DTKOAG
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A inspirational captain
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What Is lacking?
- Thread starter Cityzen_89
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Pubteam Lomas
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Yeah Rodri has gone from first choice to third in a few weeks.A top class defensive midfielder to replace/rotate with Fernandinho.
It's clear that Pep doesn't rate Rodri.
So, also maybe some new people involved in transfers as who decided to sign an immobile defensive midfielder?
I said after Brighton that he might have just played his way out of the CL final team.
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lazerblue
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common fuckin sense, thats whats lacking!
tregyblue61
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Where is the "more balls" gif?
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lazerblue
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it was over at half time, in fact it was over at 6.45 when the team was announcedI’ll tell you another thing aswell anyone who thinks the owners will be ok with what happened last are living in fantasy land . Pep will never get sacked and rightly so but there will definitely be a conversation at board level as to why and what went wrong . It isn’t about getting beat as Chelsea are a top top outfit and will be up there next season but we gave them a massive bonus with the team sheet and gave a n elite player like Kante free roam in midfield which will only end one way . Luckily for us Chelsea can’t finish of this game would have been over at half time .
decmancity
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What we lack is seemingly the confidence to go into games and stamp our authority. We do it 99.9% of the games we play but why not 100?
Fuck knows why Pep decides to change a winning formula at the last min to try and impact something he recognises in the other team.
He grew up with the DNA of playing one way and that's it. At Barca it never changed.
Why here and why now?
Fuck knows why Pep decides to change a winning formula at the last min to try and impact something he recognises in the other team.
He grew up with the DNA of playing one way and that's it. At Barca it never changed.
Why here and why now?
Did it work ,no, but it made sense he knew Chelsea would play a back 5 and 2 holding, even the front 3 dropping deep,he knew they would play on the break , so playing Sterling and Mahrez high and wide to try and stretch their block and create space in the middle for Foden, Bernardo, KDB to operate in with Gundogan feeding made complete sense.
Imo, Pep thought that Chelsea's misfiring problems in attack would be enough to outscore them, so a DM in the strict sense of the term wouldn't be necessary. The real challenge was how to break their compact defensive block, Chelsea's main strength since he failed to do so in his last confrontations with Tuchel even if it was with his B-team. Hence Sterling and Mahrez playing wide and no Ferna/Rodri.Playing no conventional dm when he knew they would play long balls in the channels by passsing c.m also made sense. Did the changes work obviously they didn’t but let not pretend there wasn’t a plan to it that made some sense.
As much as I love Pep, I think that Tuchel got into his head and lead him to go all-out and adapt his game to Chelsea instead of playing his own. Pep seems also to underestimate the fact that the players aren't robots that you can re-program on short notice. You can't change your starting XI so drastically, it will unsettle them. You also just can't start a player who's having a torrid season in a CL final and make him one of your most important pieces. His game plan lasted about 5 minutes before Chelsea took control of the game.
Not sure on that take, Fernandinho is the player who always filled in when one of your players made a mistake. Harvertz could score because Mount had all the time in the world to pass through the gap where the DM should've been.
You can experiment and try to find new solutions for your shortcomings, Pep is a master at that and the use of a false 9 for this season (you'll need a striker next season regardless) was a stroke of genius. But you can't afford to do what he did against Chelsea in CL final.
Well Wisher
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Nothing's lacking except self-respect & ambition in your opponents. You're occasionally beaten by clearly inferior teams because 10 defenders in their own third is their best chance - too risky to venture out and try to win the ball high up the pitch. Your problem is you're so good that even the big clubs adopt this rotten plan, forcing you to take all the risks leaving loads of space behind. Watching your defenders try to tease Chelsea out while they refused and slowly retreated into two banks of five was embarrassing for English football.