Monaco - Post Match thread.

Monaco team deserved to go through, well played to them, but you could tell we were tired. No english team will ever win the cl until they decrease the amount of games.
 
De Bruyne and Fernandinho need to take long hard looks at themselves.

Shite for months and went hiding tonight.

Stones, I've given you dogs abuse all year, but take a fucking bow you were class tonight and up for the fight.


Clichy, just retire. Now.
 
Look I know we are disappointed but we have the makings of really good team and pep knows what he is doing and what he has to do to improve it. Both teams did enough over the two legs to win it, it was a close run thing and we just missed out from a 12 goal shootout. Well done Monoca, chin up blues we are not rags, so let's be good losers as well as good winners.
 
Gutted, extremely gutted. Love Guardiola but he only knows how to play one style. we had a two goal lead, to just go there and expect to out play them was so so stupid. Pack the midfield and see it through. Just threw it away.
 
leaving yaya and Ottomendi out were big calls and big mistakes.

Yaya gives us that control...

Ottomendi for all his faults is better in the air and stops that third goal (kolarov getting caught under the ball)

Not a lot of players come out of that with any credit but KDB and ferna were absolute awful esp KDB.....he hasn't been great for most of the season and if pep needs to drop him for the liverpool game as at the moment he is way of the pace.

With yaya in we cannot have all of kdb silva ferna and yaya on the pitch (Unless ferna plays at fullback which isn't ideal)......kdb is the one to make way at present as he has been underperforming for quite a while now
 
It's just a game plan that asks the defenders we have to be better than they are. We scored 6 goals but didn't progress but fix that with some very astute summer spending and we'll make that next level.

Kolarov Sagna and Clichy. Too old too slow and ball control not close to world class.
 
I'm not even gonna credit Pep with the second half cos the only reason we scored was cos they for some reason decided to shut up shop and let us attack them. As soon as we scored they moved up a gear and scored from a fucking set piece. We were shocking. Pep got it all wrong tonight and decided to leave it until 8 mins left to make a fucking change. I like Pep but he got everything wrong tonight.
 
Chippy_boy said:
No-one is above criticism and tonight Pep deserves some. That was a woeful managerial performance. Wrong starting line up, wrong tactics, wrong substitutions. Best manager in the world maybe, but tonight anyone on here could have done no worse. Utter rubbish.
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We really need to stop the best manager in the world nonsense. He's been schooled too many times this season to say that.
 
I know people like to vent when we lose but when people calm down they will see there's little difference between the two teams in quality, the fact the scoreline was 6-6 shows that. As we know we need to improve our defence but talk of selling KDB and Pep getting ditching our philosophy is ridiculous. Next year we will be stronger, I'm sure.
 
Score 6 goals over two legs and still go out, you couldn't make it up! No idea why he picked that team tonight, Ya Ya may have slowed down but he keeps possession and things ticking over. Would he have been any worse than KDB who has been fucking gash now for weeks? Mentally we are weak and shit scared at the back. I fear the dippers will do the same on Sunday.
 
Gutted, extremely gutted. Love Guardiola but he only knows how to play one style. we had a two goal lead, to just go there and expect to out play them was so so stupid. Pack the midfield and see it through. Just threw it away.
 
No one to blame but ourselves. You should never expect to progress conceding 6 in two games. We wasted chances in the second half and were hardly even trying it seemed in the first half.
 
Forget tonight now, it's gone.

Huge huge huge few league games coming up. We all know the title is gone so we have to concentrate on top four now. That's our level unfortunately.

Huge summer too, if we want to get to the latter stages of this competition next year. At best we need:

- minimum of 1 goalkeeper. (Willy is getting old and bravo isnt even a number 2): £20m
- 3 fullbacks. £20m each average: £60m
- minimum of 1, likely 2 centre backs (Vinny injury prone and a reliable partner for Stones): £80-90m
- 2 central midfielders (Silva getting older, ditto yaya): £80-100m
- 2 strikers of Jesus/Aguero class: 2x£40/50m = £80-100m

Total spend of circa £320-370m.

Depressing but nobody died so move on, fight for top four and rebuild again in the summer.
 
That's 100% down to Pep. Dropping one of the most in form players and playing one of the least. Then with 15 minutes to go we take the lead and he doesn't bring Yaya on for Kev??? Gutted because that was just awful. Second half was decent until they scored 3rd but then we completely lost it. Ref couldn't wait to blow up at end and didn't even give us the full added time.

Season over now. I can't see players getting up for Liverpool so we could be in trouble now.
 
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