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The controversial comparison of Lahm between the Barça and the City of Guardiola

Published:1/05/2021 - 19:37h

Updated:1/05/2021 - 20:01h

Philipp Lahm, that was under the orders of Pep Guardiola in the Bayern Munich, wrote an article in The Guardian referring to the Manchester City

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Philipp Lahm, that knows well to Pep Guardiola since this was to the control of the bench of the Bayern Munich, wrote an article in The Guardian desgranando the keys of the technician of Santpedor, that is near to achieve his third Premier League with the Manchester City from his arrival to the team, with which is also to a step to inscribe his name in the final of the Champions League.

The legend of the German football says that the game of Guardiola "is a celebration of the individuality. The creativity is more important that a diagram". "In the important parties", said me, "choose my best eleven", wrote the ex player of the Bayern. "Some trainers look for to reduce the complexity of the football. Guardiola, however, wants to dominate it", added.

To trial of Lahm, Guardiola has good players in the City, but no to the best as it was used to to have in the FC Barcelona: "In Barcelona, Guardiola had four or five that would do an eleven world-wide. In the Manchester City does not have this, in spite of the big investments. As it said once Guardiola, the prodigios like Kylian Mbappé and Neymar still prefer metropoles like London and Paris or clubs with a glorious history. Measured like staff, the City would not be the favourite. Especially because Sergio Agüero, his player with a special talent, no longer is in full form by the injuries", explains the German.

The ex side of the Bayern also referred to Walker, to the one who thinks that Guardiola has done of him a better player and of Gundogan, to the one who considers like a perfect footballer to play with Pep. Besides, it signals that to Guardiola "would like him choose to 11 Andrés Iniestas", sentenced the ex captain of the selection of Germany his comparative argument between the Barça of Guardiola of 2009 and the City of Pep of the actuality.

The Barça of 2009, inigualable

Indistinctly of the power that can present a team by one and until in three consecutive seasons, winning big quantity of trophies and marking milestones in the history of the world-wide football, the true is that the Barça of 2009 is considered by many like the most powerful team ofall . To his exit of the Barça, Guardiola was to the control of the Bayern and Manchester City, and although of these last is to a step to make history, is remarkable that neither for him neither for his ex club (Barcelona) will go back to emulate that pioneer of the sextete.

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