Compared to other seasons when he's clearly fucked us tonight isn't that. But to constantly lose the big cup game is always going to have a negative effect. For us it's shitting the bed whenever the going gets toughIt’s fine margins at this point in the big cup competitions. You don’t get the 2nd chances you get in the league. We are playing against the best Europe has to offer and unfortunately it keeps going against us. As I said, I think Pep has fucked us before in this competition but I cant blame him for tonight.
We were 1-0 up, 2 goals to the good overall and in total control. Mahrez had been abysmal until he scored, so bringing him off to add a more defensive player seems a reasonable decision to see the game out.Brought on Fernandinho for Mahrez which meant we completely changed our shape. Led to us being all over the shop defensively and they scored.
Kick-off Pep has clearly come up with something where we pass the ball back to Ederson who launches up the pitch(been doing it for about a month now). He kicks it straight to Courtois, they come up our left side and cross it 2-2. Peps decisions are involved in those 2 goals.
If he doesn't bring on Dinho for Mahrez or doesn't make us do this wanky ineffective tactic that also cost us vs Liverpool(they scored immediately into 2nd half after an Ederson long punt up field from our kick-off) we are most likely in the final right now.
I don’t know what the answer is. If Pep isn’t the man to get us over the line I don’t know who is. It wouldn’t surprise me if we finally end up winning it (and we will) with someone really unfancied at the helm, when we are no longer favourites to win it and the pressure is off.Compared to other seasons when he's clearly fucked us tonight isn't that. But to constantly lose the big cup game is always going to have a negative effect. For us it's shitting the bed whenever the going gets tough
Im not. But there is a record here. He continues to lose to teams he should beat. 5 years in a row st City. And 3 of 4 years at Bayern.Not really sure how you can put this on him.
Agree completely. Stones for all his calmness and ability on the ball also reads situations and is strong in the air. Dias isn’t the player he was when he first arrived.Pep shit the bed in the final last year, the players did it in the final few minutes tonite, so it’s all square, I seriously don’t think Pep will win the Champions league at City, we desperately missed JS tonite and I don’t think we concede them goals with him playing
He doesn't have Stones next to him. Dias place better a LCB.Agree completely. Stones for all his calmness and ability on the ball also reads situations and is strong in the air. Dias isn’t the player he was when he first arrived.
Great manager, but a bit of a big game choker.
Sorry. That's just the record.
I mean this is obvious nonsense.
He's won 11/13 finals.
He's won 16/27 semi-finals.
He's won 24/27 quarter finals.
He's got winning records against every manager he's ever faced 3+ times. He's got a winning record against every club he's faced more than once except Liverpool (W5-D5-L6).
He's got winning records against United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Real Madrid, Dortmund, Bayern Munich.
He's reached more semi-finals than any other manager in European Cup history. Only 1 manager has reached more finals in CL history.
It's frustrating that we've lost today, and I think Pep's got his flaws, but he has the best record of any manager in the history of the game and that's not debatable.