Pep Guardiola - 2019/20 Performances

[GaudinoMotors]

Might be just me but I think he deserves a bit more respect for what he’s achieved with us. Like I say, might just be me.

You're right but him and khaldoon can't keep telling us how great everything is when it clearly isn't - needs backing up.

 

[meeesh]

Even the best in the world need a plan B

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Because Mendy's injured and Zinchenko/Angelino vs Traore probably sounded like the stuff of nightmares to him when he sat down to make the lineup. Hence Cancelo on the left.

That worked well.....not! Cancelo’s first half performance was hideous

 

[lmhblue1]

That worked well.....not! Cancelo’s first half performance was hideous

Yeah, well, hindsight and all that good stuff.

 

[Tevez City]

His mistakes today imo are :

1- Gundogan as CM
2- Sterling as LW
3- Replacing Walker in HT unless he is sick/injured
4- Bernardo should never be benched

 

[cookster]

Pep how can Garcia be any worse than the 2019 version of Otamendi?

 

[kaz7]

His mistakes today imo are :

1- Gundogan as CM
2- Sterling as LW
3- Replacing Walker in HT unless he is sick/injured
4- Bernardo should never be benched

Ky was sick and bernie is bearing the weight of being called a racist

 

[Fast Forward To The Past]

Leave the sense of entitlement to the red teams and Real, please.
Losing a game is no reason to start acting like spoilt little brats.

 

[Kokonut1307]

Pep how can Garcia be any worse than the 2019 version of Otamendi?

You will see at Selhurst Park...joke aside I do think he is close to facing the axe and deservedly so.

 

[WNRH]

I know we have injuries but Pep is putting round pegs in square holes.

I get we only have one centre back but by putting Fernandinho there, we miss his drive and bite in midfield.
By putting Cancelo at left back, we miss our balance and our ability to switch the game at the flick of a switch as everything is predictable.

Our midfield today was so slow and predictable. When you have that, is it any wonder we did not create any chances? You are relying on Sterling and Mahrez to constantly run at defenders from deep which they aren't really up to, it's not their game. We might as well played with 10 men as Aguero did nothing but had no service whatsoever.

We are at our best when we are camped in and around their box and that is down to the full backs getting forward and the likes of KDB driving forward from midfield and the team pressing all over the show.

If we don't have a left back, play Zinchenko or Angelino for balance.
If we don't have a centre back, play Garcia or Bellis and allow Fernandinho in his normal position.
If we don't have KDB, play Foden or Bernardo in the midfield 3.

Yes those lads might make mistakes as they are young but at least the whole dynamics of the team wouldn't change.

We may be five big players down through injuries with Mendy, Laporte, Stones, KDB and Sane but in reality because of the reluctancy or because Pep is a shithouse for not playing like for like players, we are actually 11 players down as Cancelo and Fernandinho are out of position and the likes of Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero, Silva all struggle because of it. No team is going to compete for the top trophies with as many changes to our normal way of playing as that.