15 minutes plan by Guardiola that destroyed Man Utd

The false-nine tactics used by Pep Guardiola in Manchester City's 3-0 win against Manchester United in the first leg of the semi-final Carabao Cup clash has been revealed.

This was made known by Kevin De Bruyne who stated that Guardiola spent only 15 minutes in preparing his squad for the tactics.

City won the day with goals from Bernado Silva, Riyad Mahrez and an own goal by Andreas Pereira.

Revealing the tactics to Sky Sports, De Bruyne said “We did 15 minutes on it in the morning, that’s about it.

“We didn’t train that but it’s not like we never did it before – we did it sometimes against teams that prefer to play man-against-man; Cardiff, United, in Barcelona away we did it the first year with Pep, so we’ve done it a couple of times.

“With Bernardo dropping it is four against three in the midfield, so they have to choose what they do – if they put their defender up there is more space behind and if not Bernardo is going to be free and that is what we tried to do.

“I think overall we played well. The second half they tried to put a bit more pressure on us and we made one mistake and they scored from it.

“I don’t think they had a lot of chances and I think we should have scored more but in the end 3-1 is a good advantage. We know it is not over but obviously it was a good game for us.”