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Nah kante helped us against counter a couple times

Pedro played well enough. Made good run off the ball but Kovacic is imo the problem. I have no clue how a cm can be that conservative on the ball

Forget defensively. We are playing David Luiz in back 4. We won't be monster defensively. Offensively is more the problem, Kovacic was HORRENDOUS. Off the ball, rlc is not as good as Kovacic but on the ball it is not even close. Kovacic is like useless player there. RLC beat player and intimidate opp with his physicality. That is what you want from your cm. Not just making easy pass.

Massive difference between Kovacic n RLC. We suddenly look like playing football.

Our fb crossing is horrible

We simply has problem playing against this kind of team. Both of our fb are not really great offensively which does not help. Watching pool today,most of their attack are coming from Trent and Robertson. Both are pretty good offensively in different way.

Kovacic is playing way too conservative. That one pas to Hazard sum him up. He need to drive to the box attract player then pass to Hazard

3 ridiculous goals to concede.

Agree to some degree but he perform so well that it is almost impossible for pep to drop him.

If they keep getting lucky then they can win UCL. It is one of the key ingredients of winning ucl.

I think maximum team from the same country is 5 in UCL so yes.

This. If you watch some united games you will be shocked how poor united is. Conceding chances left and right and the other team didn't score. They then scored some difficult chances. It happen again and again. Btw stop watching VAR is slow motion. That is just a dumb way to use VAR. It will ruin the game.

If you watched Madrid game last season, you will understand it has nothing to do with Ronaldo and Zidane. They looked shambolic both side of the ball last season yet they scored timely goals in UCL. Winning 3 UCL in a row is an impossible feat but their record in La Liga is pretty poor.

Nah vision is not the right word to use for city funding is the word.

I didn't follow city that much but maybe you are right because I didn't see much changes. Nah, that is wrong way to look at it especially for city. Let's see how city make signing under pep. He want a cb, let's sign one of the best young ball playing cb in Laporte. He wanted fb, let sign the best lb in mendy and sign Kyle walker. Plus we sign Danilo as backup. We need another winger, let sign Bernardo silva and mahrez when you have sterling and sane. Do you think we can do that? Absolutely not. We need a lb, we signed Emerson. We needed a rb we signed zappacosta.

Not surprised with Ajax results. For anyone who have watched Real this season and also last season. They looked quite bad most of the time. They got away last year in UCL by scoring timely goal.

Normal for a young player

How pep adapt? He did not adapt. The biggest difference is they have better FB and GK last season. I didn't see much difference other than that. For me city comparison is useless. Pep inherit a very good squad and added better player on top of it. This is not an attack on pep because pep is a fantastic manager, but squad wise City has the best squad in the league.

This season? Yes. I don't like forcing player to play when he has injury riddled season. They tend to get injured again. RLC is still young, it is better for him to play little this season get 100% healthy and be ready for next season. Sometime I agree that Sarri should have played Cho more but not as much as most people in this forum think.

CHO will have problem dislodging Willian this season. I am being honest. There is only one spot for winger in our team across from Hazard. Hazard defensively is quite poor so the other winger has to be excellent defensively. For me he has plenty of injury problem this season. I much rather to play him more next season after he has proper rest if not I am afraid he will get injured again. This is pretty common theme with player who has injury fest.

It looks like I am not wrong about Emerson. He was quite good against City but yesterday was his chance to nail down his place in first 11 but I thought he was just ok. He is pretty much maybe at the same level as Alonso. He is faster but Alonso is taller.

I thought jorginho looked quite poor. Maybe he was tired because he lost some battle that he usually pretty good at. Agree with Hazard. He need a break. CHO is definitely an option but I think Sarri will only play Cho when he is sure that we are going to be on top most of the time. RLC problem is simple, he has plenty of injury this season. I much rather he play sparingly, pushing him to start can ruin his career.

Manager is an excellent pundit as long as they are not manager from different era like souness. Wenger is pretty good. Mou is good but he tend to promote himself too much 😁😁 I mentioned this a while ago. Watched klopp in mnf with carragher. There you will understand the difference between a manager and an ex player.

I don't get with people who say this should be easy game. We are close to the end of season. We have just played 120 min against City and 90 minutes against spurs. Higuain should have buried his chances. 3-1 up and we can be slightly more relax in the 2nd half. Our performance in 2nd half was horrible. Hazard, Jorginho, Azpi, Kante need a break

The team looks really tired, especially in the 2nd half. You can see the drop in the intensity.