With Mbappe and Neymar not really defending, you are screwed at this level. He needs to get them motivated to do more off the ball defending
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Nice little dig at Ole but 2 things. You cant change a mentality overnight and together with mentality issues he didnt do a thing to change the circumstances in 2nd half. Building a team doesn't mean it must be built from scratch but a manager bringing players he likes.
Ole has absolutely changed the mentality for the better. If you didnt mean it like that I'm sorry.
That's what she said!
Eye pleasing football, but no team can progress further with Swiss cheese of a wall.
He's pretty much sacked, just like the rest of them before him.
He's pretty much sacked, just like the rest of them before him.
Second half was terrible from him though, had no idea how to change things around.
Need to add "sack" somewhere in thread's title.
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Yia I deleted it as it sounded like that. We wouldn't have fallen apart like PSG did as our mentality is much better. When we lose we do so because we get outplayed like against City and Leicester in the cups but we definitely still keep at it. PSG just seemed to give up almost like a petulant child.
He needs some new fullbacks because who are even Bakker and Florenzi?
Very harsh to judge him on this. City are a better team overrall despite what peope said after PSG scored from a corner.
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Agreed, cheers.
I'm not sure what you saw that was eye pleasing, second half performance was so negative so passive, the midfield and full backs weren't allowed out of there own half to help attacks and you just had neymar/mbappe/di maria trying to do it by themselves or playing long balls over the top. Awful tactics, awful performance and city weren't even that good.
Terrible coaching by him.
Those two make our FBs like Carlos - Cafu.
Shocking 2nd half management.
It was obvious after the 1st 10 minutes, it was going south.
It was obvious after the 1st 10 minutes, it was going south.
Pep's 5D chess stratagem of paying 50 million for every half-decent fullback in Europe finally coming to fruition when nobody else has anyone left.
True.
Is there maybe an argument that their domination cost them real opportunites though? We have had games against them last season (one in particular where in which Rashford hit the bar with a curler) that we have created a bucket load of clear cut chances against them. In fact if you don't hold possession or control in that high of regard we have deservedly beaten them a fair few times under Ole. Only Liverpool are the other side that I can recall that have done this. For all of PSG's good play in the first half their output was pretty shite in terms of real chances and it seemed that they wrecked themselves physically doing that. Considering the difference in individual quality between ourselves and PSG then I'd say Ole somewhat has Pep's number the last few years (well as much as anyone can possibly have it). Only Klopp has had it more and well for me he is the better manager of the two anyway.
Edit: by their domination hindering their chances, I mean that we have shown that hitting them on the break is actually pretty much the most effective way to cut through them. Let them have the ball, draw them forward and then kill them on the counter. PSG have the perfect players for this but instead spent so much energy trying to play them at their own game.
Really overrated.
Such cowardly tactics in the second half.
Such cowardly tactics in the second half.
His players show weak mentality in dealing with failure. Reminds me of that season where Spurs completely lost it after Leicester guaranteed the league, kicked Chelsea players literally and then came third in a two horse race
I thought both were good for PSG tonight
Turning them into bottlers? Was that guy born yesterday I wonder? They are and always have been a rich version of Spurs in that regard.
He probably missed that time when they bottled a 4-0 lead.
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He probably missed that time when they bottled a 4-0 lead.
Exactly or lost to an awful version of us (which was somehow probably worse than the Barca one)!That was hilarious. Can’t think of another top team which wouldn’t win against a “midfield” of Pereira, McFred and Young.
The worst coach I have ever seen!
Same. I thought he was poor for both goals; positionally suspect, hesistant and slow to react.
Anyone know why Herrera doesn't start or play more? He was argubly one of their best players in last year's final and the few times I've seen him come on, he's been very decent. I'm surprised as he seems like the exact type of player Poch would love.
Good defensively, sharp on the ball, game smart and knows how to pick progressive passes. He is perfect for a defensive 4-3-3. If he starts next week, I wouldn't be surprised to see him have a positive impact. Not to mention, I'm sure he'll have extra motivation as a red.
Didn't watch the full game but the front 3, Marquinhos and Verrati aside, the rest of the team was bang average. Baker looked terrible
genuinely trueI thought PSG tactics were spot in the first half and it was more that City came out rejigged in the second half.
This makes sense. And yes Ole has Pep's number on this front, the few times Pep has won, he's had to park the bus himself.
But City have become better this season at preventing counter attacking opportunities, and defending them once they occurred. Poch may have viewed this approach as the best way to get at City. They were a few last ditch tackles and saves from proving him right.
He’s either trolling or started following them in 2019.
Yeah I can definitely agree with that too. I'm not going to lie a couple of rolls of the ball the right way and PSG were out of sight. I still give them a slight chance in the return leg. I actually like the kind of contrast because you can hear people screaming for us to be able to 'dominate' these type of games but in reality perhaps we can become the perfect counter to teams like City and Bayern by finding the right players to destroy their football by perfecting the countering game (although that team would obviously have to be able to dominate the likes of Burnley in a different way).
That would be awesome and game changing.
Even if you want to let them have the ball, you have to be positive when you get the ball. City aren't used to defending and when they do, they scramble.
Klopp pressed, we countered, but the common denominator was relentless attacking when presented with the opportunity.
Villa (unlucky to lose) and Leeds did the same.
Klopp pressed, we countered, but the common denominator was relentless attacking when presented with the opportunity.
Villa (unlucky to lose) and Leeds did the same.
PSG have some rough luck. They have the best attackers in the world yet can't seem to get the job done when it matters.
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