Hard To Be Here

Blue Mist said:
I was unlucky enough to watch Casimiros headed goal today.
We do not score that kind of goal. It sadly had creativity written all over it.
We have teams playing the low block because they know how we play, sideways to the wing, back, 5 yards forward and repeat.
Arsenal have found a way around low blocks, go at them and get a corner.

Our tactics have not evolved. We are boring.
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Arsenal are beyond dull to watch as well as cheating by time wasting and diving.

They’re more functional a5 winning games this season. They haven’t beaten the low block issue.
 
urban genie said:
Deep lying defences have always existed, and it is hardly exclusively done just to us, it is becoming a poor excuse when we have seen us carve through such when we decide to play quick passing forward attacks to keep using it as an excuse for our own failings

playing 10 behind the ball is easy when we are slowing down play and passing it sideways and back all the time, giving the opposition time to regroup and park the bus
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Teams are better at it now due to the improvement in video analysis.

Had Pep managed in the Pisscan era, he’d have won even more as the analysis wasn’t there to counteract his tactics.

It’s how he retired the GPC.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
I think in our case you can be ok with poor performances, unless you’re around 18 and know nothing other than success. I can almost get that if that’s the case.

But to call for Peps head, which I’ve seen plenty of, is as rag like entitlement as it gets. Went gone from nothing to everything in a relative blink of an eye. A few or more poor performances and unsuccessful seasons should be given tolerance.
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I agree. Calling for his head is over the top and it ignores everything he has done for us. What he has built and achieved at City has been unbelievable and no one should forget that.
But at the same time we can't just stand still either. We've spent close to £500m building this squad and giving Pep the tools he requires. Because of that, I think it's fair that people question decisions when things aren't working - even if he's the best manager we've ever had.

Take Rayan Cherki. He's one of the most talented players in Europe and yet the suggestion seems to be that with him in the team we're suddenly "unbalanced." But we were in a title race before the attacking line-up started getting tinkered with.
We literally beat Liverpool 3–0 at home with the exact combination that's now being referred to as unbalanced in possibly our most complete display of the season.

Then you've got things like taking our best players off in big moments - like yesterday with Ait Nouri. Or going into the biggest game of the season and playing combinations we've barely ever used before, thinking we'd rock up to the home of the most successful club in world football and just blow them away. As Fabio Cappello referred to it as "arrogance" like when we didn't select a Defensive Midfielder for the Champions League Final in Porto.

Are we not allowed to discuss that and question those calls? Or because of everything he's won for us, do we just have to watch it and accept that there's nothing more he could've done? It's a debate on a football forum, it's not self entitlement. No fan on this forum knows more than Pep, we aren't Successful football managers but we have a right to question his decisions. We pay our hard earned money to watch and follow the club all over Europe.

For what it's worth, I actually think we've underachieved a bit with the squad we've got. I’m not taking the Arsenal squad or manager over ours. For me it's been individual tactical decisions/unused substitutions in key games where we've cost ourselves. And pointing that out shouldn't be seen as entitlement - it's just part of supporting the team and wanting it to be better.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Arsenal are beyond dull to watch as well as cheating by time wasting and diving.

They’re more functional a5 winning games this season. They haven’t beaten the low block issue.
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They obviously have, by running at the low block, and getting / 'earning' the set pieces from which they score a good proportion of their goals. Corners and free kicks kill the low block.
 
Lavinda Past said:
That's one of the most juvenile, petty responses I've ever seen. Grow up.
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No, fair do's. He's woken me from my slumber and first thing tomorrow I will be applying for the Tottenham job.

If I post the application it will get there just in time. I've copied and pasted his reply into my application, with such a ringing endorsement I can't fail.
 
Blue Mist said:
No, fair do's. He's woken me from my slumber and first thing tomorrow I will be applying for the Tottenham job.

If I post the application it will get there just in time. I've copied and pasted his reply into my application, with such a ringing endorsement I can't fail.
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If I was offered the Spurs job I would insist on a huge bonus to keep them up, then when I got the job do everything in my power to get them relegated.

The Brewster’s Millions of football management.
 
Lavinda Past said:
They obviously have, by running at the low block, and getting / 'earning' the set pieces from which they score a good proportion of their goals. Corners and free kicks kill the low block.
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They haven’t beaten the low block tactic. They score from set pieces more. That’s the only difference.
 
Lavinda Past said:
They've found an effective way around it. We could probably have done the same using Jack Grealish to rack up free kicks instead of endless recycling.
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They haven’t. They block keepers from catching the ball and exploit a law that needs changing.

We create more than them in open play against low blocks. We’ve just not been clinical enough.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
If I was offered the Spurs job I would insist on a huge bonus to keep them up, then when I got the job do everything in my power to get them relegated.

The Brewster’s Millions of football management.
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And after relegating them, as you are about to close the door behind you, pop your head round and shout 'thats for 1981you shithouse bastards'
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
He didn’t. Pep dismantling the rags in 2 CL finals ended his type of football being the most successful.

Mancini started our success, but the Pisscan won the league the following season and helped get Mancini sacked.
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Mancini killed Ferguson when we won the league in 2012. Txiki gave GPC another bite at the cherry by failing to sign Robin Van Persie and losing him to the rags. Ferguson was a dead man walking all that season.
 
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