It's now obvious we haven't changed since last season, it's obvious how to beat us, Thomas Frank has shown every top 10 team who have the players to execute it.Nothing is obvious after two games
Again it’s two games…Pep has evolved within a season before. We weren’t playing with four Centre-backs at the start of the treble season. He has a bunch of new players he is trying to learn.It's now obvious we haven't changed since last season, it's obvious how to beat us, Thomas Frank has shown every top 10 team who have the players to execute it.
It's obvious Pep still intends to play a high defensive line with slow defenders who struggle to get back.
That's my point mate, it's not 2 games it's been the same since the middle of last season. And against AL Hilal , it's many games.Again it’s two games…Pep has evolved within a season before. We weren’t playing with four Centre-backs at the start of the treble season. He has a bunch of new players he is trying to learn.
For me this season will be a slight uptick on last season. I don’t see how bringing Rodri back doesn’t have a real positive impact. I am slightly worried that if he misses more games and one of the other midfielders gets injured we may be faced with a top 4 battle. Liverpool and Arsenal are better than us in every element of their squads and will be top 2 without a shadow of a doubt. Chelsea have great depth and players in every position and could be really strong if they can get a coherent team. I think we may be helped by Newcastle and spurs playing in Europe and maybe not having the depth for both competitions. I have a slight worry that this or next season will be the one we miss CL and that’s when things could become very very messy.
We will look lijke wengers arsenal in his last 5 or 6 years. Make sure you beat all the sides from 6th place down sacrifice cups..scrape cl spot. Difference is there about 9 fast aggressive sides who, atm can beat us easily.Again it’s two games…Pep has evolved within a season before. We weren’t playing with four Centre-backs at the start of the treble season. He has a bunch of new players he is trying to learn.
Its the definition of insanity..repeat constant nistakes. It made Trafford so nervous in his first home game back with us. He ended up charging out to try and compensate. Mind you if we do sit deeper and dont attack the ball and let bounce thats even worse!. Why havent we purchased a proper commanding CH...Andy Morrison type..why can't we develop a proper Tommy Booth type. The academy should be set up to develop defenders as that is easier to do. And tgen buy attacking players.That's my point mate, it's not 2 games it's been the same since the middle of last season. And against AL Hilal , it's many games.
We just keep getting mugged.
Our defence can't defend against fast breaks because of our high line but Pep will not change his tactics, even though we have no superfast right back.
KDB was a big player in our squad but he had become ineffective.Personally I’ve resigned myself to the fact we’re not going to win the league. It’s going to make the results like Saturday more tolerable. They’ll be a few more of those especially against the top 6. Peps lost Kev, one of our big game players, has to guide Rodri back safely and has some new players to work with including an experienced goalkeeper. It’s not all doom and gloom because we know from Pep that his teams are like fine wine they get better with time!
Of course he won't change this. Every progressive side plays in this manner. I don't want City to play any other way.That's my point mate, it's not 2 games it's been the same since the middle of last season. And against AL Hilal , it's many games.
We just keep getting mugged.
Our defence can't defend against fast breaks because of our high line but Pep will not change his tactics, even though we have no superfast right back.
Of course he won't change this. Every progressive side plays in this manner. I don't want City to play any other way.
Have you thought that the absence of our defensive midfielders is significant?
We won't me clear cut chances (Haaland & Marmoush) and be denied a blatant penalty every week.It's now obvious we haven't changed since last season, it's obvious how to beat us, Thomas Frank has shown every top 10 team who have the players to execute it.
It's obvious Pep still intends to play a high defensive line with slow defenders who struggle to get back.
Plus last season and the preseason. But again I hope I'm wrong.Nothing is obvious after two games
I'd go even further back than that.That's my point mate, it's not 2 games it's been the same since the middle of last season. And against AL Hilal , it's many games.
We just keep getting mugged.
Our defence can't defend against fast breaks because of our high line but Pep will not change his tactics, even though we have no superfast right back.
But Spurs did not create that many chances against us. I don't think the high back line was not the reason we lost. We made a couple of errors, but our attacking play was completely ineffective.For me it's not the high line that's the issue, it's the complete lack of recovery pace in it. We used to have Walker who was so quick that he could basically shut down attacks all over the right hand side of the pitch. On Saturday the back four ended up being Lewis who was inverting, Stones, Dias and Ake. It's a very slow back four and the spaces were there to be hit by Spurs all game long.
We're now playing even higher up the pitch but with a much slower back four. It's why people are crying out for Khusanov in there. I do agree about Rodri, but we've had him out for almost an entire year now.