Manchester City under Pep Guardiola | Pep on City v Liverpool ref: "He likes to be special"

For all the flack Jose's taken for his CL results after Inter(and I've criticized him too tbf).

Pep has notoriously failed in the CL since his 2011 triumph. Albeit to a lesser level, but still a failure nonetheless.
 
el3mel said:
When I just talk about all the quadruple and treble stuff. :lol:
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I don't see anyone claim that United in the mid-90s is the greatest team ever because they play best one-touch football ever seen in the history of football?
 
If they lose against Spurs, there might actually be a question of if they can break the points record.

They are facing quite a few teams battling relegation. 2 or 3 draws at the end of the season would basically turn Baldy into Pellegrini 2.0.
 
Irrational. said:
I hope he's punished for his comments. Shame he's cracking so late on in the season.

Those series of last minute winners earlier in the season really carried him a long way. A few more draws and his true colours would've eventually come out like tonight.
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Bollocks come on.....
As much as I despise him/city they were fecked by refereeing decisions over the two legs.
Not one big decision went in their favour and a couple of huge obvious errors were missed.
He was spot on in the interview without being massively disrespectful. If that was us who had just got done 5-1 with those decisions we would all be fuming and rightly so.
And before I get a “city lover” tag I’d say exactly the sAme thing if pool had got the same shit decisions
 
The beauty of having Pep in charge is that you never really lose a match, there's always a referee to blame and the opposition have always resorted to tactics that are beneath him to rob the sport of the rightful winners.
 
Any good reason why he did not start Aguero? You need goals, would you not want your best striker with a nose for goals out there, especially with the amount of balls bouncing around in the penalty area.
 
The Purley King said:
Bollocks come on.....
As much as I despise him/city they were fecked by refereeing decisions over the two legs.
Not one big decision went in their favour and a couple of huge obvious errors were missed.
He was spot on in the interview without being massively disrespectful. If that was us who had just got done 5-1 with those decisions we would all be fuming and rightly so.
And before I get a “city lover” tag I’d say exactly the sAme thing if pool had got the same shit decisions
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5-1 mate. 5-1. If you’re losing 5-1 it’s not because of bad reffing, it’s because your team got battered, which they did. Annihilation. City are not a top top side.
 
I've been a fan of Guardiola but he's style of football has been found out again in the CL. He's been hammered a few times now. He really needs to develop another style of playing if he ever wants to win the CL again.
 
Eire Red United said:
They aren’t world beaters tbh.
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Still a level above us though.
We can't defend in anything less than a block which kills us away from home.
We've conceded enough stupid goals this year that would take Bayern 3/4 years to catch us up on.
 
Jagga7 said:
I've been a fan of Guardiola but he's style of football has been found out again in the CL. He's been hammered a few times now. He really needs to develop another style of playing if he ever wants to win the CL again.
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I don't know if it's that.

He's just heavily over-complicated things and over-thunk it the CL since Barcelona for whatever reason.

That ridiculous 424 vs Real in the 2nd leg in 2014, man marking MSN in 2015 for the 1st 30 minutes at the Nou Camp(like wtf), last season's collapse vs Monaco, and then his odd 1st leg line-up vs Liverpool.

Trying to be too smart I think.
 
I'd feel hard done if United went out in similar circumstances. Liverpool very much deserved it as well though, unfortunately.
 
Andy_Cole said:
5-1 mate. 5-1. If you’re losing 5-1 it’s not because of bad reffing, it’s because your team got battered, which they did. Annihilation. City are not a top top side.
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I’m not a city fan just saying it how I saw it over the two legs.
Especially tonight (which was an atrocious decision) when it should have been 2-0 you don’t know what happens from there.
No guarantee city go on to score another but the mind set at 2-0 half time vs 1-0 is big.
Don’t get me wrong I won’t lose any sleep over it and hope pool get humped by Madrid in the semis but on this occasion city were hard done by. Don’t see how anyone can argue against that
 
I'm wondering what the reaction would be if the United manager got thumped at Anfield and then also lost at home?

Would he get excuses like bad officiating or being unlucky?
 
The Purley King said:
Bollocks come on.....
As much as I despise him/city they were fecked by refereeing decisions over the two legs.
Not one big decision went in their favour and a couple of huge obvious errors were missed.
He was spot on in the interview without being massively disrespectful. If that was us who had just got done 5-1 with those decisions we would all be fuming and rightly so.
And before I get a “city lover” tag I’d say exactly the sAme thing if pool had got the same shit decisions
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Just watched his post-match and I actually agree with this. I don't like Pep but I don't think he said anything you wouldn't expect from your own manager in the same situation.
 
cyberman said:
Lose to Spurs and Swansea becomes hilariously vital to them.
West Ham away in this form wouldn't be a comfortable fixture if that happens
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What are you saying? The ultimate plastics nightmare: needing to beat WH?
 
cyberman said:
Lose to Spurs and Swansea becomes hilariously vital to them.
West Ham away in this form wouldn't be a comfortable fixture if that happens
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I can see them at least drawing with Spurs if not losing, Swansea will catch them on the hop as well I’d say.
 
To think some people once thought he was better than Ferguson
 
Tincanalley said:
What are you saying? The ultimate plastics nightmare: needing to beat WH?
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West Ham are on a good run of form, a win could guarantee them survival.
Hernandez and Aurta up top..
I think Spurs will beat them but the pressure on them if Swansea could pull it off would be hilarious.
I wouldn't even have hope for a title race, the squirming would be enough for me.
Get it down to 4/5 points with 3 games to go. We'd be free rolling at that point.
 
Eddy_JukeZ said:
For all the flack Jose's taken for his CL results after Inter(and I've criticized him too tbf).

Pep has notoriously failed in the CL since his 2011 triumph. Albeit to a lesser level, but still a failure nonetheless.
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Yep. Pep has achieved nothing of note in the CL for 7 years. Infact he shouldn't even have a a CL to his name maybe even both. The first one was won with the scandal of Stamford Bridge and the second was won with the scandal of the Bernabeu. The first one especially was crystal clear. Chelsea should've been in the final. He took over a treble winning team and didn't reach a final in 3 years. Brilliant league coach. 7 titles in 9 seasons is enough proof but the CL has been a disappointment for him I would say with the teams he's managed. He should be judged more harshly on his CL record. The statistics in away leg knockouts is shocking really.
 
They will break the bank for a forward.
I can see why they wanted Sanchez.
Aguero is not the profile and Jesus isn't good enough.
 
The last week will leave a huge, nasty skid mark on their season. Hopefully Spurs can make that skid mark even bigger.
 
The Purley King said:
I’m not a city fan just saying it how I saw it over the two legs.
Especially tonight (which was an atrocious decision) when it should have been 2-0 you don’t know what happens from there.
No guarantee city go on to score another but the mind set at 2-0 half time vs 1-0 is big.
Don’t get me wrong I won’t lose any sleep over it and hope pool get humped by Madrid in the semis but on this occasion city were hard done by. Don’t see how anyone can argue against that
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It was one decision that was very hard to call (even the ref in the studio got it wrong the first time). It wasn't like the ref was on our side the whole night like that Chelsea vs Barcelona match a few years back.

Did make a massive difference, but it was one tough call, and I think giving the ref stick over it, frankly, is embarrassing. I'd be saying the same if we'd gone out to a similar incident.
 
breakout67 said:
I'm wondering what the reaction would be if the United manager got thumped at Anfield and then also lost at home?

Would he get excuses like bad officiating or being unlucky?
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And lost a derby in between.

The Caf would go berserk and we'd get endless threads asking for the plane to fly over with a banner at the next home game
 
abdo99 said:
Yep. Pep has achieved nothing of note in the CL for 7 years. Infact he shouldn't even have a a CL to his name maybe even both. The first one was won with the scandal of Stamford Bridge and the second was won with the scandal of the Bernabeu. The first one especially was crystal clear. Chelsea should've been in the final. He took over a treble winning team and didn't reach a final in 3 years. Brilliant league coach. 7 titles in 9 seasons is enough proof but the CL has been a disappointment for him I would say with the teams he's managed. He should be judged more harshly on his CL record. The statistics in away leg knockouts is shocking really.
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Agree. Maybe the reason is most midtable clubs in any league are too coward to try and press their defense and just resort to defending to delay the inevitable, while in CL all big teams will press you anyway.
 
Guardiola has to work on a Plan B.

Of course the first half was better today. They made much pressure, had much possession. But they only had the goal (after a big error) and the offside goal after a Karius mistake. They couldn't create big chances i a game like this.
 
Hope they get hammered by Spurs and implode. Draws aren't much use to them in the run in if we keep winning.
 
TheReligion said:
And lost a derby in between.

The Caf would go berserk and we'd get endless threads asking for the plane to fly over with a banner at the next home game
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He lost the derby that would have seen them win the title.

That period in the winter where City were scoring late winner after late winner has saved their arse.
 
Denis_unwise said:
Saturday was anything but a dead rubber. It was the most important game of the season for most City fans. .....
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Who all dont play for City. It was a dead rubber. That is why players were held back for the Liverpool tie. The only thing in it was derby pride and frankly City as a squad needed it less than us.
 
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