I also agree both Phil & Grealish are being pushed down that 9 to get them in the teamPossibly mate, although I do think he is being hung out to dry in the false nine.
Yeah, we were saying at the game yesterday, that it felt like past games against Leicester all over again in that every time we got turned over we looked ridiculously vulnerable.Same in the Palace game. Two games against teams that stake their ninety minutes on stopping us scoring and gleefully take away 6 points after scoring five goals between them. I hoped that the fiasco of the Palace game, admittedly where we were down to ten, would have written another defining chapter in Pep's coaching manual, But a few games later, and at home, we offer up a worse repeat! The programme yesterday should have read City V Palace (Rpt)!
The essence of that approach, and I've seen it innumerable times at the Etihad, and the same over the road watching the women, and it would be anathema to Pep's basic principles, but we have seen that the title is won, not with swashbuckling attacking football, but with the simple accumulation of points. Nice to watch if your accumulation is underpinned with swashbuckling footy, but yesterday, with a point in the bag, we set off for the win where everybody, bar Eddie, wants to score the fuckin' winner.Sometimes I just think why don’t we just put 10 men behind the ball ourselves and see who blinks first, we could learn from Chelsea how to beat these cunts.
They look world beaters agains the shambolic resistance we offered up yesterday, but switch 'Arry and Son for Foden 'n Sterling, and I think the Spurs defence would have rendered them as toothless as our fellahs.Spurs defended like their lives depended on it and had the quality up front to punish our bollocks. Kane and Son would walk into our team they are that good.
I luv Dias and think he will be our captain for years, but he's not playing at the same level he was last season.IMO this is a problem with the CB partnership. Laporte is slow and easily turned, we’ve seen that for a couple of years now, and the more Dias plays with him the more he seems to be trying to nip things in the bud like Otamendi used to.
Stones is much faster and more comfortable covering back and mopping up if that ball in behind is played, which is why he and Dias fit so well together as a pair.
I also continue to believe Dias is being made to look completely ordinary by playing on the right of the pairing because Laporte is starting ahead of Stones.
It makes so much difference on having build up out on both sides.
I regularly get hammered for it, but De Bruyne is more of a liability when we are parked on the edge of the opponents' 18 yard box.
Would like to see Gundo get a run in the false nine.
Put your phone down, have a coffeeLaportes a liability i’d rather have Ake in there at the minute
get Dias on the left and Stones in at RCB