Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

We had one major victory this season, against this competition’s hosts, and major decision makers, we won, victory was ours, this tournament from that point was beyond achievement, but why surrender in advance.
 
Goodlove said:
Yes the team selection but fucking VAR again. I’d say two of their goals Would have been chalked off had it been us that scored Them and the Lack of replays and ‘proof’ afterwards just supports it.

Bayern, UEFA and Der Spiegel Couldn’t beat us in the courts but when they hold the cards and make up the rules they fucked us over.

we will never be in their club. They can fuck off.
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Nothing wrong with the first and third goals, both onside.
 
Well well well.

TYPICAL CITY = PEP OVERTHINKING NOW.

But we got past that and we got fucked by VAR by Dembele's foul on Laporte and then Sterline SKIED the other one.. that makes you go.. how is it possible to sky that instead of put it in goal.

That sort of miss can define a career. He seriously needs to rethink "top bin" and just put it in.

And you know what.. instead of 90 mil for Koulibally who got raped by Messi who didn't do SHIT against Bayern.. how about we get some of Lyon's players.. they're tall and god knows we need taller players and Dembele won't cost 100 mil and could fit with Aguero/ Jesus. 23 goals in Ligue 1 isn't anything to scoff at.



FUCK I feel horrible.. horrible like last year when VAR fucked us over with Tottenham's handball goal.

BTW the type of goals that were scored against us.. is it like deja vu all over again.. seen those goals the whole season against us. Need a cold beer to calm down. How are you guys doing?
 
Neville Kneville said:
Walker, Stones, Laporte, Mendy, is our best back 4, whether we like it or not.

Gundogan is not in our best team.

We keep trying something else.
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In all the big games pep over thinks it. He trys some smart arse tactics and it doesn't work out. Don't get me wrong he's up there with the best of his generation but he seems to be over thinking it ever since his early years at Bayern where they suffered the heavy semi final defeat.
 
Shit performance but UEFA/referees/VAR give our opponents a goal or two headstart every year, before we look at the advantages they get around the ground.

We've got to improve but the refereeing of our team in Europe is a disgrace.
 
SidJames said:
I think it safe to say we will never win the Champions League under Pep.

His record is fucking abysmal.

We looked scared of them from the start.No belief.

Mixed feelings about going out tbh

I think Lyon have saved us from a good fucking hiding by bayern.

Why does this side Bottle it so much in Europe.Every season is the same. Calamitous school boy defending.
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Bugger off dipper
 
After this performance, I think we have a big big burden on our shoulders next season. Not sure Pep is the answer to move us forward. He's been great but I think he has come to the end of the road with us. His 2 biggest failures are his inability to instil confidence in big matches and inability to organize a solid defense. Can he do that next season, even with new defenders? Will be very hard task.
 
Yes that semi final vs Real Madrid with Pellegrini is still our best CL year to this date. We brought in Pep as we wanted much more in CL than that CL semis which we lost because we hardly attacked and scored 0 in 180 minutes vs Real.

Now 4 years in Pep reign, Monaco, Pool, Tottenham and Lyon.

These are not the likes of Barca, Bayern, Juve mega teams...

Lyon is the most embarassing one, they finished 7th in French Ligue.

Sarri was fired within 5 minutes after losing to Lyon thats how embarassing it was for Juventus despite winning the Serie A.

Not saying Pep should be fired for this, but is he really able to change our defending with spending 70m pounds on a 30 year old defender? Because that seems to be his big plan.
 
Pep fucked up tactically, no question, but let's remember that our defensive options consist of a player who hasn't looked top class since he returned from injury, a mental argentinian with the pace of a snail, an unfit distracted confidence player with no confidence, a 19 year old who may be a great footballer but has no athleticism and a defensive midfielder in his mid 30s whose legs have gone. Not to mention 3 and a half full backs, none of whom can hold a defensive line.

Txiki has to take some of the blame for not signing a centre back last summer. We've had shocking performances at the back all season, why did we think that wouldn't continue?
 
I know I said it in the match day thread but I cannot blame the players tonight Pep handicapped them from the kick off. Mistakes were made by the players but 50 mins of that game was wasted and they could have corrected them in that time. I understand why people don't like people moaning at the team news but i'm sure that 99% of us in our heart of hearts knew it was wrong. I don't want Pep gone but I feel no guilt saying tonight was on him.
 
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