During the dinner Pep gazes at her and says: “Patricia, I’ll give you some advice: always pick the good ones.

He can then start to plan the training activities with Torrent and [Lorenzo] Buenaventura, bearing in mind specific aspects of the game.I try to move a well organised defensive opponent - move them, so the pass of the ball is quick and creates problems in the defensive structures. He wanted to leave his men in no doubt as to why they had been resoundingly thrashed six days before in a friendly in Salzburg: they hadn’t bothered to run and their game had lacked intensity.

Pep Guardiola wants his best and most creative players to receive within the "Half Space" - from here, No. Perhaps that is the future for this crazy Premier League if Pep's City side leads the way: Pass and move, and make the football do the work while staying true to your vision. receive unmarked within the "Half Spaces" and are able to turn, they then try to play a final ball in behind. One-Two Combination, Overlap Run for Cross and Time Runs into the Penalty Area in a Speed Endurance Practice. Therefore, the centre back (CB) passes out wide to the full back (FB), who is free to receive and dribble forward into the space created.PEP GUARDIOLA'S TRAINING PITCH ZONES: KEY AREAS PEP'S TRAINING PITCH ZONES: Marked out zones on the training pitch to practice specific positional patterns of play, maximise space, disorganise the opposition, create numerical advantages and move the ball into dangerous attacking areas ("Half Spaces"). People associate his teams with the number of goals they score but his teams also don’t concede a lot. Across his managerial career, he has only won more away games at the Emirates than Old Trafford against a single opponent. Player B receives the pass on the move after skipping through the ground poles and running around the 2 mannequins.

While the football stories are fantastic, I actually learn a lot more from the way Guardiola conduct himself. And as we all now know in 2021, Pep eventually has a tremendous success at City, with this season the club is on the way of winning Pep’s 3rd league crown, his 9th trophy overall in 5 seasons. Similarly, Guardiola remembers every move: how it developed, what happened, which players got involved and what the consequences were.The South-Korean, with six goals, is already level with Wolves’ top scorers from each of their last three seasons and has assisted one too. The attacking midfielder (8) moves forward to receive the lay-off from the forward (9) and plays a pass out wide for the advanced run of the winger (7). It's like a primitive sub-culture where criticism is not tolerated and people protect and defend estabilished ideas. the 3-5-2 formation and the second forward Sterling (7) passes to the attacking midfielder De Bruyne (17) within the "Half Space.

Inverted Full Backs and the "Half Spaces" ⊲ In Man City's 4-3-3, the inverted full backs are positioned in the "Half Spaces" to help move the ball from the centre backs to the attackers ⊲ This allows the defensive midfielder to stay in a central position 16 ©SOCCERTUTOR. The players have 3 minutes of activation and 3 minutes stretching before performing 3 repetitions of this warm-up circuit. Defensive Midfielder's Pass to the Forward + Lay-off to the Attacking Midfielder for Pass in Behind.If you didn't know anything about Pep, and then read this book, you'd think he has never made a wrong decision in his life. People seem to think that if a team's not from Spain or Germany or England, then it's bound to be rubbish. What I love most is those who claim that you couldn't play like this in Germany or the Premier League, with Silva, Bernardo, Agüero, all of whom are 5 foot tall.