Hard to know what to add, to be honest.
Shades of 'Apart from the shooting, Mrs Lincoln, how did you feel about the play?'
Let us be honest, even Pep finds it difficult to know what to advise. The situation is unique in his experience.
Two poor teams (made up of wonderful players, mind), both playing very badly - I honestly can't ever remember seeing such a bad United team, by the way.
Anyway, City's confidence is on the floor, which, I suppose is a lesson in life. Even at that level, once your confidence goes (whatever line of work you're in), it's a slippery slope. Everything that was easy yesterday (well, last season) is now difficult. Everyone needs that extra touch. The angles, those little triangles, that were once everywhere, have all closed up.
We'll get out of it. But it looks like it is going to be a horrible season. The team is going to have to adapt. Thing is, it looked like we had gone full ugly-win pragmatism. Only for poor old Nunes to leave us all prey, as they say, to conflicting emotions. In his defence, an honest examination of what he actually did over the course of the 90 minutes will discover more to praise than to blame.
Been trying to think of other runs like this. And how we got out of them. Anyone remember us going to Goodison Park with Alan Harper as a sweeper?
Anyway, brace yourselves, Blues! Stand firm, Men! Sell your lives dearly! Don't give in now!
A couple of things, though. What does it mean to 'lose the dressing room'? Serious question. How far are we now from whatever that actually means?
And why not bring young O'Reilly on for a run? The crowd reaction alone would almost make it worth a try. Just saying.