#9 | Gabriel Jesus - 2020/21 Performances

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I think Pep's management of him has been poor, he is clearly a guy who needs an arm around the shoulder and to relax instead Pep ramps up the pressure on him whenever he can.
Unfortunately, I think Pep this season, has decided to ramp the pressure up on everyone. And it worked for the most part, with regards to the rest of the team. We immediately started playing better when Pep declared no one's position is safe.

I agree Jesus doesn't do well with pressure. On the other hand, Aguero's return (and if starting) might actually ease the pressure on him, since he won't be on the spotlight that much.
 
Unfortunately, I think Pep this season, has decided to ramp the pressure up on everyone. And it worked for the most part, with regards to the rest of the team. We immediately started playing better when Pep declared no one's position is safe.

I agree Jesus doesn't do well with pressure. On the other hand, Aguero's return (and if starting) might actually ease the pressure on him, since he won't be on the spotlight that much.

If he plays them together it might solve everything. Let Gabby feel like the axe isn't hovering over his head, let someone distract defenders, and let him relax into scoring.
 
It is the nature of football forums,every player performance thread has a vocal few who think that player is shit. It is cyclical, and a little sad.
If Sterling, Mahrez, Bernardo, Gundogan , Zinchenko Jesus, et al were as bad as the detractors say, I doubt we would be 28 undefeated.
Confirmation bias is a powerful tool.
Does anyone really believe the genius of pep would be offering new contracts yo these players if they didn't have the required potential.
They can all improve , but they are not too scabby in the meanwhile.
 
It was a bad miss and he certainly should have done better he needs to balance that selfless acts of him and try to be more selfish at times he tried to wait for Bernardo or someone else in the box where he should shoot and bury that chance he is not beeing clinical lately but his all around game improved a lot and personally i don't see in the world a foward doing what he does with the ball and without the ball, his movement, lay offs, pressing and passing are world class but as any other striker we expect him to score goals and he is failing at this departament.. but despite his negative goal record in this recent months I was checking some of his UCL stats and it suprises me how underrated he is with the goal that he scored he has now 16 in 27 matches he turned into the second quickest brazilian player to reach 16 goals in the UCL only Neymar has done better by scoring 16 in 26 he also surpassed Firmino's goal tally (15) and equal Romário's record (16), and the most mind blowing stat is that since the 18/19 season only Lewandowski (27), Messi (19), Haaland (18), Ronaldo (14) , Mbáppe (14), Neymar (14), Benzema (13), Salah (13), have scored more goals than him in the UCL, this guys are the Elite of today's football ! he is hella of frustating to time to time but his quality is undeniable this lad has enough quality to play for us and he has a future at this club we just need to know where , Striker ? Winger ? Second Striker ?
 
Appreciate his work rate but he's simply not a striker and Pep's not happy with the one on one miss
No one was happy with that. But I like to think Pep was happy with his overall contribution. I was.
And Pep was probably not happy with the non-contribution from Sterling. I wasn’t.
 
that's such utter bollocks man. Oh he runs around a lot, oh he pulls defenders. Do you fucking think any other striker doesn't do those things as well? have you fucking watched aguero when he came on and how effectively he pulled defenders and contributed to the overall play? probably the best we looked whole match ffs. Open your fucking eyes and stop ignoring the elephant in the room. He absolutely plays as our central striker whether you wanna admit it or not. this apologia is so ridiculous. You wanna claim that he's the greatest striker that has ever strikered? fine, but stop lying to yourself about his absolute dire finishing. You say "open your eyes" yet you completely shutter off yours to his stats. "NOT SOME FUCKING STATS" give me a break.

you wanna have a go at me that's fine but i'll continue saying my truth whether it annoys people here or not
hes the greatest striker to have ever strikered, didnt say that, even if i thought it i certainly wouldnt of said strikered , who the fuck says that, and no he doesn't play as the main striker ,he might be the "main striker" he plays all over the place, he doesnt just play in the "striker" position, if that was all his job was ,i would say, he doesnt score enough, as i said, open your fucking eyes, stop looking at the stats and actually watch how he plays.oh and your coming across as a youngster have a tantrum ,lol
 
I thought he was brilliant last night, other than that missed opportunity.

Some of his linkup play and ball retention is great to watch. He'll be absolutely insane whenever he hits that point in his career where he just has constant self confidence.

I must admit that is what i thought I watched
 
Pep has said a number of times, strikers have to score goals, so the pressure is there. I hope Gabby didn't see Peps reaction when he missed that chance last night. It was hardly confidence building. I love Gabby. Think he has been brilliant since he came but he has to improve his decision making in front of goal. I am sure the lad is the first to put his hand up and agree with that. It seems he is quite similar to Raz, in that the more time they have to think the less likely they are to score.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Both him and Sterling need to convert more of the guilt edge chances this team creates for them. Goals win games, that's all there is to it really.
 
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