Thanfully Stoke didn't take theirs either.
Stoke arguably played for the point, their chances were rare and weren't so clear cut.
You make it sound as if it was a freak resu!t and we were unlucky.
Never said that. We didn't play well enough and we didn't take our chances, that's all.
More chances, more intesity and more pressure was needed.
Agreed.
We took ouf foot off the gas and relinquished the impetus we'd been builing recently.
That makes it sound like an intentional draw, which is unfair. Teams have off days, Chelsea and Spurs have them too.
Do you think if we were playing Stoke tonight he'd pick the same team?
Possibly, who knows? Do you think he picked the team solely because he thought it was good enough or was there perhaps also training and development aspects involved too?
I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but many predicted a struggle when the team was announced and so it proved.
"Many predicted a struggle," this isn't FIFA, you can't always and in every situation throw out your best XI, especially not with four massive games in 10 days.
The team Pep played was arguably good enough, flappers predicted a struggle against Sunderland (so it was), Bournemouth (so it was) and Swansea (so it was) and that was with our first XI.
The difference between Stoke and those games was we took our chances in those games and didn't against Stoke.
I imagine it gave Stoke a boost too.
Hope so, they have Chelsea next.
Call it negative or toxic if that's how you argue - but in reality it's concern and discussion.
Concern isn't bringing up shit about Joe Hart after we just broke the club's consecutive clean sheets record.
Further, had David Silva, or Kelechi Iheanacho, or Leroy Sane, or Kun Aguero put away their tap ins, you wouldn't be on here being negative at all. Fine margins, that's the difference.
You say negative I say honest. Anyway back to my point. If as you say pep would not have rotated for a top side how would that set of players be any less tired when we play Monaco? Probably more so having had a tougher game.
Pep dropped one end of.
Nah, you're negative mate.
Bottom line is, you don't know. The lineup was good enough to beat Stoke but it didn't. If you want to say it wasn't good enough to beat Stoke, then you're making the case that we should essentially replace players like Sane, KDB and Aguero because they aren't capable of scoring sitters against a team who have conceded more goals than all but the relegation zone teams.
