What will work against us?

Dicko69 said:
I think we'll see against barca, if the high pressing doesn't work and they can still pass it about playing one touch football. You can't press for 90mins, it's a quick press and if you don't get the ball, get set up defensively. Both the of us will play similar, both got the players to pass it about with confidence even under pressure. I reckon that game will come down to the team making the least mistakes will win.
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I think Barca is still superior in the possession department. And they have Messi. These are huge factors. Especially the Messi one.
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
Saying the same, Liverpool will be a very interesting game. Pep v Klopp both high pressing styles.
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I think that we will destroy them if our players are still in this sort of form. Both play a high intensity high pressing game, but we are by far a slicker passing unit, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if klopp changes his tactics for that one game and sits off us and tries to park the bus
 
The next game will be something new as Swansea like to keep the ball. Obviously doing nothing with it but they still like to keep the ball a lot. Then the Spurs game will pit us against a high pressing fast type team. I'm expecting to drop points at Spurs to be honest. Just looked at the team we put out last year and it was such a slow one that it was no wonder we lost. The injuries were kicking in if I remember correctly
 
Feels like it's going to be very difficult for most teams to stop us at the moment. As far as the premier league goes, we probably have the best collection of players. That collection of players are also playing pretty close to the best of their abilities and playing in a system that's working well. If we carry on playing at this level then the only way to stop us will be for other teams to seriously raise their game. Im not sure any of the other teams have the personnel to do that though. They're just going to have to wait and hope we hit a bad patch or tire as the season goes on.
 
law74 said:
I think that we will destroy them if our players are still in this sort of form. Both play a high intensity high pressing game, but we are by far a slicker passing unit, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if klopp changes his tactics for that one game and sits off us and tries to park the bus
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I can see that happening. This however is one game they are going to be up for big time as has been proven over the past years. I agree though that we have by-far the superior technical players to pull this off in this type of game.

Be interesting to know how Dortmund under klopp played against Pep ?
 
You guys are playing well, fantastic football and Peps really marking his style on the squad.

I'm confident we'll do you guys though and continue our good record against City.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I think that teams will target De Bruyne and Silva for the rough stuff.
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bobom said:
What tactics are going to work best against us? Probably the hardest challenge we've had so far was the second half at the swamp against a big, strong team hoofing it forward.

The options seem to be press like crazy (but leave space behind), park the bus (and counter attack), or try to play stylish football. I'm really looking forward to the Liverpool, Leicester and Arsenal matches for these reasons. What do you think well work best?
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Haven't read the thread so sorry if I'm repeating others points.

Howe got it right today and had done his research. They didn't come pressing our defenders because when you do you open up the middle of the park to get the ball to our playmakers. They also left our widest men alone and concentrated all their defensive bodies in the number 10/back of their midfield areas. These two tactics were designed to stop us doing what we have been doing, and pulling teams al over the park and opening the pitch up.

It's one of the reasons why today was so impressive, because we took them to pieces anyway,regularly from those very wide areas that Howe deemed to be our least dangerous.

Get used to that kind of performance against us: everyone will be doing that from now on.
 
As soon as another team scores first we we struggle, and 4/5 have scored against us so hardly a time to claim invincibility.
 
Think our biggest problems will be stupid reds, injuries and fatigue after the Christmas period. I think Liverpool will be an issue as it usually is every year but Barca I think we will beat them home but lose away. Think our biggest assist is that pep has us playing a number of ways and a number of formations plus the fact we have so much talent it is difficult to name an automatic starter bar bravo so playing us is difficult to plan for who really saw kolarov being played at CB today instead of stones and he bossed it. We have so many weapons at the minute it's hard to block them all. Think bad luck more then being beaten if you know what I mean.
 
At the start of the second half at Old Trafford, United pressed us high up the pitch and Bravo didn't have an outlet at times. Forced him to play it long and we struggled to retain possession for a while. Think that's the only way to beat us at the moment, but not sure any team has the fitness or intensity to maintain that for a full 90 minutes. Even if they do, you suspect Guardiola already has a plan to counteract it. Think Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool away will be our biggest tests.
 
I guess what has worked for us will work against us. High press might work against us as we lack height up top.
 
19th October will be a good indicator I reckon ..... but hopefully not if KDB carries on like he's playing !
 
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