PEP AND ENRIQUE
Pep Guardiola will bounce back from his long winless run
with Manchester City and end up winning trophies in England while playing
impressive football, Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said on Friday.
Former
Barca and Bayern Munich coach Guardiola is without a win in six games in all
competitions, culminating in Wednesday's 1-0 League Cup loss to Manchester United, his worst run of results since entering
management in 2008.
But
Luis Enrique, a former Barca team mate of Guardiola, told a news conference
ahead of Saturday's game with Granada in La Liga that he is confident his
friend will turn things around.
He said: 'To the critics of Guardiola I will say this: don't
worry, he's going to win trophies this season.
'Critics will always appear because people don't like it
when the same people win all the time, but I'm sure Pep is going to win, and
he's going to win while playing the same spectacular football we saw at the
start of the season.
'If you have to have a philosophy and an idea you have to
die by it.'
Luis Enrique and Guardiola were both part of the Spain team
that won the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the two
midfielders later shared the dressing room at Barca between 1996 and 2001.
Guardiola won a record 14 trophies in four years in charge
at Barca and guided Bayern to three successive Bundesliga titles before
succeeding Manuel Pellegrini as City manager last summer.
CITY'S NEXT SIX
GAMES
Oct 29: West Brom (A, Premier League)
Nov 1: Barcelona (H, Champions League)
Nov 5: Middlesbrough (H, Premier League)
Nov 19: Crystal Palace (A, Premier League)
Nov 23: Borussia Monchengladbach (A, Champions League)
Nov 26: Burnley (A, Premier League)
A perfect start of 10 wins in 10 games in all competitions
with City was interrupted by a 3-3 draw with Celtic in the Champions League,
followed by defeat to Tottenham and a draw at home to Everton.
City's last win in any competition was a 3-1 success at struggling
Swansea City on September 24.
The former Barca coach endured a harrowing homecoming at the
Nou Camp earlier this month, seeing his side make a litany of errors to lose 4-0 to the La Liga champions.
City travel to West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on
Saturday and host Barcelona next Tuesday in Champions League Group C.
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