It wasWhy do we play such a high defensive line when we have zero pace at CB or DM, the ball over the top or in between the FB and CB kills us every time against quick forwards, just can't understand why we play this way with the players we currently have. I know Pep likes to pen teams in but shouldn't we be dropping off and holding a deeper back line out of possession?
He cover mistakes like city is a bottom club, he bought almost all those playersPep tried to cover for those weaknesses last night but it still didn't work.
Some tactical tweaks and some new personnel are required but the high line is unlikely to go so we have to have more pace in the centre.
You allowed to be angry, I’m fucking livid.The elephant as you say is Pep.
We should be as a club ruthless, get rid now
He is using us as an experiment for his own views on football, fucking around with tactics, formations, players etc.
I see him as a danger to us as a club progressing further. I believe he has cost us Sane as a player and could do so with the likes of Bernardo and possibly Foden
Does anyone imagine if Kompany was around in his prime he would have stood for this. Not a chance.
11 games we have lost this season due in the main to pissing around.
I am angry and perhaps will calm down but he has cost us once again
Bang on the money.It was
He cover mistakes like city is a bottom club, he bought almost all those players
You play againt Lyon not prime barca or Milan. We end up conceding shit goals, put at the least an attacking team who can scare Lyon. Confidence play a big role in modern game, Lyon whould have stayed in their area and played cautiously
Even when we trash teams i have always a feeling, a mistake is coming during the game
But he's entering the final year of his contract so how does he rebuild the side when he might well be on the way out?Well said. As I said on another thread, many supporters always want someone to blame and far too many think that sacking a manager or selling a player is the right response to a bad defeat.
That's not to say changes in playing personnel are not required: they are. This is a team in transition for one thing and also you should always be looking to replace your weakest links with stronger ones every summer.
Changing the manager is not the right choice at this point, backing him big time in the transfer market is the right move. You sign Pep as manager, you need to give him top quality players because that's what his system demands. He needs to stay and "rebuild" the team.
Whatever we think about team selection, at 1-1 VAR had a major impact on the game. How an "offside" player allowing the ball to go through his legs and then subsequently score is totally beyond me. UEFA only needed one opportunity to make sure we didn't progress and they got it. I'm not denying we weren't good but there's plenty on here who should look at themselves and their comments.
Where does this bollocks come from?
Did you not see the Arsenal game where we got done by a team using exactly Lyons tactics and formation? Did you not see the Norwich game, Wolves, Spurs, United, Southampton?
Lyon are better than all of them. There's every chance we lost just as easily in a 433.
Pep doesn't make these changes for a laugh, he does it because we've got massive weaknesses that good teams have exploited all season.
I cannot understand the deluded arrogance to think we would have been untouchable in a 433 when we have seen its not true all season long.
Good. He is the only one responsible for the shite we served up last night.He literally already said he made a mistake with the set up.
The elephant as you say is Pep.
We should be as a club ruthless, get rid now
He is using us as an experiment for his own views on football, fucking around with tactics, formations, players etc.
I see him as a danger to us as a club progressing further. I believe he has cost us Sane as a player and could do so with the likes of Bernardo and possibly Foden
Does anyone imagine if Kompany was around in his prime he would have stood for this. Not a chance.
11 games we have lost this season due in the main to pissing around.
I am angry and perhaps will calm down but he has cost us once again
You're right. Kompany would not have accepted his team not going all out for the win in a game like this. Pep would not have dared pulling a stunt like thatThe elephant as you say is Pep.
We should be as a club ruthless, get rid now
He is using us as an experiment for his own views on football, fucking around with tactics, formations, players etc.
I see him as a danger to us as a club progressing further. I believe he has cost us Sane as a player and could do so with the likes of Bernardo and possibly Foden
Does anyone imagine if Kompany was around in his prime he would have stood for this. Not a chance.
11 games we have lost this season due in the main to pissing around.
I am angry and perhaps will calm down but he has cost us once again
Well said. As I said on another thread, many supporters always want someone to blame and far too many think that sacking a manager or selling a player is the right response to a bad defeat.
That's not to say changes in playing personnel are not required: they are. This is a team in transition for one thing and also you should always be looking to replace your weakest links with stronger ones every summer.
Changing the manager is not the right choice at this point, backing him big time in the transfer market is the right move. You sign Pep as manager, you need to give him top quality players because that's what his system demands. He needs to stay and "rebuild" the team.
I am aware of that but that side was limited. We should have thrashed them.Historically OL have produced some great footballers, now even after losing stars in the last few years (Lacazette, Umtiti, Fekir, Mendy etc) they continue to produce talents. To think Caqueret, Guimarães, Reine-Adélaïde, and Cherki have yet to really announce themselves to the world - stay tuned
UEFA taking revenge then
Khaldoon's end of season review/summary should be interesting to say the least
I read a stat somewhere yesterday that 90 per cent of games we have lost this season was facing a three or a five-man defence?
Sorry to break this to you but we were out of PL contention by Xmas So how’s that having it both ways?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.
Very sorry but any team with Fernandinio, Rodri & Garcia as our back middle 3 is asking for punishment, even an average team in France took the piss with 3 easy goals, more pace in my grandparents than those 3
We have conceded those all fucking season, Ederson just doesnt look like saving anything in those situations either its all amateur stuff
Why oh why was Garcia anywhere near that squad? Why the fuck did we even try playing like that just to trial it for the Bayern game???
Its a big let down & Pep & the team deserve all the shit thrown at them & us fans
Very sorry but I still don't feel confident with Rodri as HM
Unless Laporte & Koulabily link up & we sign an out & out LB who can defend better than the tripe we currently have then forget about winning the League back its not going to happen
We now have players like Bernardo, Stones who imo would have been a better choice last night wanting out.
Bernardo must be gutted
Another noticeable problem last night out & out striker where do we go with this, im sick of hearing Jesus put the hard yards in & defends well when he's paid to fucking score goals on a regular basis nothing more sure we need to sort it out
Aguero won't be back firing till October time at least, it takes him all pre season & a few Prem games to get going so where do we go??
We are fucked till CB, LB, CF are bought imo
We'll have to agree to disagree. In your opinion, the place a team finishes, in this case Lyon finished 7th, does not necessarily reflect how good they are. They are 7th best over the curtailed season. Teams finish exactly where they deserve to.You can keep saying the same wrong thing over and over again, it doesn't make it true.
Fans can only react to what happens and Pep has this trait of over-thinking perceived problems. We have no way of knowing how his final season is going to develop. For me Pep cost us in both the FA Cup semi-final and the CL QF.I hope people like you have the bollocks to stick to your opinion that Pep is a danger the club and root of all failure when we are successful again next season and don't just try an melt into the background.
My bad I'm afraid. it was meant to say and they subsequently scoreI agree. Had we played to oue strengths we may still have made mistakes but won the game 3- 2.
This team are not world
The guy who let the ball go through his legs did not score. The guy who fouled Laporte did.