Guardiola & De Bruyne: the ideal marriage – 05/20/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The Norwegian goal-scoring machine called Haaland, the German intelligence and skill of Gündogan, the solid defensive system, the exchange of vertical passes, all make Manchester City the most pleasant team to see for those who appreciate the performance, combined with the fact that losing has only been accidental for the English club.

Undoubtedly, the presence of the goalscorer added the power that was missing for City to become the unbeatable team as far as any football, basketball, volleyball team, or even phenomenal athletes in individual sports can be invincible. Because there will always be a day when things don’t work out, for the most different reasons.

That Pep Guardiola is extraordinary is more than proven by his trajectory at Barcelona and, later, at Bayern Munich, whose side effects were largely responsible for the German success in the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil.

In hegemonic times in Spain, Dom Pep had the geniuses Xavi and Iniesta, in addition to the MSN trio, to be just in those five, and won the Champions League.

In Germany, he had Lahm, Robben and Lewandowski, in addition to Neuer and Boateng, also to only five, but he didn’t take Orelhuda.

Now, and for the second time at City, he is close to winning it again. And maybe he didn’t win it when he lost to Chelsea, who were inferior, because Haaland was missing or even the Argentine Julián Álvarez, Cometa’s reserve, as was Lautaro Martínez, at the beginning of the Cup in Qatar. By the way, one of the two will leave Istanbul European champion on June 10, because Lautaro is Inter Milan’s weapon.

And where is the Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, who is up there, in the column title?

It is hidden in this Planeta Bola capable of illuminating goalkeepers like Courtois, who prevented Haaland’s goals, but not Álvarez’s, delicious irony of the 4-0 in Manchester.

De Bruyne also stays out of the spotlight on Dom Pep, as he does not enjoy the same prestige as Haaland, whom he feeds from father to son.

But, rare reader and rare reader, at the age of 31, he is City’s best player at the gates of the Triple Crown.

More: if you doubt it, he is the best player in the world today.

It was his subtle pass for the Portuguese Bernardo Silva to break through the Courtois wall by surprising the goalkeeper, also Belgian, with a bomb in his corner, when everyone was waiting for the cross finish.

KDB is the most organized anarchy in world football, because it can be found anywhere on the pitch, it is almost never unarmed and it is always ready to give the disconcerting pass or score the unlikely goal, from inside or outside the area.

Even when others win the man of the match award, he is invariably the most decisive. Just pay attention to notice.

There are those who prefer the bow to the arrow and vice versa.

When someone does both functions as KDB, and adds more, it begs the question: why is he recognized and praised as just one more when he plays, with such excellence, the role of so many?

Why not use your hands for miraculous defenses? Why isn’t he the best scorer in the world? Why isn’t he the best coach on the planet?

Because the latter, the technician who found a new soulmate in him, knows the answer.

I hope one day someone asks Dom Pep if De Bruyne isn’t the best in the world.

Because is.

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