I love Pep and will defend him to the hilt, but not making a sub until 70 odd minutes today was frustrating as fuck. McAtee and O’Reilly wouldn’t have turned it around by any means, but they were fit and available. To give them no minutes when the game was obviously gone was inexplicable to me.
The game was gone because the players he chose to leave on were shit...
 
huge rebuild needed. Gundo, KDB, Walker, Ederson imo all can go in the summer. all of them need proper replacement. to do this in one summer is bloody hard but Txiki being comfortable in recent windows will cost us for 1/2 years more. Stones with his injury situations needs to reviewed too. Grealish as well. he cost us so much, he had one good season or more like a half great season, another half good. rest is mediocre from him so far.

decision needed on wingers too, next to zero end product from them. Saka scored and assisted today. Salah will do tomorrow. our wingers are masters of playing 70/90 mins without scoring or assisting. at least if in return they do immense out of possession but they dont are they?

those number Sterling and Mahrez produced, seems impossible for the likes of Doku, Grealish etc.
Agree 100%. Our wingers simply don't score. We are in desperate need of a goal scoring winger to pair with a healthy Oscar Bobb.
As for Walker and Gundo, the less said the better.
 
He once called Spurs the “Harry Kane team” and it’s ironic that Spurs have exposed his current City team for being the “Erling Haaland team”

If Haaland doesn’t score, there is no one in the team or squad who can back him up.

Looking at the stats in the last two seasons after the first 12 games of the Premier League compared to this season backs this up.

22/23
36 goals from 10 players
Haaland scored 47% of our goals

23/24
31 goals from 9 players
Haaland scored 40% of our goals

24/25
21 goals from 5 players
Haaland scores 57% of our goals

Our second top goalscorers are Kovacic and Gvardiol with 3 each!

0 goals in 9 for Foden
0 goals in 12 for Bernardo
0 goals in 8 for Grealish
0 goals in 9 for Savinho
0 goals in 11 for Gundogan
0 goals in 8 for Nunes
1 goal in 8 for Doku
1 goal in 6 for KDB

Both Pep and the above 8 players need to find a way to rectify this soon otherwise Haalands goals will only be enough to get us in the top 4.
 
Pep has built a team that he thinks is well-suited to the way teams play in Europe, in the Champions League, but it’s currently not fit for purpose in a tough Premier League.

Sadly, we are old, slow and predictable.

That’s not to say we don’t have players with the skills necessary to create chances, as we clearly do. But, what it does say is that our First XI is often no longer a match for bigger, stronger, faster opposition that simply out run and over run us.

A midfield of Lewis, Gundo & Bernie against Bissouma, Sarr & Maddison was never going to get anywhere. They were bigger, stronger, faster and hungrier, both in the challenge and to get forward and score.
 

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