His Barça flies, Pep Guardiola collapses The dark night – La Gazzetta dello Sport

April 15, 2015 – Milan

Guardiola-cam, camera focused on Pep Guardiola in one of the evenings most bitter of his career. Gaze lowered after the tremendous one-two Quaresma. Fists shaken, with relief and moderation, to goals from Thiago Alcantara. Walking nerve at the edge of the technical area, with hands behind his back and look more gray jacket, between the two times. Palms pressed against his temples after the 3-1 Jackson Martinez. “It ‘a difficult result, the two goals conceded immediately got us into trouble, but we will try to turn the tables – Pep said after the race -. We will analyze the mistakes made, we have six days to correct them.” Not many, in fact, after a night so dark.

Pep Guardiola, 44, uncomfortable in Oporto. Ap

the four musketeers – It was the evening of a singular reunion distance: Luis Enrique, Guardiola, Blanc, Lopetegui all … coaches involved in Wednesday’s Champions League were companions in Barça, 1996-97 edition. Who would have thought that, at the midway point, one of two technicians put more late on the road of the semifinals would be just Pep? Worse is only Blanc, but at least Laurent had faced the super-Liga leaders Barcelona, ​​and complained heavy absences as much as those of Bayern.

not enough the bundes – The trouble is that a coach, in Monaco, is measured mainly (or only?) for his European efficiency. The Bundesliga, that Pep is going to win for the second time on the same number of shares, is considered a duty, a triumphant ride heating towards the assault on the cup is most interesting. And everyone’s mind there is still the beating last year against Real Madrid. Ghosts, in the next six days, will be around the sports center Säbener Strasse. There will toward them away, even with all the security of the world.

no crops, no gatehouse? – For the shake ‘ waiting for the return match will intervene now the detractors of Pep, those that “tiqui-taca is so boring,” those who “Bayern is a German team and not the Catalan”, those who “can not think of upsetting style a club already glorious. ” These days, you can bet, they call into question the choice made by Bayern in 2012, when he gave marching orders to Heynckes after a sensational hat-trick because it was not enough to win, you had to win big. And see Barça dominate the Parc des Princes, the Barça that Guardiola brought on top the world and which has revolutionized the way of understanding football, certainly does not help, on a night like this. “No Messi, Guardiola no” is the phrase that begins to circulate on social networks, in these hours. Thought ungenerous, unjust. But the ball has little memory and has its own rules: you’re doing in this flop, hardly the past comes to your rescue.

Stefano Cantalupi

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