What did he say?
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Manager Pep Guardiola
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He said the only team who has played better than them this season was Tottenham.
He said the only team to outplay them in a football match this season is Tottenham when we beat them 2-0.
I get what he's saying though. Statswise, Everton wasn't really that good and only had 4 shots on goals (from which they scored from basically back line mistakes). We turned them over and made them our bitch.
Stats can be misleading. As in this case.
I'm confused. Are you saying Everton were better than stats suggested?
Ha, I'm saying they won 4-0. Goals - the ultimate stats.
Yes but that doesn't necessarily mean that Everton played good against City though. But a loss is a loss no matter how good your team played. Something Pep is just finding out being in England.
Ok, but if we'd have beaten City with Everton's performance and somebody suggested that City were better I'd laugh at them. They weren't better, they were abject. Everton picked them off - it was no fluke.
I'd agree to disagree. That 4-0 score line doesn't show the whole picture. Everton weren't complete shit, but they weren't Barcelona either. That's why I piggybacked off of
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's "it was a 4-0 drubbing" comment with it wasn't really a "drubbing".Well I watched the game, but as I was laughing so much, l concede I might have missed something.I'd agree to disagree. That 4-0 score line doesn't show the whole picture. Everton weren't complete shit, but they weren't Barcelona either. That's why I piggybacked off of
They'd had one chance in the first half and took it.I'd agree to disagree. That 4-0 score line doesn't show the whole picture. Everton weren't complete shit, but they weren't Barcelona either. That's why I piggybacked off of
They took all the others in the 2nd , maybe they had one more which they didn't.
Man City were awful in all departments really Everton made them pay.
However, City had much more of the ball and offensively did more
Man City were shitty defensively which was obvious and don't play like a team which is also obvious. But the game certainly wasn't a drubbing and I can understand why even after a 4-0 loss Pep can say that we were still the best team he's faced.
Pep is a weird one. I remember them lauding his enthusiasm from the touch line, but last game he sat immobile on the bench with a blank stare , inspiring nobody. Btw I haven't a clue about his antics but haven't seen a lot of that on tv.
It's also strange how the same reporters who were so far up his arse I don't know how they used their keyboards are now picking holes in his team.
Robben said today that he has t seen a lot of City this season, but then went on to say he supposes that they are playing better football than last season and he can see the Pep mark on the team?
It's also strange how the same reporters who were so far up his arse I don't know how they used their keyboards are now picking holes in his team.
Robben said today that he has t seen a lot of City this season, but then went on to say he supposes that they are playing better football than last season and he can see the Pep mark on the team?
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I know what you mean. The scorline is not indicative of their performance. I can also understand why he say that about us.
Take nothing away from Everton though as they did what was needed.
The game was lost in midfield for me. Against us they had a much more stronger one of Fernandez, Fernandinho and eventually gundogan.
Toure and zabeleta were not good enough.
I don't understand why he left Barcelona. As successful as he was there, he didn't build the foundations of his achievements - that was built way back by the Dutch influence. He inherited a great squad so it was really a case of just keeping everyone happy and letting the trophies roll in.
Poch on the other hand has built something pretty much from the foundations, changing the style of play, overhauling the squad, introducing new training methods. That is a far harder task and I don't think Guardiola has it in him, frankly.
Poch on the other hand has built something pretty much from the foundations, changing the style of play, overhauling the squad, introducing new training methods. That is a far harder task and I don't think Guardiola has it in him, frankly.
When he went to Bayern he inherited a decent squad too. Extended the contracts of 10 key players.
He bought Kirchhoff , stole Goetze and brought Thiago form Barca .
Next season he bought lewandowski , bernat , Alonso. benatia who made a few apps in the league and Reina who made a few.
The foundations were already laid there
Yep. I'm not saying that he isn't a very successful manager, just look at the trophies won. I think he has taken on a rebuilding project at Man City, and he probably didn't realise the scale of the task ahead of him.
Both Barcelona and Bayern have decades of success behind them, but the same can't be said of Man City, who last time I checked have still yet to do anything in Europe. He would have been better off going to a club like AC Milan.
If he's going to be given time to do that at Man City he may yet succeed.
Bayern did win the fucking treble the year before, not so much foundations as the whole fucking house...