Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

[Metalartin]

He was pissed off before the match because he's been reading the meltdowns on BM.

During and after the match he was pissed off because City started the game passive, leggy even(although at no point were Southampton "dominating" the game, Andy Hinchcliffe must have been high) and defensively complacent at times. He mentioned the error that led to the attack before the penalty from a throwin, was not the first time he's seen these kind of mistakes creeping in this season.

The rest was the officiating:
The ref was giving Southampton throw ins, goal kicks and free kicks they had no right to all game which was clearly getting to our players after a while.

The penalty they received was soft but he'd still be annoyed at Laporte, when are players going to learn not to use your arms at all to challenge a player in the box?... Unless of course you're a Southampton player trying to stop KBD running past you at the other end of the pitch, go ahead and put your whole arm right across his chest to stop him in his tracks. After all you've "earned it".

The none penalty at 1-1 on Foden, which would have been a penalty and a red card had that been Ederson(regardless of not meaning to bring the player down) and the fact that he knew the press were trying to wind him up with it, was clearly the biggest source of his frustration. It was a reminder of how things are against Manchester City, he had flashbacks to all the other farce decisions there have been in previous seasons in the PL and the CL too. He may have even heard Sky's commentary team trying to bury the incident during the game, by repeatedly saying they couldn't see any contact. Lescott laughing at the question at half time, was the best response he could have given, it wasn't even up for debate.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

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?

Megan Markle has done his head in

 

[Gray]

Glad we went in at half time with the scores level, and nobody having lost their temper. Believe Pep's instructions were not to expect anything from this ref.

Thought we were 3-1 up at half time, or did I imagine that?

 

[eastmanc]

Yes I noticed it too and I wish he'd gone further and said we are reffed differently at home and Europe because there is a clear agenda against us.

There are lots of evidence of ludicrous decisions given against us and not going for us. He should ask everyone to go and watch the Foden non penalty incident again and explain why Martin Atkinson saw what they saw and decided it wasn't a penalty.

Then ask what is the point of var if it isn't used to correct a blatant injustice by the onfield ref. Then ask why are lots of bad decisions in our games involving referee's like Atkinson, Moss, Mason and Oliver in particular?

Our club should compile a dossier of every blatant decision that has gone against us since 2012 when it was obvious we were a major threat and not going away and present it. We should ask why there is a combined effort by the media and other club's owners to cheat, stifle, block,plot and consistently smear our name and belittle our achievements.

They should ask how is it allowed for a number of clubs to collude together and sign a letter to try and influence CAS into banning us from Europe. The list of justified grievances goes on and on.

As for his comments regarding certain players I thought that was telling. He as good as said if they have only their interests at heart and not the team and club they will stay sat on the bench. Something is rumbling behind the scenes with certain individuals and you can bet Pep will fuck them off close season if the right deals can be done getting them out and quality replacements in. He has moved on huge names before and he will do it again.

VAR decided it wasn’t a penalty, what a joke, how many penalties has Mo Salah won by only getting touched on his shoulder and then proceeding to throw himself to the ground.it is pathetic, it really is .

 

[eastmanc]

2 reasons, IMO: the penalty decision was a disgrace and comes on the back of what he believes to be a bias against us; we lacked control for large periods of the game, giving the ball away and allowing the Southampton players to waltz through past our press.
For me, I think it is clear that our first eleven now includes Stones, Rodri, Cancelo and Gabby.

Gabby really. Not sure about that.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Probably a combination of a few things.

He said in the interview with Ferdinand last week, “They have to do well, we prepare, and they have to do well. The human beings have a tendency to relax, and in this team with me, this is not going to happen! So they have to do it better and better.”

We haven’t been doing it better and better. Since about the 15th minute at the Emirates, we’ve been doing it worse and worse.

This is guess work, but his comment at the end last night; “Now we arrive in the right moment for the season, and the right moment in the season where there’s not many games, and they’re not going to play. The players that help me a lot during this season, help the team a lot, the players are going to rotate less, and it’s going to the players who thinks about the, you know, the club, and the team, and the rest will sit on the bench!”

Straight away I thought of Laporte, and he didn’t have a good game last night. Mendy has barely been seen since he broke lockdown rules. What’s going on with the contract situations with Sterling? and de Bruyne? and Agüero?

But most of all, he just seemed pissed off with the penalty decision and in saying three important things:

“You know that for a long time, maybe in four or five years, I’ve never really complained about the referees, but this action is really in-cre-di-ble, in-cre-di-ble!” - and it was, it was a fucking STONE WALL penalty!

Which is important because, like he said, “Today, okay, it was 5-2, but at that moment it was 1-1. If we are not able to win the game with the quality of the opponent, we are just - not “just”, it’s enough - we are eight points clear and in that moment it’s 1-1”. - implying that decisions like that at crucial times of the game, like 1-1, can change the game, and possibly the title race. Let’s say we did lose last night and after we are just 8 points clear (once games are caught up), the mentality of everyone at City United/Leicester changes and the title race can be swung on little moments like that. Referees need to be better than getting decisions like that wrong.

And then finally, his point saying, “in this club, I don’t know in other ones, but in this club, what we have done this decade, over the last years, we won it, we did it for ourself, that’s for sure!” - that’s literally a swipe at PIGMOB, VAR, the Cartel, the Premier League, UEFA, the Spiteful 9, letters being written, Scudamore’s comments, FFP, Der Spiegel, the emails being cropped and tampered with... because we have had to do everything for ourselves, we’ve had no helping hand from anyone like others have consistently. Everything we win, we win through our own quality and battles against all of that shit. Decisions like that penalty last night could indicate that the Premier League want a closer end to the season. It was that bad a decision that you start to think things like that... That would certainly make me angry!

 

[supercity88]

He is probably frustrated by the officials mostly.

He also will have expected a much better reaction from the team following the derby. I wanted to see a flawless performance. Lots of rotation so those players should have been showing Pep exactly why they should start games.

Instead those that came in largely under performed. Walker was horrific. Laporte was sloppy. Ferny wasn't as composed.

 

[Gingers Dad]

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?

His Mrs probably phoned him from Spain just before the match?

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

He is clearly annoyed with the refs/var/penalty incidents but like OP said I also think something is going on with some players.

Have the feeling that he is not happy at all with Laporte that is always involved in some cock-up when we lose and doesn’t look switched on. Laporte also looks frustrated a lot.

other potential players could be Torres/Aguero that had bad cameos and could be complaining a lot as they are not playing. Sterling could be another considering how bad he’s been recently and complained one game when he was taken off.

this is also exactly the performance that makes us lose against better teams / go out of Europe.

two very important wake up calls, utd and saints hopefully

 

[Saddleworth2]

alert :calling all body language experts here;)

hmmmm.... it wasn't very positive.

A hint of how he was feeling was when he nutted the 4th official.