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Pep Guardiola: Yet another UCL loss

Pep Guardiola and UCL Defeat: 

Pep's Manchester City suffered yet another UCL defeat yesterday night against Chelsea. Pep is known for his spending and not achieving the European championship. Many believed that Pep is gonna win a UCL after lastly having it with Barcelona in 2011. After leaving Barcelona he suffered 3 semi-final defeat with Bayern Munich, 3 quarter-final defeat and one final defeat with manchester city. In the span of 5 years with the city he spent over 800 million on players seeing a net spend of 750 million and yet to achieve the European glory. 

The reason why he lost yesterday's night final against Chelsea is, starting sterling and leaving Fernandinho/Rodri on the bench. he anticipated that Chelsea is gonna be underdogs and play for a counter-attack styled play with their pacey attack. This style of play made him think that he would need another attacking player to support the attack and breach Chelsea's defence. What he did not expect was the DM is the protector of his two world-class CB's.

Since the start of the game, Stones had trouble keeping Werner and Havertz. He was struggling because he had no one to protect in front of him. The best defensive duo in the premiere league suffered without a defensive midfield. Chelsea since the beginning were playing out from the back with Werner and Havertz being their target. In the early part of the first half, Werner has had the chance to score and eventually missed those two vital chances. Easy play from Chilwell and the mount's through ball to Havertz which saw the german international scoring his first-ever champions league goal. 

After de Bryne injury, pep subbed in Fernandinho which saw a greater progression of the match. with Fernandinho winning the balls high up the pitch, Chelsea struggled to play it out from the back. Had pep started Fernandinho instead of sterling pep would have had the advantage of winning the trophy over Chelsea. On the other hand, sterling was bullied by Reece James who has put in a world-class performance on the night of the final. He followed sterling, tackled him and supporting Chelsea attack with his point-perfect crosses into the box. 

To put it in a simple way, pep was tactically outclassed by Tuchel yesterday and similarly, every other UCL loss pep has suffered from manchester city. pep make some crucial changes in his tactics for UCL and it has not worked out well for him. had pep not changed his tactics and went with his usual tactics, he would have won two UCL trophies with Machester city already. 

Chelesea's Kante, Chilwell, James, Christensen, Werner played a vital role in them winning the final. 

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