Another Guardola masterpiece: Manchester City's Perfect Triangle

Barcelona's former coach and Baiern Munich has enjoyed a great success in the country in all three countries, and he implemented a similar system when his team Blaugran became one of the best teams in the history of the game.

Manchester City, however, is probably the most impressive interpretation of Guardola's tactics, with most of its success coming without a known attacker.

Quick arms defenders

No other coach has been able to repeat the idea of the game of defenders like that of Guardola since he presented the concept in Premier League when he joined City.

Both right and left defenders often become central midfielders when they are in possession, making it especially difficult to pass, with opposing sides caught in two positions.

Some will follow the two defenders in the center, leaving space for City to move forward or even back up (without pressure).

This, along with the two central defenders and defanzied midfielder, creates the triangle point with goalkeeper Edersson, who often acts as third defender.

Midfield pushing forward

With pressure advocates, midfield has the advantage of getting over the defenders of opposers, which creates confusion for any protection.

Not only do midfielders push towards protection, but they can go beyond the final wall and run back and forth in an attempt to open up opposing resistance.

It's a system that perfectly executed one of the Guardola football facilities, an idea that he presented in the book “Pep Confidential”, a work of Marty Perarnow published in 2014, during his time in Bayern Munich.

The key to the center is to keep it open, to the side it is locked and passive by the center. If the pass goes well, you've been able to crush the entire center of the opposing field; if you lose the ball, your back is protected, it can direct space immediately”, writes Parrneu.

The “is to change your behavior for pressure on the opponent. Ants go inside and crawl the opponent, if that's not followed, then you already have a free man, if he wants to cover the middle, then the interior will be free. And so on the whole time, it says further in his book.