{"id":428062,"date":"2011-05-22T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/22\/barcelonas-pep-guardiola-switches-focus-to-champions-league-final-against-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T08:22:00","slug":"barcelonas-pep-guardiola-switches-focus-to-champions-league-final-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/22\/barcelonas-pep-guardiola-switches-focus-to-champions-league-final-against-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s Pep Guardiola switches focus to Champions League final against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Salvatore Landolina<\/h3>\n<h4>22 May 2011 09:22:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"68.8331749049\">\n<div readability=\"13.4300518135\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola - Barcelona (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/130000\/130021_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pep Guardiola &#8211; Barcelona (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"36.697752809\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/3147\/pep-guardiola\">Pep Guardiola<\/a> has shifted the focus on to the Champions League final against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd-news\">Manchester United<\/a> after his side strolled to an easy 3-1 win over Malaga to end their title-winning Primera Division campaign in style.<\/p>\n<p>A weakened Blaugrana XI came from behind to claim victory despite a number of first team stars, including Lionel Messi, being rested ahead of next Saturday&#8217;s Wembley final as the coach wants to ensure his players arrive in London with the correct mindset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to work during the week for Manchester and we will have to do plenty of mental work,&#8221; he told the press after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have a good week and then we will start to get in the mood at the right moment starting from Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola is happy that all his players will be available for the final, and despite insisting that the domestic league title is the most important, he said they will be playing to their full potential as they attempt to repeat history after beating United 2-0 in the 2009 Champions League showpiece in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to recover all the players for the Wembley final. I feel happy to have them available. Everyone will travel to London knowing we represent a certain way of playing and we will try to do it in the best way possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning the final is the objective and you have to be faithful. We are competing against a rival and against ourselves. We have to express ourselves to the maximum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;La Liga is the most important competition, but now we have to play in the most attractive, fascinating game. The world will be watching us, and we have to represent Spanish football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the win over Malaga, Guardiola said: &#8220;It helps us prepare the week with good spirits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/match\/59539\/barcelona-vs-man-utd\/preview\">Champions League final<\/a> takes place on Saturday evening at 19:45 BST.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/05\/22\/2497920\/barcelonas-pep-guardiola-switches-focus-to-champions-league\" title=\"Barcelona's Pep Guardiola switches focus to Champions League final against Manchester United\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona&#8217;s Pep Guardiola switches focus to Champions League final against Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Salvatore Landolina 22 May 2011 09:22:00 Pep Guardiola &#8211; Barcelona (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has shifted the focus on to the Champions League final against Manchester United after his side strolled to an easy 3-1 win over Malaga to end their title-winning Primera Division campaign in style. A weakened Blaugrana XI came from behind to claim victory despite a number of first team stars, including Lionel Messi, being rested ahead of next Saturday&#8217;s Wembley final as the coach wants to ensure his players arrive in London with the correct mindset. &#8220;We have to work during the week for Manchester and we will have to do plenty of mental work,&#8221; he told the press after the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona&#039;s Pep Guardiola switches focus to Champions League final against Manchester United - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/22\/barcelonas-pep-guardiola-switches-focus-to-champions-league-final-against-manchester-united\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barcelona&#039;s Pep Guardiola switches focus to Champions League final against Manchester United - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Salvatore Landolina 22 May 2011 09:22:00 Pep Guardiola - Barcelona (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has shifted the focus on to the Champions League final against Manchester United after his side strolled to an easy 3-1 win over Malaga to end their title-winning Primera Division campaign in style. 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