You can always lose key games, but losing this way feels better than feeling destroyed on a 0-1 loss.
I think this game marks a milestone of Pep's career tho, I might be wrong, but everytime I saw a Pep team get way behind on a game, they could lower their arms, today his team showed a reaction I'd like to see in some of his Barcelona era games.
He was bullied by a Coutinho-less Liverpool.
The score-line flatters Citeh. Liverpool are anomalously bad at defending a lead, even against really poor sides.
If Liverpool had even adequate ability to see out a game, it would've ended 4-1.
And if they had a decent keeper and VVD playing, it could've been 4-0.
Guardiola has been being over-hyped and over-respected since he arrived in the PL. I remember last season when he was playing fullbacks in CM and they were on a decent run and all the pundits were wanking themselves silly over it. Then it fell apart and looked ridiculous but no-one says anything.
He's an overly emotional prima-donna manager who inherited this citeh squad and who's own signings have largely failed.
He needs everything to be set in place for him, far more than any other top manager, hence him inheriting a better squad, yet spending more than anyone else.