back rounds are not the strength of Pep Guardiola. In seven years of professional experience as manager of FC Barcelona and FC Bayern his teams played six times the best first round of their league; but only once, in his first Bayern-season, the best second half. Until season-half his team no longer seem almost unbeatable then. In the Hinrunden his seven seasons the Catalans lost only four league games, in the rear there were fifteen laps, seven of them with the Bavarians. And his final second leg in the Bundesliga starts so until this Friday in Hamburg (20.30 clock / live on ARD and FAZ Live Scores).
Author: Christian Eichler, sports correspondent in Munich.
They bring Guardiola in a novel situation. For the first time in his career, he is, although still in the here and now highly active, already a man of yesterday – because he has opted for a future without Bavaria. “Much depends on the start, because the situation a certain explosiveness includes” warns Ottmar Hitzfeld, who was before his last Bundesliga season 2008 in a similar situation and they successfully solved with the double for Bayern. They would under such conditions “vulnerable if the start does not succeed so well,” said Hitzfeld in “Kicker”.
If the great Guardiola for “lame duck”, and the hamburger just the lame Favorite Teams SV, against Bayern scored 28 goals under him? So far, he shows himself emphasized decisive. One year after the Bayern with a 1: 4 in Wolfsburg stumbled in the second half, he has to plan the winter break changed, given the players more days off and only disputed one preseason game. Because it was lost 1: 2 at the second division club Karlsruher SC, Guardiola looked but even before the first competitive match of the year under pressure to justify. “I like to play friendlies,” he said on Thursday. “But I decided to train more.”
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The waiver friendlies gave more time for regeneration and for additional shifts in tactical fine-tuning. “We have been working on our tactics and on our ability to press,” said Guardiola.
The investment in freshness and finesse are not aligned to the start of the second half, but the physical form and tactical bandwidth in spring when pending the great duels in the Champions League. But of course knows Guardiola that his decisions are measured in the public already on short-term, so the immediate success: “If you win, it’s good. If they do not win, it’s too much training. “
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His poker seems comprehensible , If there is a team that ignore conventional industry rules and on friendly matches can largely dispense before the first competitive game, one that feels strong enough to get the match practice in case of emergency, then the Bavarians. Confidence and points clear gain a buffer which allows experiments. In addition, while like the back round of Guardiola’s career statistics not be on its side – the overall statistics, it is already. Whenever his teams were in the lead after the first round (on average by eight points), they were champions.
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Eight points are even now. But Guardiola warns against self-certainty, out of habit. Before traveling to Hamburg, he did it with the rhetorical question: “Are we masters?” He knows that he has in the Bundesliga, a significant title rival is the retreaded Dortmundern first adult: “BVB this season one of the five best teams in Europe. “
The shape of the curve of his team must be geared towards top level therefore already in the second half of February. Then it occurs in the Champions League first knockout round first at Juventus at that has consecutively won twelve games in Italy, and then in the top of the Bundesliga duel in Dortmund.
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Relieved Guardiola acts that he probably can put on his top transfer it again, on Douglas Costa. “He’s back there,” he said of the Brazilians, the twelve Assists and two goals contributed in twelve league games before he missed the final weeks of the year because of muscle problems. In his distinctive characteristic style Guardiola predicted Costa will be “in the coming years, a top top players for this club.” Only then is it no one more call it – because Guardiola is not only to take his football, and his double superlative in a different league
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