Pep will always make a team play to his idea for a certain match.
This doesn't translates to that his IDEA and the tasks ask for each player, will suit like a glove the characteristics of the player. Mostly he wins anyway, because he has a full view of what he wants and the strategy to apply, but lots of times he can make Henry to just run to the end of his flank to creat a decoy, yes fecking Henry...
As examples from this last match:
Hallaand, even as big as he is, still loves to play with space, running from the middle and not as a big fella in the box or surrounded by 10. He must develope that game and his heading for the future, but he still is not there and he ain't fond of such scenario.
Phil likes to run at rivals, mostly from the middle, falling to the flanks to find space. But if he ain't on his best day and he doesn't have a Striker as reference closer, or someone like Alvarez to combine, he´ll find it harder.
Alvarez it's not a striker like it's said here, he is a polivalent forward, a second forward that mostly scores quite a lot and knows his way in the area or around it. But he needs to constantly associate and receive the ball a LOT MORE when he runs into space, but this last thing it's not the Pep Ball that many of his palyers are acostume (Bernardo, Walker, etc...sometimes even Foden sob the ball too much). Only Kevin risks it more but he has a tendency to trust a lot more in Erling and using Alvarez as decoy.
Doku is a kid, that right now plays too much with a basket cube over his head and tries the same stuff time and again. He is better suit to use him right now with space to create havoc, if not, when surrounded, he contradicts his best attribute: speed and holds the ball too much, doesn't pass the ball to space and does not combine in a one/two inmediatly if that's what "the play asks"
So combining in a flank a player that has some dribble like Alvarez, buy it's mostly a passer, that likes to run to spaces and combine in one/twos, with a nowadays "I have one idea" Doku, can hurt the game of both. Plus leaving Foden alone in the other flank and Erling surrounded by numbers, it's harder for the characteristics of those players.
Yet we should not forget that Pep has a whole view of this and could have won the match anyway like tons of times, him not playing to some of the best attributes of these players, more than probably play better for the shape he wanted for the team and other attributes of other players, In fact City could have won this game and he really cares very little since day one for the individual status of his players, it's HIS game, HIS idea, HE'll make any lot win a feck lot so follow HIM.
This doesn't translates to that his IDEA and the tasks ask for each player, will suit like a glove the characteristics of the player. Mostly he wins anyway, because he has a full view of what he wants and the strategy to apply, but lots of times he can make Henry to just run to the end of his flank to creat a decoy, yes fecking Henry...
As examples from this last match:
Hallaand, even as big as he is, still loves to play with space, running from the middle and not as a big fella in the box or surrounded by 10. He must develope that game and his heading for the future, but he still is not there and he ain't fond of such scenario.
Phil likes to run at rivals, mostly from the middle, falling to the flanks to find space. But if he ain't on his best day and he doesn't have a Striker as reference closer, or someone like Alvarez to combine, he´ll find it harder.
Alvarez it's not a striker like it's said here, he is a polivalent forward, a second forward that mostly scores quite a lot and knows his way in the area or around it. But he needs to constantly associate and receive the ball a LOT MORE when he runs into space, but this last thing it's not the Pep Ball that many of his palyers are acostume (Bernardo, Walker, etc...sometimes even Foden sob the ball too much). Only Kevin risks it more but he has a tendency to trust a lot more in Erling and using Alvarez as decoy.
Doku is a kid, that right now plays too much with a basket cube over his head and tries the same stuff time and again. He is better suit to use him right now with space to create havoc, if not, when surrounded, he contradicts his best attribute: speed and holds the ball too much, doesn't pass the ball to space and does not combine in a one/two inmediatly if that's what "the play asks"
So combining in a flank a player that has some dribble like Alvarez, buy it's mostly a passer, that likes to run to spaces and combine in one/twos, with a nowadays "I have one idea" Doku, can hurt the game of both. Plus leaving Foden alone in the other flank and Erling surrounded by numbers, it's harder for the characteristics of those players.
Yet we should not forget that Pep has a whole view of this and could have won the match anyway like tons of times, him not playing to some of the best attributes of these players, more than probably play better for the shape he wanted for the team and other attributes of other players, In fact City could have won this game and he really cares very little since day one for the individual status of his players, it's HIS game, HIS idea, HE'll make any lot win a feck lot so follow HIM.