Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

[alexmcity]

Most are still hammering on about what he did wrong. There are two reasons why we lost yesterday:
1) Chelsea are a bloody good team with an excellent coach. I have seldom seen such an effective set up against us tactically. They strangled us like we strangle teams. In addition, they had at least 3 or 4 players who played out of their skins. Kante, Rudiger, Reece James were all excellent.
2) Chelsea players managed the occasion better than us. We let the magnitude of the game effect our performance levels. Not one player (maybe Gabby) performed better than average. They will learn from it no doubt and hopefully not be as overwhelmed as yesterday when we reach our next one.

Agree with those two points.

Generally, many from our fans underestimated Chelsea because they lost from Arsenal, Leicester and Villa. But they didn't take into account that Chelsea were very tired against these teams having played Real and us over 3 days, that our style, unlike that of underdogs like Leicester, suits their strengths much much better, and that their defensive record since Tuchel has taken over has been fantastic. Being underdogs, they coped much better with the pressure.

 

[kaz7]

The biggest night in our history, the players and last night for sergio and he does that shit, disgraceful look at me shite, we knew if they scored first it would be over but we left the door open for them to walk through

 

[leo_city]

Poor performance, lots of water consumption in stress and lack of workrate near touchline

 

[Trojan1962]

Everyone could see within the 1st 15 minutes things were not right and crying out for a change yet he carried on with it to justify his bizarre team selection. That is arrogance and quite rightly criticism must come his way.

 

[Odd socks]

The one thing I didn't get last night ( and other times) was keeping FFS and raz on the touch line's to spread the play....
There were times when when it looked like 10 onto 8 and the both of them just stood there watching,
Both players more often received the ball while standing still so easy to close down.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Such a frustrating manager, I really don't know what goes on in his head in big matches. Has he explained why Fernandinho or Rodri didn't play last night, an absolute clusterfuck of a decision, ones that he will keep making unfortunately

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Not read the thread and not going to

If we all decided not to read this thread, we would not be able to benefit from your pearls of wisdom.

 

[Ribchester]

Such a frustrating manager, I really don't know what goes on in his head in big matches. Has he explained why Fernandinho or Rodri didn't play last night, an absolute clusterfuck of a decision, ones that he will keep making unfortunately

The first explanation needed is why that useless “out of form some might say” was in the starting 11, for me shouldn’t even be on the bench. Stealing a living

 

[Trojan1962]

Had Pep not won the league this year I think his performance last night may well have led to his departure.

 

[alexmcity]

We were 3 wins away from the quadruple, while our most productive players from previous seasons were either crocked (Aguero) or out of form (Sterling) or not at their best (Kevin and Jesus). Also, some players lost form in the final months (Rodri, Cancelo, maybe also Bernie and Gundogan.. ) due to the huge efforts from December to March. It's amazing we did so well while having key players unavailable or underperforming. It was a brutal season. Pep and the players exceeded the expectations by fighting in 4 competitions until the end. Back in December few on here expected that we will win the title and the league cup while fighting for the FA Cup and the CL. Have some perspective folks.