West Brom (h) post-match thread

[bobbyowenquiff]

am going to take the pain again and watch the game again or the highlights

but from what i watched live. how can pep send out a team of 2 holding midfield and play 4 in defence ??
most of the game WBA had 10 men behind the ball and city and pep still had 4 players marking nobody on the half way line ??

like i said am going to watch the game again and see ? but its not good enough and i truly don't understand pep idea's in what he is fearing from WBA going forward ??

If we are playing two people in the pivot role then one of them has to be fast and mobile enough to move upfield to feed the forwards. We are just two slow in transition. Perhaps Pep should play Bernardo there. Rodri is essentially a new Gareth Barry. He can't move the ball fast enough. He would be good if we were defending a 2 goal lead away in Europe but not at home against West Brom.
It's amazing that Mendy is still getting into the team at all. His legs went two years ago. He would not get in any other PL team.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

For those having a go at Pep, remember all managers go through a bald patch at sometime in their career.

 

[deano ou812]

My only other point is the football has regressed so much and is nearly the opposite of how pep wants to play at times,is peps Number 2 has he got into his head too much regards tactics remember something about him being a defensive coach or something..

 

[HelloCity]

You know what f***s me off about Rodri? The way he moans and shouts at anyone who makes a mistake. I mean, I could understand it if he was delivering Fernandinho level performances but man, he’s one of the biggest reasons we’re no longer as good as we were.

 

[ID70]

Pep ‘We deserved to win the game but we didn't win it’, we didn’t deserve to win anything playing like that

 

[chaddblue]

Gundogan was our best player, that's all I'm saying....

Gundogan and Dias are the only two that shouldn’t be embarrassed by their performance tonight

 

[Bill the Blue]

What grinds my gears is how we fkin amble about doing next to fuck all for 80 minutes and then run our bollocks off for the last 10 trying to save the result..

Fkin not interested against the rags and thinking we only had to turn up tonight to get the points..

Not good enough and not acceptable..

Torres is 21 ffs, plays one game in 4, get him on and give Raheem a rest..

Raheem looks like he's got no energy or he's lost a bit of interest to me..

Fkin shocking result, 4 points tossed away in the last 2 games because we couldn't be arsed, that's what it looked like to me..!

We just don't look interested, even Pep has a smacked arse look on his face most of the time..

Fkin run a bit quicker, show a bit of passion and look like your fkin interested, that's all I want to see ffs..!

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

Never properly replaced Bob Taylor

 

[hardman4city]

Cancelo is the worst full back we've signed since the takeover. Just garbage.

Definitely shit tonight. Has had some good games but we should never have signed him in the first place, not for what we paid anyway. How did his value reach £60m when he wasn’t even starting for Juve?! Money could have been spent elsewhere.

 

[daztrueblue91]

No goals to show, 97 wasted passes, opponents need one chance as always and it’s in the net

None of that is De Bruyne’s fault though. He’s the only creative outlet we have and is still providing sitters for his teammates.