Goal.com · May 6, 2015
Guardiola heading in a new direction at Bayern Munich
The Germans have headed more goals than any other Champions League team — but when their coach was at Barcelona, crossing and heading was "never in the club's DNA."
On the ground or in the air — that is the starkest difference between the way Pep Guardiola’s great Barcelona teams played, and the way Bayern Munich plays under his leadership.
Of the 100-plus Champions League goals Barcelona scored in four seasons under Guardiola, only 1 in 16 was a header. At Bayern the ratio is closer to 1 in 5. The crosses are fired in far more often, as are the long corners. No team has scored more than Bayern’s total of six headed goals in this season’s competition. How come?