Spurs vs City post match

[Citizen in Pakistan]

lot of pellegrini players out there today, the two best performers stones and bravo, were pep signings. Won't reach peak Pep till more of these players are sold.

Pep and city have been praised with same set of players, you cant say they are pellegerini players when things dont go our way

 

[Andrew___K]

Pep got it wrong Today.

Team selection was all over the place.

Had to get beat at some point.

At least there's a 2 week break and a home match to come.

The line-up was easily predictable and absolutely logical. You can look at the "guess team" thread - most of mates have named it correctly.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Why did we spend £37m on Sane for Navas to be ahead of him? When is the guy going to start a league game? What's the issue?

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Pep and city have been praised with same set of players, you cant say they are pellegerini players when things dont go our way

we mostly played cannon fodder in that time though, we were good against those teams last season (results wise), not so good against top teams. and now with pellegrini players we came up short against a top team in the league and a intense team in the CL.

 

[simon23]

We got found out in the last 2 games, so we need to be able to adapt our game to suit our opponents. Otherwise, Pep will just become a more expensive and successful version of Pellegrini. That said, we won't come up against many better teams than Spurs, who will run all of the title contenders close if they carry on playing like that.

While i agree with you to a certain extent its more about adapting our team when we don't have certain players on he pitch.....

kdb gundongan and nolito maintain possession much better than Navas and fernando...look at what pep says in his interview...."we lost too many balls in dangerous positions" and "they were one step ahead of us today." These comments are about possession and regaining it and also about winning second balls....fernando and navas both game away and failed to get/keep possession...this in turn puts Kolorov and our back 4 under pressure which they are not good enough to deal with (especially the full backs)....fernandihnio was playing out of position as well due to the injuries.....so we lost his ability today (though he played well) but again the only decent play came through him and silva linking....navas was the kdb replacement and that says it all! he offered nothing in terms of attacking threat and therefore there back 4 and midfield had less to think about and were able to close silva out time and time again as navas is zero threat when he has the ball

we can get away with one of Kolorov, Navas and fernando on the pitch but not all 3 at the same time.....navas and fernando aren't good enough and this then puts our back 4 under pressure which Kolorov and zabba cant handle (especially Kolorov at fullback)

 

[simon23]

we mostly played cannon fodder in that time though, we were good against those teams last season (results wise), not so good against top teams. and now with pellegrini players we came up short against a top team in the league and a intense team in the CL.

exactly

 

[malg]

Why did we spend £37m on Sane for Navas to be ahead of him? When is the guy going to start a league game? What's the issue?

Must say I was wondering this myself.

 

[simon23]

play the correct team/ and our adapt tactics to suit inferior players and it would look even better

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I didn't expect to win today and we are still top albeit by just 1 point,be nice to have a home game next, onward and upwards

Be very interesting to see how the next two games pan out at home. The opposition are an upgrade on what we have faced so far at home. We have played the bottom 4 sides this season out of the first 7 games. To be honest only the United win is impressive when you look at where teams are.

However 2nd half we created 4 good chances and whilst I thought Spurs played well, They didn't create too much.

If we carry on making mistakes like we did on Wednesday and today then we will keep on messing games up.

Kolorov, Zabaleta, Fernando and Navas in the same team is asking for trouble.

It's really disappointing that we just don't seem to have any young defenders who are ready to step up. This defence is too old and any team with pace and that is prepared to press will have success against them.

 

[Ashleymcduff]

37 million on sane
27 million on Jesus
8 million on Moreno
Surely we could of just signed one of them and brought a RB or LB
doesn't make sense to me