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Strachan: Bielsa is a visionary. He’ll leave a legacy
PEP GUARDIOLA set his sights on Mission Impossible after his Manchester City side reached the FA Cup Final.
Gabriel Jesus nodded the semi-final winner against Brighton in the fourth minute at Wembley to keep alive City’s hopes of winning the quadruple – which Guardiola admitted was a mammoth task.
The City boss said: “We are in the Final. Nobody has ever done the quadruple so why can we do it? It’s almost impossible to achieve everything. But we will still try and do it.”
City won the domestic treble but missed out on the Champions League.
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WATFORD hero Gerard Deulofeu got angry over his Wembley snub to fire Javi Gracia’s men into the FA Cup Final.
Wolves were heading to their first Final since 1960 until supersub Deulofeu’s introduction sparked an amazing comeback.
The Spanish star (right) produced a brilliant 79th-minute goal before bagging the winner, after Troy Deeney’s last-gasp penalty sent the semi-final classic into extra time.
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LEEDS manager Marcelo Bielsa is a prime example that you don’t need to win the biggest trophies to be hailed as a visionary coach. have worked for Bielsa, he said: “I was lucky, I got the world’s best as well – Sir Alex Ferguson, Howard Wilkinson, Ron Atkinson.
“I wouldn’t have changed it and I don’t think my career could have crammed in another manager.
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got many trophies in the cabinet and normally you are counted on winning trophies. But you can leave more as a coach, you can leave a basis for other managers to work with, you can leave ideas for other managers to think about.
“And for a manager, somebody thinking about your ideas is as good as winning trophies.” picked up stuff from managers, it doesn’t mean to say they have completely used everything he has got. From every manager, you pick up one or two things.
“The game is different now. When Sir Alex first started, everyone played 4-4-2. It was there and in your face. Then 30 years ago, people started playing 4-3-3 and playing between the lines, and it started getting a bit different.
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