Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

[Keeper!]

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.

A man and club that have thrived off pressure, once the expectation and pressure drops, Pep will walk away.

 

[FantasyIreland]

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.

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.

 

[asahartford1]

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.

Pep made one change from the team that beat PSG in the semi final I believe.

 

[Keeper!]

Pep made one change from the team that beat PSG in the semi final I believe.

It was a big change to be fair but I just think the whole team chocked on the night, it happens even to the best.

 

[asahartford1]

It was a big change to be fair but I just think the whole team chocked on the night, it happens even to the best.

I have managed to block the performance from my mind, but I still recall the sicky feelings that lasted for a week -;)

 

[blueparrot]

Pep made one change from the team that beat PSG in the semi final I believe.

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.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

My worse UCL moment (In the Pep era) wasn't the UCL final, it was the "covid season" UCL game against Lyon. That season year was just one huge dumpster fire...but then again, I'm not really sure if it was the season that was terrible or the depressed state I was in at the moment.

 

[Saddleworth2]

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.

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.

 

[Phil1]

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.

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.

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Yep,and we would also have had that very elusive CL in the bag.

It works both ways.

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.