Judi Online - It was a
bad night at the office for Pep Guardiola watching his team take a
beating against Barcelona and appearing to have an argument with Thomas
Muller, and Jamie Redknapp believes the Spaniard has taken Bayern Munich
backwards.
The
German champions were beaten 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions
League semi-final tie at the Nou Camp on Wednesday and now face a second
straight exit at the last-four stage.
Guardiola
took over from Jupp Heynckes, who guided Bayern to the treble in his
final season in charge as they won the 2013 Champions League, beating
Dortmund at Wembley in the final.
The
Spaniard is coming towards the end of his second season in charge of
the German side and, despite winning the Bundesliga once again, he looks
to have come up short in Europe.
Guardiola was also seen appearing to argue with Muller on the touchline after substituting the German international.
Speaking as
a pundit on Sky Sports as part of their coverage from the Nou Camp,
Redknapp said: 'Guardiola is at a club where you're under severe
pressure if you lose any game. It's now full-on.
'When
he took over from Jupp Heynckes, we all felt that it was the dream job
taking over a club that has just won the treble. But he hasn't taken
them to the next level. If anything it looks like they're going
backwards.'
Redknapp
added: 'The difficulty he has is players like Philipp Lahm and Bastian
Schweinsteiger are maybe just getting a little bit older and Xabi Alonso
is not getting any younger.
'When
you take over from a team that has won the treble, it makes it very
difficult indeed. He's got a lot of rebuilding to do it seems to me.
There's certainly pressure, it is going to be difficult for him now.'
Bandar Bola - Guardiola's
return to the club where he won three La Liga titles and two Champions
Leagues as a manager as well as six La Ligas and the Champions League as
a player didn't go according to plan.
His
Bayern Munich side were swept aside by Lionel Messi, the man he
described as unstoppable on the eve of the game, and are on their way
out of the competition.
Guardiola's
ambitious full-pitch pressing tactics left his team exposed a number of
times in the first half and Bayern needed their goalkeeper Manuel Neuer
to keep them in the game.
Muller, for his part, seemed to play down any chances of a comeback in a week's time at the Allianz Arena.
'We
did not have major chances, but it is not easy to play here,' he told
Sky. 'It certainly did not feel like we were going to lose 3-0.
'But
then we put ourselves into that situation. Now we have to stand
together and not look for scapegoats. But we must accept that our chance
of reaching the final is miniscule now.
'It
would be sensational if we turned this around. But you can be sure that
we will give everything we have until the final whistle at the Allianz
Arena.'
On
Guardiola's tactics, Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano said: 'We know
that Pep always in any pitch and any stadium will try to win and will
try to play. They came to press higher, but sometimes when you go and
press high you take risk, and we know that we have a lot of people up
front with quality to make the difference.'
Guardiola's side must win big next week at the Allianz Arena to reach the final in Berlin on June 6.
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