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youngbob said:
We've got a cup final next week and it was obvious against Wolves that some of the lads are knackered. If Pep had played O'Reilly, Nunes, Marmoush, etc. from the start today and knackered them out for the cup final next week we'd have people saying he should have rested them in "such an easy game". In this kind of scenario he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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Yes, but if they had started we could have been three up and taken them off.
Just a thought, you could be right.
 
noseve said:
So it's wrong to even EXPECT anything now, is it?
So if you pay to watch a film and it's shite, you're happy?
Or go for a meal and it's inedible, you just drive home without commenting?
Bollocks, do you.

I bet you watched that game rubbing your hands together in glee - another chance to spout your precious claptrap on a post-match thread.
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If one scene in a 38 scene film
was slightly below standard it wouldn’t stop me enjoying the movie as a whole.

Bigger picture, pun intended
 
We can hardly complain about the dippers being on the beach against Chelsea when we’ve not reached the bloody seaside against the worst team in the league. Respect for all the blues who travelled down today and I’m sure the team are embarrassed to give Southampton their 12th point of the season.
It’s disappointing that we’re relying on other results for 3rd but win our last 2 and we’re in the Champions League anyway. We need to be much better than today though to beat Bournemouth. Likewise Fulham will probably raise their game against us above their shit show today.
For the last few seasons we all knew that when we had to win, we would win. Now we’re just hoping we don’t feck it up and become the next reincarnation of ‘typical City’.
 
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola told BBC Sport: "Difficult. We had chances but unfortunately couldn’t score. [Southampton were] playing to defend and defend and defend and waste time. We take that point still, it’s in our hands.

"Didn’t expect them to defend so deep. Defensive we were so good but unfortunately we missed the last actions.

"He [Erling Haaland] didn’t expect to play as any minutes but the way the game was played we needed people in the box.

"That point was really important."
 
Another Pep masterstroke today, yes he is the greatest manager we've ever had, but he fucks about when fucking about isn't necessary.
So many changes to what has been our best spell of the season, absolutely no pace in the starting eleven, it was slow, turgid shite.
Whoever decides our corner routine needs fucking shooting, how many high hanging over hit corners does it take to realise it ain't working.
I fear those lost points will stop us getting top 5, which is imperative for financial reasons.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
We just aint elite any more in any metric.

Shambolic recruitment for the past 3 seasons has seen out squad is a complete fuck up. I won’t even mention the £200m spent in January.

The manager is a shadow of what made him the best coach in the world.

And the board have managed to lose the goodwill of all our legacy supporters and are facing the possibility that bad news in the 115 case that would fuck the club for generations.
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Grim Reaper GIFs | Tenor
 
KS55 said:
Yes, but if they had started we could have been three up and taken them off.
Just a thought, you could be right.
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But if they'd started and we still hadn't scored then they'd have either come off when we needed them or they'd have been stuck on the pitch for 90 mins. That starting XI and system should have been good enough to beat Southampton and it's on the players that they didn't get it over the line with the chances we had.
 
I'm Blue said:
I agree.
Some of our play today was like Sunday league.
Crap, crosses, shit corners and piss poor effort all round.
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First half was awful. Very few poor passes in defense or midfield (so no problem with passing in itself) but atrocious balls into the box by professionals.

Kids are smarter than this. Amateurs too.

I don't think it's the players though. I think it's the tactics and how Pep is making zero effort (from what I can see) to create space and use space in a way that results in more shots on goal.

Also it's just so fucking boring.
 
Gumzy97 said:
We’ve just drawn to one of the worst sides in premier league history , that have conceded 83 goals this season and are on twelve points. How is it entitled to think we would at least bludy win. That today was atrocious
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Not allowed to criticise. That was a perfectly logical starting 11 against one of the worst sides in premier league history
 
Fordyboy46 said:
It won't make any difference if we sign a few players this summer, the style of play needs to change, it's as stale as fuck and don't let these last five or six results cloud your judgement that we're on our way back. Forest and Wolves could've been totally different, the woodwork saving us in both
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Your judgment has always been clouded by your belief you know better than Pep - but it’s all hindsight
So we had a bit of luck (like most other teams do) - that’s unusual but welcome.
Do you enjoy going to matches - or do you just sit at home writing about what Pep has done wrong?
I’ve rarely seen a positive post from you

Anyway - I’m leaving it there because, frankly, I don’t think you know very much about football so I don’t know why I respond to your juvenile posts
 
robbieh said:
Especially as he parted with the best part of 200 million.
I can understand Reis not being in the match day squad but Khusanov should be on the bench.
Why González is now out of favour, who knows. But not to play our best forward currently in a must win game.
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Agree with this, and playing one game a week now there’s absolutely no excuses, my gut feeling is Pep has taken us as far as he can - mentality wise, and he needs a break from football, there is no shame in it, and I think the players need to hear a new voice.
 
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