Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

Status
Not open for further replies.
Trojan1962 said:
Lot of pressure on Pep in the next 12 months. Delighted he has signed for 2 years but equally delighted that it’s a deal that suits both parties.
Click to expand...
A man and club that have thrived off pressure, once the expectation and pressure drops, Pep will walk away.
 
Keeper! said:
The team I watched that night was not the one we had watched with pride all season, not sure if it was selection, tactics or international players simply overawed by the occasion, but whatever it was, it was a huge let down.
Click to expand...

The decisions he made offered us very little chance of winning as opposed to a great chance with the team that had been blowing opposition away previously.

The confidence and euphoria from the vast majority of fans on that Saturday was amazing,right up until the team announcement.......when it suddenly nose dived and hearts sank,as the almost inevitable outcome began to dawn on us.

It was the brainfart of brainfarts,and as you can tell.....will be very difficult to understand or accept.
 
Keeper! said:
The team I watched that night was not the one we had watched with pride all season, not sure if it was selection, tactics or international players simply overawed by the occasion, but whatever it was, it was a huge let down.
Click to expand...

Pep made one change from the team that beat PSG in the semi final I believe.
 
asahartford1 said:
Pep made one change from the team that beat PSG in the semi final I believe.
Click to expand...
I can't remember all the details now,I long since got over it but the changes he made were to try and fix the issues we had in losing the League cup semi final, so they weren't done without any reason, no decision he ever makes is, the fact they didn't work how he hoped is really neither here nor there they just didn't, even then we had chances to win or at least take it to penalties that individuals missed, while other individuals didn't have great games. Fans saying they knew better and wouldn't have picked that team will never have to prove it means we would have won.
 
Last edited:
FantasyIreland said:
The decisions he made offered us very little chance of winning as opposed to a great chance with the team that had been blowing opposition away previously.

The confidence and euphoria from the vast majority of fans on that Saturday was amazing,right up until the team announcement.......when it suddenly nose dived and hearts sank,as the almost inevitable outcome began to dawn on us.

It was the brainfart of brainfarts,and as you can tell.....will be very difficult to understand or accept.
Click to expand...
Just to make you feel worse, here is the team:

  1. Ederson Moraes
  2. Kyle Walker
  3. Oleksandr Zinchenko
  4. Ruben Dias
  5. John Stones
  6. İlkay Gündoğan
  7. Kevin De Bruyne
  8. Bernardo Silva
  9. Raheem Sterling
  10. Phil Foden
  11. Riyad Mahrez
My god what a ridiculous bloody line up. The only contentious pick is Gundogan for Fern. Gundogan had played the deep lying midfield role before with good success. Its hardly criminally reckless and features a bloody strong defence, world class midfield and enough match winners than you can shake a stick at. The team didn't perform on the night. The players choked because of the occasion and we lost a game. Time to move on.
 
FantasyIreland said:
The decisions he made offered us very little chance of winning as opposed to a great chance with the team that had been blowing opposition away previously.

The confidence and euphoria from the vast majority of fans on that Saturday was amazing,right up until the team announcement.......when it suddenly nose dived and hearts sank,as the almost inevitable outcome began to dawn on us.

It was the brainfart of brainfarts,and as you can tell.....will be very difficult to understand or accept.
Click to expand...
Haha! Fucking brain fart? Hard to accept? Get the fuck over yourself. He picked a team he thought could win the game. We didn’t and therefore he is understandably going to be criticised. Anybody who’s not over that game by now needs to seriously sort their necks out.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Yep,and we would also have had that very elusive CL in the bag.

It works both ways.
Click to expand...
Would we have got to the final taking on board the majority view of fans? No chance. For every 1 thing he gets wrong he gets 20 things right.

He's not beyond criticism. But the idea that fans (overall) have a better sense of what the team and squad needs than Pep (both in game and holistically) is laughable IMO.
 
Abattoir Blue said:
Would we have got to the final taking on board the majority view of fans? No chance. For every 1 thing he gets wrong he gets 20 things right.

He's not beyond criticism. But the idea that fans (overall) have a better sense of what the team and squad needs than Pep (both in game and holistically) is laughable IMO.
Click to expand...

That misses the point by a distance.

No one is denying his brilliance,or the fact he got us into the situation of competing in a final.....the problem is the need to fix what isn't broken on occasion,that game being his most infamous,another was his game against the Rags a few seasons back when we could have secured the title.

No fan believes they know better.......but when he has a brainfart,he ensures its fucking gargantuan.

He isnt beyond criticism,well noted.....and that is what i am doing.
 
Thought Ortega did well against Liverpool, on the Nunez chances he covered his angles, didn't rush out, stayed big and made the striker make a decision...
 
really interested to see how he does in CL this time. too much talk last season of not having a striker in crucial moments, which were true especially home leg vs Real where Mahrez and Foden should have each scored their chances and win like 6-3 or 5-3 at home game.

now we have the striker, one of the best forwards currently, and another one in Alvarez, but getting to the semis and/or final will be really hard.

Pep would really love to win it, after all the wasted years in CL last few times (some shocking ones, Spurs loss, Lyon , Monaco loss) etc and also he couldnt win in at Bayern for 3 years while he probably should have won it 1x at least.

draw favours us now given Bayern/PSG and Real/Pool are stuck with each other first round.
 
That may be the case in those moments, but the issue is the lack of game management in those games. We went 2-0 and 3-1 up in the first leg and the game managed to finish 4-3, the second leg we have a corner in the last five minutes or so cancelo has the ball and instead of going to the corner he crosses the ball into the box when only foden was there and then the shitshow started.
 
Thought his subs were very poor once again yesterday. A better Team might have punished us even more . He surrendered midfield and invited a combative opponent onto us by his changes whilst leaving Mahrez and Gundogan on the pitch who are not exactly the players you look to in a scrap.
 
nellyonthewing said:
Thought his subs were very poor once again yesterday. A better Team might have punished us even more . He surrendered midfield and invited a combative opponent onto us by his changes whilst leaving Mahrez and Gundogan on the pitch who are not exactly the players you look to in a scrap.
Click to expand...
Phil was poor when he came on. Nothing Pep did though.
 
A world champion who scored several goals in the World Cup and he brings him on in the 85th minute, he did the same against Brentford.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top