Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has let known his physical displeasure with the football pattern called tiki-taka.
Tiki-taka is style of play involving highly accurate short passing and an emphasis on retaining possession of the ball.
Pep Guardiola is hailed to be the best manager that plays the tiki-taka style of football. Starting from his managerial days at Barcelona, Pep teams possesses the ball not letting their opponents have a grip on it.
This however extends to his time at Bayern Munich and now Manchester City. His team often gets the accolades of being the best team due to this tiki-taka style of play.
Pep Guardiola has now claimed he hates the tiki-taka football pattern saying it means passing the ball for the sake of it. He also claimed his Barca team never played tiki-taka.
“I hate tiki-taka. Tiki-taka means passing the ball for the sake of it, with no clear intention. And it’s pointless!”
“Don’t believe what people say. Barça didn’t do tiki-taka! It’s completely made up! Don’t believe a word of it.”
“In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.”
“You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak.”
“And when we’ve done all that, we attack and score from the other side.”
