Pep's Purpose

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Love the writer's name.

Some good points in there, some that I don't agree with and also think it's unfair to mention the rags win alongside the others in terms of playing on the front foot not working, when we played our strongest available XI against them in the league the front foot football worked a treat, when we played a largely second string against them in the LC we lost narrowly but that was more to do with the fact that they put a full strength XI out rather than our style of play.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I wasn't really sure where to post this, hence resurrecting this thread, but I found this rather interesting, and on the whole accurate.
Mase might not be too impressed though, as the author obviously doesn't share his views on Kolorov.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/01/13/analysing-pep-guardiolas-tactical-mistakes-manchester-city/

That's rather a good article PB.

Thanks for posting that; think I'm going to have another look at the many diagrams in it, as they seem very instructive.