And The Team Called Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City – The ‘Incoming’ Greatest Premier League Side EVER

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola is about to further rewrite the history books once again with his spell bounding, captivating, mesmerising football tactics.

He came into the limelight in Barcelona when his first campaign in charge brought success in the form of the UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey.

It was the club’s first ever treble and at 37 years of age, it made Guardiola the youngest manager to lift the UEFA Champions League in history.

Manchester City’s remarkable start to the season has not simply been a sustained attack on every opponent to cross their path – only Everton have taken points off them – but now has the potential to turn into an assault on the record books.

This Manchester City team are more direct and are bludgeoning opponents with their array of deadly assassins.

City’s 16th successive league victory, achieved with such style and emphasis against opponents ranked as possible Premier League challengers at the start of the season, extended the record they set in midweek for the highest number of consecutive wins.

Like someone said on twitter and I quote him “Before 2015, EPL was a truly democratic league and every club had right to FREE SPEECH. Then came Pep Guardiola. Just like Buhari, He is a former Military dictator from LA LIGA and doesn’t tolerate any form of opposition” (Ebube D Statesman (@akaebube)

Of the many milestones achieved already, this latest victory means City are the first team since Wolves in 1953-54 to beat Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham in the league before Christmas.

The winning run is unlikely to end here, with the opportunities presented by upcoming games at home to Bournemouth and away to Newcastle United and Crystal Palace unlikely to be wasted.

They are on course to break Chelsea’s record of 30 wins in a Premier League campaign, a feat Antonio Conte’s side achieved last season. City already have 17 and need only 14 from their remaining 20 fixtures to achieve that feat.

Chelsea also hold the record for total points won in a season – 95 in 2004-05 under manager Jose Mourinho.

City are well on course, having already amassed 52 in their first 18 games, a tally which means they have equalled the record for the highest points total before Christmas (a record they share with Manchester United, though Sir Alex Ferguson’s side took 21 games to reach that mark in 1993).

If this is all not evidence enough of a side with designs on greatness, what about these?

Guardiola’s side have a goal difference of +44, the same as that of nearest rivals Manchester United and Chelsea combined.

The biggest goal difference in Premier League history is the +71 of Carlo Ancelotti’s double-winning side of 2009-10. They also had the highest goals tally in the league with 103, with City currently on 56 with less than half of the campaign gone.

Guardiola’s eyes will be on the prize of the Premier League title rather than records – but there is no doubt Manchester City’s remarkable run and magnificent football have placed them in a position to radically re-write the record books and make a case, come the end of the season, to be regarded as the greatest side of the Premier League.

Guardiola loves talking about football. It’s a process that begins the first time he meets his players, continues throughout every training session (“He interjects all the time to correct and explain exactly what he wants from us,” recalled Dani Alves of Pep’s early days at Barcelona) and even extends to individual chats every day. Praise is effusive when merited.

Guardiola typically spends two hours per day discussing one-on-one the positional minutiae of what he demands from his players. Entirely self-taught as a player, Jerome Boateng has been the biggest beneficiary at Bayern Munich, adding brains to his prodigious centre-back brawn, while Philipp Lahm still spends 15 minutes after every training session talking in minute detail about midfield play, his hands a blur of explanatory signals. For more instinctive players such as Franck Ribery, less is more.

“Pep doesn’t just give you orders,” said Gerard Pique. “He also explains why.”

Pep’s free-flowing philosophy may be what draws in the casual observer, but he dedicates more training sessions to defensive organisation than anything else. It shows: before the 2015-16 winter break Bayern had conceded only 49 goals in 85 Bundesliga games since he arrived, keeping 50 clean sheets.

Attack is based on innate talent, defence is about the work you put into it. Defensive strategy is absolutely essential if I want to attack a lot

“Attack is more based on innate talent,” he once said. “Defence is about the work you put into it. Defensive strategy is absolutely essential if I want to attack a lot.”

From all indications, there is simply nothing stopping this team from breaking every football protocols and records. All fingers crossed!!!

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Well said Well said

Its their time to shine....let man city enjoy it while it lasts for now....