Sarri But Not Sarri Thread

[Strike 7,250]

Sarri's immediate reaction was in the heat of the moment. His interview later in which he was asked about this repeatedly was classy and dignified. I have no problem with a passionate manager getting angry like that as long ashe reviews the situation with a cool head later on. 

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By the way, it's rather ironic that people brought up the player power thing again when Sarri helped to foster that with his team management this season. And he only made it worse by not stamping his authority yesterday.

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56 minutes ago, Strike said:

Sarri's immediate reaction was in the heat of the moment. His interview later in which he was asked about this repeatedly was classy and dignified. I have no problem with a passionate manager getting angry like that as long ashe reviews the situation with a cool head later on. 

Yeah but the damage was already done by then by Sarri, Kepa etc. Now all people talk about is player power, mutiny etc.  

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Just now, Jason said:

Yeah but the damage was already done by then by Sarri, Kepa etc. Now all people talk about is player power, mutiny etc.  

To the hell with the media. They are there for headlines and to sell news. They don't care about Chelsea. 

I am more worried about Chelsea fans. Clearly some of them including you maybe don't see the improvement in our team. All they see is F Sarriball. What they don't see is the first time in 3 years since Pep came to epl, we can go toe to toe with city. 

 

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9 minutes ago, communicate said:

To the hell with the media. They are there for headlines and to sell news. They don't care about Chelsea. 

I am more worried about Chelsea fans. Clearly some of them including you maybe don't see the improvement in our team. All they see is F Sarriball. What they don't see is the first time in 3 years since Pep came to epl, we can go toe to toe with city. 

On our game plan yesterday, kudos to Sarri for changing it up but funny thing is, he was brought in to implement his style but ended up using Conte's/Mourinho's to almost beat City in the final. Given the home win we had vs City in December and yesterday's performance, makes you wonder why Sarri didn't adopt the same approach at the Etihad Stadium recently. Might still have lost but wouldn't have lost 6-0.

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9 minutes ago, Jason said:

On our game plan yesterday, kudos to Sarri for changing it up but funny thing is, he was brought in to implement his style but ended up using Conte's/Mourinho's to almost beat City in the final. Given the home win we had vs City in December and yesterday's performance, makes you wonder why Sarri didn't adopt the same approach at the Etihad Stadium recently. Might still have lost but wouldn't have lost 6-0.

Nope, that was not a Conte or Mou, sit deep for the whole 90 minutes and pray we score from counter or set pieces. That was completely different. Instead of high press we use medium block press. We press them with kante and Barkley. We basically shut their passing lane. Plus not only we have counter attacking opportunity, we actually attack city. Yes we do proper build up and attack city. In 2nd half it was our game to the point that Sarri dare to bring Cho and Higuain. 

In Etihad we conceded 2 idiotic goals and one wonder goal in like 10 minutes. The game was done and dusted. 

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Just now, communicate said:

Nope, that was not a Conte or Mou, sit deep for the whole 90 minutes and pray we score from counter or set pieces. That was completely different. Instead of high press we use medium block press. We press them with kante and Barkley. We basically shut their passing lane. Plus not only we have counter attacking opportunity, we actually attack city. Yes we do proper build up and attack city. In 2nd half it was our game to the point that Sarri dare to bring Cho and Higuain. 

In Etihad we conceded 2 idiotic goals and one wonder goal in like 10 minutes. The game was done and dusted. 

Okay, it might not have entirely been Conte's or Mourinho's blueprint but large part of the performance was. We started off sitting back and then gradually worked our way up in the second half. You could say it was a hybrid of both styles but it wasn't anything pure Sarriball. And despite the good performance, think we only had like 1 shot on target in the entire game, which is poor from our part. 

Ignore the goals we conceded at the Etihad, it's the way we approached that game. There was so much space and gaps for City to exploit in that game, even after going 2-0 down in first 10-15 minutes. 

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

Okay, it might not have entirely been Conte's or Mourinho's blueprint but large part of the performance was. We started off sitting back and then gradually worked our way up in the second half. You could say it was a hybrid of both styles but it wasn't anything pure Sarriball. And despite the good performance, think we only had like 1 shot on target in the entire game, which is poor from our part. 

Ignore the goals we conceded at the Etihad, it's the way we approached that game. There was so much space and gaps for City to exploit in that game, even after going 2-0 down in first 10-15 minutes. 

It wasn't. We didn't sit deep in our own waiting for them. Did you watch united vs Liverpool last night? We played kinda like Liverpool and mou/Conte strategy kinda like united. Did you watch how kante press Barkley drop preventing the pass to space. Then when Barkley press, kante did the same thing. We didn't just sit them off. Of course, there will be a time where we have to defend deep, we are playing city after all. 

I assume you are referring to his napoli team. His napoli team pressing is light years ahead of ours. Teaching some of this players who is suck at pressing will take a while. 

Offensively of course it is going to be a struggle. I don't think ederson made any save the whole game but we had our chances with Kante and Barkley chances. I also don't remember Kepa made any significant save. The expected goals for both team was like  1.0 vs 1.2 

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18 minutes ago, communicate said:

It wasn't. We didn't sit deep in our own waiting for them. Did you watch united vs Liverpool last night? We played kinda like Liverpool and mou/Conte strategy kinda like united. Did you watch how kante press Barkley drop preventing the pass to space. Then when Barkley press, kante did the same thing. We didn't just sit them off. Of course, there will be a time where we have to defend deep, we are playing city after all. 

I assume you are referring to his napoli team. His napoli team pressing is light years ahead of ours. Teaching some of this players who is suck at pressing will take a while. 

Offensively of course it is going to be a struggle. I don't think ederson made any save the whole game but we had our chances with Kante and Barkley chances. I also don't remember Kepa made any significant save. The expected goals for both team was like  1.0 vs 1.2 

Ederson made one save, right at the end of the 90 from the Willian FK, where I don't know if he wanted to cross but it turned out to be a direct shot. That was about it.

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2 hours ago, Jason said:

Yeah but the damage was already done by then by Sarri, Kepa etc. Now all people talk about is player power, mutiny etc.  

Media will play it up but as long as there is no tension in the squad it will be fine. Thankfully, the reaction did not blow this thing even more out of proportion

[NikkiCFC 8,049]

Referee did come to ask Sarri do you want sub or not?  He said no. He was so close to winning his first trophy but was maybe afraid and showed weak mentality towards Kepa situation. 

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7 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Referee did come to ask Sarri do you want sub or not?  He said no. He was so close to winning his first trophy but was maybe afraid and showed weak mentality towards Kepa situation. 

Penalties are lottery. Let's not act like Caballero would have won the cup for us

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40 minutes ago, communicate said:

It wasn't. We didn't sit deep in our own waiting for them. Did you watch united vs Liverpool last night? We played kinda like Liverpool and mou/Conte strategy kinda like united. Did you watch how kante press Barkley drop preventing the pass to space. Then when Barkley press, kante did the same thing. We didn't just sit them off. Of course, there will be a time where we have to defend deep, we are playing city after all. 

I assume you are referring to his napoli team. His napoli team pressing is light years ahead of ours. Teaching some of this players who is suck at pressing will take a while. 

Offensively of course it is going to be a struggle. I don't think ederson made any save the whole game but we had our chances with Kante and Barkley chances. I also don't remember Kepa made any significant save. The expected goals for both team was like  1.0 vs 1.2 

Pedro too. Clean through and should have smashed it past Ederson. Rudiger almost had a tap in too from a Hazard cross. Definitely a refreshing performance after recent weeks but maybe because the team was so scared early on, did not do enough to get over the line. Were always wary of being exposed on the counter

[Antonio8 736]

If sarry has some dignity he would resign and leave that pathetic circus 

I bet he has never seen something like that in 30 years of career, also in league 2 

I think that things became so clear yesterday: players' power in this club has no limits

 

 

 

 

[Special Juan 27,439]

Absolute circus again yesterday, Sarri walking off and realizing the error of his way and then the keeper pantomime.

I really am lost at what is going on at this club right now.

 

[Kajo 176]

At least Sarri finally got some backing from the football world after everyone saw around the world what the fuck he has to deal with at this laughing stock of a club we recently became.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

Think Sarri has lost authority in some aspects.  He should not have backed down, it was crazy.  Kepa should have gone off, too

 

Of course the inmates will run the asylum when our manager bows down and gives in

 

I dont buy the statement either. Misunderstanding my arse

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10 hours ago, Kajo said:

At least Sarri finally got some backing from the football world after everyone saw around the world what the fuck he has to deal with at this laughing stock of a club we recently became.

Again, people moan about player power undermining Sarri and yet, he has helped to foster that at the club.

He has criticized the players multiple times after bad losses and what has he done in the following game? Played them again. If players know they can play poorly and get away with it, then why should they listen to the manager?

Yesterday as well, he had TWO chances to stamp his authority on the Kepagate - one during the incident and one post-match - and what did he do? He backed down both times and even threw a tantrum. How does one expect players to fully respect the manager if he isn't going to stamp his authority and is just going to throw his toys out of the pram rather than stand his ground and take control of situations?