{"id":114138,"date":"2015-05-06T07:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114138"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:15:36","slug":"pep-guardiola-barcelonas-lionel-messi-is-impossible-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/pep-guardiola-barcelonas-lionel-messi-is-impossible-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is impossible to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is “too good” and impossible to stop, according to Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n
Bayern and Barca meet at the Nou Camp in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg, with Guardiola back at the Spanish club for the first time since leaving in 2012.<\/p>\n
“There is not a system or coach to stop talent of Messi’s magnitude,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The way he has been playing over the past four or five months, you cannot stop him. He is too good.”<\/p>\n
Messi, 27, scored twice in Barca’s 8-0 win over Getafe on Saturday to reach 51 goals for the season, and in November became the Spanish league’s all-time top scorer.<\/p>\n
Guardiola spent four years as Barca manager from 2008, winning three league titles, two Champions Leagues and two Club World Cups. The 44-year-old also played for the club for 11 years between 1990 and 2001.<\/p>\n
“Barca is a very important part of my life,” he added. “Until now it was everything but I am here to win. I am not here for a homage but to see Bayern through to the final.”<\/p>\n
Messi, who will make his 100th European appearance in Wednesday’s match, said of Guardiola: “He was with us for a long time and we had the luck to win many titles and experience important moments. He is a coach that studies everything.<\/p>\n
“It is the same for both sides. Pep knows us very well and we know what he asks of his players. It is 50-50, we both know each other very well.”<\/p>\n
Messi also Barca had been “hurt” by their 7-0 aggregate defeat by Bayern in the Champions League semi-finals of 2013.<\/p>\n
“That hurt a lot, but a lot of time has passed,” said the Argentina forward. “We come into the game differently, as do they, and it will be a different tie to that one.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is “too good” and impossible to stop, according to Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola. Bayern and Barca meet at the Nou Camp in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg, with Guardiola back at the Spanish club for the first time since leaving in 2012. “There is not a system or coach to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":114139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"yoast_head":"\n