Pep Has To Go The End Of This Season

[carl_feedthegoat]

Credit to him.
Did what everyone was shouting and we looked again our usual self.

Play our best assets, the only thing really.

Now we are post game and have had time to think - It’s early days, but the signs were there yesterday that have got fans like me thinking, “Hmm… maybe, just maybe, he’s starting to shift his mindset from his boring pass pass game to what we have recently seen”
Let’s see how it plays out.

[Slim]

Credit to him.
Did what everyone was shouting and we looked again our usual self.

Play our best assets, the only thing really.

Now we are post game and have had time to think - It’s early days, but the signs were there yesterday that have got fans like me thinking, “Hmm… maybe, just maybe, he’s starting to shift his mindset from his boring pass pass game to what we have recently seen”
Let’s see how it plays out.

I think he played a few games with everyone thinking we were doing the same as last season but with a fitter squad. Then when everyone is settled and too late to copy him, he unleashes Doku in a more central role and no-one is dealing with it.

[Im_Spartacus]

We're not dominant, we're still trying to work out how to play together, we'll lose games against organised teams like Villa where we revert to type to try and pass/probe our way through, like in the past, we'll beat teams who are wide open and up for a tear up.

In the space of 2 games with Villa and Liverpool, we've seen the best and the worst of City, and what we likely have is somewhere in between, which I think we can all get behind as it's very clear that there's a different underlying approach.

I worry we'll be a bit lightweight with Foden, Cherki, Reindeers and Nico as a spine, and it's not going to be right in a lot of games for all of them to play together, but there's some potential there given Rodri and Kova are still to come back - I'm not massively hopeful of Doku maintaining the form of the Liverpool game though, he tore Trent a new one last year too, then went back to type....but if we can have Doku on form and Haaland being Haaland, teams really have some problems to think about.

Club have done well with the signings (would still love some fullbacks), and Guardiola/coaches have done well getting the club into a new groove, there will be bumps in the road, but this season is shaping up to be very exciting.