Saturday, November 06, 2021

“It was a solid performance and a good game. A deserved victory. Three more points. You have to put the ball in the fridge, a lot of passes, a lot of passes. The ball comes where we are. We don’t come to pick up the ball. It’s completely different. I’m so demanding, we know our standards, but I am very pleased."-Pep.

Pep knows. "a lot of passes, a lot of passes." "You have to put the ball in the fridge." The ball comes to us, we don't come to the ball. Yes. Yes. You have to shoot to score, you cannot pass the ball into the net. Pep is saying City were too passive today, waited for the ball to come to them. That's a damning criticism. You have to be ruthless, as Liverpool are, as we were with that great first team of Aguero, Balotelli, Dzeko. You have to make your opponent panic. You can play too calmly. You can win by playing calmly but you have to shoot. QPR parked the bus against City in 2012. Boom! Boom! Boom! we just kept firing away. Different quality team QPR from last season's Chelsea in the CL but still there were times when City were standing in front of the fridge door with no idea how to open it. They were just passing, puzzled, on the perimeter of Chelsea's box. It was boring and fruitless. 

69 degrees. Lol. The hourly forecast now has the temp rising to 75 at 3 o'clock. That would be nine degrees in five hours or so. lol.