MADRID, 25 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The manager of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, will try to cross the path of Real Madrid again, a rival that has been quite good in his career as a manager and against whom he has only lost four of the 19 occasions in which faces have been seen.
The one from Santpedor will meet again in search of a final with the 13-time European champion and with the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, who was able to deactivate his board and his football to achieve two of the four defeats that the Madrid team.
The one from Reggiolo took the ticket for the final fight for the title in the 2013-2014 campaign. Then, the Catalan was in charge of the German Bayern Munich and was eliminated against Real Madrid in the semifinals, losing both at the Santiago Bernabéu (1-0) and in the second leg at the Allianz Arena (0-4).
Guardiola’s other two defeats against the merengue team were during his time at FC Barcelona, between 2008 and 2012, and against José Mourinho. First, he lost the Copa del Rey final 2-1 and later by the same score at the Camp Nou in his last campaign as Blaugrana coach, a defeat that also practically handed the league title to the rival from the.
In any case, the statistics support the ‘citizen’ coach, who also has the memory of having won his last two duels against the Madrid team, already with his current team. It was in the round of 16 of the 2019-2020 Champions League, with two 2-1 wins at the Bernabéu and at the Etihad Stadium.
In this sense, the ‘danger’ for Ancelotti’s team against Guardiola increases when he steps on the Madrid fiefdom, where his numbers are quite devastating. On Calle Concha Espina, Guardiola has won six times and has only lost in the aforementioned 2014 match with Bayern.
In addition to winning with City two years ago, the Bernabéu witnessed FC Barcelona’s display in the 2008-2009 season and the remembered 2-6. The following year they also won in the capital of Spain (0-2) and a later campaign signed one of their two draws there along with the first leg of the 2011 Spanish Super Cup, but won in the first leg of the League semifinals of Champions by 0-2. His last league visit with Barça was on December 10, 2011 and ended with 1-3, while a month later he won 1-2 in the first leg of the Copa del Rey round of 16.
On the other hand, at home, in the League, with Barça he defeated Real Madrid in the 2008-2009 (2-0), 2009-2010 (1-0) and 2010-2011 (5-0) seasons, and lost in the aforementioned from 2011-2021 by 1-2. In addition, they tied in the second leg of the 2010-2011 Champions League semifinals (1-1) and the 2011-2012 Copa del Rey round of 16 (2-2), winning the second leg of the 2011 Super Cup 3-2. . In total, from 19 games, eleven wins, four draws and four losses.