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Thank you. Welcome, welcome, listeners to another episode of the X-Chair. Welcome listeners to another episode of the X-R-inch podcast. My name is Wendy, and I'm joined by our tactics guy, Nathan A. Clark. Hello, Nathan. Hey, dude. And we're going to have Barley with us very soon.

He's not around at a moment, but he's going to join us.

But first, Nathan and I are going to talk about the Man City game.

Nathan, what the fuck was Portino thinking?

Yeah, that's a tough one.

So I talked on the last episodes, previewing the game, and also on Twitter, I sort of said,

I feel like we've used our sort of our secret go-to plan for Facing City. We've sort of

shown our hands and we won sort of Champions League quarterfinals, which is brilliant, but

it gave Pep

the upper hand and I think that

Potts you know knowing that we wanted to change

things up again with this sort of passive load block

I do think that there was like a fitness ploy involved

I think we wanted to sort of just absorb their pressure

and wear them out for the first half

and then sort of bring Lucas on

and go at them in the second.

But we couldn't handle their possession at all.

And yeah, we got blown apart except for on the scoreline.

So you basically think he was kind of hitting the reset button in the ways to beat

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