Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

[Deleted member 87819]

Laporte and Mendy would be my guess.

Or Kun

 

[ninjamonkey]

I'm not reading into those comments anywhere near as much as others have. For me he's just saying players who have performed for him all season will be relied upon more heavily during the business end of the season which you'd expect, you can't be playing players into form when there's titles on the line and the other comment I took that to be about the players that put in more than a shift for the team, your bernardos/jesus etc rather than him having a dig at any player. That's not Peps style, especially when there's been no sniff of unrest

 

[mccity]

I'm not reading into those comments anywhere near as much as others have. For me he's just saying players who have performed for him all season will be relied upon more heavily during the business end of the season which you'd expect, you can't be playing players into form when there's titles on the line and the other comment I took that to be about the players that put in more than a shift for the team, your bernardos/jesus etc rather than him having a dig at any player. That's not Peps style, especially when there's been no sniff of unrest

Yeah I think it was a rather general statement. Players who work hard will play, the others only play because of mass rotation. Most managers would probably say the same thing in Pep's position.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I’ve never seen him so tetchy and spiky. Was it the penalty? He certainly had plenty to say about that, especially as it didn’t affect the result. He got a barb in that “we are Manchester City and we have to win everything ourselves”.

Or was it the players? There were comments about less rotation in future and players not playing for the shirt needing to sit on the bench. Who was that?

My guess is that tonight showed our underbelly. A few players looked complacent and made daft errors. We let the opposition dictate for spells. Good opposition could have beaten us tonight. It was a significantly inferior performance to the derby at the weekend yet we won 5-2. But, and it’s a significant but, I remember him being like this a couple of years ago and it turned out that his family had been evicted from a plane to the game because of their support for Catalonia (or something similar). He’s a human being and gets grumpy. Was it something external like that? He actually looked spiky in the pre-match interview to me.

Did anyone else sense this? What was eating The bald genius tonight?

 

[LongsightM13]

I thought the same. I wonder if someone has asked to leave eg Laporte or if someone’s contract negotiations have broken down eg Sterling

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

I’ve never seen him so tetchy and spiky. Was it the penalty? He certainly had plenty to say about that, especially as it didn’t affect the result. He got a barb in that “we are Manchester City and we have to win everything ourselves”.

Or was it the players? There were comments about less rotation in future and players not playing for the shirt needing to sit on the bench. Who was that?

My guess is that tonight showed our underbelly. A few players looked complacent and made daft errors. We let the opposition dictate for spells. Good opposition could have beaten us tonight. It was a significantly inferior performance to the derby at the weekend yet we won 5-2. But, and it’s a significant but, I remember him being like this a couple of years ago and it turned out that his family had been evicted from a plane to the game because of their support for Catalonia (or something similar). He’s a human being and gets grumpy. Was it something external like that? He actually looked spiky in the pre-match interview to me.

Did anyone else sense this? What was eating The bald genius tonight?

the last few performances haven't been good enough, he can see the same failings re-emerging in March that will cripple his CL dream like they always do and he's getting frustrated because the message isn't getting through to the same culprits.

That and Moss's performance tonight was so blatant that it's enough to make anyone's blood boil, even if you know what they're up to.

 

[Silva Is Magic]

It's because of how blatantly the refs tried to take the game away from us. From the penalty awarded to them, to the penalty denied to us, and the inconsistent manner in which the ref blew for fouls, it was just too blatant.

They found no evidence NOT to overturn the Foden penalty, yet they didn't.

When Pep said we won because of the quality of our players, he knows that on one other day, versus a stronger opposition, City would have lost.

However, he also went on to say that he's glad this happened because it would be a lesson for the CL knockout matches where these exact situations would be decisive.

He might also be unhappy with the performances and the general play. But he has every right to be pissed off, considering how clear it was what would be bothering him.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

It's because of how blatantly the refs tried to take the game away from us. From the penalty awarded to them, to the penalty denied to us, and the inconsistent manner in which the ref blew for fouls, it was just too blatant.

They found no evidence NOT to overturn the Foden penalty, yet they didn't.

When Pep said we won because of the quality of our players, he knows that on one other day, versus a stronger opposition, City would have lost.

However, he also went on to say that he's glad this happened because it would be a lesson for the CL knockout matches where these exact situations would be decisive.

He might also be unhappy with the performances and the general play. But he has every right to be pissed off, considering how clear it was what would be bothering him.

you can only hope it's the warm-up we need to kick the players out of their recent complacent drop in performance and they kick into gear again and buck their ideas up. It appeared by the way we came out in the 2nd half that some sort of message had got across to them because we took it away from them quickly and were far more on it than we were at the start of the game.

We have to be flawless to win, and 5 years in whilst it's human to drop off this squad should know by now it can't afford to.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Just like the rag game with fat boy Shaw cutting it up like a ten tonne tractor ,playing on a potato field is a great leveler

 

[bumbleblue]

Also not sure it’s relevant but there seems to be a lot of social media coverage of Aguero speaking to Barca.. ?? I don’t know if this is normal as I don’t go on Twitter often but saw a number from that Jose Alvarez guy (might have wrong name)