"Barça scores goals, Atleti scores goals and scores more. But there are no perfect nights: Our PepGuardiola, has let us down."
This is how Josep Pedrerol started El Chiringuito last night. With an elegant mockery of "our" Pep Guardiola, who "has let us down. "I was really looking forward to saying something like that!"
Pep Guardiola began his coaching career in the 2008-09 season. Since then, success, success and more success. At Barça, Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
Mourinho Fan and Guardiola Hater for 15 Years
Since then, Josep Pedrerolhas dreamed of seeing him go under. He's been like this for 15 years. Finally, the soul of El Chiringuito has now discovered happiness.
He's finally discovered that Pep Guardiola can also lose. It's never too late if the fortune is good for Josep Pedrerol, who celebrates Manchester City's setbacks as if they were Barça's.
City is not doing well this year and Pedrerol is unleashing all the rage he has kept bottled up over the last 15 years. A rage that is born from the clashes between Guardiola's Barça and Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid, his own.
Pedrerol took sides and hasn't changed his position since then. Silence in the face of Mourinho's continued failures (Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham, and Roma, sacked in all of them) and silence in the face of Guardiola's continued successes.
But nothing lasts forever and now, finally, Pedrerol is happy. Guardiola also loses. He is human, something that was already beginning to be questioned.
Pep Appears with a Disfigured Face
Pep has been having a tough time this season. He is eight points behind Liverpool in the Premier League and his Champions League campaign is at risk.
Yesterday, City allowed to be equalized at home in the final minutes of a match they were winning 3-0 shortly before the end.
After the match, an picture spread around the world: Pep with his face disfigured by scratches on his head and wounds on his nose.
"I did it with my nails. I wanted to hurt myself," he said after the match.
Pep is having a tough time. But every cloud has a silver lining: he's managed to make Pedrerol, a Florentino pawn disguised as a culer, happy.