Week 28 - 16/17 Premier League / FA Cup QF / CL 16 / Europa L16

[Ephren Taylor]

1 minute ago, O Fenomeno said:

Jardim has reverted back to his dead tactics from two years ago 

 

 

Appears to be working

[O Fenomeno]

He is taking Mbappe off nah he deserves elimination 

[O Fenomeno]

1 minute ago, Ephren Taylor said:

Appears to be working

No it's not because City are threatening them and look like they are gonna score on every attack 

 

too negative

[O Fenomeno]

Don Balo

[O Fenomeno]

Just now, Iceberg said:

 

 

Those tactics from couple years back with  berba lone striker or with germain ?

Disgusting 

[Zizouz]

imagine going from managing Rafinha & Alaba to Clichy & Sagna 

[Risky]

Lemar is on a mad thing aswell

[O Fenomeno]

Get Barney Stinson off 

[O Fenomeno]

#PLHype

[O Fenomeno]

On 14/03/2017 at 9:21 PM, Rsonist said:

#GOATLIGA

Real,Barca,Atletico

 

 

Your Champions 

[Zizouz]

6-6 what a treat  

[RYDER.]

patiently waiting for the draw

[Monday Bandele]

[Taurus]

Goalie had a good game too

[Anderson]

Just now, Monday Bandele said:

Thats amazing

[Agony]

4 hours ago, RYDER. said:

Wenger out

 Jardim w/ Mbappe and Mendy in and we're back bismillah

 

Another player on the 'Wenger almost signed him' list

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Arsenal bid for French youngster Mendy... but Le Havre want double the fee

By Simon Jones for the Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 00:04, 25 June 2013 | UPDATED: 00:04, 25 June 2013

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Arsenal have offered £2.5million for Le Havre left-back Benjamin Mendy.

However, the French Ligue 2 club want £5m for the 18-year-old and Arsenal face competition from Juventus, Sunderland, Cardiff and Lyon. 

Mendy has turned out for France at every age group up to his current role for the U19 squad, and was first linked with a move to the Gunners when he first signed a contract at Le Havre in 2011.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2347688/Arsenal-bid-French-youngster-Benjamin-Mendy.html#ixzz4bRk63UnC 
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[Agony]

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F365 Says: Same old City, same old problems

Date published: Wednesday 15th March 2017 10:54

Manchester City cannot say that they were not warned. No sooner had we all wrung out our clothes after a sweat-inducing, breathtaking first leg, Pep Guardiola was insisting that his team would have to do it all again in Monaco. At least he got one thing right.

“We will adjust some things, they will adjust some things but we have to score goals,” Guardiola said. “If we don’t score a goal in Monaco we will be eliminated.”

If that sounded like a defeatist attitude towards his own team’s capability in defending a lead, Guardiola had seen enough to be wary. As Monaco swarmed around City’s players with enough speed and accuracy to give everyone a migraine, Guardiola looked on aghast. His team selection, leaving Fernandinho exposed to a surging band of full-backs and attacking midfielders, was unfit for purpose.

If the manager’s plan was to fight fire with fire, he turned up at a burning building with a box of wet matches. City completed ten passes in the attacking third of the pitch during the entire first half, and failed to muster a single shot. Never before have we seen each of Sergio Aguero, Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne look so sluggish. Never have David Silva’s magic tricks appeared so stilted and transparent.

If the attacking flaws were surprising, the self-inflicted defensive wounds were quite the opposite. Six times City gave the ball away in their own half in the first 20 minutes alone, with John Stones and Aleksandar Kolarov the children allowed to play with the bigger boys for target practice. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid conceded five and seven goals respectively en route to last year’s final. By the time exit was confirmed, City had let in 16.

Even when they dragged themselves back into the tie thanks to Guardiola’s half-time alterations and a marked improvement in attack, City were again undone by abysmal marking from a set piece. This is not a case of defenders being bemused by complicated instructions, but simply individuals falling short of their club and manager’s expectations. Guardiola will take the flak because that is how football works, but he will feel completely let down by his defenders.

Before Wednesday, only Arsenal had conceded more goals per game of the 16 clubs to make it through to the knockout stages. Of the teams that made it through, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco and Leicester City all faced fewer shots on target per game. This defence doesn’t deserve to be part of Europe’s elite.

Guardiola now has the first big headache of his City tenure: addressing the problems in a team that has conceded more and more goals in every season since 2011/12. The answer might lie in Sheikh Mansour’s bank balance, but money has not yet proved the magic solution for Guardiola, and it didn’t for Manuel Pellegrini.

While most of us may enjoy watching Guardiola’s Manchester City ‘entertainers’, few will be more irked by the tag than their manager. This is not the controlled dominance that City supporters had been led to expect. You’re only called ‘entertainers’ when you can’t defend properly.

In Martin Perarnau’s latest biography of Guardiola, The Evolution, he recounts a conversation between Pep and Noel Sanvicente, ex-coach of Venezuela, on the subject of defending. “The basis of my game is, for example, all about the defence,” Guardiola says. “My defensive strategies have always worked brilliantly for me and we concede fewer goals than everyone else in the league. Every single year.”

Those defensive strategies may indeed have worked before, but not so far in England. Claudio Bravo has proved to be a calamitous mistake, while one of Nicolas Otamendi or John Stones merits a starting spot only in ‘tallest dwarf’ terms.

It would be unfair to focus solely on City’s imperfections, for we have witnessed a coming of age in red and white over the last fortnight. The reality of football in 2017 is that many will have spent the two legs assigning Leonardo Jardim’s young, exciting players to European football’s super clubs, but that only urges us to enjoy the moments. Kylian Mbappe, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Benjamin Mendy, Djibril Sidibe, Thomas Lemar, Tiemoué Bakayoko; suddenly you’ve named seven of their ten outfield players as a frantic list of those aged 24 and under who you want to watch over and over again. The potential in this crop is astonishing. At least one of them will surely end up in Manchester.

Yet, inevitably, the focus will be on Manchester City’s failure, one which is inevitably Guardiola’s failure. For all the fanfare surrounding the Premier League’s clubs and their high-profile managers, Craig Shakespeare and Leicester City are England’s only remaining Champions League representatives. Questions to answer, and solutions to find.

Daniel Storey

http://www.football365.com/news/f365-says-same-old-manchester-city-same-old-problems

 

[Thizz]

Always hear about them being the best run club in the country but let's be honest they've failed massively so far with the outlay they've had not even looked like challenging in the CL and what 2 league titles in 10 or so years. 

[O Fenomeno]

Only Roma,OL(shame one of them has to go out tonight),Besiktas can stop Man Utd winning the Europa.

[O Fenomeno]

9 hours ago, Thizz said:

Always hear about them being the best run club in the country but let's be honest they've failed massively so far with the outlay they've had not even looked like challenging in the CL and what 2 league titles in 10 or so years. 

You said PSG was shit in Europe 

I said Man City was shit in Europe 

Way too many shit teams in Europe way too many.