It’s not much more than a month since every lazy pundit and quite a few of our fans were parroting “City have been worked out”.
so what did the beautiful bald genius do? He reinvented us again, with a changed system which has them all bamboozled. Everything is a tweak rather than a radical change, but as a whole it’s transformed us and the rest can’t keep up: 4 at the back but then it stretches to 3 when we have the ball and we now have two holding midfielders. A false 9 system where as soon as the false 9 drops someone else pops in. And someone else drops in to cover that player. They are moving all over the place and creating both confusion and big overloads in the last third.
Go and work that one out, mere mortals. Actually don’t bother. He will just do it again.
When he is gone we will all realise what a privilege it has been to witness a giant of the game build, manage and motivate his teams. He’s the best I’ve ever known.