QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

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After the dust has settled and considering we did not really give it a go I think pep will be happy with 1 nil loss with the game at our place to go.

But in the return leg we have to go back to playing pep style football not the return to the slow peligrini stuff that we have served up in the last two games.
 
Look at it this way before the game if anyone said you were going to lose a game and you had to pick one which one would you pick . I as well as orob maybe 90 percent would have picked last nights. We will do them at ours but no more fucking about
 
In horse racing, when a horse just becomes too good, the handicap system will give it extra pounds to carry to level the playing field and give others a chance.

It has become blatantly clear that this system has now entered football, and after our 100 points haul last year, and unknown to us at the time, were awarded a 60,000,000 pound handicap called Mahrez.
 
mosssideblue said:
Look at it another way. We could have played the big guns last night and still not gotten a result. Three critical games in a short space of time, we couldn't afford to play them all in all three risking injuries / fatigue. Nothing wrong with the selection last night in my mind and had the pen gone in, I think that starting 11 would have gone on to score again. I do concede the lateness of the subs was strange, but I suspect pep saw an opportunity as spurs were flagging
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Of course none of us are psychic or we would be highly successful millionaires now. I understand Pep's thinking. You have put out a team that looks solid and think, " I have Mahrez, Sterling and Aguero. Three potential match winners. If they don't score surely with that talent on the pitch we will score at least one." Small margins, if the penalty had gone in we would be saying it was a Pep masterclass as the very least we would have now is a score draw. In my opinion scoring an away goal in this competition is vital to your chances. We didn't so now we have to win the return leg by two cleat goals, which we are of course capable of doing.

At this stage of the season mental grit and confidence is as important as anything else. If the players sense Pep is showing a bit of fear in team selections the players can become edgy. I know he is a brilliant manager but last night I think he got it wrong and as a result handed the initiative to Spurs. Deep down how many of us before the game looked at that team selection and started to worry? Probably at least 80% of us if people are honest.

His hands were tied slightly of course by injuries to Zinchenko and Bernardo, both big misses. Mahrez for me never gets a start so long as we have a fit Sane. We have all waited for this former POTY and an established premier league player to "Settle in, to come good." I'm sorry but for me I don't see it happening. He reduces our style, threat and flow by at least 30% every time he plays, even against third division opponent's. Delph we are stuck with unless he plays Laporte at left back. The other player worrying me and it kills me to say this, is David Silva. For the last few months the magician has lost his magic. Will it cone back? Please God.

Our midfield if everyone is fit now has to be Ferna, Bernardo and Kev. Up front Sterling, Sane and Aguero. The time for game management, rotation and resting players are gone. We have a maximum of eleven games left if we continue progressing in the champions league and we have to win every game, especially in the league. We can rest players by using substitutions if games are won early, aside from that it is shit or bust.
 
I waited until this morning to post in case it was just disappointment. Having slept on it, I can honestly say that if I never see Mahrez in a City shirt again I’ll be happy. Every time I see him on the team sheet, I know we will be slow and predictable, whilst he gives the ball away so often that it puts us on the defensive in midfield and ruins our attacking flow. Last night was certainly not all his fault but he was, once again, a major contributing factor. He did well for Leicester and clearly has something to offer for many teams. I just don’t believe he is a good fit for us.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Totally agree. Spurs have won one of their last 6 games in the PL and lost 4! I think given the form of the two sides and the clear gulf in class it’s a terrible result. Two shots on target in 90 mins and one of them a pen! Poor. We were poor Sat and poor again today. Need to up the level of performances straight away.
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We were not poor in either game.

I've not had benefit of any TV coverage but I thought we played well last night. It was a very mature UCL away leg against a tough opponent. It was tight and tactical and unfortunately was decided by a couple of moments that went against us.

I'm sure we had at least three goal attempts on target: Aguero, Ota & Raz but not seen replays...

It's HT but it is advantage Spurs.
 
Poor performance from us, but look at this this was - that was Spurs best. It's clear what we have to do and I think we can.

Delph struggled and was not composed enough. Was surprised kev and sane didn't play, with spurs high press those two would have been ideal for the odd direct ball option.

Just reading the reports this morning and have to say, amazing how the media kick it up a gear about the injustice of VAR when it is spurs as the victim, not PSG or us as in other rounds. Exactly the same case in all, but the outcry is far louder today. The game has gone, apparently. Imagine if Sergio had actually scored it, they'd have had a campaign started to nullify the result. This change in interpretation from the officials seemed to start in this competition with the one against Ota, the pundits justified that one and the PSG one as it let united through. Now it's a big problem apparently.

Plus, also being reported that Kane was either injured trying to block a delph pass or actually by delph. No mention of the fact he'd tried to take delph out and come a cropper. He'd been chucking himself into challenges all night, so that one is on him.

We'll have these second leg, three or four. Only half time.
 
If we do go through next week, what's to say we won't play the same sort of side in the semis?. A very risky strategy if you ask me .
 
bluetonium said:
Poor performance from us, but look at this this was - that was Spurs best. It's clear what we have to do and I think we can.

Delph struggled and was not composed enough. Was surprised kev and sane didn't play, with spurs high press those two would have been ideal for the odd direct ball option.

Just reading the reports this morning and have to say, amazing how the media kick it up a gear about the injustice of VAR when it is spurs as the victim, not PSG or us as in other rounds. Exactly the same case in all, but the outcry is far louder today. The game has gone, apparently. Imagine if Sergio had actually scored it, they'd have had a campaign started to nullify the result. This change in interpretation from the officials seemed to start in this competition with the one against Ota, the pundits justified that one and the PSG one as it let united through. Now it's a big problem apparently.

Plus, also being reported that Kane was either injured trying to block a delph pass or actually by delph. No mention of the fact he'd tried to take delph out and come a cropper. He'd been chucking himself into challenges all night, so that one is on him.

We'll have these second leg, three or four. Only half time.
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I hope your right mate, us as fans have a huge part to play next week, bring the noise.
 
Everytime we supposedly try and rest players banging, on about 2 games in 3 days etc, it backfires. Maybe we should think like that in training, seem to pick up a lot of knocks and niggles there.
Now got to pull our tripe out even more to overturn this.
 
I am disappointed with the attitude the players were sent out with. I would have liked to see a little more attacking intent when we had the ball. The result is not the end of the tie by any means but we could have done so much better than this. The team put out could have won the game with a bit more attacking intent. So many players checked their forward runs so many times and went backwards so often. That comes from the manager and I don't blame the players for doing pretty much what they were told.

Now we have got to take a few risks, which could have been avoided by being more attacking last night. I think we'd have been better taking those risks in the away leg; home goals don't do as much damage as away goals do. It has put us on a bit more of a tightrope. We can win it, of course we can, but will we?

I sympathise with the fans who have shelled out a fortune to travel and watch the last two matches and been treated to two overly negative, almost mourinho-esque, displays. But I think it is fairly clear from his refusal to back the fans over ticket sales and uefa, and his comments in press conferences on those two topics that the manager has no real connection with the fans at all, and I find that a bit sad. That said, he is paid to do a job and if we go through next week, he will have done it.
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
After the dust has settled and considering we did not really give it a go I think pep will be happy with 1 nil loss with the game at our place to go.

But in the return leg we have to go back to playing pep style football not the return to the slow peligrini stuff that we have served up in the last two games.
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Oh bloody damn right he would be happy,chuffed to bits in fact,but he needs to face up to the fact he got it wrong,again,something he has done regularly in the CL,a synic could possibly suggest that he’s scared of us facing his team (his words not mine) in the final and beating them,but like you say the dust has now settled,we heave a chance of putting it right next week,from a fully fit squad if Bernardo is ok,let’s hope we use that astonishing fact at this stage of season to our advantage.

The only other thing I’d like him to do is stop thinking too far ahead,like a snooker player,he says in conferences that it’s one game at a time,but clearly he had an eye on Palace match and possibly even further than that with that team selected last night.

I’m confident we will progress, and still win the league ,though it’s gonna be done the hard way again with looks of things
 
1-0 down at half time and 100 pages of moaning. F off and support Huddersfield. That was a the strongest side Spurs could field, it wasn’t ours. Next week they will be weaker we won’t. Lose the first leg of a CL tie you have the second leg to turn it around. Lose against Palace and the league could be gone. Get behind the team like never before. When we win next week I expect 100 pages of people apologising
 
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