Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to say that he was disappointed with the attitude of his players in the first half against Sheffield United. He recently revealed that he tried to fire them up at halftime, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the body language of the players was definitely off in the first half, and he does not think his team should ever play football that way.
Pep added that he did not even speak about tactics at all during the break, and he simply asked his boys to work on their attitude to the game.
His words, “Today the first part was silent, the body language of the players was… they didn’t communicate, didn’t talk, didn’t laugh, didn’t shout. It was a little ‘I have to play a football game’ but a football game shouldn’t be played in that way.
At half-time for the first time ever I didn’t talk one word about tactics today about what we have to do in the second half.
I take a chair and sit and say ‘Guys go out with a smile on your face and another rhythm in terms of enjoying what you are doing, we are not going to do what happened against Crystal Palace. After, the second half was the best minutes we had and we closed the game.”
WOW.
Pep Guardiola Sala is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is currently managing Premier League club Manchester City. Guardiola is the only manager to win the continental treble twice, the youngest to win the UEFA Champions League, and he also holds the records for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, the Bundesliga, and the Premier League. He is considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time
Guardiola has played for and advocated on behalf of the Catalonia football team. Between 1995 and 2005, he played seven friendly games for Catalonia.
Under Guardiola’s predecessor Frank Rijkaard, Barcelona were known for a 4–3–3 with plenty of flair with Ronaldinho being the centre point of the attack. Under Guardiola, however, the team became more disciplined with a greater focus on possession and a disciplined and aggressive pressing style.
Guardiola was born to Dolors and Valentí. He has two older sisters and a younger brother, Pere, a football agent. He is an atheist. Guardiola met his wife Cristina Serra when he was 18. They married on 29 May 2014.
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