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Manchester City were far from their best in their 1-1 draw against Chelsea. So what went wrong for Pep Guardiola’s side?
Jon Mackenzie explains how Pochettino managed to exploit Nathan Ake’s positioning 🧠
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46 Comments
Pep really playing chess in football
This team needs Jacky G!!!
Pep over complicating things again to seem like an absolute genius but it blows up in his face.. imagine if he didn’t have the resources and means to cheat at a scumbag club like City? He was pretty useless at Bayern.. was also pretty suspicious at Barcelona with their dealing with referees… he’s a fraud.
Doku pocketed by Reece last time and Gusto this time.
Weakness lol… this is just pep experimenting
Please bring back full length videos
Bournemouth in the corner taking notes for next weekend
If we're also being honest. Chelsea were parking the bus that second half. They would have the ball for seconds before City regained control and kept pushing
Pep be thinking doku is ronaldinho😹
So basically, it was their use of Doku, rather than "Nathan Aké"…
This should have been the game maduake should have played his speed would have helped
Doku was the main reason, City didn't play like City..
They relied too much on his dribbling skills, that's why other players pushed higher and there was less passes in that moment…
Jack grealish's passes are needed in these situations to create spaces..
And also, it was because of Chelsea's defence, they couldn't score a lot of goals even though all of their main scorers were present…
This game made a lot of questions in my mind
1) Is Doku really good against good Right backs?
2) Is Gusto better than Alexander Arnold ? ( Cuz he defended, dribbled, gave cross )
3) Is Reece James getting his position back ?
bring back full length videos, what is with the athletic ruining everything
Doku has failed the Chelsea RB test twice this season.
What happened to the full length breakdown videos
So nobody's gonna talk about how horrible Akanzji is in that John Stones role? 😂 Seems like only John Stones can play the John Stones role
You guys ever gonna do full analysis videos again? These shorts are egregious
When are the actual videos coming back out. Time to unsubscribe from what used to be one of my favourite channels 😢
If only Haalnd buried at least of the chances he missed, we won't be having this convo
Jon Mackenzieeee!!!
Bring back the full length videos, otherwise I'm unsubbing.
It’s not Poch genius’s plan, but rather it is Peps over thinking his tactics and gave the game away. I’m gutted that Chelsea didn’t score those chances ngl
I was so excited when Jon announced this series where he breaks down something he found interesting from the weekend! Imagine my disappointment when I realized that he meant shorts where he doesn't actually have time to explore said things…
Why has The Athletic ruined this channel? The fans—the subscribers—are not happy at all.
LISTEN TO US
Bring back the long-form content
Chelsea just need to let nkunku play striker and see off Jackson
So we failed the daily blind strategy
But you forgot that city deserved 4 penalties and it could have been 5-1 if it was fair
Those spaces on the "cheating positions" of City's backline reminded me of how Man U played in the 3-2 game
City fan and Ake has been the weak link for so long. He continues to play because he has a habit for important goal contributions so he’s made him self worth playing. Solid 7/10 usually with the occasional 9/10 performance and the odd mistake. Would actually be a good resigning for Chelsea
Chelsea's xg is not very high because they lined Jackson up
What about Haaland
Chelsea would be unstoppable of they actually matched their Xg 😂😂
I wonder if the same video would have been released if Haaland buried his chances
XG means nothing. When will these nerds understand that?
Still waiting to hear how this is Aké's fault
"Although Chelsea lost the xG battle" is exactly what's wrong with the modern game. Data nerds and hipsters.
I miss TIFO
Why single out Ake? It wasn’t just Ake. Chelsea attacked on both sides behind the fullbacks. Admittedly down the right side more but not solely there.
It's hight time y'all give Chelsea some credit for that City game… They matched city cos they also have the quality, and that's it!
malo gusto owned doku in that game
Just Jackson miss was appalling
Nobody cares about xG. Just ruins the game
Am I the only one who thinks Doku is a tad overrated?
I love ❤city
All on haaland