Man City tactics: How Pep Guardiola went through many systems to find best XI
Looking back, clues to this final system had been there all season. Doku’s one-against-one threat on the left had required teams to double up on him since August. O’Reilly’s runs began to bear fruit as early as September. Silva’s intelligent pressing and build-up helped mitigate City’s areas of weakness from November onwards. Haaland and Semenyo…