Bournemouth 1-2 Man City: the clouds rise to Guardiola while his team returns to Wembley in FA Cup
The frenetic body of Pep Guardiola’s body has released any frustration suffered in a season of mediocrity while the clouds raised and the sun finally shone on the city of Manchester in Bournemouth.
Guardiola cut a tortured and anguished figure for most of a campaign in which the shape of his Manchester City team fell from a cliff after claiming a historic four subsequent titles of the Premier League.
He left the Cup of England as the only target left to stop Guardiola who suffered the rare ignominia of ending a season empty-handed for the first time from its opening in the city in 2016-17-it was the only campaign that did not win a trophy as a manager.
And looking at Guardiola at close range at the Stadium Stadium while City came from behind to win 2-1 made a hoax of Guardiola’s affirmation according to which not even winning the England Cup could compensate for not being able to make an embankment in the Premier League and Champions League.
It was a pure theater that looked at the man so accustomed to glory, who lives for success, exudes relief, celebrates and then joy not contested when City deservedly deserved the line.
This was Guardiola who publicly savor the sweet taste of victory after so often failed to find solutions to the crisis, certainly according to their standards, which dragged the city in this period.
He said City came to “with flip flop” vitality when they suffered the first defeat of the season in the Premier League in November. This was strictly commercial.
“In November, we came here for a holiday against a team that I compete,” he added.
The only thing that hit a holiday here was the glorious climate of the southern coast when the British Summer Time arrived – and City had to survive a storm of its own preparation before guaranteeing the victory.
From the first minute, Guardiola burned with the desire for victory, a live thread in the technical area in all and at the final whistle after a victory that sealed an extraordinary seventh semifinal of the England Cup, this time against the Nottingham forest in Wembley.
And, as all the great managers do, Guardiola still maintained his frozen analytical mind during the fiery behavior of the touch line to bring the change that transformed the tide of this quarter -finals of the England Cup when City followed the climbed goals of Evanlson at the interval.
Guardiola removed the central defender in difficulty Abdukodir Khusanov, changing Josko Gvardiolo in the middle and presenting the talented twenty -year -old Nico O’Reilly on the left back.
The natural position of O’Reilly, as confirmed by Guardiola, is a number 10, but here it did damage to the hips, establishing a tie for Erling Haaland, who had lost a penalty of the first half, then played in deputy Omar Marmoush for the winner.
