We are talking about Bernardo Silva here? the one I watch effortlessly goes past people with his ball control and trickery, creates numerous chances and scores a few too.Silva is great to keep balance and dominate the other team. But he is not gonna produce anything noteworthy, he won't give you an assist, a goal, an impossible pass, dribble 3 and go forward... and you need that against great teams. You won't dominate Madrid, PSG, Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern most of the time.
Any manager in the world (including Pep) strongly prefers KdB over Silva for the big matches. The reality is City doesn't need a player to beat Arsenal, but we need players to beat the top 6 and Bayern, PSG, Madrid. That's why Silva is a great role player and why it seems like we are a "better team" with him. The same analogy applies to Laporte vs Dias or Cancelo vs Zinchenko or Walker.
It's not the point that "he didn't touch him". The challenge was a red card in accordance with the laws of the game. Regardless of it not being a red card "for you."
love that LV guy could have him as my best mate!
Me too, scared my wife shitless she thought it was a family emergency. Will the Club be issuing an appology?
Very true, when Bruno does it drives me crazy.The play acting by Cancelo was a disgrace though,we slate players from other clubs for behaving in such a pathetic manner so our own should not be exempt from the same standard.
Good post, man.I understand the conundrum.
I think the speed and work rate increased tremendously with the team selection of the last two games. However I’m still not convinced that it’ll work against the likes of a Chelsea defence or any decent 10 men behind the ball.
Look at the aberration of the Spurs match where, in fairness, we had a different starting eleven.
But when Kev came on and was pushed up around the box things alla sudden started happening. We could have pulled a result out of that if he was on earlier.
Truth is, in my opinion, for much of last year Kev was not the problem. No disrespect to Mahrez who was great last season and is looking hungry again, but him on the right and Sterling on the left really slows down our pace. Both kept coming inside and recycling.
Predictable and with no target man it made breaking good teams down more difficult.
Early days and we’ve played two woeful teams, but look at the speed of delivery with Jesus on the right and Jack on the left.
The work rate of Bernardo and Jesus together with the movement of Torres and Gundogan is like watching us at our best again, but imagine Kev picking out first time balls to either side as well. The options are crazy.
We need cool heads to place the tap ins in the corners. Personally Sterling is the one I’d be dropping at the moment. It’s a tough one too but I would rather Jesus on the right than Mahrez. Maybe Mahrez is a good option through the middle.
Pep is right to be happy with the squad he has. I don’t envy him the task of picking a team week in week out though. That’s why hey paid the big bucks.
Until Kev is fully fit I doubt he could do the graft Bernardo does but fully fit he can and nobody opens a defence like him.
Options all over the place. As long as half a dozen of our team are scoring over 10 goals this season we might just get away without a 30 goal a season striker.
Troopz has his own channel now. I thought he was going to top himself.
Unless the perpetrator is a rag or a dipper. The red shirts of Arsenal no longer carry an automatic reduction in punishment.Yep, it was a terrible tackle, badly executed by Xhaka in that he didn't connect fully (luckily).
2 footed, off the ground, diving in, out of control. Red all day long