Dimples wrote:I do not understand why Pep is being criticized.
Context is everything.
The club are going for the quadruple.
We play 2 games a week.
That is why we have the strongest squad in the league.
Cancelo, Sterling, Jesus, Fern, Bernie, Mendy, etc... are not just squad lightweights, they are top drawer expensive international professionals.
So they are expected to step up. They had 29 shots and scored once. The blame is with them.
Say Pep played DeBruyne yesterday. Say he got injured. That would be stupid. Key player injured in a match we can afford to lose. Not available for a match we cannot afford to lose in Dortmund. So you rest him to avoid this. You play top class players instead and expect them not to miss 28 shots on goal.
Re Peps game management against Leeds. It was good enough to create 29 shooting opps. That is more than enough to win a game, provided the players do their job.
Context and the big picture show Pep was correct yesterday.
This absolutely.
We have played 32 league games this season, 9 Champions League Games, 4 FA Cup games and 3 Carabao. That's 48 games and we've lost 4.
Leeds was the perfect time to give players a rest with the lead in the league and the 1 off games coming up. There weren't too many on here complaining about the team picked at the start of the match thread.
We have a potential 13 more games for the dream.