Monaco - Post Match thread.

[nellyonthewing]

Tactics led to us bombing chances?

What chances - we didn't have a goal attempt for 55 minutes .

 

[pudge]

Comparing Pep in his first season to Wenger in his twenty first? Fuck it, I'm done.

Goodnight all.

Are you genuinely reading impaired?

Who compared that?

When Arsenal fuck up, we laugh at Wenger. When any team does, we laugh and point blame at their manager.

When we fuck up, Pep did nothing wrong.

 

[blueinsa]

always seems that we need 20 goal occasions to score a goal and the opponent only needs one or two.

By far and away our biggest issue and yes, we defended poorly tonight but had we scored the easy chances we missed yet again we are through.

 

[Pell]

It wasn't the first half that cost us, it was the first leg. We gifted them three easy away goals, make such basic mistakes at that level and you go out. Sterling had a poor game, Aguero must have had lead in his boots, his first touch was bad all game. Poor delivery from set pieces. Clichy and Sagna aren't good enough attacking wise. Fullbacks these days are now so important when it comes to attacking, and they don't give us enough.

 

[TravisBickle]

Busy summer ahead for Pep. A lot of these players are past it now and it's showing

 

[remember arthur mann]

leaving yaya and Ottomendi out were big calls and big mistakes.

Yaya gives us that control...

Ottomendi for all his faults is better in the air and stops that third goal (kolarov getting caught under the ball)

Not a lot of players come out of that with any credit but KDB and ferna were absolute awful esp KDB.....he hasn't been great for most of the season and if pep needs to drop him for the liverpool game as at the moment he is way of the pace.

With yaya in we cannot have all of kdb silva ferna and yaya on the pitch (Unless ferna plays at fullback which isn't ideal)......kdb is the one to make way at present as he has been underperforming for quite a while now

Yaya would have calmed it all down and give us control, Nicolas would have got amongst them, very questionable of Pep to pick Kolarov,Clichy and Sagna, not forgetting Monaco were Clichy's and Sagna's boyhood team !!!!!!









































So I'm told.

 

[Blueband Brother]

I think you missed us almost playing a back 3 in the second half, with clichy given license to bomb on. The first half saw a back line that invited the opposition on, we needed a pivot who could retain the ball, the answer to that was playing KDB deeper in the second half.... pep fucked up massively over leaving yaya out..

You can't have a central pair of stones and AK if they are boxed in due to nobody being in the hole...

Regardless though, big so called players went walkabout.... again

It is always a fluid and dynamic system under Guardiola, it is never rigid and the tactics changes depending on situations and it even changed in the first half as well e.g Sterling and Sane switching positions and full backs inverting inside. The shape of the team was essentially the same in the second half.

The point still remains that it was not the tactics that caused that first half performance, you should not miss that reality as well. The players were weak and that is why the team played poorly in the first half . The tactics even though it was bad (which I don't think so) cannot warrant the performance. It is internal, within the players and they did not show up.

 

[cookster]

Are you genuinely reading impaired?

Who compared that?

When Arsenal fuck up, we laugh at Wenger. When any team does, we laugh and point blame at their manager.

When we fuck up, Pep did nothing wrong.

Correct, that was PEG tonight and the Manure thread explodes.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Please stop tinkering Pep - best team only and nail top 4 from now on. If you feel the need to rest players - give them training days off.
Extremely poor tonight and another boost to the opposition when the team was announced - just like the Stoke game.

 

[pizzaman]

That hurt. Totally shite in 1st half, second half we made a go of it, just. KDB didn't seem interested in first half, in fact, none of 'em did. Should've brought yaya on for Dinho at start of second...Ah well, just the FA cup to look forward to,oh, and scourers, arse n chavs. Can't wait for next season. Onwards n upwards. CTID.