Pep Guardiola - 2019/20 Performances

[domalino]

Rodri and Gundogan sitting behind Kev who was behind Gabby with sterling and mahrez outside and a flat back 4.

I just watched their goal after Sterlings miss and Mahrez is up near Gabby not at right back

Yeah congratulations that's a wing back they attack and go forwards, especially when you're behind.

There was no flat back 4 until Silva came on.

 

[Draikin]

That's not how this works though. Pep didn't just turn up to the stadium today and say "right lads, lets try 532 today".

They'll have been practicing and training all week, and it's a formation 90% of them have actually played before under Pep, we did it a bunch before Mendy got injured in the Centurions season.

That's exactly how it works. If you drive an automatic everyday it will take some time to adjust to a manual even if you drove one before.

And that's why it's so frustrating, going out of the CL each year without trying to play our usual game

 

[01cravend]

Yeah congratulations that's a wing back they attack and go forwards, especially when you're behind.

There was no flat back 4 until Silva came on.

What from an opponents goalkick?...you're a moron sometimes I swear

 

[Ban-jani]

Yeah congratulations that's a wing back they attack and go forwards, especially when you're behind.

There was no flat back 4 until Silva came on.

It was 4-3-3, why aren’t you getting it?

 

[Dax777]

Lyon are just a better version of Southampton, Arsenal, United, Wolves.

What fucking team have you been watching all season that you think we're guaranteed to win if we play 433?

Well we sure didn't win with all the mumbo jumbo nonsense he did. Lyon is NOT a better Arsenal.

We will not win with that few creative and energetic players on the field. Period.

You said it a few weeks ago. We'll lose without Foden. Well, I agree with that opinion of yours. It's sounds like you have changed your mind since.

Play your young, energetic and creative players. Play them in their normal formation. Even his false 9 role for Foden against Real was dumb.

He keeps doing these dumb things in Cup games. They never work. Even when we win, it's because he switched back to the obvious.

Enough with the Tinkering.

Raz missing, Ederson weak save, Laporte's and Walkers stupidity on goals, all will overshadow the fact that we were toothless for 45 minutes coz Pep was an idiot again in a cup game.

 

[super_city_si]

His mental scarring from the dry bumming real gave bayern runs too deep. Just fucking stick to what we’re good at.

 

[domalino]

Well we sure didn't win with all the mumbo jumbo nonsense. Lyon is NOT a better Arsenal.

We will not win with that few creative and energetic players on the field. Period.

You said it a few weeks ago. We'll lose without Foden. Well, I agree with that opinion of yours. It's sounds like you have changed your mind since.

Play your young, energetic and creative players. Play them in their normal formation. Even his false 9 role for Foden against Real was dumb.

He keeps doing these dumb things in Cup games. They never work. Even when we win, it's because he switched back to the obvious.

Enough with the Tinkering.

Raz missing, Ederson weak save, Laporte's and Walkers stupidity on goals, all will overshadow the fact that we were toothless for 45 minutes coz Pep was an idiot again in a cup game.

No I stick by my opinon that I thought we'd lose without Foden but I don't think it was the system, it's the players chucking it away again.

When Kyle Walker plays them offside, and then literally stops and watches while his man Cornet follows in and gets the rebound, it doesn't matter that he's RB or RWB. It's just a player being shit.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Next season Pep play your best formation at all times. Don’t play Gundogan or Rodri together and cut out the stupidly easy goals teams score.

 

[domalino]

It was 4-3-3, why aren’t you getting it?

Because I watched the game and specifically noted over 10-15 minutes that we'd not changed system even though I wanted us to.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Pep is so lucky he has the reputation of being who he is! Right now ANY OTHER manager would be fearing the sack.

Thats the thing about reputation, once you have it you can ride on the back of it as long as you can but there comes a time when even reputation burns out and the current state of things stares right back at you.

Pep's reputation is burning out slowly, its in his best interest to go back to the basics.

Pep needs to say fuck the accolades , fuck the media praise singers, fuck his ego, fuck past glories! Go back to being hungry, go back to being a manager! Fuck the philosophical Pep, bring back the 2008-2012 Pep!

 

[Ban-jani]

Because I watched the game and specifically noted over 10-15 minutes that we'd not changed system even though I wanted us to.

We had.

Walker was hugging the touch line, as he would normally and Mahrez was often up parallel to Jesus and Sterling.

Garcia and Laporte were our two CB’s (well they didn’t play like it the pair of clowns).

 

[Fame Monster]

That Centurions team has been completely dismantled by the man who created it. I'll always have a soft spot for what he did for us but how can you change your side and, more importantly formation every single week and expect to win the Premier League or Champions League? Winning just the Carling Cup this season with that squad is an embarrassment.

Sadly, the grass isn't always greener on the other side and Pep is one of the best at judging players but we will get nowhere with him in the Champions League if he carries on like this every season. I wouldn't want to be in Khaldoon's position right now but something has to change.

 

[Dax777]

We had.

Walker was hugging the touch line, as he would normally and Mahrez was often up parallel to Jesus and Sterling.

Garcia and Laporte were our two CB’s (well they didn’t play like it the pair of clowns).

Garcia was fine. Laporte was hopeless.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Easy for us all to have a pop at the line up and tactics, and I certainly have, but I'd genuinely love to know what pep was thinking tonight.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Threw us under the bus tonight with the team selection and tactics, making the changes too late and using the wrong subs.

 

[domalino]

We had.

Walker was hugging the touch line, as he would normally and Mahrez was often up parallel to Jesus and Sterling.

Garcia and Laporte were our two CB’s (well they didn’t play like it the pair of clowns).

Pep literally just said we played well in the second half in the same formation as the first half, and he didn't change just add a more attacking player.

He's just said it on live TV.

 

[Ban-jani]

Garcia was fine. Laporte was hopeless.

They were both horrific

 

[Kadour75]

Got roasted when I criticized him in the past. Lucky coach, he fed off the best Barça team ever. Overthinks the line up, rotates stupidly and puts unnecessary pressure on the players. A big bottle job in CL bar with barça and that was down to their dream team. Has got to be sacked. Getting knocked out by 7th of French league is criminal to say the least. Our weakness has been our defense and yet he could not fix it. I am lost for words, I just want to see the back of him.

 

[_a_o_]

2011 since his last Champions League final; he’s not elite - 2 titles out of 4, no European progress with the most expensive squad in football history. Since the spine of winners he inherited - Kompany, Fernandinho, Silva and Aguero have gone/declined, he’s been exposed, and his signings to replace them have been substandard. £400m+ on defenders and we’re still a shambles at the back at this level.

 

[Withnail]

100% on Pep tonight, awful team selection. But he has done this before in the CL when he didn't play Kev in the first leg against Spurs in the CL last season. Not heard his post match interview what did he say?