Pep Guardiola Performances - 2018/19

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It must be pretty tedious answering questions in press conferences. There were lots of rather loaded questions from the likes of Tanner and Jackson. Jackson in particular tried to draw him into comments about a KDB tackle injuring a Cardiff player. Well batted away by Pep but it was a rather veiled attack.
 
taleofbluehalves said:
It must be pretty tedious answering questions in press conferences. There were lots of rather loaded questions from the likes of Tanner and Jackson. Jackson in particular tried to draw him into comments about a KDB tackle injuring a Cardiff player. Well batted away by Pep but it was a rather veiled attack.
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The pantomime element is an important part of the Prem brand nowadays; The rivalries, tribalism and gossip..
 
When you look at the competition for places at the moment it’s immense. No KDB,Aguero, Fernandinho, Gundogan or Bernardo last night in the starting 11. Pep is surely going to give Foden a Premier League start soon and who does he leave out? The only tiny worry is cover for Fernandinho. Real competition in wide areas with Sane back, Mahrez scoring etc. For me the best squad in the Prem by a distance.
 
taleofbluehalves said:
When you look at the competition for places at the moment it’s immense. No KDB,Aguero, Fernandinho, Gundogan or Bernardo last night in the starting 11. Pep is surely going to give Foden a Premier League start soon and who does he leave out? The only tiny worry is cover for Fernandinho. Real competition in wide areas with Sane back, Mahrez scoring etc. For me the best squad in the Prem by a distance.
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If Dinho was to be injured at home we could get away with a central three from KDB, Silva, Silva, Gundogan, Foden but away it would certainly be a concern. Away I guess we’d play Stones there?

Kdb is also very assured playing deeper, as we’ve seen him do for Belgium.
 
taleofbluehalves said:
When you look at the competition for places at the moment it’s immense. No KDB,Aguero, Fernandinho, Gundogan or Bernardo last night in the starting 11. Pep is surely going to give Foden a Premier League start soon and who does he leave out? The only tiny worry is cover for Fernandinho. Real competition in wide areas with Sane back, Mahrez scoring etc. For me the best squad in the Prem by a distance.
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I'd expect Foden to start getting some minutes off the bench soon.

As for Ferna, I guess that's why he's trying Stones there in games like last night and Cardiff when the game is already won. Not a like for like replacement but might mean we can give Ferna a rest against the poorer teams at home.
 
Thaksins Love Child said:
I'd expect Foden to start getting some minutes off the bench soon.

As for Ferna, I guess that's why he's trying Stones there in games like last night and Cardiff when the game is already won. Not a like for like replacement but might mean we can give Ferna a rest against the poorer teams at home.
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I’d give a serious shout to trying ota there... he passes between the lines with much more ease and presses quicker!
 
Pep's prematch conference......pmsl.....he couldnt make it more obvious its the last place he wants to be,answering their idiotic questions.
 
Peps Yellow Ribbon is still proudly present on his pullover in post match interviews noting that it has been 12 months now that his People are still being persecuted for daring to push for Independence, in Catalunya the Protests are picking up again..
Are we as City Fans feeling fit to back him with a few Catalan Flags at the Match to show our support for His Cause or unlikely to embrace a simple act showing Our Solidarity with our Magnificent Manager...??

Thoughts..????
Just thinking....
Thanks..
 
Platt Lane Bern said:
Peps Yellow Ribbon is still proudly present on his pullover in post match interviews noting that it has been 12 months now that his People are still being persecuted for daring to push for Independence, in Catalunya the Protests are picking up again..
Are we as City Fans feeling fit to back him with a few Catalan Flags at the Match to show our support for His Cause or unlikely to embrace a simple act showing Our Solidarity with our Magnificent Manager...??

Thoughts..????
Just thinking....
Thanks..
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A nice gesture to the manager maybe, but I believe politics and religion have no place in football, what business do we have getting involved in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
 
Pride of Chadderton said:
A nice gesture to the manager maybe, but I believe politics and religion have no place in football, what business do we have getting involved in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
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This is just about the only country in the world where politics isn't really part of football culture. But i'd like the full stadium to hold up Catalan flags in support of Pep, the cause he's supporting and to piss UEFA off.
 
Big week ahead with two testing fixtures that should show him how quickly and how much the players have learned. Hoffenheim will be a stern test, and the players will have to show that Lyon is behind them and that they can trust the system and cut out the individual mistakes, of which there were many. Liverpool, by contrast, is a known entity, but Guardiola is on record as saying that everyone else at the club, knows what went wrong last season and that we have learned from it, so it will be interesting to see what that means in terms of how he sets them up.
 
Obviously one eye on the Dippers,but he got it wrong tonight.

The defence was all over the show,there was no cohesion and Laporte,the poor fucker,had a shocker in a makeshift position - hopefully it hasnt fucked his confidence.

Gundogan and Dinho together is also a no no.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Obviously one eye on the Dippers,but he got it wrong tonight.

The defence was all over the show,there was no cohesion and Laporte,the poor fucker,had a shocker in a makeshift position - hopefully it hasnt fucked his confidence.

Gundogan and Dinho together is also a no no.
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The unspoken reality is that we have one leftback and four makeshift leftbacks, and Guardiola is having to find a system that compensates for their injuries and deficiencies. When we play any half decent team, the frailties of any system are invariably exposed.
 
Absolutely brilliant sub to change the game last night in stones for ota.
That said I worry about our defensive solidity in Europe.
 
I'm surprised he doesn't use this more often in CL away games. He played similar last season against United and got result and should've gotten it today also.
 
Said in the post match interview that he didn't know that Mahrez has missed 5 of his latest 8 pens. Absolutely shocking to give him the penalty
 
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