Grealish and Mahrez will be ok for teams that park the bus, but games which are open we need players that can go on the outside.The intensity and speed of our attack grew double when both Foden and Alvarez came on in the big matches at least when the intensity needs to be high Grealish and Mahrez just can't play together way too predictable
Foden is absolutely lightning, but keep it down because the rest of the league don’t seem to have realised yet.Well Mahrez and Grealish are no Robben and Ribery pace wise. Foden is quick but not Sane quick. We saw how much Vunicious troubled us with his pace in CL last year. With Sterling gone dont know how we will switch to quick transition from defense to attack that we did in the centurion season.
Give me a wide player with pace any day, so difficult to defend and devastating on the counter.Pace was irrelevant yesterday, we created enough chances. And will create enough chances over the course of the season. Weirdly, it was finishing the chances, not their creation, that was the problem. That's the probabilistic nature of football. Even the Haalands of this world are not guaranteed to score from good or even great chances. The probabilistic nature of football means also that Haaland, if he stays fit, will score many goals this season. Btw, his pace replaces Sterling's pace. We won't be a slower team with him and Foden.
Give me a wide player with pace any day, so difficult to defend and devastating on the counter.
It's my opinion, as a defender what he would least like to face, pace or trickery, a vast majority will say pace.You may be right, I leave it to Pep to decide about the kinds of players he wants. Sane and Sterling would be here if their pace was *that* important to the team. It wasn't, they moved.
Exactly..... I have watched City all my life with the likes of the greats on the wings......Give me a wide player with pace any day, so difficult to defend and devastating on the counter.
Pace causes us problems because teams are usually counter attacking us. We’re playing against packed defences, so not so important. Plus, as someone said on the previous page, Kev breaking through the middle and feeding it to Haaland and/or Alvarez is ample.Looking at how pacy wingers have always caused us trouble in the past, its strange that some say that pace is not that important.
It's my opinion, as a defender what he would least like to face, pace or trickery, a vast majority will say pace.
The problem at the moment is if we have Grealish and Mahrez out wide we become very predictable, Mahrez is a goal threat, but to become a regular in this team Grealish has to create and score more than he has ever done throughout his career.
Give me a wide player with pace any day, so difficult to defend and devastating on the counter.
Pace is a waste if the cross doesn't find a blue shirt.Exactly..... I have watched City all my life with the likes of the greats on the wings......
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Only if there’s space to run into, which for us is rare, besides, Foden , Alvareez Haaland is plenty of speed.Give me a wide player with pace any day, so difficult to defend and devastating on the counter.
Sane and Sterling both has devastating pace, Foden is extremely quick, and I am pleased to see so is Alvarez.Again, if pace was that important for Pep, the team would have more pacy players/wingers.
We are talking here about the manager with the best record in terms of preparing his teams to score the most goals in England and Europe.
To score 99 league goals and 150 goals without a world class attacker last season was to take the piss out of United and Liverpool. For their entire history (!), Man U and Liverpool have never scored 150 goals in all competitions. Never. It's for Pep to decide what he needs in attack. It's not like Haaland isn't very quick and Foden isn't pacy. We have enough pace, at least for Pep.