The victory at Manchester City’s Parco dei Principi against PSG, in comeback thanks to goals from De Bruyne and Mahrez after the advantage signed by Marquinhos, inspired Pep Guardiola. The Catalan coach quoted Francesco De Gregori to analyze the success on French soil that allows him to have one foot in Istanbul, home to the Champions final on 29 May. Sometimes I seem to myself Francesco De Gregori. To my kids I always say “We are history”. When we manage to be ourselves we are a really good team. We have to be ourselves. If we play as we know, we can win, referring to the song La Storia, released in 1985 in the album Scacchi e tarocchi.
And again: The problem is that when you play such a game of such an important competition you do not let yourself go. You are afraid of compromising everything, you are shy. We paid for this attitude by finishing below. Then when the fear passes you play freer and finally we are back ourselves. In the second half we made a much more aggressive pressing, we recovered more balls and we had more control. Without a real center forward – the owner was Bernardo silva – Guardiola now cradles the dream of returning to winning the Champions League after the two won with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.
Failed goal in Bayern Munich: Sometimes I miss it, but we needed to bring the game to a certain pace and try to block it. We couldn’t play open against Neymar and Mbapp. If you make a mistake and they go on the break they’ll kill you. Just as Verratti and Paredes are dangerous in the insertions. And this also applies to the return. If we are the team of the first half it will be tough, if we are the team of the second half we will go to the final.
Then Guardiola was the protagonist of a curtain with Alessandro Del Piero. The former Juventus striker asked him for repetitions, as a student in Coverciano. And the Catalan replied like this: When you want, indeed. When they reopen, I come to Italy. I miss pasta so much.
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