The 2011 final SAF was shut down for good with Giggs' scandal (he was angry with Giggs for this).
The thing is you need to bring specific ties into context. Pep defeat away often being convincing & left his team in tough position for the return leg. Mourinho, Ancelotti, SAF (latter year) defeat, they more often than not got their in more controlled defeat than Pep. Not to forget more often than not, Pep team was deemed as better team than the opponent. For example: Pep Barcelona lost to Mourinho Inter with 2 goal difference was a big deal as Mourinho Inter with 10 men got a controlled loss that see them through to final. Pep Barcelona got luck with 1 shot on goal = the equalizing goal to get them to final in that infamous game or they're stuck at not being able to score against Chelsea in knock out phase (latter with Di Matteo's Chelsea). Similarly against Atletico. Even Moyes' United could cling to some hope until Bayern second goal in the return leg...
How should I put it? It's like Pep team was always sucked into the home team's tactic: give away the ball so they can counter attack. It happens like everytime it's getting boring. This gives off the feel of naivety as I pointed above. Most of the time Pep's team were the favorite of the tie.
That is absolute nonsense. Only twice has Pep faced a convincing loss away from home (3-0 loss to Barcelona at the Nou Camp, 3-1 loss to Inter at the San Siro) in the first leg. Other times, he came away with a 1-0 loss against Madrid, 1-0 loss against Atletico, 3-1 win against Madrid. All at the SF level, mind. The latter are respectable defeats and no one at the time would have categorized them as massive failures.
Mourinho in comparison, left Atletico with a 0-0 draw, left PSG with a 3-1 loss (still won the tie), got piped away at Dortmund 4-1, lost 2-1 at Bayern in 2012, and drew against CSKA Moscow 1-1. 3 defeats and 2 draws. Of those ties, he advanced twice and got knocked out 3 times.
If you do the same analysis for other coaches, very few (except) Simeone stand out. That supports my theory that Simeone is the best manager on earth over the past few years, and also that Guardiola, for all his faults, has a record that is not substantially worse than his competition. I get that this is a United forum, and we're supposed to loathe everything City, but that doesn't mean we become flat earthers and ignore the numbers.
I assume for the second bolded point, Ancelotti, Mourinho and Ferguson were always underdogs? Only Pep had a superior team to his opposition every time he got knocked out of the CL? Ancelotti with his Milan and PSG and Madrid teams, Fergie with his United teams, Mourinho with his Chelsea and Madrid and Inter teams... all underdogs?