“I think I was naive, but I didn’t have a penny,” Cousteau acknowledged in the documentary. Becoming Cousteau when asked about finding oil. That work allowed them to install radars and improve equipment Calypso to continue discovering in the world the species that inhabited the oceans. Guardiola, like Cousteau, has discovered new universes in the City and the Premier League: a new way of playing. And to win. With an average of two titles per season since being in the UK, he has shown that it is possible to dominate the cradle of football through his gaze.
Submitting the opponent is not a guarantee of winning, but it is the closest way to victory according to the paradigm of the coach of Santpedor. When spring is born, football teams face the decisive stretch of the course. And City is doing very well. The citizens Guardiola’s ideology has been evolving during his five years in the Premier League. He has built his most personal project there: he has chosen which players he wanted for each position and now football comes naturally to them. But the Champions have no mercy. It is a world apart. No matter who has dominated the league, a bad evening leaves you out of the competition. The superiority of football and everything that emanates from the figure of Guardiola has led to the bias of the meaning of defeat: an elimination of the City translates into failure. It is the team with the highest expectations.
Decisive duels
“We would have preferred Madrid to Atletico”, they reveal from the City sports city. “We wanted to avoid English rivals, because they know us well, and Bayern, because of the emotional burden of returning to Munich,” they added. In an exercise of absolute survival, Simeone already eliminated Guardiola from a Champions League semifinal when the Catalan led the Bavarians. “When the Champions League comes, I always think too much. I try to create new tactics. And against Atlético we will see an unprecedented one “, Guardiola acknowledged in the previous one. mancunians: Guardiola has not lifted it since 2012.
In the coming days City will also face Liverpool, “the toughest team I’ve faced,” according to the coach. Those of Jürgen Klopp are an anomaly, a competitive beast, the only ones able to face them in the Premier. They find order in chaos and frenzy, they are the most electric team in Europe. The skyblues they are just a point above. This Sunday they face off at the Etihad. In the 2018-19 season, Liverpool beat the third best points record in the history of the Premier League, but City did more. There is no more demanding cross-country race than the English one. In addition, they will meet again on April 16 in the semifinals of the FA Cup.
In the next two weeks it will be decided what the final stretch of the season will be for Manchester City. With a Calypso more prepared than Cousteau, he has in the Champions League the only ocean left for them to discover citizens.
