No issue with that point,I've already said Jesus did well when he came on,apart from the pen,but don't let me be drawn into a presumption that Aguero was brought off to stop Tottenham equalising,Jesus I must have been sat at a different game
That is exactly why Sergio was brought off though. It was fairly obvious what was happening. We were beginning to struggle with the high press, they were getting out more frequently and beginning to look dangerous. They were just about the first team to start actually playing in our half. They were beginning to close us in. We were missing Stones & Silva, our two best players when it comes to beating the press. Along with Ederson. So Guardiola made the obvious choice. Use Jesús to push them back. It worked almost instantaneously.
You've acknowledged yourself that they were on top for 10 minutes, Sergio wasn't going to get his legs back so that 10 minutes could easily have become 20/30 minutes.
The decission was right. It didn't require hindsight, it's was crying out for it. I haven't seen one poster writing off Sergio, not one. I have however seen posters saying that Jesus isn't half the player Aguero is. Which is frankly bollocks by the way. And odd to slag a player off to boost one's own opinion.
It's those allowing sentiment to colour their views that are lashing out at Jesus or other posters. Aguero has been poor for a good month or more. He's obviously really struggling to get his form back. Any player playing without confidence or struggling a little with fitness will resort to their core stregnths, especially experienced ones. Sergio is clearly doing this. Sadly, Aguero's traditional stregnths don't suit us now. He was at the height of his confidence in early autum flying and the team were benefitting.
Sergio needs to be flying to get the best out of him now, you can see he's struggling a little with his game. Injury, form or confidence. One of those or a combination of those means he's struggling. Not to mention his age and miles on the clock will make it much harder much less natural for his to 'press' than Jesus.
If everyone was fit and we were playing the CL final Friday, this City, this manager would pick Jesus. I personally get it. I personally would do that too. But I certainly understand why Sergio would struggle with that and that lots of fans would too.
A fit and firing Sergio is lethal in this side. Hopefully we'll see that again. I believe we will but I'm also fully prepared to think Sergio is certainly in the autum of his City career.
Sergio & Jesus are only striking options. They will be rotated and neither will get to their very best form, but the team need this. If one of those get injured, we only have three options then, and that will make us incredibly predictable.