UCL: Guardiola reveals his tactical plan against Real Madrid that didn’t work

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has fixed a breakdown of his tactical program that did not enactment against Real Madrid.

Guardiola’s men were hammered 3-0 successful their Champions League last-16 archetypal leg, with Federico Valverde scoring a hat-trick successful the archetypal half.

After the game, the City brag deed retired astatine critics who blamed him for making excessively galore changes to his starting XI.

“The lone accommodation was [Abdukodir] Khusanov due to the fact that Vinicius moves successful that area, and we wanted a feline who doesn’t deliberation overmuch to attack,” Guardiola said.

“The rest? (Wingers?) Yeah, injured 2 months, yeah. And they played incredible; Savinho successful Newcastle, Jeremy [Doku] ever is an unthinkable threat.

“And radical with experience, Bernardo [Silva] and Rodri, runners with Nico [O’Reilly] and Antoine [Semenyo], the consciousness of extremity that each of them have, set-pieces – that was the idea.

“Rotation? I’ve done it successful Newcastle, 9 players different. I recognize what I’m saying; the people is wingers to effort to driblet them, radical successful the mediate successful pockets to get adjacent to the box, power 2nd structures with experienced players, accelerated players down – that was the idea…”

UCL: Guardiola reveals his tactical program against Real Madrid tha...