Pep Guardiola Performances - 2018/19

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Yes you are allowed to criticise however I would see how we perform against Liverpool in 3 weeks as a test of measuring any improvement.
 
Cityfan said:
Really good teams playing at their best are sometimes hard to beat no matter what the tactics.
We also beat them once and should have won at least one of the other games but for shocking refereeing decisions.
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And don't forget we also won the league breaking all records imaginable :/
 
WEMBLEY76 said:
Yes you are allowed to criticise however I would see how we perform against Liverpool in 3 weeks as a test of measuring any improvement.
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Yeah that will be interesting. They were certainly a different beast after Christmas (only 5 points less than us in the league from that point while getting to the champions league final), and they look to have improved their consistency again.
 
Pep can do defensive if he think the game needs it.

Barcelona home in Pep's first season. Defended deeper and picked them off on the break after going 1 down to a Messi goal. 34% possession and we won 3-1.
 
That week from hell hurt for far too long. He was also too ambitious in his first season. Aside from that, it was pretty damn good.
 
Like Pep himself had said; it’s not about having a Plan B or being more pragmatic, it’s about being better at Plan A.
 
dajd1984 said:
Our style of football looks great, and broke all the records last year but against a really good team, playing at their best, we were beaten three times.
-Have we changed enough or improved enough to avoid that happening again?
-Or does the high press, leaving spaces behind us because we’re so adamant that we want to win the ball back high up the field, mean quick dynamic atttacks are always going to threaten us?

We defend as a team, and against most it is hugely successful, but we do it as high up the pitch as possible. Liverpool however, who still defend as a team, seem to want to get everyone back behind the ball and defend with a solid unit even if that’s in their own last third. That seems to then allow the other team to come forward more, and give Liverpool more spaces to attack when they do win it back.

I’d just like to see more pragmatism from us, more acknowledgement that against teams with pace and quality up front, it’s more secure to defend deeper for spells, and to have a solid wall built in front of our goal, than rely on us winning the ball back high up the pitch when we have big spaces behind ours.
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I’d like to see posters realise that what Pep is trying to achieve will have the odd hiccup along the way and instead of fucking whinging that we’re not perfect learn to accept those hiccups and enjoy the best manager walking the planet.
 
Pablo1 said:
I’d like to see posters realise that what Pep is trying to achieve will have the odd hiccup along the way and instead of fucking whinging that we’re not perfect learn to accept those hiccups and enjoy the best manager walking the planet.
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Exactly. Maybe we could do it with a big man up top, though ;-)
 
dajd1984 said:
Our style of football looks great, and broke all the records last year but against a really good team, playing at their best, we were beaten three times.
-Have we changed enough or improved enough to avoid that happening again?
-Or does the high press, leaving spaces behind us because we’re so adamant that we want to win the ball back high up the field, mean quick dynamic atttacks are always going to threaten us?

We defend as a team, and against most it is hugely successful, but we do it as high up the pitch as possible. Liverpool however, who still defend as a team, seem to want to get everyone back behind the ball and defend with a solid unit even if that’s in their own last third. That seems to then allow the other team to come forward more, and give Liverpool more spaces to attack when they do win it back.

I’d just like to see more pragmatism from us, more acknowledgement that against teams with pace and quality up front, it’s more secure to defend deeper for spells, and to have a solid wall built in front of our goal, than rely on us winning the ball back high up the pitch when we have big spaces behind ours.
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It looked like we practised that for 10 minutes yesterday from 82 minutes on-wards.
 
TueartsOHK said:
I’m not sure the op is saying we should be afraid of anyone. His point is that Pep maybe should perhaps consider having a plan B against certain teams.
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What is the point ? Pep is not going to have a plan B. We've had no end of threads asking questions about the way we play.
 
TueartsOHK said:
I’m not sure the op is saying we should be afraid of anyone. His point is that Pep maybe should perhaps consider having a plan B against certain teams.
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He has not been paying attention to pep then and people who keep on referring to the dippers as who we should change for is pretty lame,get over those games ffs,bored of it now
 
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