Oooh! Petro Dollars Buys EPL, UEFA & FIFA.. But Can't Buy Youuu! Hey Jude! Bellingham Thread

i mean he won't score 20 every season, he spoiled us too much. With Mbappe/Endrick he will play different maybe and it's ok, he is wordclass and he will adapt just fine.

 

He wasn't that bad, and was crucial for our 1 on 1 high press, how many times did he dispossess their mids as soon as they got the ball? I think we played a decent game, were chaotic in attack and got unlucky with the goals we conceded. If you keep City to only chances from outside, most times you end up with a perfect game, sometimes you have terrible luck and concede two worldies.

 

That's why I say we partner Valverde and Camavinga - we need that high-energy in the defensive third. Then unleash Rodrygo and Brahim on the wings with Bellingham in the 10.

 

I remember the time when Kroos and Modric could sustain their level for the entire 90 and then some. Time flies and gone are the days.

Nowadays, Carlo has to have those two share the load of one player.

What I'm contemplating is if its better to start with Kroos or with Modric.

 

People on here are really under appreciating how much physical work he put in to press City. But pressing can become ineffective and tiresome very quickly if others on the team are not doing it to the same levels, and add to that the fact that City maintain possession so well, as a player you often end up chasing shadows.

I think this is an area for Carlo to work on with the team, to be honest. The team press vs. individuals pressing.

 

I do think most people recognized that Carlo's press was for the most part effective, specially in the 1st half.

But they also saw that he waited too long to make subs when the team was tired.

This team just isn't meant for sustained pressing. So it's a difficult balancing act for the manager.

 

And this is my point, someone (ideally Carlo) needs to figure out what pressing system should be implemented, given the personnel, fitness levels, strategic subs, etc. Individual pressing, which was Jude continued to do in the second half, isn't effective.

 

What people seem to miss about Jude is that he is very effective with the deep runs that he does, meaning even from MF, I expect him to score 10 goals.

When a CF comes in, in my mind he should go back to MF, he is a great all around midfielder.

 

Around the 11:50 mark. He has a point.

 

This look not ending in the back of the net is one he should be regretting and probably the biggest opportunity missed, although he didn't take a shot at this instant

 

Can someone post the actual video? Seen this picture around everywhere and don't think, from memory, it tells the story

 

Starts at 7:48. He just didn't realize it but if he just pulled the trigger as soon as he got the ball, it would've been an easy one on an open net.

He ends up taking some touches and then cooking some defenders and missing a decent chance out of it, but when he receives the ball in the pic is when he should've fired immediately.

 

It's also a testament to how amazing they are. They don't play like a young team.

 

Baseball for sure has that same feeling

 

Screenshots can dramatize things a lot. Without having seen the video since the game itself, I'm pretty sure in that moment Jude had just received the loose ball, probably had no reason to think the GK was that far out of his net (what was he doing out there to begin with?), and by the time Jude would've even noticed, the 'keeper had an angle to get back towards his line and snuff out the danger. Jude was on his weak foot and hardly had any chance to get momentum behind himself to get off a strong shot from that kind of distance.

Just my feeling, but I feel this one looks a lot worse than it actually is.

 

Very true, and I don't know if in Europe you get the same "goal probability powered by Microsoft" BS we get here in the ESPN La Liga feed, but a lot of times things like that are very disconnected than what someone in a in-game scenario goes through. For example, Brahim techinically scored in an open goal against Atleti in the super cup, but anyone who's played the game knows that's a very difficult goal go score with your first touch, at that distance, while heads down sprinting.