Pep Guardiola's magic must be rubbing off on his Bayern Munich team. The team warmed up for its Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow with a fiendishly good one-touch rondo.
With two men in the middle of the circle, the players played one single-touch pass after another to keep the two at bay, looking poised, composed and skilled while doing so.
Still, would you expect anything less from a Guardiola team?
in more ways than one
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