Why did Pep Guardiola suck the joy and freedom out of Manchester City? | Barney Ronay

Bernardo and David Silva, Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden started on the bench as City’s manager tried to play rope-a-dope

You failed. No matter. Fail again. Fail in pretty much exactly the same way.

How many times, Pep, how many times? The idea that Pep Guardiola over‑complicates knockout games has become such a truism it seems impossible a manager of such clarity of thought could still be following that pattern; still finding ways to insert his own anxieties,his maniacal intellectualism into the fine details of elite knockout football.

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