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afrodoc2:
BOTH. If Pep should mistakenly handle Sancho there will be lots of anguish amongst EPL defenders.

Wetin Foden and Sancho use our academy defenders eye see i no fit forget.

Mjebri, Elanga, Diallo and a couple of others are looking good but I won't be surprise if Man City unearth the next gem...Everything look good at City because Pep has a system that works and he tries to improve his players just so they can fit into his system...

KDB and Aguero being injured is like us being without Bruno and Rashford...Nobody on these board will expect us to win at Anfield without Bruno and Rashford but look at City yesterday, you'd hardly realize their best players weren't on the pitch.

handelex:
You didn't answer the question though. By the way Ole was brought in to clean up Jose's mess.

It's time we start cleaning Ole's mess...

KingTom:
Today na you dey serve hot rice Illimitable don retire

Most likely, his main account is free...Ole can’t take us anywhere...Just watch the passing and movement of Manchester City and you'd see how a coach can influence the pattern of play of a club...

Manchester City like us have good players but where they edge it is in the coaching department...They have a world class coaching crew whilst we have learners on the job...

raumdeuter:
Back to winning ways

Good to have you back...

Oasis007:
Reality sake, you and I know both Maguire and Lindelof ain't good Enough for a Title challenging Club. They are too slow at making right Decisions, too weak at marking out opposing Players and so on.

Bailly whom many of us agree is a bit better than them can't stay fit for at least a Month. Jones is a forgone Player. Tuanzebe is already cancelled by most Fans, even here.

So how do you expect us to challenging with tattered Defence?

Tattered defense that cost more than £200m? Ole should be fired because he demanded and got Maguire and AWB...

handelex:
Ok Patrick pls be honest and answer this question...

Before this season started, did you ever believe we'll win the league this season?

Cos if you didn't then I'm glad to inform you that you also accepted mediocrity then..

If you fail to understand that this team is still far from the finished product then it's your problem not mine.


When guys here call for caution e get why, but no you guys always set the bar so high from the current reality and when the team shows they're still a work in progress, you guys begin to rant about the coach.

Maybe cluelessness has another meaning. Like Pep said, football is not A, B and C.

Ole is the only reason why a Manchester United fan will settle for anything less...

If Mou was coach, nobody will listen to this excuse especially after spending so much...

Joanney:
Sorry for asking you rubbish question oh But then the attackers should try and outscore the opposition if the defence is crappy,if you concede 3 goals,you score at least 4

Do you realize that Robertson and Trent have had to limit their attacking forays and even when they attack, they don't do so with same conviction compared to when they have VVD at the back?

Do you know how many attacks Liverpool start from the back courtesy of a surging long pass from VVD? I am a Manchester United fan but I watch enough of other teams to know how they play...Liverpool are heavily reliant on the leadership of VVD, his defending and passing...

Joanney:
Guardiola is without the best midfielder in europe and the best EPL striker since 2011.Is he struggling?

Defense is not one area you can easily sort out not when all your fit CBs are injured...

In midfield, City have Gundogan who can fill in for KDB...They also have Silva and Foden...

In attack, they have Jesus and a certain Sterling who has been deployed as a false enemy right from his Liverpool days where necessary so don't just jump in and ask me rubbish...

Oasis007:


Blood still dey hot till now?!

Bro, at this point, we shouldn't be 5pts behind City especially as they have a game in hand...

City have been without Aguero and it's only recently that Jesus returned with De Bruyne out injured...

Losing to Sheffield, drawing away to Leicester, drawing at home to Everton etc Those games were winnable or should have been won but for some erratic defending...

How Pep has managed to sort his defense whilst ours is nothing to write home about tells you about the lack of input from our bench...Tue coaching staff are out of their depths...

handelex:
Let me take this as joke cos you're probably still angry about yesterday's game.

A coach who's team is 2nd on the log with half the season gone is not doing anything with his team?

Maybe Pep should borrow Maguire and Lindelof for the remainder of the season let's check something.

Naver allow sentiments cloud your sense of judgement.

Ole is clueless, when will you realize that?

Klopp is without VVD, Gomez and Matip so everyone understands why they're struggling...We have been the luckiest team on the injury front yet all we do is celebrate 2nd position...It's outright mediocrity for us to accept 2nd position whist being 5pts behind City who have a game in hand...

KingTom:
FA or EC? You wan carry us go back Van Gaal era? we must win the league!!!

Kikiki Bro no small thing...I dey laugh for here...

OJURONGBE1:
I am not Orun but Ojuroungbe ( my eyes has caught a beautiful thing) , it was my grandfather's nickname which was passed on to me. Don't maul my nickname
Sincerely, i can't fathom how a right thinking person would favour Kai Havertz ahead of Mason Mount. They said Lampard played him further up the pitch last season, he moved him back to the midfield, still the guy hasn't relent on his effort.
Our highly rated £75m misfit can't even convince a new coach to give him a starting berth. All they talk about is his movements & runs as if those would win us maximum points.

I couldn't place your moniker right...Easy on iamJ, he is already in pains...

NextD18 and that Orun guy go finish that Havertz apologist tonight...

Tuchel and his German bias, why is mount still starting?

Nateevs2:
One Chelsea fan is not celebrating this goal. Can anybody guess who it is?

Hehehe So we have a non living thing here?

iamJ:
fabino and henderson arent defenders using them against city was stupid

Allison messed up and Trent is a shitty defender but no, let's blame Fabinho and Hendo...If only you know how Hendo used to cover to for Trent when he plays in midfield...

If you watched Liverpool on a regular with VVD you'll understand how he organizes that defense...

nitrogen:
Pep is just a figure head jare, Stones is the best defender in the EPL, Foden and Jesus are better than other forwards in the league.

Na insha Allah tactics we dey see so.

Sarcasm...

Beorn1:
Individually they are good but Pep's tactics and influence is well written all over the team. Pep is a coach whose style of play is immediately shown in the way his team plays within few weeks of taking over.

Can't say same for Ole...

iamJ:
are you watching at all

He used midfielders in defense, he bought new defenders but he decided to still play midfielders, VVD has nothing to do with this, the coach is a fool

Abeg stick to Havertz praise and Mount Slander...Liverpool have lacked a leader at the back since VVD got injured...Robertson, Arnold and Allison are there o!

Are City players individually the best in the league or is it down to Pep?

Liverpool have missed VVD but banter won't let some folks admit it...

Allison is pants...

timay:
If city had signed VDB , he'll still get benched because he can't bench anyone in that city midfield. Pls let's be objective with our criticism abeg. City signed cancelo for a lot of money last season and he didn't get game time, yet heaven did not fall, yet you guys are falling for the VDB shout by media when those ones just want to drive traffic to their pages.

Despite the fact that we all knew that he was signed for depth and/or a possible Pogba exit from the club. His time will definitely come and he himself surely knows it

Guy, I don't know about you but I watched VDB against Bayern, Juventus and Real Madrid and he held his own against the very best delivering top class performances so I don't get why you think the VDB at Man Utd is the best VDB...

If someone had proposed we sign Dias, I am certain most of you would've told us how bad the Portuguese league is but now he is at City under a coach that knows what he is doing, it suddenly look like he is steal...If only VDB joined City instead...

Ole is clueless, most players in our team aren't playing up to their potentials.

How VDB went from a tarter in that Ajax team to a bench warmer here...

If City signed him, we'd have been here talking about how the board doesn't support Ole and how stupid we are not using the relationship we have with Van Der Sar to good effect...I don't understand Ole, if Pogba couldn't continue, at least bring on Matic or VCB who offer the control that zPogba brings rather than Fred...With Pogba, I assume with had a plan so the right thing to do if he is out is to replace him with a similar player.

eph12:
3rd goal isn't only on the defenders. It was a last minute direct free kick and we had everyone back

Lol what is it we were trying to do? Keep a high line? If yes, what was Maguire, the supposed leader of the defense and captain doing there?

eph12:
We don't have the fastest CB we know that. That wasn't really an issue yesterday. Maguire closed down DCL for that first goal. It was a harmless ball until DDG decided to be unfortunate.

Second goal, comical defending...

3rd goal even worse...

Chelsea are closing the gap gradually...

The day they overtake us, I will not be here to see the havoc the likes of Airma.rk will wreck here...

This our team na 419...Raise your hopes today and the next minute, they're back to playing crap.

Eph12, do you still believe it more about how we defend as a team or its more to do with the average CBs we parade as I opined that it is the reason we keep conceding silly goals?

We score 3 and concede 3 avoidable goals because of comical defending...No matter how well you press or keep the ball, whenever the opposition breaks the press, the chances of conceding is high...

Maguire is slow and has this tendency of always leaving his man to cover for another person...

Lindelof is panicky, he is a CB but doesn't want to go into a contest, for him, it's all about playing with the ball...He just hates defending...

The painful thing is that we can't discard Maguire, he must start no matter what...

CapitalCee:
The first goal was a DDG classic howler.

The 2nd and 3rd goals were his inability to be proactive. DDG is not supposed to be a basic GK, if we are looking for a keeper that will be making only routine catches, then we should go for Ikechuwku Ezenwa of Ifeanyi Ubah United.

Bro that second goal is down to poor marking, how on earth did we afford James all that space?

3rd goal is down to stupidity from Ole and our defenders...That ball was too far out for De Gea to come rushing out for...

CapitalCee:
The first goal he brought into play a ball that is no where goal.


The second goal he stayed rooted to his post as usual as the initial ball flew accross the post. Go and watch Van der ser games.

3rd goal. He stayed rooted again when the ball dropped. No anticipation, no proactiveness no bravely.
You seem to forget he is the highest paid GK in the world

I didn't see the first goal so I can't argue bit he wasn't at fault for the second and third goal...

handelex:
Well same as Tuanzebe

What does a Tuanzebe sub mean? Come at us...

CapitalCee:
When people like us where saying DDG is done at top level, it looked like an agenda. Few smart saves here and there is not a hallmark of a title winning GK. Will Ederson, Lloris or Allison concede this kinds of goal? I doubt so. Well I love DDG he has done well over the years but I think an ambitious team shouldn't have him as the first choice. GK.

The last goal is not on De Gea...

Ole made the kind of sub that gives your opponents impetus...He should have brought in Matic and VDB or Martial...I hate that Norwegian...

codedguy1:
Make una leave Tuanzebe alone abeg. These dolts, except Bruno, bottled a 2 goal lead before Tuanzebe entered.

What's my business with Tuanzebe? Ole takes the blame...