Manchester City manager got tactics spot on against Leipzig and made clear the sceptics should trust him as he laid out the intricacies
in the Champions League last 16 second leg on Tuesday night. Describing the Hollywood actor as one of his three idols in life – the others are Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods – he wondered why she had taken in United’s home game against West Ham, where she was given the full A-list treatment, a walk on the pitch and so on, and snubbed him.
Guardiola had described himself as a “failure in the Champions League”. He could win it this season, he added, and he would still be cast as such in some quarters. And it would not make up for the disappointment of being ignored by Roberts. Maybe he was trying to say that there were more important things in life. Or was he just overthinking this? What was the ratio of sincerity to sarcasm? Because let’s face it, Guardiola does not think of himself as a failure – and with good reason.
When the teamsheet dropped, the feeling inside the Etihad Stadium was that Silva was in to help control the ball and the tempo. City would play in a measured way to guard against Leipzig’s dangerous transitions. It was not the case. “We struggled [in the first leg] with the contact [between] the central defenders and the full-backs … they dropped us [back],” Guardiola said. “Today Bernardo and Jack defended that passage incredibly well. That’s why Raum and [the right-back Benjamin] Henrichs could not contact and drop us. Sometimes you have to play one game to realise the things.
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