It was only a week ago that fear was running through the infrastructure of Barcelona that after such an impressive run where Pep's team knocked over all in front of them, that the wheels were starting to come off and that all that good work would be undone. That feeling though was borne out of alarmists and the fact that at the Camp Nou everything is either perfect or a disaster.
A good win against Athletic Bilbao in the league and the destruction of Lyon in Europe and once again optimism has returned with even president Joan Laporta describing the football as a work of art. Fortunately though Guardiola in his methodical way is refusing to be distracted by the praise and is continuing to work as hard as ever.
"We know that we are not even near a perfect team, the players know that they are not perfect because in the first 20 minutes in Lyon we were out of Europe, it is a very fine line, everyone knows this is a business and that a few days ago there was a crisis and that now we are going to win the Champions League," he said.
"With the 63 points we have they are not sufficient to be champions, we have to get a lot more and against very good teams. We have to forget the games that we have played and concentrate on the next, Madrid have a game a week and it is better for them, they will get a lot of wins and with just one game a week they have the chance to rest.
"With the strength though of Barcelona we are capable of achieving a lot but if we drop our level then we will have a lot of problems."