West Brom (h) post-match thread

Kdb must of had the worst pass completion in the history of football tonight. Like he was trying not to find a city shirt. Sterling is way off, rodri is crack, we’re all over the place as a team.
 
am going to take the pain again and watch the game again or the highlights

but from what i watched live. how can pep send out a team of 2 holding midfield and play 4 in defence ??
most of the game WBA had 10 men behind the ball and city and pep still had 4 players marking nobody on the half way line ??

like i said am going to watch the game again and see ? but its not good enough and i truly don't understand pep idea's in what he is fearing from WBA going forward ??
 
ActonBlue said:
Pep really needs to up his game, this is getting serious...

Should have brought on Aguero at half time not with quarter of an hour to go.
Should have taken off Rodri (who was utterly ineffective) instead of Foden who offered some energy and creativity.
Should have brought on Torres for Sterling (who has been off it all season)

We look a bang average side, cos we have too many bang average players - Rodri, mendy, Cancelo...not good enough.
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Said this loads of times, we just aren’t ruthless when it comes to getting players out the door and it’s costing us big time.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Cancelo was by far our worst of 9 poor performances. No idea what you were watching.
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He was obviously asked to do a job of making up an extra midfielder when we were in possession, and in midfield I thought he did a great job of progressing the ball forward. If you are judging him as a fullback tonight and compared to what he has done before then I could see why you might be frustrated about him not getting forward and offering width. But for me he had clearly been given other responsibilities that I thought he did well.
 
The fear factor has gone teams were not even on the pitch and they were beaten before kick off,teams sense they can get something in games against us,throw in if we fall behind we 99/100 will not turn it around or in games like tonight grab a winner.The football is light years behind previous seasons and the picking of Rodri and gundogan in games like West Brom ( no disrespect to them ) is absolutely disgraceful..
 
bluetonium said:
Didn't enjoy that at all. Not like us, looks like we have no purpose and notably no threat through the middle. This team needs life breathing into it.

Made all the worse by the commentary on Amazon, they were positively gleeful in our inability to score and it was all from the west brom point of view.
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The worry though is it absolutely is like us. It’s about 18 months now. This isn’t a bad patch, it’s a total decline of the team to its new level.
 
We’re not good enough to turn it on and off and leave it to the last 5 minutes to show a bit of urgency, but unfortunately the penny hasn’t dropped with Guardiola yet.

He’s running out of excuses and it’s the same script every week - the only difference is that the poor results are coming against worse teams. The contract extension was completely undeserved and it will prove to be a costly mistake.
 
City Raider said:
Trying to think of reasons why this season is so poor. Game after game. Not buying the no pre-season Pep, we’re in December. Can only think no crowds having a bigger impact than we thought. Not saying the players aren’t motivated, but we help create the urgency. A roar goes up, you can see the effect. That is the most noticeable change, we can’t have gone this dross so quickly.
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bang average players in midfield (rodri)....
Gundogan being 2 steps below the quality of David Silva.
A left back who is stealing a living playing football
Astriker who despite all his hard work offers no goal threat whatsoever

No pace, no energy lots of sideways passing
 
YungJoshiiMcFc said:
Pass, sideways pass, pass, pass, backwards pass, pass, pass, sideways pass, cross, goal kick. Our season in a nutshell.
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The only bit you missed is somewhere in the middle of all those passes is “give the ball away, win the ball back, pass, pass, pass, square, backwards, pass........”

Your’e right, that’s been our season. On the rare occasions we have got the ball to the opponents bye line we have scored. Don’t we learn anything from this ?
 
Positives tonight were that Gundogan played very well and we only looked dangerous when he had the ball. Kev for all those who think he's struggling laid two chances on a plate yet again both were wasted. Eddie, Dias, Foden all did ok.

Negatives were once again Pep not changing it until 70+ mins which was stupid given how we had drawn a blank. No good him moaning about stoppage time when we had wasted so much during the game - typified by Mendy not trying to keep the ball in and letting it trickle out for a throw which allowed them to get set and then he lost possession from the throw - you would struggle to see a part-time player do that, shocking. Not using Ferran who likes to take players on and could have been the x factor tonight. Both fullbacks and Ake were far too negative and played with cement in their boots, and once they got in a good position constantly picked the wrong ball. Rodri had his worst game for a while. Raheem and Gabriel totally ineffective and should have been taken off, both played as if they couldn't care less.

Simply put there is no way - even though we are still in the hunt - will we win the title this year. We have some serious issues to address and our players and the coaches are 100% to blame - not VAR, not refs, not the schedule, not the 5 subs rule. Man up and put in more effort, if you don't want to do that pull a Danny Mills and fake an injury. It needs to change fast and some need a long, hard look at themselves.
 
ancoats said:
am going to take the pain again and watch the game again or the highlights

but from what i watched live. how can pep send out a team of 2 holding midfield and play 4 in defence ??
most of the game WBA had 10 men behind the ball and city and pep still had 4 players marking nobody on the half way line ??

like i said am going to watch the game again and see ? but its not good enough and i truly don't understand pep idea's in what he is fearing from WBA going forward ??
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Please don't do it mate.
 
Refusal to upgrade the strike force will continue to haunt us just like it did last season. From four strikers in 2011 to 2 in 2020. Over reliance on some players is baffling
 
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