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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Not sure about a website but there should be extended highlights on youtube pretty soon.

MC were flying for the 1st half hour and Mourinho definitely got it tactically wrong. He changed things in the 2nd half though, and really focused on stopping City from playing out from the back, with some success. That certainly seems to be City's weakness and will probably be picked up by other teams who face them. That and their new keeper, Bravo, who may be great with the ball at his feet but seemed a liability when having to do basic gk stuff. Pep praised him at the end for giving one of the best goalkeeping performances he's ever seen. His rationale seems to be that it doesn't matter if he'll occasionally cost them a goal (which was the case in yesterday's game) it's what else he contributes that makes up for it.

Only on Planet Pep

i bet he misses neuer like mad-- neuer did not fuck up that often, or did it very rarely, and then he'd do some craaaazy jump and fix it with a long outstretched hand you'd think it had defied the laws of physics getting there

bravo is a beast though, i think your press is too quick to jump at him when he's just arrived and has trained only a short period with the team

but neuer was a sweeper-keeper since before pep so there's that whole nature vs nurture debate.

i don't recall valdés style of play off the top of my head this beer-soaked sunday morning but maybe you can compare-- you've seen a lot more years-back barcelona than me

so anyway here's a question for a pep studies seminar (ha ha ha)

if valdés is not able to fit the very specific demands of his new jefe--will pep insist and try to torture him into shape? or will he adapt the team to what valdés can do best?

bonus points for meaningful connections to the spanish baroque and the holy inquisition