Manuel Pellegrini has been dismissed as one-dimensional because of his gung-ho instincts,but against Paris Saint-Germain his tactics brought their rewardAttack, attack, and more attack” would be an apt title for the chapter of Manuel Pellegrini’s memoir covering his time at Manchester City. This gung-ho ethos has cast the Chilean as a one‑dimensional football man who cannot or will not adjust tactics depending on the opponent.
Yet a strange thing happened on Wednesday night in Paris and a stranger thing could occur next Tuesday evening in Manchester. At Parc des Princes Pellegrini’s total-bombardment strategy had City taking the lead against PSG and then equalising late on despite their Zlatan Ibrahimovic-led opponents swamping them for large parts of the contest. At 2-2 and with only minutes left to hold on to a fabulous result Pellegrini was still not convinced,so when David Silva was replaced on came Wilfried Bony, a striker not a holding midfielder or defender, or as the manager pushed for the winner.
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Source: theguardian.com