I told a friend guardian I am going to write about this column Guardiola And he called me to sobriety. “Certainly some assistants Michael Angelo He also criticized it The Sistine Chapel From under the scaffolding,” he told me. This seemed to me a comparison that was as accurate as it was exaggerated guardiolismo Over the years it has become more than a football style, an artistic movement.
After eight defeats in eleven matches, Guardiola’s current crisis looks almost like doom Notre Dame CathedralWith flames engulfing Masonry in a complete vision. What is going on with Guardiola? Why did he start to lose form like scratching his head during the match? Is the team tired of his intensity? Is ambition lost after so much success? He is Dr Raman Besa in the country That Guardiola is fighting against himself; I believe his struggle is greater: he is fighting his past, and there is no stronger rival than nostalgia for a better time with the best version of you sending you memories.
The team is mainly suffering from injuries RodriBut it still suffers more from outcome bias, making the decline seem seemingly inexplicable. Guardiola has endured it as a player, he knows exactly what it means: you want to win. You are desperate to win. But you won’t win. Even a very small drop in a single player’s performance has an overall effect. Nothing works. Everything seems to be broken. But you have to go back to win again.
There is an increasingly real possibility that Guardiola will not find the tactical and motivational formula to reverse the situation. No dominance lasts forever, not even yours. But there’s also the possibility that the team will string two, three wins, regain confidence, and re-establish a new Notre Dame-like foundation: different, but so brilliant it almost seems unreal, a 3D printed version of itself. Who knows, maybe we are witnessing the birth of a new version of Guardiola, through recovery.
