Pep Guardiola - 2019/20 Performances

[Phil1]

Before last night we’d won 4/5 after going down to 10.
Without our unforced errors we’d have likely added another.
Just a bad night at the office sadly.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

You can't play a normal possession game with 10 men away from home against a team challenging for top 4. Liverpool couldn't keep the ball against Brighton at home and they were playing with a man less for just 15 minutes.

Barcelona did at Real Madrid earlier this decade.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Before last night we’d won 4/5 after going down to 10.
Without our unforced errors we’d have likely added another.
Just a bad night at the office sadly.

One forced error was taking de Bruyne off and removing the one thing that was really working for us: Bernardo picking the ball up off the back4/keeper and finding de Bruyne in space to get the ball away from our goal.

After Kev left the field we couldn’t get the ball up the pitch unless we just launched it straight back to them.

With Sterling just constantly giving the ball away as the only attacker on the pitch, we invited that defeat.

 

[cleavers]

One forced error was taking de Bruyne off and removing the one thing that was really working for us: Bernardo picking the ball up off the back4/keeper and finding de Bruyne in space to get the ball away from our goal.

After Kev left the field we couldn’t get the ball up the pitch unless we just launched it straight back to them.

With Sterling just constantly giving the ball away as the only attacker on the pitch, we invited that defeat.

I was only listening to the shite commentary that talkshite offer (it really is dreadful), but even that made it obvious that the right sub was to take sterling off not KdB, I was baffled by it.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

We are very quick to blame the players but give pep a free ride. Think he got it 100 % wrong last night why we went 5 at the back no idea. If garcia was coming on push fern in front to protect the back 4. We needed an out we put gundog on we needed legs Phil would of given them
What exactly we saving Kdb for the league seasons done. Rest him tomorrow for a few ganes

 

[HolisticJim]

Barcelona did at Real Madrid earlier this decade.

Were a long long way from that Barca team.

In all honesty I actually thought Pep would get us closer to that..... Maybe last year we were.

 

[Michael j]

One forced error was taking de Bruyne off and removing the one thing that was really working for us: Bernardo picking the ball up off the back4/keeper and finding de Bruyne in space to get the ball away from our goal.

After Kev left the field we couldn’t get the ball up the pitch unless we just launched it straight back to them.

With Sterling just constantly giving the ball away as the only attacker on the pitch, we invited that defeat.

I agree totally with you. KDB is the Field General and taking him off was a huge mistake. In Peps post game interview somewhere( I didn't hear it, I read about it on line) he's pretty much given up any chance of us catching Liverpool. After reading that I have to wonder why isn't Pep getting the younger kids out to play to give them the experience. If we have given up on the PL cup then by all means save our players for the other cups and give the young guys some experience. But he didn't do that and I wonder why.

 

[bluemoon32]

I agree totally with you. KDB is the Field General and taking him off was a huge mistake. In Peps post game interview somewhere( I didn't hear it, I read about it on line) he's pretty much given up any chance of us catching Liverpool. After reading that I have to wonder why isn't Pep getting the younger kids out to play to give them the experience. If we have given up on the PL cup then by all means save our players for the other cups and give the young guys some experience. But he didn't do that and I wonder why.

Because he doesn't have to worry about the future because he won't be around to see it?

 

[balotellishaircut]

Think a wave of negativity is about to hit the forum, especially if rags and/or Madrid beat us. Maybe there are better things to do out there than spending time to try to keep some perspective on here.

Its not negativity its realism mate, Pep got it badly wrong last night from a position of strength being 2 nil up.

Taking off Kev and putting on the less mobile Gundog was crazy, we had no outlet after that, like others have said, drop Garcia into defence and push Ferny into DM.

anyway its gone now, must win tomorrow.

 

[mccity]

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