Man City 0 Chelsea 1: How Guardiola's team lost the Champions League Final
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Manchester City faced Chelsea in this season's Champions League final. A Kai Havertz goal secured the win for Chelsea, but there were questions about Pep Guardiola's lineup. JJ Bull analyses the key events of the game on Tifo IRL.
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As a Chelsea fan I found it almost a bit insulting that Pep played three progressive forward moving midfielders? He seemed to want to put a lot of that responsibility to Zinchenko who had a decent game but heâs not a Rodri or Fernandinho. Props to TIFO for actually highlighting Wernerâs importance in the goal!
you say 3 progressive midfielders, we had 4 technically. gundogan was in a holding role and should have been played further forward, and we had de bruyne as a 10 rather than an out and out 9 which we clearly needed. Guardiola clearly learned nothing from the matches we lost against you lot
@@yuranabdul7081 KantĂ© was elite today but personally I honestly think my favourite player was one of Rudiger or Christensen. Christensen was just back from injury a little while ago and had to slot into Silvaâs position.
@@edwardking9359 the odd thing is they all played well defensively especially Bernardo Silva so I can kind of see his idea but Rodri has been in my opinion your best player after Dias this year
@@bigblueben2178 not second best, he's the one who's role in the squad is greatly underappreciated
@@bigblueben2178 Personally I think fernandinho would have been able to close down mount better on the build up for your goal, but I'm genuinely not sure how we could have got through you lot while attacking given we don't have many proper aerial threats in the team
Now thatâs what I call GAME RELEVANT
They quick asf lmao
Benefit of being irl
They knew what was coming
Prepared beforehand, like Sunday Vibes
And on point too
@@rgonzalo511 E XACT LY
Tito saw the team sheet and the first 10 minutes and immediately knew why City were going to lose
And so did any fan that watches them đ€Ł
And then proceed to explain why man city should sign Camaviga
@@murphymarlowe
And Kane!
I realised that when the lineups were announced
A lot of people on Reddit did as well
Damn. Donât know whoâs quicker: the 15 commenters within three minutes of release, or Tifo with this topical video?
Also, JJâs complete discomfort with his general existence is so damn endearing. Love his addition to the squad!
He's bewildered to be alive!
Game relevant. Life painful.
#MoreJJ
Pep could tactic himself out of winning a hand of blackjack
I dont understand the joke but I laughed, I gotta slap myself now...
Um what?
Lmao đ Pep the type of guy to hit on 16.. flop a 4.. then hit again and bust đ
"The big problem is that Zinchenko just watches him go..." *giggles*
Still can't believe Zinchenko didn't try to catch up. Kinda feel bad for him
@@aaquibtayyabi partly his fault but the whole defence was out of position
@@leonardocaicedo1273 he was trying to hold the line with Dias.
@@aaquibtayyabi 03:50
Even when Edersom came out. I expected Zinchenco to run around the keeper just in case Havertz still gets through but he slowed down and watched the whole thing. It took Havertz a few seconds to control the ball after that ricochet that sent him through but he had all that time.
No complaints from me though. đđ
Pep's lineup for this game was fascinating paradox: how can something seem so profoundly overthought and so deeply underthought at the same time? I mean, is he a guy trying to play 3-dimensional chess with a set of checkers? Or is he an 8-year-old playing Fifa?
The thing is, Pep played 3 games against tuchel and tried out a game with 2 dms, 1 dms and no dms and lost all 3. A fernandinho/rodri would have probably bolstered the defence a little bit more but the attacking is no where near as potent. Remove sterling and put someone there instead and place the midfield the usual guardiola way, even then I doubt man city will get anything substantial out of that. I believe that the formations used were completely wrong and the tactics used as well. I doubt a change in personnel would have helped that much.
The best results for the team have been with the 4-3-3 with one DM. The lineup for the past two months had been the best lineup in football. Just play the lineup you've found during the season.
@@sld1776 That lineup still lost to chelsea
@@paulbenjamin6597 It still gave City the best chance to win. That lineup would have covered the space better.
@@sld1776 Yes true that
It's always "How Man City lost" and never "How Chelsea won". We beat City 3 times in a few weeks, we deserve it.
How Chelsea Lost (to Lessie) lmao
Itâs probably due to City always being the favorites, an advantage to Chelsea if anything.
@@ababilashari9970 we are CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE ,leicester what CHAMPIONS of DOMESTIC CUP AND QUALIFY EUROPA LEAGUE đ
@@ababilashari9970 funny how you treated an FA cup more than being in the top 4. Could see why Chelsea dominated you in the subsequent PL game. Losing to both Chelsea and Spurs is what led to Leicester losing top 4 and 80mil to invest
One of those games City clearly rested their players and the other one was meaningless. If they started Fernandinho in the final you'd have lost. You choked on the last day of the PL season and lost to Aston Villa ffs you were rightly underdogs.
It may be worth noting that Chelsea's shape isn't symmetrical. This is mostly influential with the wing back and the (kinda) #10s. James can play a more tucked in role while Chilwell stretches wide left. This causes Mount to take up a role a bit more inside left when in his own half, which puts him in position to make that outstanding pass. Because James plays tucked closer to the back line, Havertz has more responsibility for the width on the right side. Thus, a central defender feels more obligated to chase Mount (positioned centrally) and a full back (Zinchenko) is tasked with marking Havertz. When Havertz spends so much time out wide then it's not hard to imagine Zinchenko taking Havertz's position for granted. Then all of a sudden as the counter attack breaks he's caught off guard by Havertz drifting into the middle of play. If Zinchenko had a bit more pace he can make up that ground and we're never really talking about this moment, but Havertz has the ability and quickness of thought to take advantage of an opponent's weakness. More than that, he makes it count too. I'm sure there's a large part of all this which is created by Tuchel's planning, but most of all it's credit to the players for identifying the triggers in City's defense using mismatches to their advantage.
James was a CB
I agree with it and it helps with the recovery shape
@@gabesj3888 actually no, he played as wing back. He was tho in the last few matches
@@gabesj3888 cezar was the cb James was a rb
@@gabesj3888 James is very reliable in any position..
He plays well as a RB, rwb, and midfield
Pep changed too many things for this one game and it even confused his own players. The flow of their passes was just not there today. It was a classic example of a game lost on tactic.
It wasnât tho. This was a classic example of bad form & performance and everybody falsely attributing the result to tactics instead. If you keep the tactics exactly the same but play the game again, I wouldnât be surprised if City won if even just 7 players played well. Itâs nothing to do with tactics when nobody can string a 5 yard pass together even under no pressure. Itâs just one of those days where literally no one turned up. Kind of like Liverpool vs. Real Madrid. Klopp did the same tactics heâs always done but nobody could pass or shoot on the day, so they lost
@@matthewvaughan8192 i somewhat agree it's like the pressure of expectations overwhelmed
I think tactically Real Madrid played a much better game than Man City tbh.
@@ahmmetb3h They played a much better game in terms of performance. Tactically they did nothing special
De Bruyne's absence in the build-up play was evident. Playing him as false 9 was an error. The team is clearly accostumed to function with him at the base dictating the tempo. With him upfront, they lost reference and the mechanisms were absent.
The lack of a defensive midfielder was also a systemic failure. No one was there to close passing lanes, cover or duplicate marking whenever it was needed... If you watch closely Havertz, Mount had a really easy task, as he was free to receive and launch the through ball. Fernandinho would have been on his neck, as the expert underlines, or Rodri could have been right in the middle...
I was so surprised that none of the the pundits thought that Chelsea were favorites going into the game. Chelsea's base plan just counters City's, which is what forced Guardiola into putting out a lineup that needed to dominate. he knew it most likely wouldn't work but he needed to do something drastic if he wanted to win. that being said how he didn't start Aguero I will never know, sure he did nothing when he came on but he's a 'one chance, one goal' kinda guy
Vtrue vtrue
If he started he wouldâve had De Bruyne supporting him. When I saw Aguero come on I knew heâd be ineffective without De Bruyne
That's not City's most dominant lineup. Dominating the ball doesn't just mean keeping it; it also means recovering it very quickly. Pep just didn't show Chelsea enough respect. I believe his plan was to try and get an early goal, which would force Chelsea out of its shell. That's why he had so many attackers out there.
@@znhait tru tru
Pep's just loses his mind in UCL final stages. He should be sent on vacation during this period and let the players do what they had been doing to get to that stage. City are a team strong enough and can just focus on delivering their best without being too concerned about what the opp brings. If we had done what we do best, even though we might be conceded a couple of goals, we wouldve been more relaxed and more fluid and would've had better chances at winning
As a City fan, i am shocked That Pep played without A number 6... it is The position That connect defends to midfield, But it is still A Good season, with PL and Carabao Cup... But The Champions League could is The Winding one
Yes it wasnât a bad season but it wasnât good enough. Weâve won the league for several times now everyone knows we can do it in England, but we have to show them we can do it in Europe as well. If pep keeps overthinking and try new things in big games like this weâre not going to win the CL. He said earlier this season that heâs learnt something over the years and I thought he finally recognised heâs been overthinking. But gosh what have you learnt...
Seems a bit arrogant or at minimum complacent. The plan seemed to be blitz them early get a goal or two and then bring on defensive players to see the game out.
No it is a bad season by MC standards. He was able to win it but he preferred to blow it up because of his arrogance. He relied on Rodri all the season and then stupidly chose to leave him out for the most important game. What a Paella
You couldve had a quadruple and you're happy hahahaha
In Champions League, the edge is too small therefore even Pep would need magic from super player like Messi to help him out.
Fernandinho and Aguero were greatly missed in the final. Now they will be greatly missed at the club.
Is Fernandinho also leaving?
@@RohitSingh_07 May as well leave
@@RohitSingh_07 it was hinted that it might be his last season
@@thejungwookim Chelsea played well and won but feeling bad for aguero.đ
@Cheems Burger well isn't that news to my ears, that's a relief!
It's funny how the guys at Tifo make more sense than 90% of pundits. Tell Cara to get you on ssn or wor Alan shearer to get yous on motd would be great to see yous on the big screen where yous belong
Carragher did a brilliant tactical analysis on tuchel
They'd say guardiolas team just didn't show passion
Tifo is for a very niche market like us. Carra with his accent really annoyed me. Gary is ok.
@@zac5572 tbf city were kinda lazy yesterday
Well the fact that City couldnât string easy 5 yard passes together was a huge reason why they lost, probably even the main reason. Thatâs not tactical. Itâs not passion either. Thatâs just form & performance. It happens some days, every player just doesnât turn up. So this could be construed as over-analysis attributing the result to tactics when it arguably would have made no difference if Cityâs players turned up
Pep Guardiola Basically SPAT ON Fernandinho and Rodriâs FACES for Their Efforts For 60-65 Games This Season to then just pick an Un-Natural Holder Gundogan to hold over them. Gundogan can barely run or make a tackle let alone stop Counter attacks.
The loss is entirely peps fault. You couldnât be more right. Defence wins championships and he threw that out the window with that starting line up
I honestly can't believe he did that to his captain. Fernandinho isn't Aguero, a player who clearly isn't fit enough to play 90 minutes for City. Dinho can't play every week, but he's started some really big games. For Pep to bench him for the biggest game of the season in order to play a less effective player was disappointing.
and yet he sticks with Steff in goal for the minor cups right through to the final. Go figure
Tuchelâs Chelsea after his own transfer window is a scary prospect
I dont think so, we all thought same way to lampard last year
@@fathanahsan286 you cant compare fucking lampard with tuchel
@@user-gn7xr1eu1b why not? lampard did a really good job last season, also almost other chelsea managers did it too but at their 2nd year, they went shit and at the end of the day they got sacked
Tuchel was sacked exactly because he didn't get the player he wanted. And he is really angry with the directors. If the same thing happened again in this window that's going to be chaos.
@@fathanahsan286 why? cause TT actually won lots of silverwares? Just give TT the players he wants, Hoffman & Weigl, they're not expensive for Chelsea.
Chelseaâs goal in FA cup semi came from the same source; Mason Mount playing a through-ball from that same pocket of space. Rodri and Fernandinho both played in that game and failed to stop it, so it is a bit of a leap to suggested one of them wouldâve prevented Chelseaâs goal here.
You canât suggest that because of one moment that another wonât happen. Just take your win and go
I think an important factor was the work rates and determination of the the Chelsea defenders. Everyone was diving into blocks and Tracking back. Chelsea just played well
At the end of the match the distances ran by both teams was almost equal so both teams had the same workrate
I really like the way he says" Fernandinho would have kicked him out"đđ
He actually did tho as soon as he came onđ€Łđ€Ł
Is funny because is true... he gets the job done like that đ€Ł
Kante should win the ballon dor if he goes on to win the euros
Definitely
HE DESERVES IT REGARDLESS OF EURO RESULT đđ. KANTE IS BASICALLY A MACHINE đđ
Yes this decade should be different. We want player from another club to win balon dor
Feels bad for Lewandowski though, he should've won it last year
Odds are if France win it might be Mbappe, otherwise Lewandowski has a great chance to win it if Poland goes far
Love that you emphasize how important werner was to the goal. Just scoring isn't his only job
Kinda what Firmino did for the last few years, opening space for Mane and Salah. Both player equally important for the team.
Anyone who has watched City at all over the last few years, automatically knew they would struggle in the midfield battle as soon as we saw Fernandino on the bench.
Guardiola spent 150M to sort out his back line and then took 10 months to learn how to play with two DMs, to both build up an impressive defensive record and also score goals.
Then he decided in the CL final he wanted a sole CDM that was neither Fernandinho nor Rodri. Hmmm...
1. Sterling starts
2. No anchor
3. De bruyne & gundo is forced deep
4. Wrong sub & timing
Looking at how chelsea play, i kinda knew city cannot break their defense.. man city play based on moving the opponents. Cant break em if they didnt move.. ez game GG for chelsea..
Like tiki taka barcelona
@@artronikfc7933 04:20 there
They play a super high line most of the time though
Sterling shouldnât have played. He wasnât involved mainly during knockout stages. Better yet, he should just leave while his value is still high
Yup and get a winger less selfish and with no Lobby like the English press
to pressure the coach on including him even tho
he miss so much , and plays selfish all the time , and lose balls all the time
and choose to keep the ball to himself and go for dribble and lose it instead of Teamplaying
Torres shouldâve played ahead of Sterling as heâs been much better. Sterling wasnât playing in the knockout stages & hasnât been good thru out the season but some how managed to get a start in the FINAL ffs. And to play without a natural dm whilst having two on the bench? Like câmon pep đ€Šđœââïž. He underestimated Chelsea & paid the price. Kudos to Tuchel but Pep bottled it.....yet again.
@@ideozublake8036 adjusted to exploit space
Sterling is 26 ,yet to reach his prime , remember the 17/18 ,18/19 ,19/20 seasons he was soo good
5:12 'I think they could've played for 100 hours and couldn't have gotten close to it' (getting back into the game)
Truer words have never been spoken
I'm a City fan and I've been saying the same to my brethren who have been quick to place the loss on Pep tinkering. True maybe a dedicated CDM would have made a difference (maybe stopped the goal. Maybe), but truth is CFC we set so tightly there was no space to operate. Pep identified this problem in that interview with Rio Ferdinand before the final, and on the day tried a solution that he thought would break the block down. It didn't work. City thrive on space. There was none. What City missed and needed on the day was not a specialist CDM but rather David Silva, a player that's good operating between the lines. The way CFC sat, it's clear if they didn't score in open play the matter would have gone to penalties, and we would have lost anyway. Now, my City brothers will say it would've been better that way...but hey!
@@maxwellnyoni928 Yes city are terrible at penalties
Great breakdown. Zinchenko watching Havertz running into space and just jogging one step behind him was shocking.
Tactical genius = Tuchel.
The problem with playing long balls as well was that City donât have target men. They also didnât seemingly have a Plan B. It was a bit embarrassing at the end watching the leagueâs best team do their Iceland impression and put all their efforts into scoring from long throw-ins.
Chelsea really got away with playing so deep, compact, narrow. Normally City would punish a side who did that by zinging in 20-30 accurate crosses.
Pep's players are hopeless in the airl. Heck, the best attacking header we saw all game was Kante beating his man far post! City does not have a target man for long balls AND does not have a target man for a cross. Aguero is okay in the air. Jesus and Sterling are so-so, unless given space to attack.
City's strikers just could not punish 1-on-1 coverage. Sterling actually got a few dangerous crosses in. What did any other attacking City player ever do?
Kudos to Chelsea's defenders, who managed to utterly snuff out City's precious half chances. Mendy was almost bored back -- did not have to make a single difficult save the entire game.
@@ComradeOgilvy1984 The aerial thing on point.. How does a 5ft 5 Kante wins a header over a 6ft Dias is beyond međ
City lost because of Pep's stubborn insistence on trying to play through the middle. City's only width in the entire team was coming from Sterling and Mahrez, but they were getting completely dominated 1v1 by James and Chilwell. City needed to get their fullbacks making overlapping runs out wide to create an overload in order for any space to be made for the midfield players to operate, but instead both Zinchenko and Walker stayed very narrow for the vast majority of the game and Chelsea literally just sat in front of them and said 'come at me bro.' A moment of individual brilliance from Sterling or Mahrez could have opened the game up for City, but Chelsea's wing backs completely dominated the wide areas. I honestly don't think it would have mattered if Rodri or Fernandinho started in the middle, if they went into the game with the same approach they never would have scored. It was painful watching Chelsea's front 3 leave absolute acres of space for City's fullbacks to exploit, only for them to tuck inside and keep getting crowded out of the center. Kante had an excellent game of course, but for me James and Chilwell were Chelsea's most important players today.
i agree but with Fernadinho with his over the top diaganol balls would have made a difference,tactical fouls to frustrate chelsea players making it easier to create chances.
@@davzbalian295 I'm not disagreeing that Fernandinho should have started, I just think that regardless of who was playing Pep got his tactics completely wrong.
@@DjNaste yeah maybe especially using two very wide men who should have instead tucked in to draw away the wingbacks to open space for full backs. But that aside look at Mason mounts pass to Havertz, if fernadinho was there it could have intercepted i mean the gap was too wide.Atleast city would have a chance to take it to extra time or penalities.
@@davzbalian295 that goal was really just great movement from the whole Chelsea frontline. You can play the should've, would've, could've game with any player you want, doesn't mean that Fernandinho absolutely would have read the danger better in that situation. City's problem was that they were never going to score without help from a huge error or moment of brilliance. Conceding one goal shouldn't have been curtains for a team with that much quality, tactics were all wrong.
@@DjNaste You're talking a lot of sense Dj. There was simply no guile about City and he left it far too late as usual to make changes.
Damn u guys quick with it
Chelsea defending in a lung shape is what helped them beat City
A lot of people are giving Sterling stick, and yeah, he was pretty poor, but Mahrez was no better. they both had one good moment a-piece, Sterling breaking through before James recovered early on, and Mahrez's last minute volley that narrowly missed.
worse than either of them though... Bernardo Silva.
seeing your line-ups at the start I was actually confused for just a moment... because I completely forgot that Bernardo Silva was even on the pitch. and I don't think it comes down to just a poor individual performance, De Bruyne, Foden and Silva were all trying to play the exact same role, in the exact same spaces. there was absolutely no synergy in their movement, they were just too like-minded and they all got crowded out of the game.
Sterling was in Reece James' back pocket, but Mahrez on the other hand just didn't show up. Barely noticed that Mahrez played tbh
Yeah, De Bruyne was very uncomfortable in the 9 position against a defense that solid and imo taking him out of the buildup was a huge mistake. If your opponent is defending as harshly and as deep as Chelsea, your striker will be the person that will touch the ball the least so you miss out on all his creativity there while exposing him to more physical confrontations with the CBs.
Sterling was the least bad City player on the pitch. Not a good game, but he put in 3-4 dangerous crosses that were worthy of showing up in a highlight reel. Did any other City player deserve more than one moment in the highlights?
@@ComradeOgilvy1984 Foden maybe, I thought he had some good moments
Yeah I agree, too much like for like players on the field plus Pep favouring false 9 players doesn't help either. Make sense that they're pursuing a true number 9 (like Haaland), but Pep's tactics is just not suitable to Tuchel's gameplan. Three win in the last three encounter, that shows that Pep has to change something if he wanna beat Tuchel on their next match up.
With their monstrous block in defence, interesting to find out how did West Brom, Leicester, Arsenal, and Aston Villa beat Chelsea...
@Niranjan Rajesh Hey man, Arsenal fan here. You're right in terms that Arsenal were dominated during that game. But we still won. Big teams miss chances all the time. More interested in the tactics of how a team can defend a lead against Chelsea. Seems to be a similar block. Yes, that's lucky, but there's a very intense pressing system as well that enables Jorginho to make a mistake like that. 99 out of 100 presses in a game normally go unnoticed, it's only amplified when it leads to a chance. Guess they know how to park the bus and press against big teams.
This tactic doesn't work when the transition is slow..our passing is slow... that's when we loose to oppositions like West Brom, arsenal..
@@jozuazhang1301 I think if havertz had scored from the earlier chance, the outcome would be different. Again is not the chances missed but the quality of the chances missed. Chelsea forwards miss chances that 1-on-1, see the real madrid game 2nd leg
@@jozuazhang1301 umm because it was jorginho? respect him a lot for his passing skills but sorry to say he's a mistakes prone.
Simple. This tactic works against possession dominating teams like City since they like to have high line which could led to an exposure of quick transition and counters attacks. Those teams you mentioned are the opposite of city. They usually sit off with they defence and wait to counter
70% of Earth is covered in water
The rest is covered by Kante
Ice is melting at a much faster rate, I think that 70% needs to be recalculated
@@mchannel1365 I see what you did there..... 69%đđ
Excellent video. Really glad to see you guys moving into this space and offering immediate post-game analysis as an alternative/competitor to the likes of Sky and BT.
They may have the rights to the matched but they don't own the idea of knowledgeable, insightful experts discussing the events.
Looking forward to more of this during the Euros, and potentially next season a MNF type of show with Joe presenting and Alex and JJ doing the analysis?
I'd watch an hour or two of you guys discussing the weekends matches, easily.
This man knows what he's talking about!
Great information .new to your channel.fantastic how you explain how it happened.
Love the speed of this upload! Love this channel, and the main TIFO one as well. You have a lifelong fan.
JJ has been a fantastic addition to the podcast and the channel, he's so funny too đ€Ł
More accurate title, âHow Chelsea Won the Champions League Finalâ. There you go Tifo
it's all about man city.
Nailed it. No Holding Midfielder probably was a mistake but I still can't see how City would have broken Chelsea down even with one. That defensive shape is so impressive and when they attack they just spring out.
The 'accordion' example from the match preview was a perfect analogy. Going to be an interesting season with Guardiola, Klopp and now Tuchel competing for the top.
Aston villa scored two against them with a similar setup, city would have been two goals up if Aguero didn't try a panenka. If pep stuck with the team that beat PSG, the late runs of gundogan would have broken down Chelsea. Pep killed the game in my opinion. The players were uncomfortable throughout not because of Chelsea's shape but because they weren't comfortable in pep's new system.
Great work, guys. brilliantly done đđ
It's IRL so just wanted to add perhaps; I was really struck by how the Chelsea defensive block was such a flat 5, but fairly wide - think you were getting at this - while the rest condensed to an extremely dense 2-3 in the middle (like a crown icon on a chess program overhead view, perhaps), which maybe was why the wingbacks' personal performances playing touch-tight was so notable when City did play wide. Time will tell. But also there were several moments that came down to last ditch defending. Real neat videos thanks cheers mate! glug glug
Ponderance for the Day: in this case yesterday...Citeh need someone to tell Pep "No"
You are bang on the money there...just someone to say, ''Sterling? Come on..''
Good stuff lads. Looking forward to the next vids
Such a good Analysis and that so fast. Great work Tifo
I kinda feel like this point was overstated, even though its kinda true. City lost twice to Chelsea with holding midfielders, and Pep knew that Chelsea prefer to attack through the flanks anyway. Their main issue is their incapability to unlock deep static defenses. They tried changing things up by shuffling their mid, an untested tactic, which is questionable sure. But, the root of this issue is that they have no out and out, powerful, fit number 9. Aguero is leaving, so City needs Kane more than ever now.
Hey man, Rodri and Fernandinho played the FA cup, Chelsea ran them through easily. Do you think it would have made any difference?
It was Man City alternative team. Almost no players from the UCL knockouts starting eleven.
Love your content ... Your analysis is always on point...â€ïž
The turnaround on this is amazing! Great job all round
Please give me Watford - Pep Guardiola
Loving the quick upload schedule. This JJ lad fair knows what heâs talking about, eh?!
i love these videos. which app do you use to analyse the games?
love the content. good job with the channel!
Its actually getting insulting how much of the football media has just completely ignored Chelsea. Written off as underdogs with the media already trying to write a Drogba-esque story for Aguero ... and yet its Pep who acted like an underdog and twisted to try and counter Chelsea.
Really would be nice to see people acknowledge the incredible mentality and game plan that Tuchel has created, to the point that even though Pep fully understood it, he couldn't beat it and didn't trust his normal tactics to work about it, rather then spinning a narrative that City blew it. You earn the trophy, its not something you are gifted.
Chelsea earned it.
"and yet its Pep who acted like an underdog and twisted to try and counter Chelsea"
Not playing a DM is the opposite of acting like an underdog tho. Pep knew they were favorites and that Chelsea would sit deep to defend and counter. He probably thought Chelsea would be so defensive he wouldn't even need a DM, expecting to have possession most of the time, adding more wingers to stretch out the defense and as many creative mids as possible to break lines and make dangerous passes. Probably didn't expect Chelsea to keep the ball as much as they did and be as dangerous on the counter as they were. If anything Pep's gameplan seems more arrogant than insecure to me.
â@@Di7manya "Probably didn't expect Chelsea to keep the ball as much as they did"
This. Guardiola set up like he was going to school Chelsea with their possession game. But at half time they were one goal down with only 55% or so possession. That is failure. City only crept up to 60% possession because Chelsea was willing to let them have the ball, and dare them to commit strongly forward.
The best 3 or 4 chances were Chelsea. If the game lasted longer, Chelsea would have scored again before City.
@ondank happens all the time the media have a sly hate 4 us and always have particular its increased a lot more since Lampard got sacked so as Chelsea we just gotta keep shutting them up with trophies and success unfortunately
City did blew it though
@@craniumkracked8189 no they were outplayed on the field and out thought by tuchel. If this was the only game these two had played all season then sure you could say that. But Chelsea have now beaten then 3 times in a row. They just aren't well set up to play Chelsea. Rodri and fernandinho played in the previous two games but it didn't help them did it.
Also: Man City were similarly ineffective vs Man U (and Leeds)earlier in the year and were similarly vulnerable to the counter attack.
City shut down Man Utd twice when Fernandinho started. Man Utd did absolutely nothing agains them. In the second league game, it's tough to tell because Man Utd scored very early. Not only that, it was after that game that Pep stopped playing Sterling and Gabriel.
@@znhait itâs more that I think there are lots of times Man City struggle when a team has something in the game. Even v Dortmund I think they only escaped that game because Dortmund gave away a brain fart of a penalty. In normal play I think Man City didnât look like scoring.
@@miistercrayon Fair point. City didn't look like scoring before the pk.
Can't lie when you started this channel I didn't see myself tuning in that often but I was completely wrong, thoroughly enjoying each video thus far! Really enjoyed this one. Class act!
A proper 5-2-3 / 3-4-3 is so hard to defend against as we see here. In person, marking the wing backs or wide players in the front three is so hard to sort out. Very entertaining game today.
You really hardworking man? Aren't you?
Its so quick dude
6:35 Perhaps you could name it after some kind of a big road vehicle commonly used for public transportation?
Tram?
@@TheAthleticFC Train?
@@TheAthleticFC "Tuchel's Tram lines defensive shape was effectively used in the Champions League Final to nullify City's attacks"- yeah I think Tram works
An absurdly long taxi?
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very informative thanks guys
Please keep doing this for important games!
Its pretty simple, Irish guy predicted Man city to win, so they lost
Screw hitc.
@@eavyeavy2864 Sevens is alright.
Bullman, you're doing great! Even if I only understand about 70% of what you're saying way over here in Brazil, it's all fine. 70% actually isn't that bad for me, I guess being a fan of Craig Ferguson's made your accent sound a little familiar.
Ooh Bullman. Is that JJ's nickname now? He does have a lovely accent
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Should be called how a Tuchel masterclass destroyed City for the third time this season.
Ole beat city as well
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Was the system Chelsea played had a hint of two no.10s Havertz and Mount with at times one drifting away on th wong and the other one exploiting the half space and making the runs
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JJ is such a great addition to Tifo, looking forward to his analysis!!
Pep saved Fernandinho from getting embarrassed by Mount just like in the FA Cup
Everyone in the comments going on about how Chelsea "out-classed and deserve credit", and don't get me wrong, you won and all the best to you, but Chelsea didn't run them off the park. Guardiola essentially sabotaged his own team by not playing proven match-winners and went on to out-smart himself by playing a team he believed would unlock Chelsea's inevitable patient gameplan ... but without all the reliable cogwheels and chemistry to allow the unlocking to work. What he basically did was fashion a key for the lock but cut off the hand that's meant to turn it.
Fantastic video lads!
Was waiting for this!
As a Liverpool fan I see some games when we are chasing the game and Klopp takes out a CB in place of an attacking player, be it Shaqiri, Ox Keita.
Fabinho then will drop as a CB. At first you'd think that's a good idea because it allows more attacking players on the pitch, like what Pep is trying to do in this game.
In reality, Fabinho dropping back in CB means that no one in midfield can win the ball back quick enough, and control of the game is lost. Most often than not, Liverpool got pinned inside their own box because nobody can win the ball back, this is more evident when Henderson is not in the team.
This just shows how important it is to have a Fernandinho/Rodri/Fabinho/Nkante in midfield.
Iâm a city fan, how do you beat this Chelsea shape. Big Sam West Brom and Leicester did it. Please make a video
Drop back, play counter attacking football and hope chelsea donât know how to finish their chances
Against west brom, thiago silva red card and a 10/10 counter attacking display by west brom...and for leicester, long ball
Against West borm , it is Early red card of Silva and Chelsea were not prepared for that. For FA cup match ,Multiple Referee Mistakes which helped Leicester and also Kepa was on goal.
of the teams that have beaten us under Tuchel (West Brom, Porto, Arsenal, Leicester & Aston Villa) it's either been a wonderful strike or a decision that has went against us
What's that sofware? Loved it.
- What would be a good idea to break Chelsea's block, in your opinion?? Because City was trying to play in between the lines, but it was impossible, so they ended up just rotating the ball from one side to the other.
- It was unlucky for Zinchenko. Until before the goal he was playing overall very well.
- It felt from the beginning that Guardiola thought that the midfield three would be able to stay close to each other and compact - which they did, most of the times -, but on the goal situation, there was such a huge gap between the defense line and the others. Maybe one of the situation were you could see the 'attack mindedness' from B. Silva and Foden. Maybe one of the few situations where the gap was so alarming.
- Maybe the presence can be a sort of lesson for Guardiola. Mainly because his team needs those movements attack the goal, or behind the defense, which KdB and Mahrez can't do. I felt that Guardiola's team needed that on the PSG game back at France, but they managed to go through because of PSG's defense rather than the system's quality. The goals ended up hiding a very big issue in his team.
Incredible as it may seem the match where Chelsea have had more difficulties, since Tuchel's arrival, was precisely against... City earlier this month.
It seemed like a weird experiment at the time but that line of 5, with the help of Rodri, kept the team more balanced in the defensive transition.
In the front they found the right space between lines to punish Chelsea but the finishing was not there and they ended up losing the game.
@@BlitzerPT I haven't got the chance to see that game, so I don't know the details. But it seems, as you say, the idea of matching Chelsea in terms of tactical formation would be a good solution đ€
Do you remember what was city's line-up that day?
@@tiagomonteiro3510 Ederson; Dias, Laporte, Ake; Rodri; Cancelo, Torres, Sterling, Mendy; Jesus, Aguero
There are some tactical analysis out there about this match...
@@BlitzerPT thanks! I'll look it up
Sterling being one on one on Reece James and not being able to take him on, was the key. He's had a bellow par season, while Fodden was doing great on the left. Moving Fodden central, did them in 2 ways, by not having him on the wing and by forcing Fernandinho/Rodri off the starting XI.
Since that Lyon game, I swore that we will never win champions league with with Sterling,Jesus in the lineup. It was working through all the rounds this season but PEP , you just had to do it at the end didn't you? I acknowledge he is one of a kind but he was a piece of sh#t for this. He f'd up the system. Foden forced to play CF, Gundo as a cdm, Kdb moving from false 9 to center mid??? I appreciate how he got us here but he'll remembered for bottling it for the same reason again and again, that's just a fact I'm not trolling.
@@GarethMoras KDB went missing again, just like he did for Belgium in the World Cup. Our best spell, if you can call it that, came after he went off. And agree, woeful as he was Sterling was not the worst City player last night, a total collective failure.
@@GarethMoras Walker was the only one with any drive. The tippy-tappy slow build-up works against the likes of Everton, but when you need something different there was just nothing there, no Plan B
If youre a city fan then how ungrateful can you get? Calling him a piece of shit to get you to the final. WOW. And people wonder why city fans are plastic
I agree that he misplaced foden, and sterling is decent but not good enough. Jesus is class tho, when he came out from the bench i have feeling we can turn thing around. But it's just too late Chelsea sat deep and with Mahrez that underperform Kevin who marked tightly. We cannot find good chances
Lol de Bruyne always heâs been moving from false 9 to centre mid this entire season. Sterling wasnât that bad and was way better than Mahrez.
Would love to see a little bit more structure in this analysis. Maybe âWhat Chelsea did in posessionâ âWhat City did in posessionâ âHow Chelsea scored the goalâ. That are just some ideas how to structure the analysis a little bit more. But i loved this table, very nice to show all the runs and situations. He also explained it very good. But I missed a little bit more structure ;). Keep going guys. I Love your videos!
Wow! Appreciation post for all of your openness to feedback. The white border on font helped a lot. Thanks!
Whereâs the âHow Chelsea won?â. Nobody is giving them nor Tuchel any credit instead just saying it was entirely Pepâs oversight
Theres hundreds of posts giving Chelsea credit tbf. But Pep is one of the greatest ever footballing minds so how he constantly manages to choke CL semis/final games is worth looking at.
This video is basically "How Chelsea won", especially that part when he highlights their defense ;)
Because Chelsea just won because City started a bizarre line up
Pep made an utter balls of it...simples. No holding mid Fernandinho-style and wheeling out lil Miss T-Rex Arms.....good grief.
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Feel Pep just wanted to play a pure game of football. He counted on the collectively of the team to defense instead of assisting a player to do the job.
Zinchenko was really weak all game. Put the goal aside, I can't even count the amount of times where they just dribble past him or where he isn't in defense and Dias has to cover his ass
He made quite a lot of saves too.. it's just his body position is not a defense minded but more too attacking minded
I don't think Pep made a mistake in the line up, (I might be a lone on this)
Pep new exactly how Tuchel will play. That is why he scarified a Fernandinho for an additional attacking force
to be able to brute force brake through the Chelsea's defensive setup. It's just that they where not good enough.
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that was the best game analyst I have ever seen
I think Pep applied 200 IQ move by playing Sterling so as to convince the owners he is not good enough now and we need to offload him and bring Grealish, Kane or Haaland. It breaks my heart Man City lost but congratulations to Chelsea for their deserved win.
Really interesting. This Tuchel side seems incredibly tough to break down, what would the blueprint be to beat it?
Really looking forward to seeing if/how next season.
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4231 with two DM's filling in for the two FB's who push very high to create overloads in Chelsea's wide areas with the number 10 and wingers. Trying to create 2v1 and 3v2 scenarios, this would lead to chance creation in the wide areas. In order to take advantage of this you would need a proper number 9 to remain fairly central making near and far post runs to get on the end of low passes or crosses to the back post, alongside the opposite flank winger who would drift inside looking for cutbacks and far post runs around the back.
Man City had some good chances in the first half. If they had scored first, Chelsea would have had to open up. But indeed Chelsea was incredibly tough to beat today, more so because all the back 5 played their best football and Kante was phenomenal in the middle.
The extremely fast front 3 and the world class fullbacks and midfielders is what allow chelsea to play like that. If you put pressure on the DMs and stops them from going long still thiago silva can play around it, or even the GK. They do not over-commit to the attack to left spaces. They are only vulnerable from ???
As he explains, you can hear the sadness and despair growing...
How come Pep played without a 6!?! Thatâs the most important role in all of his teams, I never thought he would dare do it. In Barcelona he immediately promoted busquets, with Bayern he signed xabi, with city kept Fernandinho and got Rodri... and always talked about the role and how cruyff used him as a player!
Two âPep-ismsâ failed spectacularly against Chelsea: The false nine and inverted fullbacks. KDB and Foden couldnât decide who was gonna go where. Zinchenko and Walker left Sterling and Mahrez stranded and marked out of the game.
De Bruyne Also Got Injured. I Think That's a Point Worth Noting. Maybe He Would Have Done Something Special.
Loving the new channel.
Brilliant video . Iâm subscribing if you promise to do more of those
Isn't this the same shape and team that Aston villa scored two past and also lost 3 of last 4. What did those teams do that man city didn't. Great video đ
Different games man, Chelsea beat Real Madrid, Porto, Atleti and Man City 3 times but lost to West Brom and Arsenal, because football isn't decided on what you did in your last game, it's decided in 90 minutes. Chelsea lost to West Brom because of a red card, the Arsenal game was just bad luck, should've won that. The Aston Villa game is the only one Chelsea deserved to lose but that game also just seemed like one game too far for a team that had played important games every 3 days for 3 straight months