United (A) | Post Match Thread

[uptheblues]

Well let’s try it ourselves next match, stick a player, Foden let’s say on the edge of the penalty area at all times, he’s offside but it doesn’t matter- let him drag defenders towards himself and but the keeper in two minds where to position himself, but he doesn’t touch the ball and just Haaland come in and smash the ball in the net - I’m sure it won’t be ruled out for offside-oh wait - of course it would! We are not United

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Linesman was flagging straightaway in the first half against Foden on more than one occasion.
Not only has this change made it worse, it's not even applied consistently.

PiGMOL reps don't/wont apply the same rule to due to incompetence/instructions from the top .

 

[cookster]

Yes but that's the past, we are talking about this season

Most supporter would trust a manager with such a great record.
Suppose entitled mardarses can't handle a drop in form that sees us 2nd and topping our CL group..

 

[OB1]

It’s fucking ridiculous that our players are scared of giving the ball away when trying to play Erling in, and that can only be on Pep.

No, it can be on the players.

I don't think for one minute Pep doesn't want them to play Erling in. Of course he wants them to be accurate with the passing and not give the ball away but the man is no fool. Pep knows you can't be successful with every pass / cross in the final third and he tries to get the players to be positioned to manage transitions to deal with that eventuality.

Whetehr Pep is emphasising enough to the players that they should take more risks, we don't know. Kev, who is our main creator, gives the ball away plenty trying things so I think the issue lies more with the players.

Also, teams are simply making it very difficult for City, they are often well organised, highly committed and defending in such numbers that it is really tough for our players to play people in.

City have a puzzle to solve and it's not an easy one. Part of me thinks we may need to do something radical and change several of our players in order to allow Pep to produce a new variant of his basic model of football, which I still believe is a good one and definitely one I favour.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

You think Phillips, Gomez etc are world class players?

I didn't say they are.

 

[mick10]

Shut up ya mouthy ****

Ahahaha don’t sit on the fence.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

He

he may have provided another assist but he is definitely not at the top of his game , same applies to Phil

On a bad day he provides an assist - not an easy one either - watch the move. So to me, the assist makes up for any passes that didn't reach their target.

 

[lazerblue]

just watched MOTD, too pissed last night, and if i'm Haaland watching those clips highlighted by ian wright of the runs he made yesterday, i'm thinking do these want me here, he must be absolutely pissed off!

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Instead of slagging our monumentally brilliant team off, we need to create a cauldron atmosphere in our stadium for every home game from now on for the lads to feed off. I think Pep would appreciate it.

 

[Blueboy73]

PiGMOL reps don't/wont apply the same rule to due to incompetence/instructions from the top .

More so now with Raggy Webb in charge.
It was bad enough with Mike "penalty to the rags" Riley in charge but it's gone to another level now.