WORLD CLASS COACHING Pep Guardiola Attacking By Luca Bertolini Table of Contents PART ONE Introduction Manchester City's 2017/18 Team and Key Players PART TWO Formations and Attacking Shapes PART THREE Formations and Attacking Shapes Continued PART FOUR Counter-Attacking Set Plays INTRODUCTION "I'd rather my players to thank me for improving them, rather than for the titles."
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Pep Guardiola Attacking By Luca Bertolini Table of Contents PART TWO Formations and Attacking Shapes Formations and attacking shapes on the field This is the basic starting line up with the back four (1-4-3-3): Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Silva, Sterling, Aguero, Sané. In the second season with Guardiola as
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Pep Guardiola Attacking By Luca Bertolini Table of Contents PART THREE Formations and Attacking Shapes Continued Formations and Attacking Shapes Continued When the opposition decides not to press the start of the moves and to defend the width, leaving the center players as defenders of the depth, the offensive phase is usually poor,
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Pep Guardiola Attacking By Luca Bertolini Table of Contents PART FOUR Counter-Attacking Set Plays Counter-Attacks Manchester City scored 28 times (18% of all goals) after a counter attack during this last 2017/2018 season. This following scheme sums up the average percentages of each match; 3% of counter attacks ended with a goal. We
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