Pep Guardiola - 2025/26

We might need to go back to treble basics.

A strong back 4 that is defensively sound with Stones/Nico G/Rodri going from CB into CDM position.

Gvardiol/Ake
Dias/Akanji
Stones/Nico G/Rodri
Khus/Nunes

Lewis as a backup CM, RAN as a LW as he is struggling to be up and down and defend that he barely attacks.
 
ID70 said:
Pep thinks we were excellent for an hour, therein lies the problem and nothing will change. We were winning but there was a lack of quality or desire to score more goals. Oh for the days when we blew teams away in the first 20 mins and scored 2/3/4 goals and could then ease off.
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I agree with him, we were completely cruising before the penalty. Brighton had one shot from outside of the box (which came from a foul on Ait Nouri not given). All that was missing was a second goal from the perfect away performance.

So many fans and pundits are knee jerk morons who believe: If a team wins they were good, if a team loses they were bad.
 
ID70 said:
Pep thinks we were excellent for an hour, therein lies the problem and nothing will change. We were winning but there was a lack of quality or desire to score more goals. Oh for the days when we blew teams away in the first 20 mins and scored 2/3/4 goals and could then ease off.
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Nothing wrong with what Pep has said. We were still in control before the penalty and then the collapse afterwards. Haaland's first half miss before the opener was bad. 2-0 would have been good to see the game out.
 
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EdersonsSmiley said:
I agree with him, we were completely cruising before the penalty. Brighton had one shot from outside of the box (which came from a foul on Ait Nouri not given). All that was missing was a second goal from the perfect away performance.

So many fans and pundits are knee jerk morons who believe: If a team wins they were good, if a team loses they were bad.
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We most certainly were not cruising, we had fuck all about us at any point in the second half.

His usual "so so good" bollocks is worrying
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
I agree with him, we were completely cruising before the penalty. Brighton had one shot from outside of the box (which came from a foul on Ait Nouri not given). All that was missing was a second goal from the perfect away performance.

So many fans and pundits are knee jerk morons who believe: If a team wins they were good, if a team loses they were bad.
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That's some revisionism. "cruising"? Never felt that comfortable.
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
I agree with him, we were completely cruising before the penalty. Brighton had one shot from outside of the box (which came from a foul on Ait Nouri not given). All that was missing was a second goal from the perfect away performance.

So many fans and pundits are knee jerk morons who believe: If a team wins they were good, if a team loses they were bad.
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We were cruising as Brighton were poor, as soon as they upped their tempo we couldn’t cope and conceded twice and it could have been more but for a world class save from Trafford. Whereas we rarely looked like scoring more than the once
 
pudge said:
We most certainly were not cruising, we had fuck all about us at any point in the second half.

His usual "so so good" bollocks is worrying
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Brighton hadn't had a shot since the 18th minute and barely got into our final third. How is that not cruising if you are winning the game?
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
I agree with him, we were completely cruising before the penalty. Brighton had one shot from outside of the box (which came from a foul on Ait Nouri not given). All that was missing was a second goal from the perfect away performance.

So many fans and pundits are knee jerk morons who believe: If a team wins they were good, if a team loses they were bad.
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0 shots on target after Haalands goal on 37mins...Nothing but tika taka after going 1 up = cruising

 
RayCTID said:
Nothing wrong with what Pep has said. We were still in control before the penalty and then the collapse afterwards. Haaland's first half miss before the opener was bad. 2-0 would have been good.
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We on countless times have dropped points from winning positions this 12 months or so. Whilst it felt comfortable: you knew we needed a second. Why wait to concede to make real changes. Why approach the second half slow and boring with little chance of getting a second: he’s lost it for me. It’s glaringly obvious the issues
 
He needed moving on last year, the team needs a refresh and so does he

Same issues as last season, questionable tactics it seeks like we needed to be a bit braver and try to replace Pep

Title is a mile away, but hopefully things can improve as atm the club is still can't compete physically and is mentally weak
 
Fear factor well and truly gone. Everyone now fancies their changes against us, even 1-0 down they know if they get one it’s probably going to be two.

Bizarre substitutions every game. Attitude issues every game.

Next three games are fucking frightening
 
ID70 said:
We were cruising as Brighton were poor, as soon as they upped their tempo we couldn’t cope and conceded twice and it could have been more but for a world class save from Trafford. Whereas we rarely looked like scoring more than the once
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That save was literally 30 seconds before they scored too! Why can’t we concentrate ? Criminal to concede after almost doing so ! Just tighten up. The players are absolute idiots at times.
 
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