Pep's contract situation | 2 year extension confirmed! (pg1817)

Mendy can't defend.
Garcia is a snail.
Vardy is rapid and clinical.

Why play a high defensive line?
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
All good and well mate but we were 1-0 up at home, so the “no fit striker” narrative doesn’t really wash.

We got hammered by simple balls in behind all game. Did we drop deeper to cope with it? No. Did we put more pressure on the ball higher up the pitch? No. Did we do anything at all to try and counteract Leicester’s incredibly simple game plan? No.
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Droping deeper and that solves everything does it? We'd still have the same defence mate. They scored 3 penalties from individual mistakes and all three were when we were sitting deep. Mahrez's goal was individual too. If we could have had 3 of those it would have solved everything but that's nothing to do with the system or manager.

As I said, I think bringing Fernandinho off left us even more vulnerable but ultimately, I said before the match the confidence in a win was a bit optimistic. What we had and their current match sharpness/fitness wasn't enough to brush aside a near full strength, tried and tested Leicester lineup. A starting back 2 of Garcia and Ake is a brand new partnership, Sterling up top, those are quite significant changes, it's not like the team had long to work on it and it showed. Maybe Pep should have played super defensive and settled for a draw or a plucky win but with the day our defence were having, I can see us losing whatever he tried.
 
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Metalartin said:
Drop deeper and that solves everything? My word what a load of crap. They scored 3 penalties from individual mistakes and all three were when we were sitting deep in our own defence. Mahrez is goal was individual too. If would could have had 3 of those it would have solved everything but that's nothing to do with the system or manager.
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You genuinely don’t see how compressing the space behind the back line and putting pressure in the opposition when they’re in possession mitigates simple balls in behind?

Individual mistakes don’t happen in isolation. Our defenders panic when players get the wrong side (see: all three fucking penalties we conceded today). So perhaps preventing those easy balls in behind might have been a good idea.
 
@BluePhil8 said:
Mate we’ve had many shocking results over the past 10 years with many different managers.
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I can't remember one when we had so few ideas, so little defensive cover and gave the ball away so often. Leicester at home when they won the league was similar but not as bad as this.
 
VOOMER said:
And every penalty was softer than the one reversed against the rags.
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A lot of embarrassing conspiracy shit on here as usual when we lose.. however this I agree with. All three shared similarities to that one that got overturned.
 
Pablo1 said:
Not a shock to see some of the comments.
Think I’ll resist the over-reactionary cry arsing and back him to have another successful season and hope he puts pen to paper on another contract.
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Fully agree but I'm not convinced that he has the right quality of support and assistance around him.
 
Beanhead said:
A lot of embarrassing conspiracy shit on here as usual when we lose.. however this I agree with. All three shared similarities to that one that got overturned.
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We played so bad we can't complain too much but they were really soft. It does go against us so many times. We are not Liverpool or Man Utd in the eyes of referees and commentators.

However even at 1-0 we weren't creating much. I think we should judge City and Pep when we have a full squad to choose from.
 
Peps going to sort it out.
Look outside the box here, we didn't have a pre season, players have been affected by covid and we started a week late.
Has everyone forgot we beat wolves on Monday?
 
@BluePhil8 said:
I can safely say I remember the first season we signed Mendy and I’ve never once looked at him after a single City game and thought ‘class’. Can’t run, can’t track his man, can’t defend, can’t pass or cross. Not jumping on any bandwagon, not scape goating; he’s just pure cak.
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He was excellent in his opening games for City before injury. I sit on the front row and he was amzing charging down that left flank. Sane couldn't get in the side. Since he's come back he's not been the same.
 
dctid said:
His time is coming to an end hopefully this will be his last season. Blame the players as much as you want but the style of play does not change, it’s turgid, slow, lazy and predictable and any half decent team that is organised and has a game plan we will drop points against, never been so bored watching city in 40 years
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Stuart Pearce says hi
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
Peps going to sort it out.
Look outside the box here, we didn't have a pre season, players have been affected by covid and we started a week late.
Has everyone forgot we beat wolves on Monday?
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He will sort it out. We will though miss Jesus and Aguero for a few games and have to find a way to win games until they return. Maybe play Sterling wide and Foden central and drop Mendy and Fernandinho.
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
You genuinely don’t see how compressing the space behind the back line and putting pressure in the opposition when they’re in possession mitigates simple balls in behind?

Individual mistakes don’t happen in isolation. Our defenders panic when players get the wrong side (see: all three fucking penalties we conceded today). So perhaps preventing those easy balls in behind might have been a good idea.
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You genuinely think using terms like "compressing the space behind" gets around the fact that we were sitting deep when we conceded those penalties? As for leaving no space behind to run into, that would mean we abandon our pressing game pretty much and pile defenders into the box and it becomes defence vs attack... Do you really see that working with that defence today?
 
Metalartin said:
You genuinely think using words like compressing the space behind gets around the fact that we were sitting deep when we conceded those penalties?
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We were “sitting deep?” We conceded those goals on counterattacks. Sitting deep is when you consciously cede possession and maintain your defensive shape. That is literally the opposite of what happened.
 
Marvin said:
We played so bad we can't complain too much but they were really soft. It does go against us so many times. We are not Liverpool or Man Utd in the eyes of referees and commentators.

However even at 1-0 we weren't creating much. I think we should judge City and Pep when we have a full squad to choose from.
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Oh we deserved to lose all right, absolutely no point in arguing against that. I just think that all 3 were soft and borderline. The Walker one was most nailed on of the three but even that had an element of doubt as the contact was very light and the dive could have been enough to overturn it. The other two you could quite easily change the agenda and make it as though the Leicester player kicked or caused the contact which is what they did for the Utd one and the general public / neutral would have probably seen reason with them being overturned. All how you present them. And how they are reviewed.
 
herrock said:
I can't remember one when we had so few ideas, so little defensive cover and gave the ball away so often. Leicester at home when they won the league was similar but not as bad as this.
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Look at today's forward line, and then in midfield in front of their 4 and 5 man rows we had two sitting midfielders. It really was very difficult for us. Sterling did nothing down the middle and Foden was wasted where he was.

Pep does have a job on his hands. I hope he is up for it.
 
Pablo1 said:
Not a shock to see some of the comments.
Think I’ll resist the over-reactionary cry arsing and back him to have another successful season and hope he puts pen to paper on another contract.
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How can it be “over reactionary” when the same problems have been repeating themselves for over a year?

It’s not just one off games, it happened throughout last season. Many top managers have lost their jobs for less than that, I think we’ve been pretty patient with Pep, and we’ve still got some patience left. But it’s not wrong for us to ask questions
 
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