Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

nmc said:
Maybe on paper but that was a poor performance. We are a good side and we can create chances for fun ordinarily but, not tonight we were poor lumping it forward - just wasn’t a Man City performance. So annoying and so frustrated. Feel badly let down with Pep but calling for his head is stupid. We need to regroup and move on.
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oh we were far from great. Pep set up the team wrong, picked the wrong players and there were some shocking individual mistakes (plus a bad VAR call). But yet again we make loads of chances compared to the opposItion and dont take enough! Its becoming a big issue
 
daveiw01 said:
I've just sat back and spent the last 5 minutes trying to think of a proper argument to your points, I can't. That may well be down to my stupidity, but perhaps, in this case, more likely it is at least partially down to the likelihood that you are 100% correct, sadly.
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Dukys fucking right unfortunately
 
If we’d have started with the team that was on the pitch when we equalised, the match would have been already won and the gift wrapped opportunity we gave UEFA to get their revenge would have been of no consequence

How can a coach who is so brilliant and experienced and gets paid god knows how much to win these games get it so wrong?

Is there nobody in his back room staff or even any of the players that could have pointed out he was sending us stumbling blindly into a catastrophe. I reckon 90% of us lot, even after a skinful of beer pre match, saw this coming when we saw the team
 
I would of understood that line up against Bayern , keep it tight then use subs when the game opens up

but to play that team took all the momentum we had gained from beating Madrid

hes too loyal to some players who are so obviously past it , Fernandinho and Dave should have been nowhere near our first 11 this season. Bernardo is a weird one as well , what Has happened to him, first name on the teamsheet to hardly getting a look in

Garcia as well, if he’s leaving then why play him, he’s average at this point in his career, we should snap Barca’s hand off for £15m

the weird thing with Pep is he never does this in the league, there were games this season, especially against United where he could have been wary of the counter attack but he picks a standard 433 and we get picked off

there is no way he’s not in the dugout next season though, he’s in a similar position as Wenger was, he is the club and it’s set up to be all about him and what he wants, six trophies says it’s worked so far

however, after next season I hope Sheikh Mansour looks at a root and branch reform of the club and take it in a new direction with a new CEO and director of football. The Barca model will have come to its natural conclusion by then with Pep gone

The only bright side I can find from that shit show is that winning it this season wouldn’t have felt like a real win wihout seeing any of the games live and the lifting the trophy
 
skyblues said:
The team selection is 100% on Pep. He should know possesion means jack sh!t.
He need to have a serious look at his tactics. These figures mean shit.
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The figures clearly show that his tactics provided the platform to control the game and create shots on goal and goalscoring chances.

What the figures dont show is that we contrived to miss several good chances to score, got boned by VAR on their second and Ederson turned into Rita Fairclough for their third.

The platform was there, the players didn't convert that into a win.
 
I agree.

No room for sentiment in football.Pep is a car crash in Europe.He has made us a laughing stock.

All starting to feel a bit Stale,4 seasons of whimpering out of the Champions League with stupid tactics,and team selections based on who licks his arse the most.

Thanks for the memories Pep.Two great seasons ,back to back titles.

Now we want Champions League glory.

And unfortunately you look a million miles away from that.

I have a feeling the pull of Barcelona might give Pep visions of grandeur.Their Knight in shining armor walking out on us in his last season to steady the Ship.It will all go tits up,but it might not stop him.

Ironically that Bayern trouncing of Barcelona might lead to managerial change at City also.

Pep back at Barcelona.

Pochetinho at City.
 
decmancity said:
Fucking embarassing. End of.

As soon as I saw the team I thought it was over. Completely ridiculous decision to decide to play 5 at the back. Of our 3 CB, one has said he doesn't want to be here and has the athleticism of a toddler, the other is a 35yr old defensive midfielder and Laporte, completely fucked our build up play.

Gundogan and Rodri should never see each other on the pitch unless we are 8-0 up against a League 2 team. Sideways, back, sideways, back, sideways, back, slow lofted ball out wide (that gets cut out), sideways, back.

Fuck knows what Pep was watching for the first 50/60mins to think that Foden and Bernardo should stay on the bench. To throw on Silva at the end was just a joke and I feel sorry for Dave to go out on a whimper. Was Pep sat there with Lillo and thinking this is going great, we are going to turn it round any minute now.

We created two fucking chances the whole game. Against a team that just finished 7th, and not just 7th, but 7th in the fucking french league and they have barely kicked a ball in 6 mths.

Pep has to be asked serious questions, I am sorry but its becoming a farce every season in the CL and its not just VAR. You don't put yourself in the place to have to concede goals like that second one.

I turned it off before the end of the game but has Pep come out with "We played so well, best game of our season, I have never seen us player better" yet?

I can't wait for next season when it will be the old "We are not ready yet, we see big big big teams like Lyon and they have been here for decades" "We need to learn, we need to adapt"
Everytime I hear him say things like that its like hes doing us a favor being here. How does Pep feel about Leipzig and all their CL experience and history?
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Sigh, I can't argue with this, I wish I could.
 
Having calmed down a bit, I'm looking back 8 days to that game against Real Madrid, one of the best games I've seen us play. We hounded them all over the field and could easily beat any of their presses.

Yet tonight was the complete opposite. Our pressing when not in possession was almost non-existent and we seemed consistently incapable of playing out of Lyon's press. It's completely baffling.
 
decmancity said:
Fucking embarassing. End of.

As soon as I saw the team I thought it was over. Completely ridiculous decision to decide to play 5 at the back. Of our 3 CB, one has said he doesn't want to be here and has the athleticism of a toddler, the other is a 35yr old defensive midfielder and Laporte, completely fucked our build up play.

Gundogan and Rodri should never see each other on the pitch unless we are 8-0 up against a League 2 team. Sideways, back, sideways, back, sideways, back, slow lofted ball out wide (that gets cut out), sideways, back.

Fuck knows what Pep was watching for the first 50/60mins to think that Foden and Bernardo should stay on the bench. To throw on Silva at the end was just a joke and I feel sorry for Dave to go out on a whimper. Was Pep sat there with Lillo and thinking this is going great, we are going to turn it round any minute now.

We created two fucking chances the whole game. Against a team that just finished 7th, and not just 7th, but 7th in the fucking french league and they have barely kicked a ball in 6 mths.

Pep has to be asked serious questions, I am sorry but its becoming a farce every season in the CL and its not just VAR. You don't put yourself in the place to have to concede goals like that second one.

I turned it off before the end of the game but has Pep come out with "We played so well, best game of our season, I have never seen us player better" yet?

I can't wait for next season when it will be the old "We are not ready yet, we see big big big teams like Lyon and they have been here for decades" "We need to learn, we need to adapt"
Everytime I hear him say things like that its like hes doing us a favor being here. How does Pep feel about Leipzig and all their CL experience and history?
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Tell you what, for a fanbase who alledgedly hate UEFA and all it stands for, regularly state we're not arsed about the CL, we've turned into a right bunch of mard-arsed self-entitled tosspots tonight.

Who actually gives a fuck?

PL or CL? PL all day fucking long.

We can't have it both ways.
 
andy07 said:
Combination of factors.

1. Should have played to our strengths instead of pissing about with the formation.
2. Poor decisions from ref and VAR.
3. Howlers from us at both ends of the pitch... and most importantly
4. Lyon recognised that we are extremely vulnerable when pressed in the middle of the park. Look back at many of the goals conceded this season and there is a similar pattern. They did their homework.
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Yeah who’d have thought they would have done their homework, well Pep obviously didn’t.
 
I'm consoling myself with the belief that we were never going to win it this year anyway. We have too many things going against us:

VAR always goes against City when it matters most - If an opposition goal should be ruled out, it wont be. If a City goal should stand they'll find any reason to rule it out. It's useless from a City perspective in the knockout stages(they don't mind us winning our group).

When VAR inevitably does go against City - Our players capitulate soon after. They go full headless chicken mode leaving us open for a suckerpunch goal and then their heads drop.

Pep overthinking things - I can't really argue with this anymore.

Our players turning up to some games like they've already won. Walking around the pitch for sustained periods(walking while pressing players at times). They go behind(usually from a mistake) and then the game becomes much easier for the opposition.

Certain players choosing the CL to have their biggest mistakes of the season. How did Sterling miss that? What was Eddie doing?

We had no chance of getting past Bayern even if we did squeak past this game. We'll just have to get better for next season.
 
decmancity said:
Fucking embarassing. End of.

As soon as I saw the team I thought it was over. Completely ridiculous decision to decide to play 5 at the back. Of our 3 CB, one has said he doesn't want to be here and has the athleticism of a toddler, the other is a 35yr old defensive midfielder and Laporte, completely fucked our build up play.

Gundogan and Rodri should never see each other on the pitch unless we are 8-0 up against a League 2 team. Sideways, back, sideways, back, sideways, back, slow lofted ball out wide (that gets cut out), sideways, back.

Fuck knows what Pep was watching for the first 50/60mins to think that Foden and Bernardo should stay on the bench. To throw on Silva at the end was just a joke and I feel sorry for Dave to go out on a whimper. Was Pep sat there with Lillo and thinking this is going great, we are going to turn it round any minute now.

We created two fucking chances the whole game. Against a team that just finished 7th, and not just 7th, but 7th in the fucking french league and they have barely kicked a ball in 6 mths.

Pep has to be asked serious questions, I am sorry but its becoming a farce every season in the CL and its not just VAR. You don't put yourself in the place to have to concede goals like that second one.

I turned it off before the end of the game but has Pep come out with "We played so well, best game of our season, I have never seen us player better" yet?

I can't wait for next season when it will be the old "We are not ready yet, we see big big big teams like Lyon and they have been here for decades" "We need to learn, we need to adapt"
Everytime I hear him say things like that its like hes doing us a favor being here. How does Pep feel about Leipzig and all their CL experience and history?
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Fully agree....when you looked at the players faces in the line up for the anthem you could see that there was something no right....time and time again we are made to look like fools
 
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