Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

[Gumzy97]

 

[bluenova]

Pep clearly just making stuff up to justify poor team selection. Picking happy players over better options. Oh dear.....
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Except that in the game we lost at Brentford, with Phil, Bernardo and Haaland up front, we gave up a crazy amount of big chances, and deservedly lost.

Yesterday was the only time we dropped points since, and we gave Everton virtually nothing.

According to Understat, Brentford's xg was 3.29, which is astonishing for a City game, while Everton's was 0.06.

XG doesn't always match results, but that shows how open we were in one match, and how unlucky we were yesterday - restricting Everton almost completely, and losing to a shot which players very rarely get right.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Except that in the game we lost at Brentford, with Phil, Bernardo and Haaland up front, we gave up a crazy amount of big chances, and deservedly lost.

Yesterday was the only time we dropped points since, and we gave Everton virtually nothing.

According to Understat, Brentford's xg was 3.29, which is astonishing for a City game, while Everton's was 0.06.

XG doesn't always match results, but that shows how open we were in one match, and how unlucky we were yesterday - restricting Everton almost completely, and losing to a shot which players very rarely get right.

Brentford was just two PL games ago hardly an impressive stat saying we haven't dropped points since then up until yesterday.

We were rubbish yesterday with that team selection and no amount of spin will change that.

 

[blueju]

Maybe they aren’t happy as they feel they only get a chance to prove themselves out of their natural position, maybe they feel there’s too much rotation, maybe they feel they’re set up to look shit having too many jobs to do, maybe players look happy because they can’t believe they’re first choice given the players on the bench?

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

 

[waspish]

The happy thing with pep has worked but if Haaland Kdb and Rodri had a slapped arse all week do we think they would be sitting on the bench come the weekend game?

 

[meeesh]

The happy thing with pep has worked but if Haaland Kdb and Rodri had a slapped arse all week do we think they would be sitting on the bench come the weekend game?

Not a prayer

 

[madloaf]

Body language Is important expect Billy smarts circus next training session.

"Sometimes you play players based on how happy they are."

"Kev needs to be angry to play his best."

 

[richards30]

So may explain why Laporte wasn’t with the squad at all then? Pep has fallen out with him previously over attitude about game time?

 

[Lavinda Past]

More evidence (if any was needed) that Pep is off his nut. He really is an odd character.

Genius and madness frequently go hand in hand.