Totally agree Pep makes an error very rarely.Nah, Pep,will make errors like every other manager. The difference is there's some who see it as his first season with a squad top heavy with ageing out of contract players and learning a new league and there's others, well, there others..
I agree Bill but the dogs abuse he's getting on here tonight is way overboard imho. The Barca documentary shows what it will be like in the future. Keep the faith and he will come good. Of that I am sure.pep has not come up to scratch this season but we have to give him a free pass. next season he will have nowhere to go, he has to perform.
On the basis I said your average football manager used to be a player. Fact. Less footballers go into higher education than everyone else in society. Fact. By default your average football manager is likely to have less of an education.reckon edinburgh speaks 6 languages
unfortunately i can never watch highlights when we have lost. But I will take your word for it. Still doesn't mean I am not pissed off (not with today just in general with the way the season went..)Great positioning is sometimes better than a great save, example... Aguero breaking through from the right Courtois off his line to smother him straight away. Also a great chance doesn't mean a great shot, you are confusing the two, we had more chances in the first half and we still had some in the second half despite Chelsea's attempts to squeeze the life out of the game, Stones heading right at the keeper, Stones kicking it over the bar... watch the highlights later maybe?
Keep believeing the hype. Tell me how we have improved?
Under Mancini our defence and midfield was so dogged and physically combative and when opposing attacks broke down we were at our most dangerous on the edge of our own box - before zig-zagging up the pitch on the counter attack.This IS the worst side we have had since 2011
Can say pretty confidently I would back mancinis title side to slap this team around in every way possible 8 games out of 10
Would certainly be backing that side too, with more fight and guts to carry the fans passion and expectation in equal measure
Tonight we rolled over and died, with some impressive passing thrown in to cloud over the abysmal mentality we now have firmly installed
Alas, all we can do is hope we do what we should do, and secure the wins against the lesser sides to secure top 4.
I don't think so. Conte is in control. The players know their individual jobs and they are deadly serious of making sure every one of them does it. Defending isn't about buying the best defenders. It's about drilling the team to defend as a unit. Drilling, drilling, drilling. We've got too many fancy Dans who don't want to do the hard work. Sterling, KDB, Yaya, Stones, Kolarov to name a few. Silva isn't in that list because he's a legend.
Ha haaaaaaaa.......wum
If we take this game in isolation - then I thought we played quite well, it could have gone either way, and we game them a real test...
If we take this game in a wider context of matches against top rivals, then it's more of the same - could have, would have, should have - but we didn't. We're just lacking a little more aggression, and the ability to manage a game better.
In the end, Chelsea will be worthy champions. I'd like to think Gundogan, Kompany and Jesus injuries cost us - but ultimately, I just think we're in a rebuilding phase, and not quite good enough at the moment. Next season looks promising, but the competition is stiff. We are going to have to work bloody hard to win another title (and rightly so).
No way were Chelsea the superior side mate, they just did what you need to do, to win titles and that is to win by any means necessary, nothing more, nothing less. No-one will remember them for this season apart from being ruthlessly efficient when it counted.
As for City, we were fuckin brilliant overall, aside from a deflected goal and a fortunate penalty rebound going in. We beat them in every other department apart from the all important goal count, so Chelsea win. I thought Delph was immense, as was Kompany, Fernandinho and Clichy who dominated the midfield tonight. My hopes for this season was for automatic CL qualification which we can still achieve. After where we've been over the last few seasons, we'd be foolish to think that even the great Pep Guardiola could win such a strong PL in his first season even if we all hoped and prayed he would.
This summers transfer window will begin the transformation from Bob's City to Pep's, as we all know the likes of Yaya, Clichy, Zabaleta and Sagna are coming to the end of their careers, & Kompany, Silva and Fernandinho etc are entering the twilight of theirs. We totally dominated the champions elect tonight who did just what was needed to cling onto victory.
This is a part of our game that Pep will have to manage better because he's no longer in a 2 team league. I think Pep's professional pride will drive him on to want to succeed and we've still got the FA Cup semi's and CL qualification to achieve before the rebuilding job starts in earnest ready for next season. I feel strangely lifted by that performance tonight, if equally deflated by the result. As long as we get automatic qualification for the CL, I'll see it as job done for this season and if we manage to win the FA Cup too, it won't feel anything like a failed season for me, but more like us setting everything up nicely for next season.
I can see the green shoots of Pep's Master Plan coming through, and I for one believe he's the man to take us to the next level.
Haha! Some bloke off the Internet saying one of the most decorated managers in football is "thick as pigshit" cheers you up on nights like this.
You could get a job with Sky or BT do you know that?