At the end of the day Pep's just too neurotic for his own good. Clearly an excellent manager but he overthinks things and in matches like these his intensity probably projects itself as anxiety to his players.
As soon as I seen he put Sterling in (who he dropped from the team for over a month now) at the expense of Rhodri or Fernandinho i felt they were in trouble.
Chelsea don't have a goalscorer but if they did they'd be close to title winners as they have everything from flying full backs, 2 solid centre halves, attacking depth, creativity and the main problem for City last night, Kante running all over them.
Huge mistake, such a mistake you almost felt like there must have been a master plan behind it, but it never came.
Very similar to when he decided to go 5 at the back V Lyon last year for the first time, yesterday was the first time he didn't start with 1 of Rhodri or Fernandinho and Gundogan was exposed.
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