruyff and Ancelotti, but that can all change tonight

[juniorkhomari]

Yeah. He's built a clutch team. All his previous teams needed to graceful and amazing to watch but he failed to realise that football had evolved beyond that 2010/2011 barcelona team. You don't need to have a team dropping a 9/10 performance every week. Uu just need to build a team that knows how to win. Kudos to pep for finally realizing this

[commentarytalk]

It just so happens that even Pep's "philosophy" of zones on the pitch and player rotations and coordinations around those zones STILL works best with traditional:

* Defence profile
* Attack profile

Instead of his former:

* Total Midfielders player profile.

What he realized is the best teams can have a few chances and score and win against his former total midfielder teams at the top level as said.

Be interesting to see what happens in the final of the Champions League. Barring the monstrously unfair and randomness of the Casino Roulette Lottery Rule of "hand/arm-ball + penalty area == Instant Penalty" (another perfect text-book example of experts + technology = Insanity), I think the balance of Pep's squad is very strong this year and I predict they'll have higher scoring opportunities than Inter and should have high quality scoring opportunities that directly benefit Haaland....