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BBC News
20-05-2025
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'Guardiola won't deviate from his style of play'
Manchester City fan Rachel Herdson spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live and suggests that boss Pep Guardiola might have to learn something from Liverpool's Arne Slot after their FA Cup final defeat."I'm pleased for Crystal Palace and I think every City fan there was pleased for Palace but it was all pretty predictable in terms of how we were going to set up and how we were going to be hurt and I fully expect Bournemouth to do the same tonight - putting 10 men behind the ball, low block, fast transitions and hitting us on the counter."There's a way to play against us that, ultimately, in a results business, people aren't bothered about whether it's pretty or not, but that's how they get the job done against City and the frustration, I think, is that Pep hasn't found a way to combat that."In an interview with Mohamed Salah on Monday night, Salah was suggesting that one of the reasons Slot has been so successful this season is his ability to change tactics mid-game to suit the opposition and it really did pour salt in the wound because that is one thing that Pep will not do. He won't deviate from his style of play and that's cost us a little bit this season."Obviously, there are lot of other issues in terms of injuries and quality of signings etc, but that's one thing that has hurt us."
BBC News
23-04-2025
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- BBC News
Dramatic 94th-minute winner captured in four pictures
, Manchester City fan Rachel Herdson on 5 Live Breakfast: "I am really pleased for Nunes because he has given his all on the pitch and he does get some stick. [It was] some finish from him and hopefully that will give us the lift now until the end of the season."
BBC News
24-02-2025
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- BBC News
'Liverpool had the blueprint to beat us'
Manchester City fan Rachel Herdson says she was "disappointed" that Pep Guardiola's side failed to "lay a glove" on Premier League title contenders Liverpool in their 2-0 home defeat on on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, Herdson added: "They just couldn't find a way through. You have to give Liverpool some credit for setting up the way they did, - I think that is probably the blueprint to beat us."The teams that have had success against us this season have been happy to concede possession, knowing that in the final third we have no cutting edge. We had no cutting edge in there against Liverpool and that really did frustrate us."There were a number of times where Jeremy Doku got to the byeline, only to look up and see seven or eight red shirts and no options."We didn't really lay a glove on Liverpool, and that was really disappointing. It looked like the belief had been zapped out of us at 2-0."At any point in this game, Liverpool could have stepped it up a gear - and that's the real frustration because we didn't really make them work for it."The number of points separating the teams fighting for that fourth spot is incredible. There are a lot of teams who have still got to play each other, so I think that's where our excitement is and realistically what we have to concentrate on now."
