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Defence conundrum
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Neville Kneville
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The first thing our defenders can do to help us stop conceding like we did vs Chelsea is stop diving in 60 yards from our goal inside the opposition half?
It's a judgement thing & Otta hasn't got it. It can happen on the edge of our box, on the wing, at the halfway line, anywhere. He did it all last season.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Indeed they did, but we had bodies between them and the goal. That wasn't true for any of the three yesterday.Burnley had a guilt egded chance to make it two each last week.
They didn't have Costa or Hazard.
Neville Kneville
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Indeed they did, but we had bodies between them and the goal. That wasn't true for any of the three yesterday.
It was actually. But the bodies were fucking useless & left as dead bodies.
in hindsight, it was a mistake sending Mangala out on loan when we had no replacement. I am the first to agree he had many weaknesses and I would have seen him more on the bench than as our primary starter. But there are certain games when you need a big strong centre back - particularly yesterday. We have seen how he has dealt with both Costa and Zlatan in the past and my feeling is he would have stopped Costa on that equalizing goal yesterday. Not clear why we left ourselves so short (literally and metaphorically).
OB1
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Because we brought Pep in, to be Pep.
If he spends this season patching up holes rather than making the team play like Pep, we won't wn anything anyway, because that's not what he is good at.
So then we start next season, from the same position we started this one.
Why don't people get this?
All the knee jerk reactionaries are doing my head in.
Pep always had a big job ahead of him to get City to the place we need to be and this was always going to be a season of transition. The club may have wasted opportunities to be in a better place by not doing as good a job of recruitment as they should since the first title win but crying over spilt milk won't help. We have Pep now and we need to give him the time to do his thing.
OB1
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I'm not for one moment suggesting Pep should abandon all his principles, of course not.
Merely a tad of pragmatism, given the inadequacies of some of our players. It's not using pretending to be something we are not. So yes by all means we should try and play "the Pep way", but shouldn't we just be *bit* mindful that we're leaking stupid goals time and time again?
He was pretty pragmatic at Burnley.
Neville Kneville
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Why don't people get this?
All the knee jerk reactionaries are doing my head in.
Pep always had a big job ahead of him to get City to the place we need to be and this was always going to be a season of transition. The club may have wasted opportunities to be in a better place by not doing as good a job of recruitment as they should since the first title win but crying over spilt milk won't help. We have Pep now and we need to give him the time to do his thing.
It's the English/Prem/1st Div mentality. If at first you don't succeed, you are clearly doing something wrong, even if you have won the Champs Lg twice doing it. So give up & play like every other team would.
Even Glen Hoddle was on it day 1 'he can't do that with his fullbacks' etc.
If Pep is struggling in two years, he'll change it, then go.
GaudinoMotors
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Exactly this - you are being kind referring to reactionaries though. Some perversley have been waiting to pounce on setbacks since he was announced.Why don't people get this?
All the knee jerk reactionaries are doing my head in.
Pep always had a big job ahead of him to get City to the place we need to be and this was always going to be a season of transition. The club may have wasted opportunities to be in a better place by not doing as good a job of recruitment as they should since the first title win but crying over spilt milk won't help. We have Pep now and we need to give him the time to do his thing.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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I defy you to find any of those goals where there was a City player between the goal scorer and Bravo.It was actually. But the bodies were fucking useless & left as dead bodies.