Louis van Gaal believes this season has seen the unveiling of Pep Guardiola 2.0. Van Gaal, the Dutchman who was Guardiola's coach at Barcelona, reckons the Manchester City boss is so obsessed with winning the Champions League for the first time since leaving the Nou Camp almost a decade ago, that he has ditched his all-out attacking philosophy for a more pragmatic approach.
Despite lifting the European Cup twice as manager of his hometown club, Guardiola has not progressed beyond the semi-finals in eight years with Bayern Munich and City.
Van Gaal feels it's the only trophy that now matters to the Catalan - to the extent he has built one of football's most formidable defences.
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