He wasn't exactly wrong about their first goal in his analysis when he said our defender can't follow Kane up to the ball, which Laporte did. Obviously can't plan properly for it with 48 hours of training, but that goal is on Laporte and Ederson not Pep. Pep knew what their strength was up front, the players just defended it poorly. Clearly the players were told about it, but it broke down on the pitch where it matters.
The alarming thing for me is De Bruyne continually highlighting the lack of pre season, and no break between games, the internationals etc. He's right but it's almost sounding defeatist from Kev now. It's not going to change so we have to adapt to it and man up, not continually moan about it. It's almost sounding like we have conceded we won't make much of the league this season cause of this factor and I do wonder if that train of thought is spreading through the players. Cause as soon as one thing doesn't go our way be it the early goal, or the disallowed goal we drop our bundle and fall away. Cause despite the opening goal the first half hour we were all over Spurs. That disallowed goal wrecked us and our heads dropped then we fell away in the second half.
I do agree with Pep that we aren't far off it, but if we keep dropping points by the time we get going we'll be to far back.