Pep Guardiola - 2019/20 Performances

Status
Not open for further replies.
sir baconface said:
I’ll leave you to work that one out :)
Click to expand...
giphy.gif
 
Like a mad scientist who previously created a vaccine that saved millions of lives and has lost his mind and is now performing sick experiments on live frogs.
 
I've got a terrible, terrible feeling about the Madrid game now. I've been excited about our CL potential this year since the league has gone but he's gonna do something stupid, isn't he? As if the team selection and system and various other things weren't bad enough he again tried to close out a game by throwing on a defender and going away from everything we're good at. I already envisage a last minute Ramos header from a free-kick given away by Otamendi on the edge of the box.
 
Unfortunately, I do think most of our issues beyond the poor finishing today were down to player selection, formation, and tactics chosen by Pep.

Hopefully he has learned from this and will set things up right for Madrid.
 
Cancelo was a bit of a strange selection on the left of a back three. But I don’t see any major issue with the shape - it’s one he’s used a few times before, and it actually plays into a number of our strengths (two more orthodox midfielders, plus two ‘number 8s’, and two proper widemen). If everyone where available (and on form!), it could be pretty exciting:

———Walker—Fernandinho—Laporte——-
———--———Rodri—Gundogan————
Sterling—-De Bruyne—Bernardo—Sané
—————————-Aguero—————-

Of course it’s a risky system defensively, but that goes with the territory with Pep. And you still have that defensive block of 5 - just the inverse of the 2-3 that we played for most of the 17/18 season. And we coped much better defensively tonight than we did last time against them with a back four.
 
SebastianBlue said:
Unfortunately, I do think most of our issues beyond the poor finishing today were down to player selection, formation, and tactics chosen by Pep.

Hopefully he has learned from this and will set things up right for Madrid.
Click to expand...

Both me and you know he doesn't give a shit and will do some strange thing in some game very soon. It's Pep, that will never change.
 
Ban-jani said:
We won’t score 6 goals across such a big tie. I know we’ve scored 100 this season but tonight shows in the big moments we won’t take the chance.
Click to expand...

yep, it's only aguero who looks hot in scoring department these days. That canceled goal tonight was a beauty.
 
Happy we are through, and don't blame him for our players not being able to score.

But I just find his player management a bit odd at times:

Foden - Don't understand his strategy with his game time
Jesus - Why is he getting dropped for Sterling when Sterling doesn't deserve to start. Maybe Pep really didn't value this 2nd match and didn't want to waste Jesus.
Cancelo - Given no consistency in position isn't going to help him.
 
It’s never a good sign when players don’t look comfortable and several out there today didn’t seem to know quite what they were supposed to be doing.

I don’t think I have ever seen such a sustained period of tactical experimentation from a manager before. Every single week it’s something different.

The optimist in me hopes he’s just using this season to prove out a few theories that will serve us well next season
 
He had 2 fit left backs but he put a rb there

John and eric jnr on the bench but he uses rodders instead

How does he expect players to be comfortable

3-1 and no need to do it

I'm quite intense and he has really got under my skin this week
 
Diabolical team selection and he only got away with it becasue the Rags were absolute shite , he is pissing around with tactics , formation and players far too miuch this season using the excuse of rotation , we need to get back to last seasons system and quick.
 
karen7 said:
He had 2 fit left backs but he put a rb there

John and eric jnr on the bench but he uses rodders instead

How does he expect players to be comfortable

3-1 and no need to do it

I'm quite intense and he has really got under my skin this week
Click to expand...
Can happen. Just get a good night's sleep and shake it off.
 
Odd team selection which seemed to be a trial to deal with the counter attack. It worked because they didn't have success in that regard. We also created a lot of chances but just couldn't take them and then were punished. That's good night if it is the CL against a better team so a worry for me.

Should have made changes to the system earlier in order to win the game. We dropped deeper and got sloppy and had too many players looking for the ball in the same position. Bernardo, De Bruyne, Silva, Gundogan. Weird to take Mahrez off rather than Sterling who kept missing chances....

Foden should have been used for more drive. He sticks the chance away that Silva chose to pass and give away! Jesus could have come on for some more energy too.

Job done. And I just hope this experimentation prevents a catastrophe in the CL where Pep does it and we get knocked out. He has done it before with Bayern and even picked off lineups with us before.

He needs to realise we can't keep a clean sheet. Stick to playing open attacking football and we should outscore the opposition over two legs. We can't go away and not score because we can't keep a clean sheet at home. Approach the Madrid game as if it is the second leg and they have an away goal already.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top