As Manchester City seek to get back to their best we can see a conflict between what Pep Guardiola wants his side to be and ...

As he faces up to Enzo Maresca's Chelsea, the Etihad boss was in honest form and gave an insight into what he would now call ...

But Pep Guardiola's tactics either side of the break outlined a battle of his own, between the team he wants his best sides to be and the team his City are right now. During the first period ...

There was a time when Pep Guardiola used to fantasise about fielding ... could win the Premier League — and win it in spectacular style, breaking one record after another — by fielding a ...

It’s a combination of team fatigue, an aging squad, and perhaps a sense that Pep Guardiola’s uncompromising style may be wearing thin. But above all else, an injury to a single player seems to ...

Has Guardiola's love for playmakers been lost? What's happened to original Pep-ball? City's lack of midfield options able or intelligent enough to play Pep's style has surely been the club's ...

Last September, this rivalry turned into a full-on grudge with Erling Haaland’s “stay humble” jibe after Manchester City ...

Spaniard Guardiola’s switch-up was not just in their direct style, it was also the shape he ... he wasn’t really a defender for most of the match. Pep got his full-backs to play like Nineties ...

But Pep Guardiola's tactics either side of the break outlined a struggle inside his own mind between the ideal style of play he wants his top teams to employ and the reality his City are living ...

It’s been a long time since Pep Guardiola showed us his tactical genius ... up the ball and flicked it on for Phil Foden in a 90s-style one-two for the third. It was a lot more like watching ...

Arsenal kept their Premier League title dream alive with an emphatic 5-1 victory against Manchester City at the ...