Manchester Metropolis nice Kompany performed three seasons underneath Pep Guardiola in direction of the tip of his profession. And one can actually see a variety of Guardiola in the best way the previous centre-back and his assistants method ball possession and the way they arrange attacking performs. Positional play and the rotation throughout the formation are key to letting the ball flow into nearly effortlessly.
Final season, Kompany already tried to introduce positional patterns, in that his gamers have been requested to occupy sure zones or lanes, however this yr, gamers rotate from zone to zone extra steadily, which makes it more durable for defences to cowl with out leaving any gaps in direction of and into the penalty space.
Now, this isn't utterly extraordinary in terms of Bayern's offensive method. Guardiola himself applied related patterns after his arrival in 2013, however the Catalan didn't cause them to the Champions League remaining regardless of making actual progress. Throughout Guardiola's three-year spell he introduced in midfielder Joshua Kimmich, probably the most promising German gamers on the time.
Kimmich remains to be with Bayern and might need an evidence as to why the staff look much more fearsome than again then.
“Once I joined 10 years in the past, we have been outfitted with unbelievable particular person high quality. We had 23, 24, 25 world-class gamers,” he stated on Saturday.
“However once I now see how we as a staff perform and are completely satisfied collectively and for each other, once I see how we convey these rules to the sphere, how one runs for the opposite, then that is very particular. That has not been the case so typically. It was completely different 10 years in the past. Then, we had extra egoism throughout the staff.”
