QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Halfway through the tie. Good teams overturn ties like this time after time. Reckon we'll do it, but will go to the wire.

3-1 next week.

 

[the talisman]

FFS Bluemoon harden up
Are the people throwing the towel in the same idiots who said it would be easy?
;-)
We’ll win this tie, have some belief in the team

 

[tommo74]

Thought we did OK, we only lost 1-0, so with a full strength first 11 next week, we should have no problems getting through to the semi-finals.

The last thing we wanted was a repeat of last season's quarter final when the tie was over after the first leg, we managed to avoid that situation this time. We have a very high chance of going through now.

Why not have a full strength 11 tonight?

 

[ballbag]

Flat performance. Probably would have been a different story had Bernardo been in the starting 11. Think we'll tonk them at ours.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Spurs will regret not getting more goals tonight when we hammer them 3-0 next week.

Or we'll regret losing 1-0 when they score at our place and we need 3?

Fucking dreadful tactics today, I am fuming mad honestly.

 

[KUN_a]

Missing tonigh: Gundogan, silva
Noy up to the standards: Mahrez and Delph
Should have brought kev on sooner.
We missed bernardo
We should steamroll over them at the Ethiad if we play like we can, like ive seen us play this season, but nothings a given, and they are going to be hard to break. Plus they're not bad on the break.

Spurs, offered little, son their best player by a mile. Problem is, the above.

 

[MarsLlama]

Silva and Mahrez were both terrible. Sané and De Bruyne needed to come on much earlier. Pep's failure to see this concerns me.

 

[bondsman]

I am. You have to pile it in on someone I guess. Mahrez is an easy target. You can't even dare blaming Aguerro for the penalty. Imagine it was Mahrez who missed it, Goodness me !

Aguero’s contribution can’t be faulted to city mate, bad miss yes but he turns up week in week out and wins us games. Mahrez turns his back ffs. Scared shitless and predictable as fuck. Didn’t beat his man once

 

[Inter Me Nan]

The passing tonight was the worst I've seen in a long time, sloppy.

 

[herrock]

They scored at a time when we were well on top and the game was crying out for KDB to come on. Strange approach to the game tonight especially 1st half, I think it might be different next Wednesday though.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Serious flapping here ffs.

Yes we were poor but Jesus Christ the comments.

We’ll batter them in the next two games, but in CL we’ll need 3 to be sure and that’s a big ask.

 

[marco]

Controversial comment but with that team selection is Pep deep down prioritising the league and admitting privately that he doesn't think we can win the CL?
Personally I don't think we will win the CL whilst Pep is here but i still love him.

if you can beat spurs in the league you can beat them in the CL,if were good enough to reach the semis of the CL we are good enough to win it

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

I thought we were very poor tonight,I think spurs were there for the taking,oh well get them back to the etihad and kick arse.

 

[Marvin]

Controversial comment but with that team selection is Pep deep down prioritising the league and admitting privately that he doesn't think we can win the CL?
Personally I don't think we will win the CL whilst Pep is here but i still love him.

Don't be ridiculous because now we have to put everything into the 2nd leg.

 

[blueballs84]

Some truly shocking comments on here. Without playing particularly well we were comfortable for most of the game and the more likely team to score.
VAR is becoming a joke. No way was that a penalty and a booking for Rose and Son was off side when he received the bill before scoring.
Funny how the commentators thought Spurs just about edged it. Who would have thought that from Jenas, Hoddle and Lineker. Nice neutral set up from BT.

Hate to burst your bubble but we had 2 shots on target. 1 was the penalty. By definition you need shots on target to score.

 

[BlueMoon_Phil]

Pep got it wrong tonight. First of all wrong player selection for the game Mahrez really doesn’t offer us anything at all. Secondly, we played poor tactics from the get go, however, I think this approach was due to the players clearly being fatigued and it showed. Pep is trying to manage all competitions and it’s not worked tonight.

I’m confident in the return leg if Mendy is fit and we start stones at cb with Laporte alongside KDB, Bernardo and sane we will win convincingly 3 or 4-0.

 

[SkyBlueTX]

I always try to look on the bright side...




Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres Sunday.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Controversial comment but with that team selection is Pep deep down prioritising the league and admitting privately that he doesn't think we can win the CL?
Personally I don't think we will win the CL whilst Pep is here but i still love him.

Not a chance Pep has got that mindset. This team is clearly capable of winning the CL. If he doesn’t think that, then he should be checked into a lunatic asylum.

 

[hilts]

Calm yourselves. We’ll beat these comfortably at home with Kevin, Bernardo and Zinchenko/Danilo coming back into the team. In any case, the Quadruple is an unrealistic aspiration. If we go out of the Champions League but win the Premier League then that can only be classified as a phenomenal season.

The treble ain’t looking that good either

 

[RACHACE]

Doubt it. We’re playing at Old Trafford.

Edited my original post. Thanks for pointing it out.