Pep Guardiola is not always appreciative when suggestions are made that his tactical alterations do not, on occasion, help his team out.
Those doubts inevitably surface after Manchester City fail to win a particularly notable match; it’s natural that the City boss gets irked, therefore, when he has probably won half a dozen or more lesser-fixtures to be in that position in the first place. Even so, suspicion will always linger when his flexes and plans fail to yield positive results after more orthodox, more consistent, lineups seem to point the route to regular victories.
