Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

Oh well, we lost next season to look forward to.

Face it though we're at the end of an era with Kompany, Silva, Fernandinho, even Aguero. The next generation is looking good and next year we'll be ready to fight even stronger. But it's always tough changing the guard and its been reflected in a frustrating year.

Got to be said UEFA are cheats though, its brazen tbh.
 
Beanhead said:
I’m with this.. this is not why we lost and nor should we be pointing to it.

That said, as a football fan though I just can’t get to grips with the rule. He clearly interfered with play by dummying the ball he’s involved in the move and it’s natural course.. he is totally interfering with play.
So why no offside?
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I don't think he dummied it, he was just trying to avoid it. But neither matters because it did not prevent our defenders from playing the ball. They just watched.
 
colinbellsballboy said:
Was gonna go into how he picked Ferny, and Gundogan, and Walker, and no Silvas, and no Foden, but CBA, it was that obvious....that is why I said why, why why........I dunno, maybe he just overthought it, maybe he is that intense, he just thinks he is right....I dunno.....he obs got it wrong tonight.....and I imagine he will say as much in the next few days.
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After saying every game is a final and then playing the equivalent of Peter Reid and me in midfield instead of Foden and Mahrez then he can be as intense as he likes. My Mrs is intense and she's a twat, that is why I make the sensible decisions based on the particular situation
 
Neville Kneville said:
Imo, even allowing for the misses & fuckups, we should have won 1-0.

But ( and I'm not blaming him, even though I'm not a fan) what was Gundogan's role ?

I figured, Garcia, Rodri, Fern, Gundogan, was to keep the ball when Lyon pressed, but it was almost as if Rodri & Gundogan were decoys, to draw their midfield away, to allow Garcia time to move forward & pass it through to the front.

But why Gundogan ?
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I have a recurring nightmare of City feebly being knocked out of the Johnstone Paints Trophy by Curzon Ashton in 2055, with Gundogan still stinking out our midfield, occasionally knocking the ball sideways with his zimmer frame.
Pep will still pick him every single fucking week
 
dickie davies said:
Someone needs to explain the offside rule to me because I have absolutely no idea about it now

I cannot understand why, when the ball is deliberately passed to an offside player, who let's the ball run through his legs, the offside player is not deemed to be offside!
Even though he has not touched the ball, he has influenced play
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you are correct and on BT sport I was astonished not to hear the term ‘active’. A word that has been used all season to explain to us plebs the reason why a player deemed to be not in possession of the ball but who is materially effecting the game by being offside.....admittedly usually it’s used to explain to the team getting fucked over, that they are getting fucked over because their player was deemed to be active and therefore complicit in the offside....strange that it wasn’t used tonight by Walton the ‘wise’.
 
Ric said:
Agreed, that sitter aside I thought Sterling was one of our better players tonight. Then again, tends to go missing against the likes of Liverpool and United domestically so not sure you can really call him a "big-game player".
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Hmmm. Not at his best against United but his last 3 league games against Liverpool have been quality:

Ran Robertson and VWD ragged in the 2nd half in the 2-1
Motm on here at Anfield in the 1-3
Won penalty and good goal in the 4-0
 
fareastblue said:
What's this Lyon is seventh in the league thing that league was abandoned with 10 games to play if they're that shit they won't be converting chances against us
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If you look at the league table last season based on home form. The 2 worst home teams were Southampton and Norwich.

You don't need to be a good team to beat us
 
Tried to calm down but cant believe how sny TOP msnager can get it so wrong. I can see us winning the league agsin but honestly dont belirve well win CL with Pep as I think he has a bigger inferiority complex with us than he should have
 
I think it will be Pep that decides our future not us.

And to be fair,i wont begrudge him that. 2 great record breaking seasons.

Barcelona are in trouble on,and off the field.Pep is connected to Club emotionally.His wife hates Manchester.Plus Covid fundamentally changed his life,and outlook,

The lure from his spiritual home might be too great.With Pochetinho waiting in the wings.He might feel he needs to seize the opportunity or lose it.

I also think Barcelona would see Pep as a Fireman,mediating between all factions at the Club,putting out fires.Right man at the right time.Rather than risking upheaval with Pochetinho.

Where as we are still a work in progress and perfect for Pochetinho and a new direction.

It is possible there will be an amicable parting of the ways over the next couple of weeks.

It is a real possibility in my opinion.He has completed a 4 year cycle which he says is the lifespan of his style and tactics.

And he has always said he will return to Barcelona at the right moment.

This might be it.

We will see.
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Changes little. We had all the wrong players out in all the wrong formation. Not what I personally expect from our manager in the biggest game of our season in probably our best chance of winning the European Cup.
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This is true how many said fucking hell when they saw the team, then hopefully added we trust in Pep.
Well Pep well and truly messed up tonight and he and he alone is the reason we are out.
The first half was terrible and nothing like how City normally play. It was however what we all expected when we saw the team.
Subs made far too late again and then only one when when it screamed out for two or three.
Easy too talk in hindsight but many of us predicted this when we saw the team, but we are just mere football fanS not the alleged best manager in the world.
Got to add I'm a big Pep fan but he seems to have a mental block in Champions League knock out stages and he seriously messed up tonight.
 
LongsightM13 said:
I have a recurring nightmare of City feebly being knocked out of the Johnstone Paints Trophy by Curzon Ashton in 2055, with Gundogan still stinking out our midfield, occasionally knocking the ball sideways with his zimmer frame.
Pep will still pick him every single fucking week
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I'm really not a fan, but I can't really give him shit tonight as I can't figure out what he was supposed to be doing & how, being Gundogan, he was expected to do it.

His position just looked like he was playing Foden or Bernardo's position to me, but with Gundogan instead.

It does feel as if we were saving their legs to play Bayern.
 
To not start Foden was a fucking disgrace BTW.
He's been our second best player since the restart. Vision, pace, skill, workrate and he knows where the goal is.
When he has not started we have lost.
Instead Pep plays Gundogon who was absolute dog shit tonight - and guess what we lost!
 
SidJames said:
I think it will be Pep that decides our future not us.

And to be fair,i wont begrudge him that. 2 great record breaking seasons.

Barcelona are in trouble on,and off the field.Pep is connected to Club emotionally.His wife hates Manchester.Plus Covid fundamentally changed his life,and outlook,

The lure from his spiritual home might be too great.With Pochetinho waiting in the wings.He might feel he needs to seize the opportunity or lose it.

I also think Barcelona would see Pep as a Fireman,mediating between all factions at the Club,putting out fires.Right man at the right time.Rather than risking upheaval with Pochetinho.

Where as we are still a work in progress and perfect for Pochetinho and a new direction.

It is possible there will be an amicable parting of the ways over the next couple of weeks.

It is a real possibility in my opinion.He has completed a 4 year cycle which he says is the lifespan of his style and tactics.

And he has always said he will return to Barcelona at the right moment.

This might be it.

We will see.
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Give it up ffs,obvious as fuck
 
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