“We trusted Guardiola’s style and it was a mistake”

After this Wednesday the real Madrid eliminated from the Champions League City of Manchester of Guardiola In a match in which the English team took the initiative in the game but without finding the goals to win, some statements came at odds with the fact that Pep’s bet was always the winner. In particular, it was the German Bastian Schweinsteiger the reflected on the stage of Guardiola within Bayern Munich and its indirect influence on German football as a whole. “When Pep arrived Bavaria He has a style of football that is unbelievable. The insights he gives to the players, and also during the game, are amazing. But what happened was that many other clubs, and even the German national team, tried to copy him. “We forgot about our DNA, we trusted a lot in Pep’s style and I would say it was a small mistake of German football,” he said. Schweinsteiger in an interview with Gary Neville on ‘The Overlap’ podcast.

The legendary German midfielder, 39, also emphasized the importance of the players so that the style he bet Pep Guardiola works. “I always say that Pep trained in Barcelona and there he had eleven actors on the field and he had a film. But he tried to make the same film in Bavaria and the City of Manchesterand sometimes, if the artists change, it’s difficult,” he said about it.

however, Schweinsteiger He ended up punctuating his own words and compliments Guardiola. “I think he learned a lot during his time in Munich and also during his early years at City to know that to win the Champions League he has to be strong in defence,” he concluded, recalling the success Pep achieved last year season when he became the first coach to win the maximum continental competition in City of Manchester.