If Manchester City win the league championship again this season, then Guardiola has also proved from the side that passing football is also a working style in the Premier League; but I still think that Guardiola's so-called pass control play is a false proposition, perhaps the so-called pass control does not exist at all, Guardiola's tactical core lies in high pressure and the ultimate application of attack and defense conversion.
There are still many people who disagree with this statement, especially the belief that Guardiola as a latecomer, the Premier League's pass control play has long been proved by Wenger's Arsenal and Rogers' original Swansea; I don't deny this! But Wenger and Rodgers' pass-and-control play is more like following the rules, following tactical execution and court discipline to pursue control on the court.
Remember that the original Swansea goalkeeper was heavily asked by Rodgers not to open a big foot, and even the center-back could not open a big foot, completely allowing the player to rely on brutal execution to walk on the ground step by step, so as to achieve the ultimate control of the ball.
However, such an approach makes the team often miss the excellent opportunity for offensive counterattack, and the senseless backcourt will often encounter the crazy rush of the opponent, resulting in serious passing mistakes, causing irreparable losses to their own defense! So Rogers' passing style of play that is imprinted in the bones requires a good commander in the backcourt, and the footwork and vision are all world-class players who can and support them, such as Harvey, Xiaobai, Fabregas and Pirlo.
As wenger as a pioneer in the Premier League's pass control play, Guardiola's tactics are infinitely close to him, and they are better than him!
The tactical requirements of both are based on the team's strong midfield support, because these two coaches are real top coaches who see people down, and the tactical thinking keeps pace with the times, of course, the professor has objective factors, at the beginning arsenal full attack and full defense that is, 10 people chased the ball full of rush, but with the improvement of the player's physical fitness, it can be said that the formation of the team is definitely getting more and more compact when playing, just look at the tactics of the league now!
In addition, Gua's tactical concept now has a huge problem that is, it needs extremely good players to stand up, of course, he can fine-tune the tactics according to the characteristics of different players in such a system, and Guardiola actually relies on the back-running or triangulation between the three people when picking the ball in a small area, which is simply a pull and a reverse insertion or A is passed to the C through B to achieve this goal.
Wenger's coaching style is to let the players play the greatest degree of freedom on the field, so that the players have full play and imagination space, with mercury offensive means to crush the opponent, in the past 20 years of Arsenal coaching career, Wenger has also insisted on the 442 tactics, until Wenger began to appear to be difficult, change the 4231 tactics; at this time I do not think that the tactical formation is problematic, but the limitation of the 442 tactics is that all midfielders must participate in attack and defense. Therefore, the midfielders are required to have both offensive and defensive, and can attack and retreat, but in the later stages, Wenger has been unable to find such a player.