Spurs vs City post match

Can't be arsed reading the full thread, but my comments:
Danny Rose is a twat.
The weather was good.
Danny Rose is a dick.
The view (lower tier) was OK.
Danny Rose is a tosser.
Kolarov is a fucking idiot.
Danny Rose is a syphilitic whore.
Spurs were better all over the pitch.
Marriner is a spineless Muppet for not showing Rose a second yellow on several occasions.
And Danny Rose is a cheating ****.
And the traffic wasn't bad in either direction.
And Danny Rose should be shot.
 
Andrew___K said:
Yes, it's obvious, but who would you use if Gundo can't play the full game, Garcia is young and inexperienced, and Dinho is needed in No8 role as KdB is injured? Pep just had no choice. He works with the players he has atm, he can't turn Nando into Busi. Our squad is very thin, but it's not a problem of Pep's abilities as a squad selector.
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This has some truth. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed that our manager is mortal after all - and yes we should have scored at least one goal. Aguero was unlucky on two occasions.

That said, I'd certainly have started with Clichy and Sagna as our full backs. They are out best and you have to play your best against the best teams.
Not starting with Fernandinho as the midfield pivot was bad though - hopefully Pep now realises Fernando is just a stopper. He really cannot pick a man out and pass the ball forward. If I had to pick a team, then knowing we would be a bit tired (actually not quite as sharp) after Wednesday I'd have gone for a midfield 2 or 3 as well, where Fernando's talent as a Stopper would be at least usable. Sterling would be on the right as well where he is far more dangerous.
 
This is a work in progress. New manager, trying new system. What are people expecting with new manager only in place 3 months. He has to see if the squad he has is capable then make his decision on the future squad. 1 transfer window and everyone expecting to ship out dead wood straight away and have replacement's brought in without any problems. Be realistic it don't work that way and thinking we'll just get 2 fullbacks handy in January. It's not like you just pick them off a shelf in supermarket. Too much of the I want it all and I want it right now mentality on this forum. As I said work in progress. Patience..
 
They were better than us, simple as that. However, I think if we'd have got one goal then we would have got the second as well

As stated earlier in preseason,Guardiola is a football manager not a magician. We all knew last season's team wasn't balanced and needed improving so it's hardly a surprise when (more or less) last season's team played we got beat! We missed Nolito and Debruyne for starters and our fullbacks are nowhere near Spurs' standard never mind Barcelona!

Not the end of the world but room for improvement
 
Well thats the Second game our fullbacks have been found out.....Zabba too slow fof EPL games....Kolorov should be at another club.....shambles at the back......Stones and Bravo take some credit.....midfield and defence shambolic and Sergio the invisable man 2 games in a row. ???? Need some strong words or time to sell !!!
 
City Glory While Others Fade said:
Well thats the Second game our fullbacks have been found out.....Zabba too slow fof EPL games....Kolorov should be at another club.....shambles at the back......Stones and Bravo take some credit.....midfield and defence shambolic and Sergio the invisable man 2 games in a row. ???? Need some strong words or time to sell !!!
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Got four words for you my friend.....top of the league.
 
That felt like a top game of football today and it's what makes the game what it is. All the experts on here, on tv and in the papers and yet nobody knows anything really. You could have cleaned up at the bookies this weekend by having City, rags, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Monchengladbach to amass 3 points between them this weekend, with not one of them winning.
That is the attraction of this great game; when we think we know stuff it quickly becomes obvious that we don't know anything really; and long may it continue.
 
If Pep had started with Stones on Weds instead of Kolarov at CB, today's game wouldn't have played the way it did, Spurs got the idea from Celtic, as will everybody else who plays us from now on. Time up for Zabba I'm afraid, and Kolarov is just a passenger.
Very poor disjointed performance in a Pellegrini mould. Thought Rose & Wanyama were lucky to stay on as was Otamendi, and Alli amazingly escaped any card at all.
Hopefully Pep learns from this week and plays with some paceier fullbacks. Missed KB massively.
 
HypnoticBlue said:
If Pep had started with Stones on Weds instead of Kolarov at CB, today's game wouldn't have played the way it did, Spurs got the idea from Celtic, as will everybody else who plays us from now on. Time up for Zabba I'm afraid, and Kolarov is just a passenger.
Very poor disjointed performance in a Pellegrini mould. Thought Rose & Wanyama were lucky to stay on as was Otamendi, and Alli amazingly escaped any card at all.
Hopefully Pep learns from this week and plays with some paceier fullbacks. Missed KB massively.
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Swansea tried it got beat Celtic did it draw Spurs did it and won because they are a far better team than the other 2. There will be only liverpool spurs and maybe Arsenal who can do that and get a result.
 
lastmanback said:
This is a work in progress. New manager, trying new system. What are people expecting with new manager only in place 3 months. He has to see if the squad he has is capable then make his decision on the future squad. 1 transfer window and everyone expecting to ship out dead wood straight away and have replacement's brought in without any problems. Be realistic it don't work that way and thinking we'll just get 2 fullbacks handy in January. It's not like you just pick them off a shelf in supermarket. Too much of the I want it all and I want it right now mentality on this forum. As I said work in progress. Patience..
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You can't go spouting sense like this on here - you'll get a ban. You are right of course. Pellegrini had the ship well in reverse and it will take time to get us moving again - but we are moving forward. Only just seeing how much Pellegrini set us back, but Peps making good decisions and we are a work in progress.
 
I thought the game today showed that we still have a team that are reliant on a few players and when they aren't available, our balance suffers as a result. As we are playing a quicker transition from defence to attack than a typical Guardiola side does, we really miss De Bruyne driving us forward.

Ultimately though, today we came up against a team that is now well drilled in what their (very good) coach wants from them, who has moulded the squad to be able to cope when they are missing a couple.

It is going to take a while for us to be fully embedded in Guardiolas style, Until then, if we have everyone fit, we have the quality of players that can see us win and go through the transition at the same time. If they aren't, then we will have a few games that look disjointed or teams overrun us in certain areas. We need to keep with the same style though to really reap the long term benefits.
 
Today, it was like having a free hit: if/when we lost, we knew we'd still be top!
It panned out virtually as I expected, but, I'm disappointed for a few reasons:
First, Sagna and Clichy are our 2 best defensive full backs, and as they we on the bench, I assume that they were both fit. I would have picked them. We were always going to need our most mobile full backs. Pep knows best, but, I don't understand that selection.
Second, worryingly, Zabba looked like he was running through treacle; Kolarov looked off the pace until 70 mins when spurs were tired - and that own goal was pathetic - but as per his first half performance.
Third, if there was a match where I wouldn't want to see 4 'reserves' playing - Zaba, Kola, Navas and Fernando in the same team - it was today at WHL - probably our most difficult away game. Needs must, to an extent, but just our luck that Nolito gets a completely unnecessary ban, and KDB got injured. Either of those 2 playing would have made a major difference, as Navas wouldn't have started.
Fourth, as a result of the above, Sterling starts on the left and was ineffective.
Fifth, despite the above, we could have scored a couple if Aguero had been on his game, but, he's in a 2 game lull.
Last, it looked like Nacho came on with Dzeko's old lead boots on!
Thank God spurs weren't at full strength!
Bad day at the office. Let's hope the break does us some good. Still top. United dropped points. We might be full strength again in 2 weeks. Still early days, and everything to play for - AND the Womens' team have done the double! But, Gareth Southgate's called up Jesse Lingard and Glen Johnson to the England squad, so maybe the world's gone fckin mad - or is it me?
 
Watching it again I think some people are overreacting, for a start on another day we could easily have come away with a point, Sergio and Kelechi could have both scored at least a goal a piece in the second half, aside from the Penalty and a few shots from outside the box they didn't create that much compared to us. The own goal was very unlucky for us and set the tone for Spurs had that not gone in and maybe had Silva got a hold of that ball that was flashed across the box(Serg scored one like that at Swansea) it could have been a very different game.

Spurs were good but we weren't outplayed we gave as good as we got but there were individual mistakes and there will be days like that for all teams, some of our older players have played a lot of high intensity games and need a rest IMO that's when the mistakes come when players are tired.
 
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