Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

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waspish said:
We win all our games arsenal lose to us twice who wins the league?
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That would put Arsenal on 103 points.

I doubt whether they will achieve this but if they do they will deserve all the plaudits that come their way.
 
jamesha said:
That would put Arsenal on 103 points.

I doubt whether they will achieve this but if they do they will deserve all the plaudits that come their way.
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Because in that scenario they win the other 20 games. Likely scenario
 
jamesha said:
That would put Arsenal on 103 points.

I doubt whether they will achieve this but if they do they will deserve all the plaudits that come their way.
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Maybe Arteta was the architect of the centurions all along…….
 
youngbob said:
Hope he does 20 years here. He knows how to keep coming back with new ideas to keep those trophies ticking over.

16/17 - an "off" season, no trophies
17/18 - Premier League and League Cup
18/19 - domestic treble
19/20 - an "off" season, League Cup
20/21 - Premier League and League Cup (CL runners up)
21/22 - Premier League
22/23 - an "off" season, who knows?

Forecast predicts that 23/24 and 24/25 will be very good seasons indeed.

(Worth bearing in mind that we were hovering between 4th and 8th, a few points off the pace, at this stage of the 20/21 season).
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Like I just mentioned in another thread, we are near enough where we were last season in terms of points after 16 games. We’re on 2 points less. Had we won yesterday , we would be on the same amount as last season after 16 games and we were top.

We’ve also scored 44 league goals in 16 games this season, last year we had 33 goals after 16 games. So we’re doing better in that department.

Defence is a bit worse than last season at this stage but nothing staggering.

We’re not even doing that badly, basically on par with last season at this stage in terms of points, it’s just Arsenal are playing out of their skins and become a front runner, up to this point. That’s the real difference this season, not us. It’s certainly not an “off season” if we compare to last season at this point. We just have to say Arsenal have started great.

The main question is can Arsenal sustain it? There’s a long way to go. If they do then fair fucks to them, it’ll be well deserved. I don’t think they will. I believe we’ll catch them at some point.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Like I just mentioned in another thread, we are near enough where we were last season in terms of points after 16 games. We’re on 2 points less. Had we won yesterday , we would be on the same amount as last season after 16 games and we were top.

We’ve also scored 44 league goals in 16 games this season, last year we had 33 goals after 16 games. So we’re doing better in that department.

Defence is a bit worse than last season at this stage but nothing staggering.

We’re not even doing that badly, basically on par with last season at this stage in terms of points, it’s just Arsenal are playing out of their skins and become a front runner, up to this point. That’s the real difference this season, not us. It’s certainly not an “off season” if we compare to last season at this point. We just have to say Arsenal have started great.

The main question is can Arsenal sustain it? There’s a long way to go. If they do then fair fucks to them, it’ll be well deserved. I don’t think they will. I believe we’ll catch them at some point.
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We are near where we were last season apart from having less points

I kind of gave up after that :-)
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Pep clearly just making stuff up to justify poor team selection. Picking happy players over better options. Oh dear.....
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Except that in the game we lost at Brentford, with Phil, Bernardo and Haaland up front, we gave up a crazy amount of big chances, and deservedly lost.

Yesterday was the only time we dropped points since, and we gave Everton virtually nothing.

According to Understat, Brentford's xg was 3.29, which is astonishing for a City game, while Everton's was 0.06.

XG doesn't always match results, but that shows how open we were in one match, and how unlucky we were yesterday - restricting Everton almost completely, and losing to a shot which players very rarely get right.
 
bluenova said:
Except that in the game we lost at Brentford, with Phil, Bernardo and Haaland up front, we gave up a crazy amount of big chances, and deservedly lost.

Yesterday was the only time we dropped points since, and we gave Everton virtually nothing.

According to Understat, Brentford's xg was 3.29, which is astonishing for a City game, while Everton's was 0.06.

XG doesn't always match results, but that shows how open we were in one match, and how unlucky we were yesterday - restricting Everton almost completely, and losing to a shot which players very rarely get right.
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Brentford was just two PL games ago hardly an impressive stat saying we haven't dropped points since then up until yesterday.

We were rubbish yesterday with that team selection and no amount of spin will change that.
 
Gumzy97 said:

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Maybe they aren’t happy as they feel they only get a chance to prove themselves out of their natural position, maybe they feel there’s too much rotation, maybe they feel they’re set up to look shit having too many jobs to do, maybe players look happy because they can’t believe they’re first choice given the players on the bench?
 



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The happy thing with pep has worked but if Haaland Kdb and Rodri had a slapped arse all week do we think they would be sitting on the bench come the weekend game?
 
So may explain why Laporte wasn’t with the squad at all then? Pep has fallen out with him previously over attitude about game time?
 
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