There are three common features in Pep Guardiola’s visits to the Bernabéu: forever commends to Real Madrid under any circumstance, affirms that his team, whatever it may be, will go out to impose your personality and finally, almost never lose. There are other issues that promote the white fans’ dislike: he is the representative of the best-known Barça, he is proud of his status as a Catalan (he does not hide his football, sports, political or personal ideology) and has inflicted several of the greatest annoyances they have suffered Madrid fans.
The devil returns to the Bernabéu.
has the virtue Pep Guardiola i Sala to unnerve the meringue fanatics without the newspaper library being able to offer a more or less rational reason that justifies that resentment in greater proportions than the fear that their visit should instill.
Is it due to the appeal to “the dairy plant” – an allusion to the media related to Florentino Pérez – and the distinction of “fucking master of the press rooms & rdquor; to José Mourinho, all on the same afternoon of April 26, 2011? Perhaps the retention of the ball a second before receiving a push from Cristiano Ronaldo on November 29, 2010? Or for having called “athletes” to the white players after having lost the only time at the Bernabéu, with Bayern, on April 23, 2014?
the worst defeats
It could be, it could be, that saying “let’s go for them & rdquor; before a classic was considered an offense. Perhaps raising the flag of a football style is a display of improper narcissism. There is no shortage of those who interpret the repeated praise of Madrid as false modesty, even in full Barça dominance, appealing to the greatness of the club, its coach, its squad, its history and its “millions of virtues” as a team.
But there is only one circumstance that has cultivated the antipathy of Real Madrid towards the manager of Manchester City, the only coach on the planet who is professed a special aversion and not because the English team is the last obstacle to the final, but because its director has endorsed them the worst defeats, the most bulky, the most self-conscious of the century.
Nobody thought that this would happen on the eve of the first Barça-Madrid with Guardiola as coach. He set the trend. The still new Guardiola said that “we will go out for them & rdquor ;, announcing fight “against the champion & rdquor; and beat him 2-0. Purely illustrative result, even discreet, of what Real Madrid was going to see during the next four years.
Five months later, the mother of all humiliations arrived, with 2-6, when Madrid had reduced the difference from 12 to 4, they rejoiced in the supposed “funny & rdquor; azulgrana and fell humiliated in his own house as he had never seen.
The cycle
The 2-6 of which this Monday marked the 13th anniversary was the penultimate step to the unprecedented triplet never seen (League, Cup and Champions) half of the historic sextet that was forging during 2009 and that continued with the no less thunderous 5-0 who took “the eleven of joy & rdquor ;, Mourinho’s Madrid, the alleged antidote, when he visited the Camp Nou in 2010.
Indeed, Mourinho’s Madrid beat Pep’s Barça in the Valencia Cup final, but it was an island in the ocean. He succumbed again in the semifinal of the Champions League, lost the Super Cup and was eliminated in the next Cup tie. Madrid won Guardiola’s fifteenth and last classic, in the League 11-12 (1-2) and in the Camp Nou.
The “worst shit”
A year of retirement in New York interrupted the heartbreak relationship briefly. On the back of Bayern, Guardiola appeared again in white hell and lost 1-0 for the first time before trying white medicine with a 0-4 in Munich.
“The worst shit of my life as a technician & rdquor ;, as he confessed to Martí Perarnau in his libreo ‘Herr Pep’. His players had been so superior in the first leg that they asked him for an offensive avalanche to sack in the second leg. Madrid (Ancelotti’s, by the way) exacted the long-awaited revenge that had been kept for so long, contained, in the run-up to the final where they also thrashed Atlético, their endearing neighbor.
Pep’s 9 visits to the Bernabéu: 5 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss, 20 goals scored, 9 against.
Heavenly Angelic Satan
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But Satan, still dressed in celestial angelic, reappeared with all the evil of his old customs to win at the Bernabéu and at the Etihad by 2-1, without abandoning the ambition to show “the courage & rdquor; of his team and protected by “modesty & rdquor; due to the club of the 13 European Cups of a City that has none and has only been a finalist once.
Pep was asked twice, before leaving Manchester, before his ninth visit (six wins, two draws, one loss, 20 goals for, 9 against) if his team would make the corridor to Madrid today.