Much of the talk surrounding Manchester City’s Champions League final loss to Chelsea last season centered on manager Pep Guardiola’s overthinking of big games. On Monday, Guardiola joked that he may have found the solution: playing with 12 players.
Prior to Manchester City’s Champions League quarterfinal matchup with Atlético Madrid, Guardiola was beset by questions over his tactics in big games. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager appeared to respond sarcastically ahead of Tuesday’s first leg.
“In the Champions League I always overthink,” Guardiola said in a press conference. “I always create new tactics and ideas, and tomorrow you will see a new one. I overthink a lot, that’s why I have very good results in the Champions League. It would be boring if my job, all the time, we had to play the same way.
