Pep Guardiola - 2020/21 Performances

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Can see us playing our best team and best system the first time we play Chelsea next season and giving them a hiding. Will be an annoying win.
So can I but thats because it will be the best team for the tactics we use mext season against Chelsea. That will include a centre forwatd.
An option I’m guessing he didn’t think Aguero was fit enough to give him last week. Fair chance it includes 2 wide wingers too, one of which could well be Sterling.
 
I wonder how Pep will handle the loss, he’s so hyper he must be questioning himself at the moment or he wouldn’t be human. I’ve said we will do ten years here especially if he had won on Saturday, he has two left and players signing will want to know his plans for just future I know I would.
 
I wonder how Pep will handle the loss, he’s so hyper he must be questioning himself at the moment or he wouldn’t be human. I’ve said we will do ten years here especially if he had won on Saturday, he has two left and players signing will want to know his plans for just future I know I would.
Hopefully he is hurting as much as us fans,and asking himself why he keeps making the same mistake.
 
You are correct, some of those players you mentioned did lose form, but at one stage or another they were playing to a high ability. Rodri has never hit those heights individually despite all the team accolades such as a 21 game winning streak that he was part of.

DM’s or number 6’s are unstated and unappreciated, if you don’t notice them then they’ve had a good game. Rodri was getting noticed for the wrong reasons, getting caught on the ball, losing it in key positions, not playing through the lines, the odd bad game is standard but with Rodri it was happening more and more and the goal he conceded at home to Chelsea was the final nail in the coffin for the rest of the season.

He’ll still be at City next season as he cost £60m and it’s not easy to just get rid of players like that but if it was like NBA and we could trade him, my opinion would be Pep would take that trade as he’s not that special and there will be a dozen players like him who can do a better job in our team and give us more.

There’s a lot of talk about Fernandinho being given an extra year just for his leadership in the dressing room, whilst I don’t doubt that reasoning, I would imagine another reason to extend his playing contract into his 37th year is because Pep is not fully convinced of his supposed replacement.

It would not surprise me to see both leave in the summer of 2022.

So presumably, following this logic, it really shouldn't have mattered that we didn't play a defensive midfielder against Chelsea, right? If we can win 21 games on the bounce with our DM not contributing individually (or "in spite of" him, as I believe you stated in a different post), that role really can't be very important at all, can it?
 
So presumably, following this logic, it really shouldn't have mattered that we didn't play a defensive midfielder against Chelsea, right? If we can win 21 games on the bounce with our DM not contributing individually (or "in spite of" him, as I believe you stated in a different post), that role really can't be very important at all, can it?

That’s not the logic. The topic of discussion is not about the position of a defensive midfielder. It’s about Rodri the individual (which as we are on a Pep thread we are going off topic, I’ve said my piece in his own personal thread so won’t further comment after this)

We would have won the same 21 games with any other defensive midfielder playing instead of Rodri. He was not key to that run nor was he key to us winning the league, if he was then he would have played in the clubs biggest game of all time.

The system we play means that the role of the defensive midfielder is so important and one should have been deployed against Chelsea to give us a better chance of succeeding. This role has been the key in all of Pep’s sides and for him to abandon Rodri for the final is telling on his current opinion on the player himself.
 
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