Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

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He is scared of 5 at the back teams as am I. Keeps messing our with lineups when we play them. Even in the league I hate playing a team with 5 at the back.

I thought he would definitely play the semi final team whilst thinking dinho or rodri only. The fact that Sterling came in from nowhere came as the biggest surprise considering hes done nothing for 6 months and proved it yet again.

Saying that Chelsea set up well as expected and we just did not manage to get the ball into areas for the likes of Mahrez to do anything. How many times did he we see Mahrez 1v1 or facing up to Chilwell on the right wing.
 
i♥city said:
I believe most of the EDS boys would have put up more fight than some of the lily livered players out there yesterday. Next season we MUST play some the EDS boys, at least 3 regularly. We have some speed demons there that could put in a better shift on the wings compared to Sterling, Mahrez and Bernardo who has never been a winger.
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Mahrez himself has qualified city to first final of the history big up to him, yesterday was all Pep fault building the final around Sterling , Mahrez touched just 20 balls and he was the most dangerous player with foden, the game was all time leaning to sterling side and wingers were to much stretched, Pep’s philosophy was rubbish for this final
 
I think we lost a bit of our intensity when the League was virtually done weeks ago.

Having such a lead at the Top,meant Pep could go full Ranieri "Tinkerman" and endulge himself in the remainning games.

Chelsea put out a full strength side for that FA Cup Semi-Final,and their remainning games.

We were heavily rotating all the way to the Final in Porto.

Pep has to take some blame for that.

Players actually looked unfit last night.

That should not be happenning.
 
SidJames said:
I think we lost a bit of our intensity when the League was virtually done weeks ago.

Having such a lead at the Top,meant Pep could go full Ranieri "Tinkerman" and endulge himself in the remainning games.

Chelsea put out a full strength side for that FA Cup Semi-Final,and their remainning games.

We were heavily rotating all the way to the Final in Porto.

Pep has to take some blame for that.

Players actually looked unfit last night.

That should not be happenning.
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Funny you havent mentioned it, never overplay your hand
 
It is funny how he heavily rotated the squad towards the end of the season, effectively playing a 1st XI and a 2nd XI, sacrificing the FA Cup in the process, to try and ensure his best XI remained fit for the final... only to then go on and not pick said best XI in the final.
 
Charlesfarsbar said:
Some fucking whoppers in this thread, we’ve been schooled by Chelsea in the previous two games , Pep tried to find a solution to this and it failed

But this Wasn’t the reason why we lost , we lost because our back four shit the bed in the first half and forgot how to defend a simple channel ball

not only that they were panicking when they did get the chance to clear it , often gifting possession back to start another counter attack

Basically a number of them froze on the biggest stage , it’s the first final for all of them , this can happen

this experience will make us better next tim
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Stones set the tone very early on and then it rippled through the whole defence. We were fortunate not to lose by more

We had no players more than a 6/10 for me and you are not going to win finals when the majority are off form. It was just a very bad night at the office.

Been a great season overall but this was mainly due to that purple patch from Dec-March. First and last couple of months not so good.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Most are still hammering on about what he did wrong. There are two reasons why we lost yesterday:
1) Chelsea are a bloody good team with an excellent coach. I have seldom seen such an effective set up against us tactically. They strangled us like we strangle teams. In addition, they had at least 3 or 4 players who played out of their skins. Kante, Rudiger, Reece James were all excellent.
2) Chelsea players managed the occasion better than us. We let the magnitude of the game effect our performance levels. Not one player (maybe Gabby) performed better than average. They will learn from it no doubt and hopefully not be as overwhelmed as yesterday when we reach our next one.

Hard for those blues that were in Porto. Feel really sorry for you and for Pep and the players.

Next season will be interesting, we need to go big I think to freshen the squad. Just a glance at the form table for the last 12 PL games shows you everything you need to know. Dippers two points top. 5 other teams including us, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Leeds within a point of each other. Yes, I know we were rotating but that will happen next season as well.

Striker, AM, DM the priorities for me.
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Just four months he's been at that club and Tuchel has made them European Champions.

Pep has a set up at this club that other managers can only dream of. Yet in big games he lets his ego go crazy, experiments with the side and we lose.

He needs a bollocking from those above him.
 
blueparrot said:
Spot on, can’t believe with what he and the team have done the last few years, with what they have done this year, the best of any team in europe this season, that we lose a champions league final and suddenly Pep and the team are weak and shit,
FFS there being dissapointed and wishing things had gone differently, but anyone doubting these players and manager with an addition of a striker and possibly one or two ther additions can’t carry on winning things and give the c/l another good crack are fools beyond belief.
Luckily the club aren’t fools and will back Pep and the team to the hilt.
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I think some of the players will be furious with Pep.
 
argyle said:
Just four months he's been at that club and Tuchel has made them European Champions.

Pep has a set up at this club that other managers can only dream of. Yet in big games he lets his ego go crazy, experiments with the side and we lose.

He needs a bollocking from those above him.
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Dont agree. Ego go crazy? Settle down mate, he chose Gundogan as DM, a role he has played successfully numerous occasions. Apart from that the other 10 were exactly the team everyone thought should play. Hardy letting his ego go mad and experimenting. I get that folk are sad, I'm gutted we didn't win it but the manager who won the Premier league without a striker, bla bla bla is the same guy that lost last night.

My only criticism of him is he wrongly assumed that playing his A team using the same tactics as deployed in the last two games would be enough to win. He was wrong. Last night was like a rerun of the first two games. Different players, same outcome.
 
argyle said:
I think some of the players will be furious with Pep.
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The players won't be furious with Pep because unlike the ungrateful cretin contingent of Bluemoon, they aren't goldfish, and remember the fact he's won them 3 league titles in 4 years. They remember that they were 13th in November, and it was his management and changing of systems that won them the league they celebrated just a week ago.

We're 5 years and 10 trophies into Guardiola's reign. We have seen many games where he makes a change and it goes brilliant, and many where he makes a change and we lose. It is what it is, accept the fact we are the most successful club in the country under Guardiola and enjoy it, or decide you would rather have a manager who wasn't as good but picked the same 11 every week and start a Pep Out movement.
 
domalino said:
The players won't be furious with Pep because unlike the ungrateful twat contingent of Bluemoon, they aren't goldfish, and remember the fact he's won them 3 league titles in 4 years. They remember that they were 13th in November, and it was his management and changing of systems that won them the league they celebrated just a week ago.
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I bet you in the coming years you'll read that the players were furious with Pep over his team selection and tactics in the game last night.
 
argyle said:
I bet you in the coming years you'll read that the players were furious with Pep over his team selection and tactics in the game last night.
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I know you'll read in the coming years that the players all think Guardiola is the best manager they ever played under because that's exactly what all the Bayern and Barcelona and former City players say.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Dont agree. Ego go crazy? Settle down mate, he chose Gundogan as DM, a role he has played successfully numerous occasions. Apart from that the other 10 were exactly the team everyone thought should play. Hardy letting his ego go mad and experimenting. I get that folk are sad, I'm gutted we didn't win it but the manager who won the Premier league without a striker, bla bla bla is the same guy that lost last night.

My only criticism of him is he wrongly assumed that playing his A team using the same tactics as deployed in the last two games would be enough to win. He was wrong. Last night was like a rerun of the first two games. Different players, same outcome.
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A role he's played once (?) this whole season, and has been routinely poor in against big sides or in big matches previously.

I think there's basis to call this egotistical, almost narcissistic. Making changes like this says to me that he's trying to have too much influence over the result himself, thinking that he's the entire team, instead of trusting his players - the players who have done the job for him and got the team to the position it's in.

At that stage we're at, get out of the way of the team and the result. He didn't need to leave his marks like this so strongly. Go and listen to other managers about what they have to say in situations like this - highly successful ones who have won multiple trophies and titles. There's a common theme - in the big moments, keep it simple. Don't give your team something they don't know or won't be comfortable with.
 
domalino said:
I know you'll read in the coming years that the players all think Guardiola is the best manager they ever played under because that's exactly what all the Bayern and Barcelona and former City players say.
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I'm sure they will. They can think, like us, that he's brilliant but for some inexplicable reason he goes mad in the big games.
 
ws01 said:
Go and listen to other managers about what they have to say in situations like this - highly successful ones who have won multiple trophies and titles.
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You do realise there's only 2 managers in the history of the sport who have won more trophies than Pep Guardiola?

Why are you writing comments as if he's fucking Frank Lampard?
 
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