Manchester City may have pined for their fans but in the end they found a way to show their superiority over Aston Villa and win the fourth division in the last five years.

Pep Guardiola won the 10th championship in his 13 years as a coach. With the exception of his first year at City, where he needed time to put his players in his own game of football, his teams were undeniably all-time favorites in every league they competed in.

For Liverpool, the road to winning the Champions League is more passable

The Spanish manager recently stated that winning the Premier League is more difficult than winning the Champions League. There was a grain of truth in his statement, but it was incomplete and did not concern his own teams. It applies to Liverpool.

Indeed, Klopp’s side find it easier to win the Champions League than the Premier League and it shows in the trophies they have won in recent years. The Reds are unlucky too, as from the moment Klopp created a team capable of scoring points that under normal conditions add up to a championship, they fall to Guardiola’s City.

Of course, it’s much easier for City and Pep’s teams to win the championship and it’s very difficult for him to cope with the special situations and psychological pressure that arise in the demanding knockout games of the Champions League.

He is by far the top coach as his junior teams are consistently winning

In the league, its players use the incredible know-how of its football to help better players beat juniors. For Guardiola’s teams, the problem arises when the opponent they face has the opportunity to inject trouble into their teams’ last line of defence.

A reality emerges that he finds difficult to face himself and the constant failures of late has led him to leave his boxes and make mistakes for which he pays.

He was fortunate, the ability for precision due to his reputation as a coach, to start his career at the highest level. In the summer of 2008 he took over the best squad created in all the years I’ve been watching football and of course with his work and he managed to develop Barcelona and create one of the best teams of all time. He was trained in a football that had to help the top players beat inferior opponents.

He built an opposing signal machine in Barcelona. Barcelona during Guardiola’s years not only focused on winning his games, but did so in a way that often made them feel ashamed of their opponents. In Barcelona, ​​he had such tools that allowed him to play football of absolute superiority, high risk, but also security in defense, even at the highest level, and managed to win the Champions League twice.

That defensive security, even at the highest level, given to him by Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Puyol and the others, he hasn’t been able to find anywhere else since the day he left Barcelona. Although so much in Munich, even more so in Manchester, he was able to work with the best. Select and win the footballers who can follow his football.

His teams are an evolution of his own plan and have a specific character

This development of a plan of absolute dominance may not have resulted in his sides conquering the Champions League, but it certainly brings championship after championship. No matter how good teams he has on his hands, he has achieved numbers that are unheard of.

No one has the right to question his intervention in football that since the day he started his career he has contributed more than any other coach to make the sport more aggressive and develop tactics on offense.

Whichever team takes over, it changes its character and makes it Guardiola’s team. In a sentence that does certain things and has nothing to do with the mentality, the past of the club, but is an evolution of Pep’s football.

Average of 91.5 points in each league

In his 13-year career, Guardiola has won 10 championships. He has played a total of 482 league games, winning 367, drawing 65 and losing just 50 of them. So teams consistently win 76.1% of the games they gave.

On average, his teams get 2.41 points per game. It also appears that the average score his teams appear to have at the 38-team championships in the 13 championships he has competed in is 91.5. Yes, you read that right, Pep’s teams consistently average 91.5 points each year. Winning the league that Guardiola’s team competes in is a small miracle.

It leaves no room for miracles

After all, he’s only done it three times in 13 years and his first year at City hadn’t yet managed to transmit his desires to his footballers, it was a year of education. It was that impressive ease for his players to open up an organized defense that didn’t allow Steven Gerrard to steal the league from City and take them to his favorite Liverpool.

With the first goal and the stress gone, everything became automated and the game returned. City football is so automated that with the 1-2 it was clear that the game was coming back and that we would not see a football miracle.

That’s exactly what Guardiola does with the football he works for. That there is no place for miracles. With his teams, he makes sure that the juniors suffer permanently and under all conditions. Nobody else has done it so convincingly, nobody has shown so much perseverance and managed to keep their team so focused in games they can handle and win with much simpler things.

But if you fall into this trap, you certainly won’t consistently win 76.1% of the games you play, you won’t average 91.5 points. It is his pursuit of perfection that makes the difference. But he’s also fortunate to always work with the guns he wants.