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Paul Pogba makes me appreciate Nemanja Matic

Rflmao........

Nihilist:
Surely this isn't the end for Aguero.

Not buying the hype just yet

On an Average day Aguero can do all what he has done with his eyes closed

He looks good but nothing extraordinary

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Not buying the hype just yet

On an Average day Aguero can do all what he has done with his eyes closed

He looks good but nothing extraordinary

Of course.

But this is Pep we are talking about though

To be honest.

Aguero has looked very average this season vs what he used to be. He has lost a lot of his sharpness

Atimes taking too many touches when he should shoot and just being unsure of himself and sometimes too static, not willing to run press waiting for passes

Especially in games like Spurs and Chelsea

Yaya makes it 4

Pep problem with Aguero is his pressing because Aguero only runs 7km per game while his mates run 11km

Ibime:
Pep problem with Aguero is his pressing because Aguero only runs 7km per game while his mates run 11km

Aguero is made of glass. There's no way he can press like Pep wants.

So what next? Kunte just signed a new contract. Where can he go from City?

Only China I think...

if man city no wan aguero make dem trow am to us abeg

Nihilist:
Aguero is made of glass. There's no way he can press like Pep wants.

So what next? Kunte just signed a new contract. Where can he go from City?

Only China I think...

Aguero can be very static his style of striking is getting outdated. A man who stays forward waits for service but has a high conversion rate. Staying up there and waiting for service nowadays wont cut it anymore

A good Aguero is great to have, an off form Aguero is a liability and has no positives at all. Ask Argentina

Omo Hull been unlucky so far

raumdeuter:


Aguero can be very static his style of striking is getting outdated. A man who stays forward waits for service but has a high conversion rate. Staying up there and waiting for service nowadays wont cut it anymore

A good Aguero is great to have, an off form Aguero is a liability and has no positives at all. Ask Argentina

Aguero is not off form. Pep has refused to play Aguero as a pure striker. He wants Kun to be pressing all over. Where did G.Jesus play today? 9? 10? 11? He's been everywhere. Aguero is a 9. That's his job.

Even in this crappy season with injuries suspension and so on, Aguero has 15 goals in all comps. 11 in the league. That pressing is the issue not Kuns ability. Aguero is probably in top 3 pure number 9s in the game today

Nihilist:




Aguero is not off form. Pep has refused to play Aguero as a pure striker. He wants Kun to be pressing all over. Where did G.Jesus play today? 9? 10? 11? He's been everywhere. Aguero is a 9. That's his job.

Even in this crappy season with injuries suspension and so on, Aguero has 15 goals in all comps. 11 in the league. That pressing is the issue not Kuns ability. Aguero is probably in top 3 pure number 9s in the game today

I concur

Nihilist:




Aguero is not off form. Pep has refused to play Aguero as a pure striker. He wants Kun to be pressing all over. Where did G.Jesus play today? 9? 10? 11? He's been everywhere. Aguero is a 9. That's his job.

Even in this crappy season with injuries suspension and so on, Aguero has 15 goals in all comps. 11 in the league. That pressing is the issue not Kuns ability. Aguero is probably in top 3 pure number 9s in the game today

Which brings us back to the topic, Style/Strategy of Play. Strong player easily in another style. 25-goals-a-season striker, easily, has a weakness in another strategy. People come with a blanket concept when it comes to style "how can he be struggling with a 25-goal-a-season striker?" He should adapt and play to the striker's ability. Well on the back of tonight's display, he doesn't.

God bless the day we signed Kante. One Arsenal or Manure boy was laughing at me in summer when I said he is the signing of the season. Well it's clear he is now almost solely responsible for two league trophies back to back. First with Leicester and now with Chelsea. In both cases he took two relegation threatened teams and turned em into Champions the next season. Kai, that guy must be worth £150m in true value.

Ibime:
God bless the day we signed Kante. One Arsenal or Manure boy was laughing at me in summer when I said he is the signing of the season. Well it's clear he is now almost solely responsible for two league trophies back to back. First with Leicester and now with Chelsea. In both cases he took two relegation threatened teams and turned em into Champions the next season. Kai, that guy must be worth £150m in true value.

The only reason Chelsea did not have to pay through their noses to get Him is because He is not that "Marketable". That explains why He was Sold for a third of Pogba's transfer fee.

Ibime:
God bless the day we signed Kante. One Arsenal or Manure boy was laughing at me in summer when I said he is the signing of the season. Well it's clear he is now almost solely responsible for two league trophies back to back. First with Leicester and now with Chelsea. In both cases he took two relegation threatened teams and turned em into Champions the next season. Kai, that guy must be worth £150m in true value.

If he went to another team and won the league with them before we attempted to buy him, we wouldn't have dared. Just like Bimfo said earlier, we literally stole him for £32m.

Imagine if Kante could Dab

nateevs:


Which brings us back to the topic, Style/Strategy of Play. Strong player easily in another style. 25-goals-a-season striker, easily, has a weakness in another strategy. People come with a blanket concept when it comes to style "how can he be struggling with a 25-goal-a-season striker?" He should adapt and play to the striker's ability. Well on the back of tonight's display, he doesn't.

And the best decision is to 'throw away' a proven goal-scorer because he can't play your style?

Till when?

Griffon:


And the best decision is to 'throw away' a proven goal-scorer because he can't play your style?

Till when?

What will you have him do ?

nateevs:


What will you have him do ?

I'll build the damn team around this proven goal-scorer because he can fire me to the league title.

It is what makes me a manager.

Its akin to saying, I'll sell Messi if I had him in my team because he is short and can't really lead the line in my long ball approach. It will be fool-hardy, letting go arguably the best player in the world for an approach I could have easily tweaked.

No sane mind does that, only a philosophy obsessed Pep does it.

nobody is even talking about the blueprint Tottenham has given the league on the newly found weaknesses at our backline; delivering infield crosses into Moses-Azpilicueta axis (due to their height). Guess we would just find a way of stopping the crosses from the source (crowding the 'crosser')or bring in Zouma for Azpili or just swap Cahill for Azpili.
your thoughts house

atebesunny:
nobody is even talking about the blueprint Tottenham has given the league on the newly found weaknesses at our backline; delivering infield crosses into Moses-Azpilicueta axis (due to their height). Guess we would just find a way of stopping the crosses from the source (crowding the 'crosser')or bring in Zouma for Azpili or just swap Cahill for Azpili.
your thoughts house

Liverpool tried it too and it almost worked but nice point there .

70% of the world is covered by water, the rest is covered by N'golo kante

N'golo Kante made the two tackles, after Kante's first tackle Matic was supposed to cover for the other tackle making Kante cover matic. But No matic was busy shadow marking as he always does.

I was trying to post the gif I donno how.
check it out.
https://twitter.com/ChelseaGIFs/status/826851224674828288?s=09

Premier League tackles since 2014-15 season

N'Golo Kante - 253*

Erik Pieters - 252

Nemanja Matic - 252

Cesar Azpilicueta - 251

Victor Wanyama - 249

Nathaniel Clyne - 248

Claudio Yacob - 244

Idrissa Gueye - 237

Fernandinho - 236

Gareth Barry - 232

lordfalcao:
Premier League tackles since 2014-15 season

N'Golo Kante - 253*

Erik Pieters - 252

Nemanja Matic - 252

Cesar Azpilicueta - 251

Victor Wanyama - 249

Nathaniel Clyne - 248

Claudio Yacob - 244

Idrissa Gueye - 237

Fernandinho - 236

Gareth Barry - 232

Matic should be ashamed. Kante wasn't even in England in 14\15 season and he still out tackled him.

Frank Lampard retires!

True LEGEND!

Griffon:


I'll build the damn team around this proven goal-scorer because he can fire me to the league title.

It is what makes me a manager.

Its akin to saying, I'll sell Messi if I had him in my team because he is short and can't really lead the line in my long ball approach. It will be fool-hardy, letting go arguably the best player in the world for an approach I could have easily tweaked.

No sane mind does that, only a philosophy obsessed Pep does it.

Yes, true. The problem you have is that you don't accept that, that is only one way of doing it. There are other ways. For instance, like making another proven striker out of another system. This is akin to what JM did when he ditched Mata - a high scoring, high assist-making machine, for the low-scoring, low assist-making Oscar.

The only problem is here is that it seems to be genius when it not Pep but foolish when it is Pep.

Nihilist:



Matic should be ashamed. Kante wasn't even in England in 14\15 season and he still out tackled him.

in essense.. All premier league mildfielders and defenders should be ashamed Kante is out tackling all of them.

nateevs:



Yes, true. The problem you have is that you don't accept that, that is only one way of doing it. There are other ways. For instance, like making another proven striker out of another system. This is akin to what JM did when he ditched Mata - a high scoring, high assist-making machine, for the low-scoring, low assist-making Oscar.

The only problem is here is that it seems to be genius when it not Pep but foolish when it is Pep.

You absolutely nailed it. I was gonna write about the Mou and Mata ish but you were pretty faster.



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Nihilist:



Matic should be ashamed. Kante wasn't even in England in 14\15 season and he still out tackled him.

Why should he be when he is better than Barry, Wanyama, Fernandinho and co.

No doubt, he is not spectacular, nonetheless, he isn't useless.

atebesunny:
nobody is even talking about the blueprint Tottenham has given the league on the newly found weaknesses at our backline; delivering infield crosses into Moses-Azpilicueta axis (due to their height). Guess we would just find a way of stopping the crosses from the source (crowding the 'crosser')or bring in Zouma for Azpili or just swap Cahill for Azpili.
your thoughts house

A very good observation but majority will like to blame Alonso.

Liverpool's goal was also through that weak point.

For the fact they are vulnerable in that aspect, doesn't mean they're craps and should be blame but cushioning the effect of their weakness should rather be the bone of contention.

The same applies to Alonso.

Nihilist:



Matic should be ashamed. Kante wasn't even in England in 14\15 season and he still out tackled him.

This is all based on style of play. Idrissa Gueye is the same. He wasn't in EPL 14/15 but he's top 10 on the list.