The 2023-24 title battle is contest not just of wills but of contrasting styles of play
What if the story of the title race could be told in two passes? Not two particular passes. Any pair of passes. Every pair, in fact. That’s impossible to do just by watching the games. Passes wash over you hundreds at a time, week in and week out, with the non-stop ping-ping-ping of an overcaffeinated groupchat. You skim past most of them, pay attention to a few, and probably don’t remember much later except a few zingers here and there.
You may remember their glory days of 2019-20 for the flurry of long-range balls that took defences by storm — and they certainly did plenty of that, at least compared to Guardiola’s short-passing machine — but their signature pass pairs back then involved a lot of sideways play at the halfway line as they poked around for an opening to rain down fire. Advertisement Lately they’ve become something else entirely.
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