Guardiola is the modernizer and developer who looks to the past, and he is the innovator who proves that nothing is new in the world of football.
He borrowed the idea of a fake number 9 from the Hungarian team of the 1950s, revived the 3-2-4-1 formation and, in pursuit of the Premier League title, brought English football into the pre-Premier League era.
The most important goal of the tournament this season is to decisively change the balance in the way Manchester City play. The “tiki-taka” engineer turned the big man, who turned out to have a good touch for a big man, into a supplier and made a wonderful runner around him.
Big man Erling Haaland helped fellow sprinter Kevin De Bruyne, the world-class midfield star.
In City’s game against Arsenal, the dangerous weapon became De Bruyne, not the team’s and Premier League’s top scorer, Haaland, who leads the race by two goals with 33 goals after managing to score the his team’s fourth goal against Arsenal.
There is a school of thought that says football is a simple game that theorists like Guardiola can make more complicated. And if City win the title, it will partly be because they have the best footballers in the Premier League, like top scorer Haaland and midfielder De Bruyne.
Guardiola, the best midfielder in the world, de Bruyne of course, became the No.9 during the game, while the original No.9 Haaland became a midfielder.
Thus, Guardiola launched City’s most dangerous weapon, which managed to bomb the artillery goal twice, with two assists from the Premier League’s most dangerous goalscorer, who turned into a provider or as a weapon packer in the match – the battle.
Arsenal players were aiming for Halland’s watch during the game to prevent him from scoring but they didn’t realize the game’s most dangerous weapon so they cleared with two industry goals norwegian vikings.
Of course, it wasn’t the first time Guardiola moved De Bruyne as an imaginary No.9, but in this game he was No.9 at times and No.8 at other times, and he was a midfielder. fielder and right winger at the same time.
In the battle, City went from a 4-2-1-3 formation to a 4-4-2 formation, with the two best paired up in attack and the other nine looking to win the ball back.
It looks like a ruse, and of course that’s the basis of the idea. It’s a tactic against Guardiola, the truth is that City only needed attackers: Arsenal were terrified of Haaland, unable to find De Bruyne, even less to arrest him.
The Norwegian was very tall, very fast and very intimidating, and De Bruyne was very fast and very strong.
In the past, more precisely in 1990, the Manchester United team won the treble (league, FA Cup and Champions League) and it seems that Manchester City Guardiola is ready to emulate it.
Amid talk of Haaland’s history and exploits, De Bruyne’s case has emerged as the greatest player in City’s 143-year history.
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