Guardiola’s City wins the Premier after Arsenal’s defeat

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Arsenal surrendered. He gave up unable to follow the supersonic career of Guardiola’s City, which has once again been proclaimed champion of the Premier. He has not even had the need to play because Arteta’s team gave up in the Nottingham field (1-0, goal by Nigerian Taiwo Awoniyi), exhausted – he added nine points out of the last 24 in play – as pride had left him citizen reaction.

This Sunday they play against Chelsea in their stadium (5:00 p.m.) already proudly wearing the champion’s crown. It is the fifth Premier in seven years for Guardiola, who is living his big week in England after eliminating Madrid from the Champions League with an unforgettable and wonderful 4-0 that is already on the list of masterpieces after removing the “pain” he was carrying inside since it was swallowed a year ago at the Bernabéu.

On the way to Istanbul is City, with the Premier in their pocket (third in a row), in what means the eleventh League for Guardiola. He won three out of four with Barça, lifted three Bundesligas out of three and has five out of seven possible in England. That is, 11 Leagues in 14 seasons. 12 in 15 if one includes the one he won as a subsidiary coach when he led Barça to the Third Division championship.

A Premier that had lost in January when Arsenal dominated with some solvency in January – they had a five-point lead – without intuiting then that Guardiola’s runaway City would pass over them, chaining up to 10 consecutive victories in the last 10 days. 30 of 30 with the consequent emotional impact on his London rival, whom he wore down in such a way that he raised the white flag of surrender.

From lost fire to passion for triumph

That advantage became, even in mid-January, eight points. Eight points that were volatilized by a team, Guardiola’s, which has lived in constant reinvention, capable as the coach has been of integrating Haaland into his tactical fabric until turning it into a weapon as lethal as it is impossible to nullify. Not only that. The coach ordered a system change, including Stones as center back / center midfield along with Rodri, expanding his team’s catalog of records.

So new that it is nobody knows how to stop it. When the rivals think they have the antidote, it is already too late. The solution was not what they had seen but what they did not imagine. Guardiola is one step ahead. And not even Arteta, who had been his assistant at City, has the key to the safe. Pep has been changing it every day.

Although he needed, yes, to get serious and raise his tone of voice to raise up a team, his, which lived through the passage of the Premier with bureaucracy. In that fight the seed of the fifth Premier was being created. “We are like… four Premiers in five years and I see Arsenal, the passion… What’s wrong with it? Two decades, 20 years without winning the Premier and right now they kill for every ball; we don’t”, warned the City coach, Tired of seeing his players without enthusiasm. They had no soul. They played, period. Good, but nothing more. “Oh, how well we do when we get the ball out! The pressure! But there is something inside that we don’t have,” he said angrily.

Fear at the height of Arsenal

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Suddenly, Guardiola ignited his team. He burned for the passion he didn’t have, embarking on a mad dash that seemed to get him nowhere because not only did he need to be perfect – he has been – but it required Arsenal to feel the fear of the height. The vertigo to the unknown.

Both circumstances merged into four months that will be remembered forever in England. Or when Arteta, one of the best students of guardiolismo, could not with Guardiola. Seven years, five Premiers, three in a row, something never seen in contemporary times. Pep’s dictatorship in a football where, supposedly, his style did not fit.



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