#25 | Fernandinho - 2020/2021 Performances

[Trojan1962]

Utterly disrespectful not to start him tonight given his experience and what he brings to the team

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Biggest tactical error Pep has made, and he’s made a few.

 

[ws01]

Utterly disrespectful not to start him tonight given his experience and what he brings to the team

Utterly disrespectful to simply not start your captain in a final like this, let alone a guy who's long being one of the best in his position, still is, and has been central to our success for close to a decade.

 

[RayCTID]

With Lahoz refeering the final you could of see why Fernandinho didn't start but should of been introduced more sooner than he was

 

[CmonCity92]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this pushes Dinho away. I'd be fuming if I was him OR Rodri.

 

[01cravend]

With Lahoz refeering the final you could of see why Fernandinho didn't start but should of been introduced more sooner than he was

Thought the ref was brilliant. Dinho made a yellow card tackle almost immediately after coming on and Lahoz let it slide.

 

[RayCTID]

Thought the ref was brilliant. Dinho made a yellow card tackle almost immediately after coming on and Lahoz let it slide.

He wasn't brilliant but not as terrible as he had been when refeering us over the years

 

[lmhblue1]

Thought the ref was brilliant. Dinho made a yellow card tackle almost immediately after coming on and Lahoz let it slide.

The thing with Lahoz is that there is no predicting what he will allow. Regular viewers of La Liga will tell you- some days he allows anything and everything, and then other days he allows fuck all. Rightly or wrongly, that risk, combined with how Fernandinho looked in his last start against Chelsea, probably made Pep go with Gundo instead.

 

[argyle]

I'd be fuming if I was Fernandinho.

Dropped for a terribly out of form Sterling in the clubs biggest ever match.

 

[ninjamonkey]

As captain, I really hope he takes Pep to one side and privately gives him both barrels for leaving him out and Pep allows him to do that with no comeback. And I mean that as a "why are you leaving out the holding midfielder" way rather than a "I'm captain I deserve to play" arrogant way.

I think Pep really needs to hear that from somebody.

ideally it would be one of his backroom staff that does it but seemingly none of them will do that as you'd imagine they already would have before kick off when he decided on that crazy formation if they were going to and it can't really come from khaldoon as it comes across as him trying to tell Pep how to do his job which means the obvious guy is the club captain.

With Lahoz refeering the final you could of see why Fernandinho didn't start but should of been introduced more sooner than he was

No you can't. You can if you invent a story in your head that the refs out to get you.

there's no reasoning whatsoever.