Hot Seat Watch for World Football Players, Coaches After Weekend Feb. 28-Mar. 2

The world of football is a great place to be, but when things go pear-shaped it can be ruthless and unrelenting in its scrutiny and criticism of performances or failure to get results.

Our hot seat watch takes a look at those who have been in the media recently for poor form or bad scorelines, for decision-making or other reasons, and those who are failing to achieve the objectives set out for them.

Here are our latest selections on who needs rapid improvement or better results, starting with last week's continued faces and followed by the new arrivals on the list.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini saw his team take a beating in Europe last week and followed that up by losing a big game in the Premier League at the weekend.

His side were second best and lost 2-1 at Anfield to Liverpool, missing the chance to close the gap at the top of the table as Chelsea were in cup-final action instead. City now trail Chelsea by five points having played a game more.

Even so, Pellegrini believes he is not under pressure to win a title, per BBC Sport.

"Never when I sign a contract do they tell me I have to win the title every year. The only pressure is when I don't see my team playing like I want it to. Only one team wins and that doesn't mean all the others are failures. There are different ways to analyse a season, the title is important but not the only important thing."

Over in Ligue 1, Marseille's recent struggles continue as Marcelo Bielsa saw his team throw away a two-goal lead at home to Caen at the weekend.

L'OM went down 3-2 in the end, a fourth game in succession without a win which sees them down in third place, four points off top spot still having missed the early opportunity to close the gap ahead of PSG and Lyon's matches—both of whom also failed to win.

Per Goal.com, Bielsa refuses to change his attacking style despite admitting mistakes were made in his selection.

Following Marseille's loss and Lyon also losing on Saturday, PSG had the chance to go top of Ligue 1 with a win away to Monaco on Sunday night.

Laurent Blanc's side couldn't manage it as they drew 0-0 with the fourth-placed team, giving them just one win in four as all the top teams have embarked on a woeful run at the same time.

The missed chance comes on the back of PSG only drawing 1-1 at home to Chelsea in the Champions League last-16 first leg, a big chance missed to take a lead there too.

Adam Johnson is in all the English media at present, and it's not for anything related to football.

BBC have the reports on the arrested winger.

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal side capitulated entirely in Europe last midweek, losing 3-1 at home to Monaco in the Champions League and seemingly having blown their chances of finally making it past the last 16.

The Gunners did win at the weekend, 2-0 at home to Everton, though it wasn't a vintage performance and the away team had spells where they looked as though they would at least take something from the game.

Despite that, Wenger spoke after the game and claimed his side were "nowhere close to being in the title race", per BBC Sport; he's completely right, and that's as damning an indication of how his team has developed as anything. He has had time, money and stability, and still the Gunners lag miles behind the title-chasing teams.

Last week we included Premier League referees as a whole; this time around it's specifically Roger East. The English top-flight ref made another critical error at the weekend as he sent off Wes Brown for Sunderland against Manchester United...despite it being team-mate John O'Shea who committed the foul.

The players appeared to explain the situation, but the official was insistent Brown would depart.

An appeal panel ruled that there was no mistaken identity issue from the referee—instead he had "seen" a foul which didn't actually take place. Brown's dismissal has thus been overturned, per BBC Sport, and Sunderland won't see either defender suspended as a result.

Then we have the opposite scenario: The obvious incident not spotted at all during the match, but justly punished afterward.

Mile Jedinak of Crystal Palace has been suspended for four matches for a deliberate and dangerous elbow mid-jump on Diafra Sakho at the weekend.

Palace ended the game with 10 men anyway and it should have been nine for Jedinak's awful challenge, but he saw out the 90 minutes and will instead miss fixtures against Southampton—played Tuesday night—QPR, Manchester City and Stoke.

We'll finish up with another boss on a bad run, with Eibar in free fall after six defeats on the spin in La Liga.

Gaizka Garitano took Eibar up last season into the top flight and his side were excellent in the first half of this campaign, but a massive downturn in results have seen his side drop well into the bottom half and on the verge of being in the relegation fight.

The latest, a 1-0 home defeat to Athletic Bilbao, leaves Eibar in 13th, five points above the relegation zone with huge games against Levante and Granada coming up in the next three weeks.

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