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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.