The Brainwashed Cult Of Guardiola

This is why every new manager plays like Pep
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[MohammedAhmed-iygp]

Thumbnail looks like Guardiola is a war criminal 😂

[razvannegoi]

"We don't suppress creativity, we just allow it only on our terms"-Thomas Tuchel

[henryreturns]

The problem is not Pep, but the other managers + the format of the tournament :
- On a league match, coaches will most of the time try to be more aggresive, risk more, and give their players more freedom. This is because "if you lose", you still have more matches left and also you now know "what it works" and "what it does not work".
- On KO Tournaments however is a whole different story. You wanna play as safe as possible and wait until the opposition makes a mistake and capitalize from it. Pretty much what France and England were doing for the whole EURO 2024. One bad match and you are out of the tournament, is as simple as that. Any mistake from the match can result in you losing.
- I think Guardiola on his Champions League 2023 phrase this perfectly : "If you dont win, everything what you did before is useless. We beat Bayern Muninch and Real Madrid, and if we don win the finals against Inter, its gonna be consider a failure. So we have to win because football is cruel and nobody will remember what you did if you lose the final match. Your whole season can be summarize and determine by just one match". And thus, Pep in the finals against Inter, we see City playing a very sluggish first half but pick up the pace on second half and won it with some "luck" and Lakaka being an insane defender for City.

[yquzmeh]

Likewise, Pep bringing in 1V1 wingers such as Doku and Savio

[captain_noodles]

pep is a victim of his own success.
when his style of play is up against others is when football is truly interesting, but when two almost same systems play out, it gets boring.
people forget that pep's city side used to be really entertaining and still are against top clubs. i think the sane x aguero x sterling era was probably the most entertaining.

[BlazySM-qpyn]

"the pepefication of football" this word is amazing 😂

[Poussyeater-we]

Most of the managers gaining prominence today were either Pep's former players or assistants. The guy is brilliant no doubt, but this is a case of us having too much of a good thing.

[Joakim-Buht-Focker]

Thank you for bringing up the final point. People have been saying "argh Pep ruins players creativity", but all you have to do is watch Doku or when it comes to defensive players, Rodri. They are given the ball and they look to create something out of nothing. Phil Foden and Bernardo too.

[unclescar]

You managed to grab and hold my 1 year daughters attention. Thank you! I dont have to watch cocomelon 🙏🏾

[GAFF_YouTubedOr]

Pep and Tuchel share a tactical brilliance.
Their clash in the Champions League final was a fascinating tactical masterclass

[bigmitchtv]

You can't blame Pep for the lack of innovation and ideas of other managers that's their fault. Did Pep ask anyone to copy from him? No. He perfected a style of football based on his ideologies and is the best at it. So all others decided to copy rather than find new innoative ways of playing against that. Morever it's not like he's rigid, every year he innovates something to stay ahead of the curve i.e Inverted FB, False nine, Playing with basically 4CBs, Pushing a CB to midfield, bringing a throwbacj striker into his system. He constantly tweaks something and all the others do is copy. That's why he's at the top, all they can do is play catch-up and that's why I say as much as Arsenal play good football it'll be hard for them to win the PL ahead of City because they are basically copy-cats. Look at the teams Pep has difficulties against; Real is a fuild team centered around the strenghts off it players, ancient Liverpool pressing machine with very direct and vertical play. You can't do what he's doing better than him, so find a different way. Unfortunately they rather copy

[fishyfish]

Pep vs Mourinho Or Pep vs Klopp is good.
But Pep vs Walmart Pep with hair is just dire

[MelonHusk]

Here at Madrid our grandpa raises his eyebrow and yeah that's about it frankly.

[ThamsanqaTLJ]

Pep has been very influential on football if not the most influential manager ever, there’s even football terms named after his tactics from false 9 to Pepefication, defender playing CDM, much respect to him for that.

Issue for football viewers/lovers starts when there’s too many Pep clones being created like Arteta for example: when Arsenal faces City, because the tactics are so similar the game becomes boring because now the two managers cancelling each other out, but when two different tactics clash (Liverpool vs City) it is usually a thriller and entertaining because the philosophy is different & each manager is imposing their own game plan which opens up the other team’s vulnerability spots and that is what pleases the eye of a football lover/viewer. It’s not an issue of too much tacticality rather a lack of versatile tacticality amongst football managers.

It is always entertaining when German philosophy meets Spanish football philosophy, these in my view two top tier football philosophies. Example being latest Spain Vs German Euro clash, or 2011-2013 Barcelona (Pep) vs Bayern (Heynckes).

[hakki]

Except Don Carlo. Study also game play in the 70s and 80s. Juego de posicion had its own permutation then. Nothing new. No need to call it Pep-ification of the game. Bec in fact, he employed tiki-taka back in 2008-2010. So nothing original.

[miguelporras]

Pep is the great synthethizer of past managers and tactics.
Van Gaal's obsession with space control and order, Cruyff's freedom for individual brilliance and fast attacking play and Sacchi's push for high press are his main strategic influences.

Inverted full backs was a Tele Santana's tactic (Junior). WM is older than anything else in football. False 9 was Gustav Szebes trademark tactic (Hidegkuti Nandor) and then Spalletti reinvented it with Totti at Roma. He also integrated the "salida lavolpiana" (La Volpe's build up) and some principles from Bielsa.

Central defenders as attacking threat is a reinvention of old school liberos (Beckenbauer, Scirea), which was tested first as a systemic feature by Gasperini at Atalanta (Toloi and Djimsiti) and then Inzaghi, but with a variaton: The central defender stays down with the holding midfielders and the stoppers go up.

It takes an insane amount of dedication and talent to integrate all those tactics in a single team to be used according to the game and opponent. That's why he is one among top 10 ever for me. The guy is incredibly brilliant

[jeromeyoung]

I hate it when I hear fans say that Pep is making football boring. First, he does not tell other managers to copy him, and secondly, he has a boss and fans that demand titles, and he has to do what he has to in order to deliver. 👍

[PanischyrosAnthropos]

Pep Guardiola didn’t invent 4 at the back becoming 3 at the back or a defender in the midfield during the attacking phase of play or false nine and many more. He adopted/learnt a lot of these ideas from other managers. He is influential as a result of his great success, bravery and an attacking mindset.

-Tim Walter used a defender in midfield during the attacking phase @ Holstein Kiel before Pep adopted it.
- Chelsea 2004 played a variation of three at the back with Paulo Ferraira staying back during attacking phase

[uknsaunders]

In some ways he's tweaked old tactics. All teams use to have wingers to give width, they all use to press high, etc etc - whats hes done is marry up different systems into 1 coherent way to win.

[javorgeorgiev]

There is a great need for dribblers in the lower half and upper half of the field. Too many teams that try to keep the ball are terrible at making third man runs and carrying between the lines. They pass it around, but everyone is static and glued to their position. It is exactly the positional responsibility the rest of the team takes that allows for that one or two creative dribblers to break the defensive shape. There is no such thing as absolute defense. There's always space somewhere on the pitch. No team can get so compact as to cover all of it. Just as progressing the ball is about passing at the right time, not about how fast or the distance the ball travels, defending is about expanding and contracting when and where you need to.
Cruyff said it and modern teams apply it, that you want to allow the opposition's worst players the most of the ball. It's why the need for CBs that can not only pass the ball from a static position, but move with it into space is inevitable. Teams are not ready for it and do not respond well currently. Can't a midfielder make runs looking to get the ball and turn with it, if the CBs can't carry it to find an angle? Most either can't or don't dare to. There aren't enough Pirlo's around for that.
What Pep is applying has been coming for a long time and would have happened without him, unless you also remove Cruyff and all his predecessors. When you attack you want to do it on your terms at your advantage. Pep didn't invent military strategy either, he just applies it. Numerical superiority leads to qualitative superiority. If they don't match you man to man, you win. If they match you and you contract too many players in one spot of the field, you give your other players huge amounts of space to receive the ball on your terms. Even the 1 vs 1s created by that are not 50/50s. A player with all the room in the world to dribble is at a massive advantage over the defender no matter how fast and agile. The one with the ball always leads. A player trying to dribble in a narrow space is at a great disadvantage. They are not at all on even terms. Actual player skill comes after that.
If teams choose to only pass short when the longball and/or side switch is on, that is on them. Football is evolving and modern teams have to play a form of football that is complete. It's not about playing short or long, fast or slow. De Zerbi's has already been doing it with his "artificial transitions".