I'd like to see how Guardiola would do with the players Pellegrini had at his disposal yesterday.
yes, we'd all do things a bit differently, but the overwhelming reason for the poor performances is down to the missing players.
Clearly. But we have a scapegoating mentality on bluemoon.
Take the last game for example: High line vs Vardy. Folks fail to point out Vardy didn't score. So what's the point of whinning about something that didn't change the outcome.
Worse still is the porous analysis. Leicester, counter attacks. We play possession. So by nature of the game, we will control possession. Unless folks are asking we hold the possession in our half, I really don't get the point of the whinning :?
Once in possession, we have to move up and down the field as a unit, or we are bound to leave huge gapa BTW offense and defense. So the high line is simply pro forma. Against a team defending with 8 men, we are bound to add more players on attack to help out. I.e the Fullbacks. It's key though that our players hustle back when we lose possession. It is here we failed. Yaya, Silva and Delph all failed miserably at it. Albeit, Yaya got the flack.
It is imperative that our CBs win most of their one v ones on counters. If they can't then we need better tacklers. Our defense is highly dependent on possession. And that wouldn't change under Pep. High line coupled with possession is the fulcrum of our good defending. So whinning about the high line is just silly. A poor understanding of what we are trying to do.
2nd Complaint, Delph on the left. Anyone who didn't get why this was the case, simply needs to retire from analysis discussions. You can disagree with it, but to not understand it is beyond silly. One word, Mahrez!!! It's an understandable choice.
Player put forward and tactics were not the issue. Player performances were.
Let me get into some details here:
So first goal: Simple set piece, outside out box, Huth beat Dimechelis. That's just not on the coach. The tactic was right, CD on CD, big on big. Man-up defenae on dead ball situation. Tactics was right, personnel was correct. Dimechelis just lost the battle. How Pellars is implicated in that is beyond me.
2nd goal: In possession, Silva losses the ball, but shows no hustle to get back(individual error 1), Kante beats Zab (Not an error, but shows he was in play but lost the individual battle), Ota goes to ground (individual error here, Simply should have rode Machete rather than attempt winning the ball. Error 2), Delph, who often gets on everyone's 'hustle' starting team sheet, AGAIN commits the error everyone tends to blame Yaya on. Once we lost possession, Mahrez started a cross field run past Delph, who just stands there transfixed. I mean he got a start for the singular purpose of helping slow down Mahrez. Worst error on the play in my opinion. Had he tracked Mahrez like he should have the play would have died on Otamend's slide and a Delph ball recovery.
By the way, Dimechelis and Kolarov were both in great defending positions. But Mahrez was simply better 1v1. Probably the best in the league right now.
3rd Goal like the first was simply Huth having a ball. Beating Demichelis again.
So when I say our errors are simply individual rather than tactical, this is what I mean.
I can delve into more run of the mill plays that were successful but didn't lead to goals, and general stuff. But that goes into weeds moat aren't interested in.
