Pep Guardiola - 2022/23

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Mancini’s Pastilles said:
You're smart comment just makes you look silly, it's clear to see we're playing different this season than any other season with more focus on ball retention with no risks..
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We have played possession football ever since Pep arrived.

If you want him gone, say so and defend your position but don’t lie about stuff that simply isn’t true.
 
It looks like a mountain to climb at the moment for Pep - getting us back on the horse and riding in the right direction, but if history has taught us nothing else, its that he's the man who can fucking do it.
 
blueinsa said:
We have played possession football ever since Pep arrived.

If you want him gone, say so and defend your position but don’t lie about stuff that simply isn’t true.
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I don't want pep gone at all, I just want him to instruct them to play the beautiful football we have been blessed with the last 5 years
 
I wonder how important Cucurella was to how we would've played this year, the club gave him Gomez and he doesn't use him. We know from the summer he wanted a top class left back and the club didn't deliver that for him.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
We have player possession football since pep arrived but now we keep possession for the sakes of keeping possession
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We have always dominated possession and passing stats, always, in the same way we did yesterday.

Pep isn’t going to abandon his style and tactics.

Possession for the sake of it has seen us break records left right and centre and title after title blue.
 
blueinsa said:
We have always dominated possession and passing stats, always, in the same way we did yesterday.

Pep isn’t going to abandon his style and tactics.

Possession for the sake of it has seen us break records left right and centre and title after title blue.
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Its like we are disagreeing , but we arent!
Its just a very different type of possession.

Wheres the cutting edge? Wheres the sweeping moves that takes us from our own area to a scoring a goal in seconds?
Wheres the pace in attacking?
Why does our shining light foden? Why has he started playing safe always rather than having a go? Is that him or pep?
 
blueinsa said:
You was telling us all he will walk at the end of the season yesterday so forgive me for not believing you.
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Yes I think he will if the players aren't responding to him or pissed with him playing them out of position... He owes us nothing so its possible he could walk..as he said many times soon as players not responding to him. He's off
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Its like we are disagreeing , but we arent!
Its just a very different type of possession.

Wheres the cutting edge? Wheres the sweeping moves that takes us from our own area to a scoring a goal in seconds?
Wheres the pace in attacking?
Why does our shining light foden? Why has he started playing safe always rather than having a go? Is that him or pep?
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We have scored 46 league goals in 18 games, 70 in all comps so not sure why you think we have lost our cutting edge?
 
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jrb said:
Once again KDB was man marked, this time by Fred. Everywhere KDB went, Fred followed him. That was Fred’s only role in the game, bar the odd tackle here and there. I think Brentford started it when they won 1-2 at the Etihad. Everton did the same thing. Managers have cottoned on. Stop KDB and that stops the balls coming into Haaland from the sides, which KDB was doing constantly at the start of the season, when Haaland was scoring for fun.

As for Haaland. He’s being man marked by both centre halfs. ATM he’s too static. Walking and pacing around upfront on his own and getting frustrated. But when he does get free, makes the space, runs forward, the balls aren’t being played forward and through to him. Instead the balls and passes keep on going side ways and backwards. (Pep’s keep ball and control the play tactics)
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Astute summary and I agree.

This makes it key to play Jack as he will make things happen especially when he picks up the ball in midfield and runs
 
nellyonthewing said:
So why is he stuck out wide left .Bizarre
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Here’s Grealish’s heat map from his last season at Villa:
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And here is his heat map from last season, his first with City:
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He’s as stuck out on the left wing at City as he was at Villa. Albeit higher up the pitch as we attack from higher up than Villa did where he will have picked up the ball in counter-attacks more around the half-way line. Whereas at City our defence and Rodri are the ones who have the ball on the half way line and we provide Grealish with the ball higher up the pitch.

In order to provide Grealish with the ball on the half way line more would mean we as a team would have to be playing deeper. But even with the differences in the way City and Villa play, the amount he’s on the left is similar for the majority of the time.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Here’s Grealish’s heat map from his last season at Villa:
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And here is his heat map from last season, his first with City:
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He’s as stuck out on the left wing at City as he was at Villa. Albeit higher up the pitch as we attack from higher up than Villa did where he will have picked up the ball in counter-attacks more around the half-way line.

But the amount he’s on the left is similar for the majority of the time.
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Interesting that but he probably didn't have 8 men in front of him at Villa
 
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