Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini (2014/15)

[blueinsa]

Having seen that team sheet today, he's either taking the piss or mentally ill

Exeter you are better than that post mate.

That side is more than good enough to win this game.

Let's see. Of all the players at the club, that central midfield pairing would have been my absolute last choice

We have injuries and have no idea how others have reacted post Barca.

That and many of them have took the absolute piss last few weeks and they dont deserve a spot in the side.

 

[kenzie115]

Having seen that team sheet today, he's either taking the piss or mentally ill

I can only assume you're referring to the midfield two, as the rest of the team is pretty standard. With Yaya injured, Milner not 100% and Fernandinho having done the work of 3 men on Wednesday night, I'm not sure he had too many other options.

 

[flb]

Exeter you are better than that post mate.

That side is more than good enough to win this game.

Let's see. Of all the players at the club, that central midfield pairing would have been my absolute last choice

We have injuries and have no idea how others have reacted post Barca.

That and many of them have took the absolute piss last few weeks and they dont deserve a spot in the side.

A good two nil lead mate but what an uninspiring performance! Amstel down the chute, going in for the second half , dead as a dodo atmosphere!

 

[blueinsa]

Let's see. Of all the players at the club, that central midfield pairing would have been my absolute last choice

We have injuries and have no idea how others have reacted post Barca.

That and many of them have took the absolute piss last few weeks and they dont deserve a spot in the side.

A good two nil lead mate but what an uninspiring performance! Amstel down the chute, going in for the second half , dead as a dodo atmosphere!

Pmsl. Im off out to get pissed whilst a few decide to tell us how shit we are still.

 

[OB1]

We have injuries and have no idea how others have reacted post Barca.

That and many of them have took the absolute piss last few weeks and they dont deserve a spot in the side.

A good two nil lead mate but what an uninspiring performance! Amstel down the chute, going in for the second half , dead as a dodo atmosphere!

Pmsl. Im off out to get pissed whilst a few decide to tell us how shit we are still.

No doubt we will hear that the gaffer got lucky today; I thiught he knew whatsort of game WBA would give us and picked the side accordingly.

The key today was that the players were composed and professional from the off. They didn't score enough goals but aside from that did just what the needed to and, importantly, did not drop off after HT.

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

A good two nil lead mate but what an uninspiring performance! Amstel down the chute, going in for the second half , dead as a dodo atmosphere!

Pmsl. Im off out to get pissed whilst a few decide to tell us how shit we are still.

No doubt we will hear that the gaffer got lucky today; I thiught he knew whatsort of game WBA would give us and picked the side accordingly.

The key today was that the players were composed and professional from the off. They didn't score enough goals but aside from that did just what the needed to and, importantly, did not drop off after HT.

We need a decent run of wins now until the end of season to judge him. Just as we judged him on a line of shite performances.

 

[kenzie115]

Today tells us nothing other than Lampard is more professional and responsible with his defensive duties than Yaya, but surely we already knew that.

It was however a nice relaxing afternoon and a good way to give us a bit of confidence, Bony for example looks much better after finally getting his first goal.

 

[mastermind]

He wants a 4222 system)

What's a 4222 system ? You are not making any sense.

There's no such thing as a 4222 system.

It's a formation not a system.

The formation we currently use is no different to what Mancini used.

What has changed is tactics.

4222 is Pelle's system. Traditional 442 is about two fast line wingers that are all about pace and crossing. Pelle's Villarreal and also City system most of the time uses Silva/Nasri type of players that are very far from a traditional winger role. They keep the ball instead of cross, they come inside instead of hugging touchline and cross.

For this reason you need extremely lot of support from attacking fullbacks to provide any width when Silva/Nasri tends to come inside. But what if you lose the ball? You haveFernandinho, Yaya, Silva, Nasri all mostly in advanced incentrally role and also one of the fullbacks too. Also strikers...

You dont press as we dont press well at all, and there you go your defence is ran at by fast players and it all looks a mess. Happened so many times this season even against mediocre teams.

For this system to work you need a very good team effort in workrate, mostly with constant pressing or at least with the ability of tracking back a lot. Not 2 times a game, but a lot...

A traditional 442 was maybe what we had with Bellamy-De Jong-Barry-SWP midfield. Two in the middle working very hard, maybe hardly joining attacks, two wingers provide lot of pace that can also finish chances and score or cross well. Its not about posession at all and short passes.

Pelle's one completely different. NAvas provides some width to when he plays but his end product is very far from world class.

But whatever the formation really, the workrate some of our players put in off the ball would get punished no matter what formation we use.

The formation is 4-2-2-2.

I got that.

But it's the same formation under mancini.

What changed is how fast we attack. And how we defend has changed too, more aggression high up the pitch. It's just tactical changes that pellegrini made but the problem is that several of our players dont like these tactics and now we have to offload them and bring in a boat load of new players which is going to cost a fortune. this board fucking sucks and they need to be given the boot along with pellegrini.l

 

[dctid]

just go

 

[Damocles]

Having seen that team sheet today, he's either taking the piss or mentally ill

Exeter you are better than that post mate.

That side is more than good enough to win this game.

Let's see. Of all the players at the club, that central midfield pairing would have been my absolute last choice

Guess thats why hes a professional managing one of the top clubs in the world hey?