8 Reasons Why Man City Will Be Pep Guardiola's Biggest Test

4. The Style Of Football Is Much Different In England

It's the old cliché in modern football that each league has its own specific style unique to itself. In Spain the teams play with a lot of flair with a huge focus on retention of possession. In Germany, the play is a lot more attack minded, but with plenty of patience building up the final ball.

Both Barca and Bayern under Guardiola have both been proponents of the patient, possession-based style of play, with playmakers ready to execute the killing pass forward to their attackers. In England however, this won't sit week-in week-out, as the style of play is much more hard tackling and direct. Just ask any of Arsene Wenger's Arsenal teams, and they'll tell you the neat and fancy passing game is found out pretty quickly.

Chelsea's Champions League winning side of 2012 are the prime examples of how to counter this play, sitting back and absorbing attacks before unleashing a lightning-quick counter to see off their opponents. Leicester similarly have used this tactic over the course of this present Premier League season to massive success.

With teams clued up to Guardiola's primary means of attack, he'll have to find a suitable plan-B in order to break teams down; his tactical knowhow will be stretched to the limit in the Premier League, and it'll be interesting to see what he's able to come up with to counter it.