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:tup: Aberdeen had a coach like that a few years ago. It really made me wonder what he was doing to fill the hours through the week and what was being done in training.

I don't know about wonders, but he's certainly doing a very good job. When you look at how much organised are and how much more appropriate the tactics are for the players they have, things are miles better than they were under Benitez. But, as is usually the case, given the different...

Got one wrong between the first two tests.

That's true, but I put that down more to the misconstruction of the squad that Pellegrini's coaching. He'd be asking their forwards to do something that doesn't come naturally because they are all player who want the ball to feet, rather than attacking the space to either receive a pass or to...

There is in a back four. In that case the left-back would be playing directly against Callejon. Callejon is mostly dangerous on crosses/switches of play and defending that is all about position and reading the situation. I'd suggest Evra is better than Alex Sandro at that. That's not to say...

Pfft. Not that unusual for a Scottish programme to be subtitled so that the rest of the UK can comprehend it, so not surprised they can't understand you.

And I suspect Guardiola being coach more than cancels out any issue of the name 'Man City', if that was an issue. - - - Updated - - - Here's a response to the chat the other day about Leicester not being up to playing in the CL: At the other extreme Leicester’s success is something more...

Nah.

Don't get me wrong - I think Juve have a good chance against Bayern.

Italy v England at rugby at the Olimpico on Sunday.

Always be more worried about knockout football. Juve can fuck up against Napoli and still win the league. A bad 20 minute period in either game against Bayern and Juve will probably be out of the CL.

Stating the obvious, but the key against Napoli is stopping their left side. The movement from Insigne, Hamsik and Ghoulam is good and and awful lot of Napoli's goals come down that side. Most teams fall into a trap of indecision between whether to mark or whether to close space and Insigne...

Indeed. Morata hasn't yet come close to becoming a consistent Serie A goalscorer.

Highlighting that a lot of his goals are penalties is perfectly legitimate. Unless he is going to be Juve's penalty taker, he won't get those goals. Anyway, I'm still unsure about Berardi. Interesting player, undoubtedly, but he 'just' seems to provide the odd big moment rather than being...

I'd also question whether he slowed down with Palermo. Palermo were safe quite early last season and the whole team lost focus since its target had been achieved. Think it was around this time that stuff started to happen regarding his transfer to Juve, which will also have been a distraction...

Apologies to anyone touched by his plight and desperate to give him money, but who didn't have time to get his details.

I beat him to the punch.

I'm not suggesting he should do any one thing all the time. But it took him over an hour against Frosinone to try to use his primary strength and what makes him most useful to Juve. That seems very odd to me.

Works in what sense? He retains the ball, but all he is doing in wandering into congestion. He would be much more threatening if he'd go on the outside and smash the ball across in the way Alex Sandro is inclined to. It's not like he's got a left foot, so cutting in isn't even going to get...

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