QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

[TVI]

Wrong team selection. Wrong tactics. Pep has to take it on the chin on this occasion especially having made the same mistake last season in the CL.

Still all to play for.

 

[Jag]

Some of you posters don't get it. This was the perfect away performance. Defend. Don't open yourself. Let home team come at you which is what they did few twice and mistakenly gave goal away. Otherwise happy.

Secondly target is title. Forget champs league. Tough tough teams and competition.

No its not. The point of playing away first is to score away goals. We looked toothless tonight and treated Tottenham as if they were Barcelona away.

 

[Mon Autre]

Really frustrated with how that panned out. Left it miles too long to change things up. Silva completely missing again and even though Mahrez got himself involved he just slows the game down too much.

Felt like we were happy to play for 0-0 which makes no sense to me as that wouldn't have been a great result either.

 

[axlgod]

Bah!

I’ve had my anger blast.
I’m cool now.

Palace game can’t come soon enough.

Come on City!

 

[Citizen1961]

Still a winnable tie, but that was a bit of a flashback to one of our few darker moments last season in the Champs League. Missed pen, but missed Barnardo more. I would have preferred to see Foden on, he is ready, Pep said so.

 

[super_city_si]

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.

Most likely to score? Were you watching? We were toothless. We played to contain spurs. It was wank.

 

[purplenose]

His record is more than 4 out of 5....not awful.

He has been very lucky with a number of them. It is in games like tonight you simply cannot afford to miss chances like that. You need someone who no messing buries penalties, Agueros are more often than not savable.

 

[Mancity1980]

This reminds me so much of last year, every key moment went against us. The pen decision doesn’t count because we missed it.

 

[Marvin]

He will never learn that. His big mistake at Bayern.

We will lose Sane too.

 

[I'm Blue]

CF will never get the right service with Mahrez playing as he hugs the right wing too much. Not mobile enough. It needs Sané and Sterling every time. Mahrez should never be picked before those two. It means Sterling has to go left to accommodate him. Shocking. I so want him to succeed, but he Isn’t a great fit for this team at the moment. Miles out of his depth

With Bernardo injured it’s gotta be Sterling and Sane.
I want Mahrez to do well, but he’s miles off the quality of our other attacking players.

 

[ID70]

Keep talking about encroachment on the penalty but no mention of Lloris being off his line

 

[Chippy_boy]

Expected from you. Always fucking moaning.

Haahhahahaha. Calling you out for moaning and that's your reply? Quality.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Once Kane went off they had nothing, nothing at all. Other than, of course, us switching off........

It didn't help that out forward and midfield line was the equivalent of having Richarlison, Kelvert-Levin and Sigursson. The game in general was very similar to a Pelligrini away performance, we looked good but too much left to chance i.e squad/poor players don't do anything daft.....

Having said that, if Ederson is ok then we have a clean bill of health going in to the last 8 games or so. This was the last game where rest and poor results were able to be rescued. If we win on Sunday then we are in a great position, if we don't win then......

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Some of you posters don't get it. This was the perfect away performance. Defend. Don't open yourself. Let home team come at you which is what they did few twice and mistakenly gave goal away. Otherwise happy.

Secondly target is title. Forget champs league. Tough tough teams and competition.

That’s not the perfect away performance. All that is is a tired cliché. What we needed was to score goals. To take away this farcical situation where Spurs now only need 1 goal to force us to need 3. The perfect away performance is to leave with the away goals rule being most likely in our favour.

 

[BuryBlue1977]

Said it last season, in the CL our manager is a coward and inept.

We'll NEVER win this competition with him in charge.

“Our manager is a coward...”
Mummy letting you stay up late because it’s the Easter holidays?

 

[tommo74]

I've seen a few hundred games from City and this is one of the worst. Everybody knows the importance of scoring atleast one away goal. We also let a goal in from Son that wouldn't have been a goal if Delph did his job.

We all know by now Mahrez is not up for the task. Sell him asap, along with Gundogan, Delph and Otamendi. None of them have the quality to play for City.

And Pep is wasting this tournament. He is literally flushing the CL trophy down the toilet. WHY? Why doesn't he care? Why this weak lineup? Why in a quarter final? Why use ice cold players like Delph, Otamendi, Mahrez – players who barely played all season, while also removing the most important players: Sane, KDB and Bernardo.

I am absolutely stunned how by Pep and his decisions. I'm beginning to think he has lost his head completely. *Shocking*.

Also if Aguero does his job we come away with an undeserved away goal and in the driving seat, but alas he didn't and we are not

 

[Fife1966]

Walker must be the worst full back that I have seen, absolutely fucking clueless in how to defend and pass a ball

 

[cookster]

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.

Same people every defeat. Fucking cry babies.

 

[madloaf]

Lost the battle there. I'm a big Gundogan fan but since Fernandinho's return he looks to have lost confidence - worst game in a long while. Once Kane went off we should have attacked with KDB/Sane. Team next time must include Bernardo, Stones & anyone but Mahrez.

 

[cityzens]

I agree with you although Bernardo was injured.

Don't tell me that. How bad is it?