FC Basel V Manchester City - Post-Match Thread

[SebastianBlue]

I am not sure why posters are getting so much flack for being happy with the result, and thinking we generally did well for large parts of the match, but feeling we were very sloppy toward at the end and would have been punished against a better team.

I know where I would put my money for how Pep feels about it, and it isn’t “right lads, well done, nothing to really improve on from that as we put them to the sword in the first half, no harm, no foul”.

 

[colbee59]

I'm ready for coming off bluemoon we won 4-0 and people are still finding fault, it's a joke

 

[blueinsa]

But we wouldn't play like that against a better team would we you ninny, you play the team that's in front of you. You do understand that different levels of opposition require different levels of effort? If we were playing Rochdale we'd probably not concentrate quite as hard as if we were playing Barcalona?

I confidently predict that when we reach the next round we'll probably be playing against a better side than Basel, in which case we'll play harder better.

It's like a mental illness. People, we are witnessing the best football any of us have ever seen, for fuck sake enjoy it...it's like complaining about a lottery win because it wasn't a fucking rollover.

Well said that man, especially that last bit lol

 

[GaudinoMotors]

We didn't play any of those sides did we?

What makes you think we play that way against a better side?

Do you not see how utterly pointless your remark that i quoted is?

We never got out of 2nd gear because we didn't need to and we played Delph and Vinny because we knew the standard of the opposition tonight allowed us to.

Dont you see that?

Spot on.
Bit harsh on Delph though.

 

[80s Shorts]

Some try way too hard on here after a game pmsl.

That's rather ironic coming from you. Instead of juvenile meaningless barbs, why not engage your brain and come up with a counter argument if you disagree with a reasoned

We didn't play any of those sides did we?

What makes you think we play that way against a better side?

Do you not see how utterly pointless your remark that i quoted is?

We never got out of 2nd gear because we didn't need to and we played Delph and Vinny because we knew the standard of the opposition tonight allowed us to.

Dont you see that?

The remark you quoted is pointless in isolation because the context of it was in relation to our defence playing against the better teams in the competition and you chose to point score by quoting it in isolation.

Are you hard of thinking ?

 

[1.618034]

Well that was a piece of piss.

LOL

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

 

[blueinsa]

I am not sure why posters are getting so much flack for being happy with the result, and thinking we generally did well for large parts of the match, but feeling we were very sloppy toward at the end and would have been punished against a better team.

I know where I would put my money for how Pep feels about it, and it isn’t “right lads, well done, nothing to really improve on from that as we put them to the sword in the first half, no harm, no foul”.

The gif was in response to his "we gifted them 3 goals" quip but carry on feeling sorry for him lol

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Why quote that sentence in isolation and be a dick. It was a good result as I said.

My opinion is that our defence was poor and we will be punished and out if they play to that standard against the likes of PSG Barca Bayern and Real As I said in the rest of the post that you didn't quote.

If you can't see that then you're not worth discussing it with.

So anyone who doesn't agree with you, you're not talking too. Where's that handbag emoji.

 

[Armaan]

Well that was easy.

 

[BigOscar]

Please tell me you didn’t really mean that, “we gifted them 3 goals, they just fucked them up”?

Fuck me, I’ve read some nonsense over the years on here but that’s an absolute classic!

Well I'm specifically referring to the guy getting 20 yards clear through on goal from an aimless ball over the top, where he decided to inexplicably poke it first time harmlessly. That was a gift that he chose not to take. Then Nico seemingly getting bored and deciding to just foul there guy in the box instead of just defend it properly. Another gift, but the referee didn't give it. Then the third would be the unmarked far post header from about 6 yards that the guy put harmlessly wide, all coming from the scraps of another fairly aimless long ball over the top that we just didn't deal with. I'd back most Championship sides to bury those chances (as Bristol did)

Defensively that was as poor as we've been this season in my opinion, regardless of them not taking their chances. I don't think we've let teams get chances as easily as we did today, without them coming up with good play or really putting us under pressure

 

[80s Shorts]

But we wouldn't play like that against a better team would we you ninny, you play the team that's in front of you. You do understand that different levels of opposition require different levels of effort? If we were playing Rochdale we'd probably not concentrate quite as hard as if we were playing Barcalona?

I confidently predict that when we reach the next round we'll probably be playing against a better side than Basel, in which case we'll play harder better.

It's like a mental illness. People, we are witnessing the best football any of us have ever seen, for fuck sake enjoy it...it's like complaining about a lottery win because it wasn't a fucking rollover.

I didn't say we would play like that you ninny. I said if we would did we would be out. I swear some people are unable to read.

 

[hilts]

I must have dozed off last I remember we were winning 4 0 away from home in the CL with kompany Delph getting some minutes in their legs and Sane coming back from injury, what went wrong?

 

[happy]

Who was moaning about that?

Or were many of us rightly saying Pep would not be happy with the sloppiness being displayed when we were trying to close out the game. Sloppiness that would have been punished by better sides, leaving the second leg a much more contentious affair. It had nothing to do with were we “giving everything” and everything to do with the right (Pep) way of closing out a match.

We were clinical, and I’m very happy with the result, but only the most diluted among us would think we were at our best, especially in the last 30 minutes, when we could have conceded two goals at least.

Boggles the mind how people think elite managers and players are perfectly happy with playing poorly as long as they are winning in that moment. You think Pep is happy with that last period of the match? Do you think Sane was? Delph? Kompany? No, they’ll enjoy the win for about 4 hours, go to sleep, and then wake up thinking about the match—with special focus on the last third hour—and how they can improve on their performances and further cut out the errors/bad decisions.

As I said to you on the match day thread when you called me and @stan bowles idiots: this is why they are elite managers and players and you are posting on a forum.

Well, I hope I'm not being 'diluted' when I suggest that you're talking absolute tripe. Levels of concentration dip when the game is won, to continue giving 100% would be physically and mentally draining. Do you think Usain Bolt gave the same 100% effort in heats as he did in the final? Of course not, he eased up when the race was won.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Never want to wake up from this.

I'll have a word...........

 

[homerdog]

Great result; apart from gifting them 3 goals, being woeful in defence, being sloppy, playing poorly, not playing well enough to have beaten Real, Barca, PSG, Bayern, etc, blah fucking blah...

 

[Dribble]

A professional deconstruction of a decent European team. No injuries & good to see Silva, Delph, Kompany & Sane back.

A special mention to Bernardo. Like his namesake Silva, it's taken him time to adjust to a new team, country & way of playing, but he's now starting to look the bollocks.

It's been a good day for us.

 

[blueinsa]

That's rather ironic coming from you. Instead of juvenile meaningless barbs, why not engage your brain and come up with a counter argument if you disagree with a reasoned



The remark you quoted is pointless in isolation because the context of it was in relation to our defence playing against the better teams in the competition and you chose to point score by quoting it in isolation.

Are you hard of thinking ?

What part of we played a less that full strength side tonight because we could do and still won 4-0 do you not get?

What part of we wouldn't play that side nor take our foot off the gas like we could do tonight against say Barca dont you get?

Hard of thinking? if the cap fits.

 

[Blue Coop]

Professional outfit now. Always used to think Barca and Bayern always looked like winning against any side that wasn’t a top side and we are well on our way to getting there. The odd blip, sure, but as an exception to the rule.

 

[SebastianBlue]

The gif was in response to his "we gifted them 3 goals" quip but carry on feeling sorry for him lol

And I was responding about his and others’ larger point about closing out games better than we did. But ok, back to tribal happy clapping before we’re put in our place.

 

[80s Shorts]

So anyone who doesn't agree with you, you're not talking too. Where's that handbag emoji.

Read back. He didn't want a discussion about the defence. He was just point scoring.