Where does this season's team rank against Pep's 5 City seasons so far? Personally: 1) 2017/18 2) 2018/19 3) 2020/21 4) 2016/17 5) 2019/20

has anyone noticed how Cancelo has literally become one of the most important players in that team

Pep is a world class manager. Talk about Oil Money all you like,but good players aren't enough to make a good team.

Reminder: Man United have also spent a BILLION$$ since SAF left. Difference between the clubs is one is a well- run club able to make smarter investments and decisions.

Pep's very flexible and smart on this tactics, he even played a system without a Striker at all when Aguero & Jesus are unavailable👏👏 and it did pretty great

They main reason why they are doing soo good is because they have insane depth and they dont rotate players, they rotate full squads

All that without Aguero and KDB.Pep is a genius

Current Pep's team is doin that the world of football has never seen , even he did some of these things at Barca too. Technical skills are always above Physicality & speed. Speed with technical ability is even more great . When city lose the ball , see the mid field & defence & how great they make those lines. You cannot break such lines with 1 or 2 Thiagos , you need a whole team who understands that. Pep loses at UCL when his players make mistakes that they shouldn't . VAR , Sterling miss , Ederson giving away a free goal , countless clear chances not getting in , how's that overthinking ?

He also got the gladiators: Ruben, Rodri and Cancelo

to turn 19/20 to 20/21 City is by far his biggest achievement, how you revive the spirit of "hunger for more" in a player's mindset who had already achieved 18, 19 and suffered through 19/20? that's what matters to me most

Pep always finds a solution, always manages to create something new, and he knows how to pass it on to the player, that's the difference with the others. of course he is human, but he is the number one.

mancities recruitment has been key. every season they buy 3-4 medium priced player instead of 1 expensive player. that way theylll have players for their criteria and good depth too

Damn, I wanted Pep back in Barcelona, but the job he has done at Manchester CIty is simply amazing. Pep belongs there, cheers to amazing club such as Man. City. Now that Barcelona is out of the UCL, I'll be cheering for you guys, you really deserve winning the title, the football you are playing is beautiful, exciting and overall effective. Go City, go!!!

I would add that : 1. Defensively, Fernandinho's contribution. He is good at commanding the midfield and practically everywhere there to cover. Dias and Stones are great but without him, the ball would progress further into their final third. He is excellent this season. 2. Offensively, their fluidity and versatility. If you see goal contributions, you would see this team did not depend on anyone on goal or assist, they are all about even in goal + assist contribution. Unlike some teams that has primary goalscorers, they are quite the same...basically City have no real 'star player' this season. I'm even surprised how selfless Sterling is nowadays. He is actually that one guy who hogs the ball a lot. I mean, Mahrez, Foden, Jesus, Gundogan, Bruyne, etc are all fluid and Gundogan is really a great jack of all trades. 3. Most of the PL teams are basically inconsistent this season, you can even see the score gap in 4-10th place. Chelsea is shit in the first half, Arsenal is still trying to get out of that mud after Wenger left, Tottenham is inconsistent, Liverpool is injury-ridden, and MU still have Maguire, Victor, and De Gea at the back. Only West Ham and Leicester are doing good this season. You have to see that almost in every match, the opposing team feared City.their match with Spurs and Arsenal show it the most. It's like they were playing to force a draw. Only West Ham came with confidence, and they nearly punished City that time and they actually managed to pressure them. City only won because they have better players. 4. The foundation of all this, money. Believe it or not, Spurs actually try to sign Dias. Had it not for the Covid, we might actually get Dias to our team. Remember Jose made our team title contenders with backs like Dier, Aurier, Alderwield, and Reguilon. Imagine if Dias joined Tottenham. It will probably be a close race between City, MU, and Tottenham. See? No matter how good a tactician is, money is important to win. I think Pep's City now is extremely well-balanced, they really play as a team and are good both offensively and defensively. It's scary to think your goalscorers are someone like Gundogan, Foden, Mahrez, Jesus, and Stones. Imagine if City bought someone like Kane or Messi did come there next season. It will probably surpass Hansi Flick's Munchen with high margin. This City is reminiscence like his 2009's Barca without Messi, stout and extremely balanced.

Yesterday’s game against Wolves showed how smoothly and quickly City could switch the play from one side of the pitch to the other 🤯

I remember when people were saying City would struggle to make top 4. How the tables have turned

As a United fan, I must admit that the club really needs a Director of Football. Pep is a DOF plus Manager plus Head coach all in one. He's obsessed with the gameplay rather than winning. I want Ole to be like that. Winning doesn't matter if we don't play good football.

Jose Mourinho criticized Pep for having more possession and Pep said he will never change his style of play for getting good results and he'll do it in the same way. Look how far Pep has come in the table and Jose will never get near him.

Ur tactical analysis are exceptional brother❤️👍

The are two main tactical changes responsible for Manchester City improvement. 1st is leaving 4 men(2-2 Shape with 2 defenders and 2 midfielders) to defend while attacking instead of 3 men(2-1 shape with 2 defenders and 1 midfielder). Rodri can't defend alone as a defensive midfielder, he can't anticipate ball on counter-attack like Fernandinho. So Guardiola put a midfielder next to Rodri and the team stopped leaking goals. The problem is that this made the team less offensive. So his last change was using one of the full-backs as defensive-midfielder next to Rodri and freeing Gundogan to attack. This balanced the team and made them generate more space and creating more chances with Cancelo and Zinchenko playing really good as "midfielders". 2nd change was changing to a 4-4-2 formation with 2 false nines as the 2 strikers. Aguero and Gabriel Jesus got injured at the same time so Guardiola used the midfielders as the strikers. Even after Aguero and Gabriel Jesus returned from injury he still uses the same formation. In hindsight, this formation appears to be the best for Manchester City because Guardiola does not have a natural player capable of playing the lone striker and lone holding midfielder in the 4-3-3 formation.

His squad depth has been a major factor in such a season and of course his tactics. But I think this is basically his 17/18 team with a few personnel changes.

Hi, can you please do a tactical analysis of Al Sadd under Xavi?

Foden plays like a pro who agrees with me

Man Utd- If we don't concede goals, we're guaranteed not to lose. Bayern- If we score more goals, we're guaranteed not to lose. While Man City- We will score goals, and not concede any goals, then we're guaranteed to win everything !!!! Kudos to Man City, they've literally broken the Premier League. Imagine they win the quadruple, and then FIFA Club WC, Community Shield, and UEFA SC. That would be the first heptuple ever!!

Simple, I'm a genius

Tactically, Pep is a genius!

pep is truly inlove with mancity. he has spent there for 5 yrs now

Anyone notice sterling was tracking back like a madman vs wolves?

A lot of City players play in hybrid positions. Sometimes it's almost like total football..

Not only switching sides works. I'm really amazed how they enter the box from the sides. Bernardo, Sterling, Foden or Mahrez are brilliant in 1-to-1 position and when someone enters the box from the side, midfielders commit another 4-5 bodies inside the box. Also, I wonder, how Stones and Diaz appears in the box for a closs not only from set-pieces?

This is basically cruyffs barcelona tbh

Feels like this approach is very similar to his 2nd season (17/18) when city won the PL title. Wingers, mostly sane, playing more like a classic winger and forming 2-3 in the build up phase. Really liked that play style and good to see it again.

People make fun of pep because of the "oil money". But the fact is that you can't win the big trophies without spending good amount of money in this era. Liverpool are struggling with it now because they don't have the squad depth like City where as city won't struggle as much because of the squad depth they have. To be the best you have to spend money to strengthen your squad. So stop with this oil money bullshit.

The biggest tactical battle of the season will be Tuchel vs Guardiola

Great vid as always, this channel really helps me understand football tactics in depth because I've always been curious, thank you

I love these videos!! I think City has all the tools to win everything this season! Their depth is amazing, they're freaking hard to score on, they can attack you multiple ways, multiple players can easily take over games. UCL/Cup matches always have the unpredictability, so a Lyon style exit could always happen. But the main difference I see is that this team doesn't concede the goals conceded to Lyon last UCL. The way Guardiola keeps bringing up new players, making players the best versions of themselves and is on top year after year is just insane!

Great video again! You make very clear analyses and I watch differently to football games now! I really see de movements and tactics you explain in real life games, which gives me an extra dimension while watching any football game. I'm also a little interested in your personal background, like nationality, real life job and such. Thanx and keep up de good work!

Btw there's a typo on Pep quotes, should be Stable instead of Table xD

Pep is the master of wide overloads

Cancelo is very good at tracking back in transition also with dias and stones city is keeping cleansheets quality squad 🔥

What would make these videos next level is to have clips or pictures from actual games of all these examples

The video I've been waiting for.

Great analysis, very thorough

Great content as always. Your explanation of Cancelo role are pretty much perfect 💯

I don’t like how it’s literally the opposite of last season, In 19/20 Liverpool were run away leaders with Man City far behind in 20/21 Liverpool are far behind and city are runaway leaders

Have been waiting for this video so long eagerly

Great video,can you please do any analysis on Sevilla vs Barcelona?

I dont know how the hell they were suffering at the start of season and then came from nowhere to win the title or could even win treble (but as a ManU fan i dont want to them to win treble)

We’re witnessing greatness and the future is being rewritten 💙💙💙

Great analysis Bro. Another top video💪

Amazing video bro!

Love the content man

Remember back in October when people thought pep was finished?

I needed this , after our brilliant form

Consistently is something quite unfamiliar in EPL, but here we can see that probably will keep changes drastically. That's pep for you

You know your stuff,because as a City fan I have noticed the 433 and the 4231 during the season... And they do switch between the 2 formations during a match, which gives them a variety of tactics during a match,and makes it difficult for teams to defend because they switch from these formations seamlessly...and Gundogun is the player of the season for me this season not for his goal,but for his defensive capabilities,he helps City have Stability in midfield...

Smart buys, squad depth and excellant management is the reason for this City side's success. Liverpool failed to have squad depth which is now affecting them this season.

sir alex ferguson- attack wins u games defence wins u titles stones and dias- defence wins u games defence wins u titles

This aged well...

Great video

Manchester City has improved a lot from last season.

Long awaited peps tactical analysis

Good channel. You explain tactics more clearly than Tifo

Please make the tactical analysis for Barcelona Vs Sevilla Copa del Rey

City's best trait is there excellent scouting system (or whatever it is called). Almost every player that they buy is good so they have a solid first and second team. Everyone says they spend a lot of money but well so does real, barca, man u but city spends it very efficiently. Like ferran torres, i don't know why no team went for him he is such a good player and also so cheap and is an excellent backup for Sterling

bad season start to 14 point away, what a class manager

The room left by KDB absence for Cancelo to shine and fill out that genious hybrid position reinvented by Pep again and again, so the that's really the game changer for their PM season...

The key to citys domination is the positioning of the back four the back four don't drop to deep or push to high but take a middle ground which allows the 3 midfielders and 3 attacker's to apply a calculated press if the ball goes over them it has to be inch perfect and the keeper is favourite. If back four is too deep city cant press or create traps most teams can't handle these tactics which only pep and sometimes klopp apply

Where do you get the detailed statistics? I am interested in using them as an example in class.

Brilliant video Easy to understand City to win the league Consistent performance Is the key

Do a video of Chelsea's 2020/21 tactics under thomas tuchel

What a team and Tactic Pep’s made it this season .. in spite of the bad start .. but after that we literally dominate the world ! , i thinks this season we will get the champions league with this incredible team !

Pep is a man we thank you💙💙💙💙💙

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Do a video on barcelona's current 3-5-2 tactics and how they have used it in the last three games

Finally 🙌💙🦈💯

Cleverly tactical

It’s crazy how fluid they are

Maybe next vid about Copa del Rey both legs between Sevilla and Barca??

The attacking players of City are so familiar with each others play that you can see them rotate non stop in the attacking third and just play the ball over the defense and 1 of them is surely there to pick up the ball. That is what is lacking on alot of teams who has alot of possessions. The players get the ball to the final third and just waits for someone to get the ball to them with no movements. All the exchanging of positions in the attacking phase makes it hard to man mark n confuses the defenders alot on who to mark. Thats the brilliance i see whenever they attack.

Liverpool: I fear no man. But that thing *man city*, it scares me

Greatest manager of all time🐐

Thanks

What Pep has done's to combine the intelligence of the Great Cruyff plus to add his own just why he's the best.

How do you these videos and which apps do u use to show the gameplay

Pep guardiola would have continued the way he used to play. The only reason why he changed was because of the championships league because in 17/18 18/19 they were killing teams but still couldn't win the champions league that's why he changed and now look their in the finals

They will everything this year

⚽️⚽️⚽️Please do video on naglsmanns Leipzig this year and this season plz

do we have a game where we can do stuff like this....like strategic play with every move.

The change occurred right after the arrival of Ruben Dias. What a player!

I'm a PSG fan. Thanks for the analysis...

How about: what is going wrong at Borussia Dortmund in 2020/21

Can you do videos on conte and steven gerrard please

Just came from a Jordi Cruyff explanation about his father's 3-4-3. This looks almost the exact same to me.

what do you use to create your animations?

Now the team is completely reliant on one player. In the start of the season it was all about KDB’s individual performances that helped us win matches but now I see it as a team effort.

I was waiting for another man city video

Never been such early for FMS

Ole takes notes from Football Made Simple

Very simple , he got brilliant defenders now. Before they were injured.