It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

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Watched a bit of the Liverpool game last night with there energy levels so high with klopp not going to play key player a in league cup game cup with the referees on there side with var on there side they are going to piss the league again.

So top four and any trophy for us this season will be a cracking season.
 
Watched a bit of the Liverpool game last night with there energy levels so high with klopp not going to play key player a in league cup game cup with the referees on there side with var on there side they are going to piss the league again.

So top four and any trophy for us this season will be a cracking season.
Didn't watch it, do they keep their inhalers pitch side?
 
It's not even our press which is the fundamental problem, even if the intensity of it isn't what is once was.

The problem is now the press from the other teams.

They have stopped doing it to us, allowing our backline to retain the ball and not create a spare man.

Rodgers admitted as much. Save their energy for the breakdown and hit hard and fast.

Stands to reason, our defence have been allowed to come out fifty yards from goal.

The fundamental reason also why Ederson is never in the game now, apart from picking the ball out of the net.

Our system won't change, but that's the nub of it.

Same with any decent big-hitting boxer, just be wary of their best shot and stay in the fight.
Yes, that's it. So to commit their players and create the extra man we have to push further and further forwards, making us more and more likely to be hit on the break.

Everyone knows the counter is coming sooner or later, so there is a lot of pressure on us not to lose the ball, and when someone does, you're doing all your defending running backwards with a high likelihood of being left 1:1.

The irony is that Pep's whole gameplan is geared towards creating 1:1 in attack, but the system creates guaranteed 1:1 chances in defence.
 
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Didn't watch it, do they keep their inhalers pitch side?

What ever they are doing or not doing there energy levels game in game out so high but waste time talking about it it what it is! Klopp at Dortmund has his team like that for 5/6 years with those energy levels.
 
that type of performance/result has been coming for a while however - defensively we have been weak for a while and Wolves could/should have scored at least 3 possibly more. Its not just the defence but the midfield as well.

any team that has fast paced strikers and play ont he break always cause us trouble...Liverpool, Leicester, Wolves last season, Utd (they are shit but have the pace int he channels and upfront to break on us ) - we will see this mor and more from teams....Pep has to adapt and find a way to prevent it.

At presnt his desire and decisions to play our fullbacks so high looks a poor one - they expose us in the channels and they are offering nothing going forward - a bit more pragmatism wouldnt go a miss and find other ways to provide width and attack.

The press isnt working either - our forwards arent aggressive enough and our midfield doesnt press either besides KDB

We need to have a lot more energy and we just dont get it from the likes of Rodri, Gundogan, Mendy, Zinchenko and mahrez

Loads of good points I’d agree with there. In particular the fact that it’s beyond the defence where critical issues lie. We could have livarpool’s back 4 and we’d have problems, because of Rodri for example. I think others in midfield like Foden do press in terms of his energy, he’s just not very good at it when he gets there, whereas KDB will engage opposition players and sometimes actually win the ball back in the tackle high up the pitch. What did for us at the weekend was a perfect storm of clinical finishing from the opposition, poor defensive technique, lack of pressing, and crucially, lack of opportunities created by us.
Whilst some of these are longer term issues and “it’s been coming” etc, I’m not sure that is true of the latter point, and so that’s why I think there’s a degree of overreaction going on.
 
It's not even our press which is the fundamental problem, even if the intensity of it isn't what is once was.

The problem is now the press from the other teams.

They have stopped doing it to us, allowing our backline to retain the ball and not create a spare man.

Rodgers admitted as much. Save their energy for the breakdown and hit hard and fast.

Stands to reason, our defence have been allowed to come out fifty yards from goal.

The fundamental reason also why Ederson is never in the game now, apart from picking the ball out of the net.

Our system won't change, but that's the nub of it.

Same with any decent big-hitting boxer, just be wary of their best shot and stay in the fight.

Creating some more space in opposition boxes the hallmark of the many telling goals we score inside the box in the past might improve once Bernardo , Jesus and Kun return albeit we make it much easier for sides to defend using the rope a dope method to use some sweet science nomenclature.
 
It's not even our press which is the fundamental problem, even if the intensity of it isn't what is once was.

The problem is now the press from the other teams.

They have stopped doing it to us, allowing our backline to retain the ball and not create a spare man.

Rodgers admitted as much. Save their energy for the breakdown and hit hard and fast.

Stands to reason, our defence have been allowed to come out fifty yards from goal.

The fundamental reason also why Ederson is never in the game now, apart from picking the ball out of the net.

Our system won't change, but that's the nub of it.

Same with any decent big-hitting boxer, just be wary of their best shot and stay in the fight.

think we will get a lb or do anymore business this week mate?
 
Insofar as City need "legitimising", I suspect that the 17/18 and 18/19 seasons, where we were the greatest side British football has ever seen, "legitimised" the club. A 34 year old Messi, if anything, smacks to me of trying to associate ourselves with someone else's greatness.

The standard of player we sign compared to Real, Barca, Bayern etc says otherwise.
 
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