Neymar1095:
Pep Guardiola: “A lot of credit to my
players. Shakhtar demanded the way
they played a lot of things for us to
do.”


Pep: “We didn’t make enough passes in
a row in the first half. The second half
was much better and we are so, so
happy.”


Pep: “The reason why they were
narrow was because the space was
wide with Leroy and Raz and our full-
backs controlled the counter-attacks.“
Guardiola: “Even in that situation (1-0)
we were stable, it was such a
demanding game and the next one
(Napoli) maybe tougher.”

Neymar1095:
Dani Alves on Pep


"He is a genius. I'll say it again: a genius. Pep
would tell you exactly how everything was going
to happen in a match before it even happened.
"For example, the game against Real Madrid in
2010, when we won 5-0. Pep told us before the
match, 'Today, you're going to play like the
football is a ball of fire. It never stays at your
feet. Not even a half second. If you do that,
there will be no time for them to pressure us. We
will win easily.'

"The sensation when we left every one of his
pre-match talks was like we were already up 3-0.
We were so empowered, so prepared, that it felt
like we were already winning."

"The funniest thing was if we came in at half-
time and the game wasn't going well. Pep would
sit down and rub his forehead. You know how he
rubs his head? You've seen it, right? Like he's
massaging his brain, searching for the genius to
come to him.

"He would do this right in front of us in the
dressing room. Then, like magic, it would come
to him. Bang! 'We will do this, this and this, and
then this is how we will score.' Then he would
jump up and start barking out instructions,
drawing maths and figures on the board.

"So we would go out, and we would do this, this
and this. And that's how we would score. It was
crazy. Pep was the first coach in my life who
showed me how to play without the ball. And he
wouldn't just demand that his players change
their game, he would sit us down and show us
why he wanted us to change with statistics and
video.

TheGoodJoe:
For the one who pointed that it was wrong not expressing our heart felt sympathy to Aguero. I agree we were wrong an I use this opportunity to express my heartfelt sympathy and wish the Legend a quick recovery.