An Unorthodox Premier League 2021-2022 Season Review
By Naufal Ubaidillah May 23rd, 2022 2 G’s won the day today. Guardiola and Gundogan. Both of them are football people with deep tactical understandings. Guardiola is arguably the greatest football manager ever, leaving his mark on the history of football with his tiki taka tactical philosophy. I read somewhere that if a supercomputer is tasked to formulate the strongest football tactic, that super computer would emulate Guardiola’s strategies. Guardiola’s philosophy is also mentioned to possess the analogy of classical music. If you try to find a genre of music that constitutes Guardiola’s football, it would be classical music. It’s elegant, precise, and extremely outstanding. Meanwhile, Gundogan has been one of the metronome players of the Guardiola era. He is incredibly smart in inspecting space and making those perfectly-timed runs into the box. At the same time, off the pitch, he seems to have an ambition to follow Guardiola’s path as a football manager. He was pictured watching a
