Pep and klopp matches are so even; one is control personified, the other is chaos and high pressure personified

Pep is wayyyyy to humble for what he's achieved at a fairly young age for a manager still 51. He could do this till 65 let's say. He still has half of his career left

This was on full display vs Newcastle yesterday especially after KDB came on, the amount of times Newcastle turned over possession seconds after winning it was absurd, City didn't even have to do too much to ensure that, it was just the natural positions of their players particularly their CB's and Rodri who btw might be one of the best transition recovery holding mids we've seen for quite some time that enables them to win it back so effectively. They really are starting to look imperial once again and that is bad news for the rest of Europe.

I think that peps system of full control makes perfect sense, when u have one of the best if not the best players in each position. I think order creates a game state, where the team with better patterns and especially more talent will most likely win the game. I think chaos can override talent and can therefor help teams with lesser quality.

I think Liverpool and Klopp are the best example of how you can still be dominant while just creating pure chaos. And he has been a rival to Pep for many years. Props to both of them for keeping this game so entertaining!

Top top analysis. You deserve your flowers. I believe it would be very interesting to analyze Klopp's embrace of chaos as well. I don't have the idea fully formed but it seem seems like the ideas explained in this video could be juxtaposed to Klopp's chaotic philosophy as well: 1. Klopp embraces players suited to intense energetic transitional football. While Pep believes he would "out-order" you to create an attack vs defence game and continue from there, Klopp seems to believe he would "out-chaos" you to create a game suited for his energetic players and continue the game from there. 2. Pep continues the game by hoarding onto the ball with short passes and using his players who are especially excellent in tight spaces. With the laws and dynamics of football slightly favouring attack over defence (offside law leniency, high xG penalties), his strategy makes a whole lot of sense. Keep the ball as close to the opponents goal (and penalty box) and take the game from there. The opponent would be as far away from goal as possible. If they're not exceptional in transitions, they're essentially waiting to die. Guardiola also tries to prevent transitions with a good rest defence with his inverted fullbacks and whatnot. 3. Now Klopp on the other hand... Hmm... He's embracing totally opposite ideas and he's currently top of the PL. Klopp's players are exceptional over big spaces and long balls. And he sure uses that strength. His Liverpool sides are barely outrun or outpressed. I believe while Pep coaches his players' decision-making in tight spaces, Klopp coaches right decision making and sharp quick thinking to his players over large spaces- direct accurate long balls to his devastating forwards (who i bet train a lot to finish transitions instead of small space play). Klopp counterpresses to keep the game TRANSITIONAL while Pep just wants to reset attack vs defence in the opponents third away from his goal. While Pep seems to prioritize rest defence, Klopp seems to do the opposite with his "rest attack"- he rarely makes his attackers especially his wingers drop deep except in long periods out of possession. They usually hang. Sometimes all three, subtly. But even then, with the quality of Mo-Salah he knows he can let only Salah 'hang' and Salah alone in large spaces can be exceptionally dangerous over large spaces even against an entire back four. So one long ball to Salah from VVD, Trent, MacA, Szobo and he it's a dangerous almost "one-on-one" attack vs defence scenario. Lot like Guardiola's whole team attack vs defence but qualitative transitional attack vs defence. He loves to create those transitions in the opponents half or final third via high pressing but even on opposition corner kicks, since CBs are usually out of position, even Salah alone up top is devastating when he is found by Alisson or Trent. Then Klopp adds his workman-like calvary to support Salah on these transitions. A goal "finishes" transitions because of a new kickoff lol. Klopp understands this. He also understands that if a chance is missed, the next best chance is via a counterpress(the best playmaker in his own words). Klopp is a genius in his own right. 4. Can't say which style is better but it's obvious Guardiola style is more suited to modern football. Why? Stamina and injuries simply put. Guardiola's style conserves so much stamina that he can manage a relatively small squad depth(see last season) while keeping most of his star players fresh. Oh and he needs highly technical players to pull his philosophy off. On the other hand, with too many games played in the modern game, Klopp's style even though effective is difficult to maintain long-term. Klopp understands this and that is why he was crying for more substitutes in a game to be increased. Now that it's increased, look where he is. He prioritises energy over technicality for most of his team as he knows that high intensity running and counterpressing would compensate for creativity. 5. It's funny how these two football geniuses can make your head spin with their philosophies. Guardiola uses attacking principles to defend (Guardiola may just one day open his mouth to say possession is the best form of defence, if he hasn't already). Klopp uses defensive principles to attack (gegenpressing). 6. Even though I'm a Barca fan and I relate more with Guardiola, i truly respect Jurgen Klopp. He knows what he needs. Energy and heart from players, fans(Anfield) and he sticks to his philosophy even though most other coaches of the modern era are Pep wannabes even when they don't have his profile of players. I observe Klopp closely. 5 substitutes per game may truly be the best thing to have happened to Klopp ever the past couple of seasons. Note: I'm not a football expert, just an avid football lover who thinks a lot about the game, lol. Cheers

As a RM/MU fan, I get annoyed when people say he has the best players and anyone could do what he did. Okay, give Steve Bruce, Sam Allardyce, Tony Pulis his Barca, Bayern and City sides and let's see what they would do. Pep is the GOAT manager.

Great video. I think what's incredible about is that he is a complete manager. To win a game he can adapt everywhere and his talent id is so good islt's like he was destined to be the best.

I think that while this is true for most games, pep has shown he can adapt and embrace chaos when needed, for example the arsenal game last season where he allowed arsenal to dominate the ball and hit them on the counter

Great explanation of Pep's principles of positional play. His teams might not be as devoid of chaos as they seem at first glance though. The element of chaos might be the player's (final) decisions in Pep's teams. The more creative they are, the more chaos becomes observable in their decisions. Foden's recent goal against Everton is a great example. Because fully ordered teams would keep passing patiently to progress up the field in that position, while Foden sees the angle and executes the shot in a split second. Pep just sets the conditions in a way for the players to always be in an advantageous position, what they do in that position is up to them. He has massive respect for his players and knows when they need order, and when they need freedom from his personal experience as a player. He is often as surprised by the ways his players utilize this freedom as the spectators are. And he often expresses a sense of wonder towards his players decisions in his press conferences.

Im a real Madrid fan but Pep guardiola is the Best manager of all time

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This honestly made me look at possesion differently , i am a midielder but when i tell my teamates to have pausa or dont rush a play , they dont truly understand y, now i can fully make them understand, but i do like chaos of a game as captain i want to switch it up when we are ready

These kinds of videos are useful for me, as an American. Football is my favorite sport by far, I hate the popular sports in the US, and it's annoying that most of my fellow Americans regard football as a joke. But, as a result of growing up in the US, the strategies and tactics of this game are not something I'm super familiar with. At this point, I've been watching strictly European football since I discovered Messi in 2012. So my understanding has grown a lot. But videos like this are still very helpful to me. So thanks. I'm just waiting for the AC Milan vs Roma game to start in about an hour, I try to watch every ACM game since Christian Pulisic moved there from Chelsea. So glad he did, he's been doing great and staying in a match ready state for a long time, something which he has struggled to do for a lot of his career so far. AND. My pops and I have tickets to see Inter Miami (not a big fan of MLS, but, I mean, Messi, Busquets, Jordi Alba, and now even Suarez are here in the States) play next month in Miami. We already traveled over 2,000 miles to Miami back in September to try and watch Messi. But he was injured and not even a sub, so I was sorely disappointed. He'll be playing this time! I'm so excited. I'm a ridiculously massive Messi fan, I've religiously watched his every game w/ Barca and Argentina since I found him in 2012. It will be a bucket list item crossed off when I get to see him play in person. Plus, we're going to snag some tickets to see him with Argentina in the Copa America this year, which will be hosted in the States. One of the games will be played in Las Vegas, which is only about a 5 hour drive from home. Super excited for all of this, I sure hope Messi picks up a second Copa win!

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What to me is the most attractive and lovely about this style of play is: the players are less ego oriented as they are not primarily thinking of their own individual scoring chances, yet more of how to pass and get towards the goal TOGETHER. This means you create many more chances than just have one good attacking player who must have his day. The team spirit is more important than the big scoring individual.

A Guardiola team attacks like a spider constructing a web, with the same hypnotic beauty. A Klopp team comes in toting dynamite. Of course if you get the fuse length wrong, it can blow up in your face, or it can get thrown back with interest, but its never dull. Which is best? What's your favourite flavour and who prospers on the day. Great content - hope the comment helps the you tube algorithm

Another thing is that most City players weren't world beaters before joining City. Only Haaland, Grealish and Gvardiol (at least in the world cup) arrived at City with a superstar image. Guardiola completely transformed players such as Ake, Akanji, Cancelo, Stones, Rodri, Sterling (before leaving) and Bernardo Silva. It shows the calibre of Pep as a coach.

Dude this is good level of footage collection, editing, narrative writing.. This seems some work has gone into it. Hope for the best int he future bro. keep it up.

Top video, Pep doesnt get the credit he deserves on what hes done to the game and more importantly how he much he has transformed players: starting from Busquets debut coming from la masia and benching Yaya Toure as one of his first moves as Barca coach, to today having Rodri be prob the best player of the 2023 champions league, or transforming Ake and Alaba to LB or even Stones to CDM to recover possession and keep the order quicker. Extra pases to keep the order over chaos and positioning of the lines, the man truly is a living legend and changed the game forever.

I greatly appreciate this video, as you have done an excellent job distilling Guardiola's philosophy in a digestible, yet detailed manner. Keep up the excellent work!

I must say i've been watching your videos for quite a few time now and it is beyond amazing to me. The way you display and explain complex tactical situations including the variables that might make them vary, is absolutely great, I love it ! Can't wait for the next video

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Amazing video, i've alawys wanted to learn tactics behind the game and felt like most of the stuff I watch just seem to fly over my head but this one was simple and understandable but having the required clarity.

Xavi needs to implement this "extra pass" thingy in Barcelona. We rush it too often. And I mean TOO OFTEN!

My favorite team América de Cali has a coach called Lucas Gonzalez who is trying to implement Guardiola or Arteta-esq playstyle! I love watching them control the game! They actually had a pretty good regular season but folded because coach didn't have enough time in the preseason. Now our owner invested in players that work for his style and is even about to recruit Arturo Vidal!! Colombian football is growing! 😄

The extra passes helps the opposing team to get into a defensive shape. This helps pep execute his plan because with the defensive shape of the opponent is in an anticipated shape, a predictable shape which he must have had his players practise to break.

Honestly, I prefer a good mix of chaos and order, but it's undeniable that being able to consistently keep your game plan in order to succeed is one of the most pleasant things I've noticed whenever I see a Guardiola team (except Bayern because I support Dortmund)

Watching this a second time, I notice you say that Pep wants to reduce the number of variables. Actually, he is reducing the variability of the most important variables. His competition (Arteta, Alonso soon) are changing the importance of some key variables which Pep now has to address. It's even more complicated than you showed. Wonderful game.

Brilliant video. More on Prem teams please. Would love to see how Klopp, Arteta and Ange differ from this. My guess would be similar in terms of the desired structure, but the loss of the "extra pass" leaves these teams more open on the counter. But perhaps more exciting to watch.

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Love my team Man City , love my manager The GOAT Pep Guardiola, had the best time of my life in the quintuple 22/23 season, we’re obviously winning the double again with the UCL and PL + anything more is a bonus, life’s fuckin good , im a happy man!

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As stated in the video, this style of football is very vulnerable to the unknowns, which usually come in the form of teams that are very aggressive with their counterattacks and who have very speedy forwards or wingers.

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Reducing luck and uncertainty is worth if you are the better team , if you are able to generate more occasions and have better quality players if not you better gamble a little bit to have more chances

I know this is somewhat unrelated but the game League of Legends used to have a similar meta with reducing mistakes as much as possible and just slowly pressuring the opponent to make mistakes till then insure a lead. The meta game changed due to a player insisting on taking that risk and getting a higher risk to reward ratio than the safer game. Perhaps football will go through the same evolution with a simple safe game losing out to a riskier strategy that seeming takes opportunity that weren’t there.

I'd say it's all about your preference..Many great managers find a way to achieve the same goal

Great video, learning more about the rest defense concept. 🧐

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Very well explained. Thanks for the video mate.

I love how football is so diverse, there's the passionate about their clubs people that don't really care about anything else or even understands football, they just want their team to win, there is world cup fans, once every 4 years they'll care about their country, there is the players and wannabe players, there is the FIFA players that don't even care about the reeal thing, and then there is the football nerds like most of us on this channel lol, I feel like we all have a team but if we see great football being played by another club even a rival one we'll get some joy out of it.

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Great video! I am going to watch Klopp's one to compare styles ;)

This is so true. Great video!

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Excellent video learnt so much in this video

this is so interesting and made so well

Phenomenal video, yet again!

Mate, just for curiosity, do you have an academic formation or something like that? No need to answer if you think it's too personal. You're by far my favorite football analyst across the internet

If you have the best players, preventing chaos as much as possible leads to higher probability of winning. However, if your team happens to have less skillful players than the opposing team, then creating chaos can be a great strategy to get that unlikely win.

So good to watch this!

watching barça with messi, xavi, iniesta, busquets, dani alves, was just another level. Never seen anything like that.

6:30 This is the reason why Pep didn’t hesitate to pay 100 million for Jack Grealish. He was so effective for the system in keeping possession and playing the boring passes, but unfortunately many people still fail to see his value in the team.

Your analysis are the best. Can you do one for Chelsea so that we can understand where the problem is. Thanks

Great video and explanation.

Such a good video man

Man city has shown some questionable displays lately and created some "chaos" resulting in dropping some points. I can personally see Doku giving away the ball a little bit too frequently(although he seems a little bit more productive than Grealish) and Gvardiol is having a hard time positioning himself. City players give passes totally expecting Gvardiol to be there when he is too far up the pitch and stuff. Of course I get that Doku and Gvardiol are new comers and they will need some time to adjust into Pep's game, I see plenty of potential from both of them. What do you think guys is there other reason City is seemingly struggling with gaining control? I was personally annoyed that some people are always pointing at defenders and the goal keeper for conceding.

I agree with all the points you brought here about Pep’s system. Would love to see a breakdown of Jorge Jesus’ system and how it compares to Pep’s.

You have perfectly described it

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sean dyche holds the line of chaos and order and is now getting better players with everton and I'm stoked about it

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Agree that Pep teams at their best triumph embrace order and particularly domination of the ball. They have tended to struggle against the few teams that can combine a resolute defensive block particularly low block and exceptionally fast counter attacking capability.

For a league structure it seems to work very well. He’s great at dominating leagues for the long run. He doesn’t risk a lot and therefore wins out over the long period of time. In cup runs it’s all about risk/reward. He doesn’t risk much and doesn’t get rewarded as much as we’d expect his teams to. So it’s definitely not perfect but definitely pretty. Personally, I like the chaos. I like the chaos players. Those who just open up a game out of nowhere. Ronaldinho is my favorite player. But Pep did not like him. It makes sense why he didn’t. But that’s why Pep isn’t my favorite manager at all.

Bro I know now, so that's why they always make extra passes, to allow players to get back in position n avoid chaos, so simple yet effective for the plan

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Actually it was Master Mario Zagalo who invented this system,in 1970 world cup ,because he had no marking midfielder,he had 5 players in his who were number 10 in their respective teams ,( Pelé,Rivelino ,Gerson, Tostão,Jairzinho ) só he had to como up with a system that could give them the possibility to play to their best without getting tired trying to take the ball back ,even Claudoaldo who was position as defensive was an offensive midfielder,and Zagalo used the triangle , it's to date called in Brazil triangulação,Pep and Cruijf had big merit ,but Zagalo is the man .

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Speed is still king on defense. This is why Peps most capped player is Walker. If Pep could trade Dias for Van De Vin, he probably would even though Dias is a great player/defender/leader. If Peps style of control based possession was that revolutionary, everyone would do it but there are not many imitators. Arteta is close but he studied directly with Pep. It’s so hard to play like peps teams. To have players so adept and patient with the ball that have to know the perfect moment to become aggressive is tough to teach. Time will tell if in 10 years, all teams use on-ball control as the main for of defense. I hope it happens but I think doubtful

Old school football from south america loves the ball played for the most part on the ground as Guardiola says. In Spanish, if you do a long ball pass, you "gamble" the shot and that is called "rifar" which means you kick the ball without direct precision or accuracy. My dad who played soccer in the 1950s and 1960s strictly played football this way.

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Great vid! That's why PEP is the GOAT. He dominated every league he went, BARCA-Spain, Bayern-Germany (ok they were top dogs anyway but he kept them there), CITY- England. His eye for a player AND their character is exquisite, they just seemlessly splice into his teams. Wenger had it for the 1st half of his Arsenal reign, Vieira, Henry, Anelka, but it later bombed and turned into Stepanovs, Alumina, Cygan. Fergie had it too but his achevievements have to be considered against MU were the ONLY team with money them days. PEP has seen off several other rich clubs for several years now..

I am from Barcelona and watched all Guardiola's games as a coach since he started here. I think he would be very happy watching this video. Congrats man, I love it. Answering your question, of course it is a matter of prenference, but in my opinion the best way to master football is trying to make it less random. The high level of uncertainty in football makes it often an unfair sport. I recommend you to learn more about Barça's long history and the part Real Madrid played in Guardiola's obsession to control as many aspects of the game as possible, to make sure his teams are by far the best in the pitch.

Great analysis!

If you want to see a coach who had an expensive team and loads of money, and won everything (unlike Guardiola) then look at Zindane. He achieved more success than Guardiola in a shorter span of time. But neither are the greatest coaches. Pep simply has a good system which he took from Cruyff which only works at clubs with players who fit into the system, and had existing great players and a bucketload of money to achieve dominance. There are at least 5 or 6 other coaches around the world who are clearly better than Pep, Klopp being one of them, but Xabi Alonso is probably my pick atm (even though I'm a Liverpool fan). Alonso is doing what Klopp did but at an even higher level - he's taken perennial never-wins Leverkusen to the top and absolutely smashed his competition. And he's done it before. Ange Postecoglou has a incredible win rate in 4 different leagues around the world, turning also-rans into dominating winners. And there are 3 other coaches who have actually created new methods of team playing or resurrected old methods that are doing incredible things with their teams. Pep's smart, he's a great manager, but he's not the best, but he's always had a swathe of top notch players (who were top notch before he came along or when he bought them) and hasn't created anything new, . And seriously?... He hasn't built any players except maybe Busquets - he just uses them if they buy into his system. Busquets was simply the right man for his system at Barca.

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Great Video!

Fascinating!

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He is just incredible

Yeah city style is boring for me is way too pragmatic for my liking.I prefer to watch coaches like naglesmann tuchel klopp teams when it comes to entertaining football

I’d love an analysis on how Zambia plays. There are weaknesses that I don’t have the language to properly describe or address. I’m hoping you can provide that for a team that often play… relatively poorly.

and that is why Pep almost never books Brazilian players... because those fellows thrive in chaos

Chaos can for sure override talent. I think though if you are able to output talent in chaos you can learn to be more of an adaptive player. Chaotic situations help you develop your instinct for the game and helps you know your place in situations like these. Or even further, if you can utilize your talent the way you want to efficiently and effectively, then you’ve taken your awareness of the game to another level. Of course some of the elements of chaos are unpredictability, un control , confusion, and other variables, so it’s not always going to work in your favor. I just think adapting to chaotic situations or to anything really and just doing your best while staying calm is the way to go. Much love ❤

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The amazing thing about Peps tactics is the best way to defend against them is to drop into a low block and concede possession but then this just plays into his hands because that's what he wants anyway

I think reducing the chaos and make the game more predictable is a good thing in the teams pep is coaching. He always has one of the best squads in the world. So making the quality of the players more important is a good thing.

Super fast and accurate strong players can be an antidote to this. The old hit into space and run from midfield works well if you can disguise your intentions and have decoy players take he attention off the defenders. Used to be a ugly way to play but beckham and then Ronaldo did this to perfection.

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Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid. The greatest counterattack team ever made. Soaks in the Chaos of a turnover from a compact defense that presses. At first glance that would seem counterintuitive because Jose would want his players well organized and together but then any one of them can at the drop of a hat (especially when you have Ronaldo and Angel) can zoom forward and beat the opposition before they can get in to their defensive structure

Do you have analyses on Jupp Heynkes,Carlo Ancellotti,Zinedine Zidane,Jürgen Klopp,Vincent Del Bosque and Didier Deschamps? we'd love to see it

Cruijff once said: 'if you get me 1 on 1 in a big space I am bad at defending, but give me small space to work with and I'm a world class defender'. You create the small space by organizing in position and retrieve the ball by transitioning quickly

Great breakdown

I prefer Cruyff's tactics. Guardiola has taken the basics of what Cruyff did, but has taken it to the extreme. Cruyff kept it pretty simple. Make the pitch as big as possible in attack, defend high so you win the ball back early, and always have passing options. Beyond that he trusted his players to improvise and problem solve. Guardiola wants to micro manage everything. Cruyff's teams were way more vulnerable and his dream team would probably not beat Pep's Barca, but it was much more fun to watch as it was less predictable in its play. They mixed it up far more and took more risks. Plus they didn't have World Class players in almost every position

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I think the term "forever" is a little Bombastic, since theories and tactics come and go and come back again. Look at Xavi at Barca now using the olden times W W or 2 3 2 3 formation. But Peps influence cant be ignored, Id say hes the best if not one of the best, when you see what he did at Barca transfer to the Spanish national team with a core of Barca players and a similar style that let them do the Euro World Cup Euro treble. Not many managers can claim to have influenced a national team based on a clubs style and then dominate world football

If you have less decisions to make, you can make them faster, and they become more meaningful. If you have less roles to fulfill, then you can improve faster on them. Freedom and constrains are not an on/off switch. Freedom is only appreciated within a frame of constrains, limited freedom is normally more useful and valuable than anarchy as it leads to order and progress instead of chaos and frustration.

all of it, plus, the longer the team has posesión of the ball, the less opportunities the other team for scoring, so long posesión is a way of improving defense.