Saturday, December 30, 2023

I know of no finer manager/coach in sport than Pep Guaurdiola

What do you say at half-time to your team, the best team in the world, when they are up only 1-0 against a domestic club doomed to relegation?

“(We were) uncomfortable the last three times we were here (at home)."

“The first [half] was silent. The body language of players didn’t communicate, talk, laugh, or shout.

“It was a little bit, ‘okay we have to play’.

“In football, you have to have something inside. At half-time for the first time I didn’t talk one word about tactics - I took a chair and said 'guys when you go out with a smile on your face and enjoy, we are going to win'.