Paris Saint-Germain (A) - CL SF | Post-Match Thread

[KS55]

If Rubin Dias stays fit he will be the best RB in the world. This guy is a leader.
Man City should find a replacement for Aguero, and this team will win titles every year.

We already do.
Dias CB.

 

[CityEssex49er]

The result is the most important thing obviously but what impressed me most that we went one down to them, looked to be outplayed for parts of the first half and had to drag ourselves back into the game in the second half which we did. That second half performance was World Class. Will have to be wary in the second leg as Mbappe and Neymar are quality and they are capable of scoring 2...............

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Christ. Can’t believe we lost last night

 

[solley attwell]

Apologies if already posted.

Been too busy working to go all through the thread.

What a cnut Carragher is.

No words for that shit.

English Club in the Semi-Finals and acting like that......................just wow.

Just imagine they're were people claiming Spit should get a knighthood for his passionate speech on Sky last week and now he cheers on a foreign side

 

[Chippy_boy]

We would have to change tact a bit, but what we seem to be missing is the David Silva killer ball with Sergio running onto it and finishing. Personally i would say when that worked it was a little bit better than what we have now. We have the midfielders in Kev and Foden to play those balls, just not the finisher.

Totally agree. I worry about our ability to actually stick the ball in the net. Everything else is perfect, but we had 2 fluky goals yesterday and with them down to 10 men and us all over them, we had a golden opportunity to finish the tie off. I mean with us so rampant, and them knackered, deflated and depleted and we had things like that killer run and cross from Rodri and no-one making an effort to get on the end of it.

 

[Gremlin]

Totally agree. I worry about our ability to actually stick the ball in the net. Everything else is perfect, but we had 2 fluky goals yesterday and with them down to 10 men and us all over them, we had a golden opportunity to finish the tie off. I mean with us so rampant, and them knackered, deflated and depleted and we had things like that killer run and cross from Rodri and no-one making an effort to get on the end of it.

It may have been fluky but you need a dose of good luck at times to win a cup competition. It isn't always the best team that wins (not that I think we weren't the better team or that we didn't deserve to win) - just look at the list of CL winners over the last few years. I just have a feeling, a hope, that this year lady luck may be smiling on us and if we marry it with two more decent performances then we can win this.

 

[goalmole]

I think every blue has the right to have justifiable confidence after last night's performance. Irrespective of the 2nd leg, the lads did everything we could have asked - and it's a win that we're entitled to celebrate. It's easy to play the pundits role of looking for negativity where it doesn't really exist, but I'm sure it must be a very miserable way of supporting your team.

We are football fans, we follow this game for the joy it brings us. If we can't express this joy when it comes along because we're scared of what happen in the next match then we would never be happy, we would never celebrate our successes because we don't know what is going to happen in the next leg, the next match, in the next season.
We all get that it's only halfway through the tie and we know that PSG are a very good side. We also know that the possibility exists that we could have egg on our faces if it goes tits up next Tuesday after all the exuberance and euphoria on here but all this negativity in the name of not attracting karma or tempting fate is totally uncalled for.
Let us be happy, let us enjoy not just this moment, but also what we have become as a team and a club.
Let us believe.

 

[VOOMER]

Totally agree. I worry about our ability to actually stick the ball in the net. Everything else is perfect, but we had 2 fluky goals yesterday and with them down to 10 men and us all over them, we had a golden opportunity to finish the tie off. I mean with us so rampant, and them knackered, deflated and depleted and we had things like that killer run and cross from Rodri and no-one making an effort to get on the end of it.

You can't score if you don't have the ball

 

[mccity]

Christ. Can’t believe we lost last night

Pep should've known better than to play Foden at RB. Overthinking again in a big game.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Apologies if already posted.

Been too busy working to go all through the thread.

What a cnut Carragher is.

No words for that shit.

English Club in the Semi-Finals and acting like that......................just wow.

Not defending him but it would be strange if he cheered a city goal?.....

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

without spending hours trawling the internet, that must be a record?

First english team to reach double figures in wins in a champions league campaign, I believe

 

[ancoats]

This isn’t done and dusted yet. PSG are more than capable of winning 2 - 0 at our ground. Even though we played well second half last night, both our goals had some good fortune to them. I still think we need a world class striker. Anyway, let’s hope we finish the job. C‘mon City!

am in the camp of a world class striker is needed in the summer. but every time i question the false 9 pep rams it down my throat. the game last night was 1st half defo need one 2nd half well that shows me

that first have chance for foden when he it the shot right at the keeper down the middle i said haaland would have scored that ? 2nd half foden went on amazing run with the ball at his feet messi like. the shot could not get it out of his feet but that was the false 9 to a tee

the lack of options are key for me from the bench ? pep does not want to play aguero sterling jesus he's backing the false 9 in europe. he will not change his mind so even if we had haaland or a world class striker my feeling is they sit out last night

i never understood the false 9 until last night. its a big game option pep uses because of the work rate he asks from the front 3. pep rotates silva foden kdb and all have 3 or 4 jobs in the team and marhez is the out ball to bring them in ? it must be a nightmare to defencd or play against. the amount of running by them 3 is scary. silva must have a twin because nobody runs more than him in world football. i bet KDB was the first one to go up to him and say this is really your motm award

 

[ancoats]

Not defending him but it would be strange if he cheered a city goal?.....

i said it before what about the english club in europe ? you should be backing the premier league team working on a tv station as a pundit and being english as well ? fuck them we don't want any of the cunts back us anyway

 

[Maccblue]

 

[supercity88]

With respect, I'm still of the opinion he has a tendency to over think things in crucial CL matches. This was latently revealed when Pep recalled what Cruyff had told Barca players about treating big matches as friendlies, enjoying them & rising to the occasion. Previously we've seemed too pressured because of the; 'Pep was brought in to win the CL', 'After spending £1,000,000,000,000,000,000 on players, Pep STILL hasn't won a CL in 10 years.' Etc.... Even during a testing first half the skeleton of who we are was clearly evident, however after half time, we put flesh on our bones by compacting our play more & supporting each other, meaning no players were left isolated & outnumbered with no options to pass to.

Yes we were more conservative in the first half, but all it took was a reminder of what we do week in week out to turn our fortunes around in the second half, where previously Pep seems to have ripped up what has worked for us to spring a surprise which hasn't worked. There's a big difference between a tactical adjustment, & some of the wholesale tactical & personnel changes in crucial matches I've seen previously which have left me more than a little baffled.

I get what you are saying and it's really semantics from what my opinion is.

I think the whole world knows Pep lives and breathes football. He thinks about everything and studies every detail. I don't think there's a team out there he wouldn't be preparing for in the same way. But equally, we don't know what results could have been had we played different formations/styles so it's hard to know just how wrong he has got things. As he always says, when it comes off he's a genius and when it doesn't he's criticised. That's his job.

You look at the Liverpool game and there were definitely issues, but we should have had a pen. And Sane wrongly had a goal disallowed in the first half that could have made it 2-0. With the penalty given and scored (pushing it!) we'd have been going through. The Spurs games he didn't do anything wrong. We wanted to push for a goal in the first leg, De Bruyne was held back, but we were in an almighty battle for the league. And Llorente's goal would have been disallowed for handball this year.

He also made changes for our game in Madrid which we won, but the subsequent changes he made for Lyon were obviously criticised. The lineup was shocking and most of us felt we were out at that point. But we got back into the game and created plenty of chances to score and win it. Individual errors/misses were more to blame than Pep's formation and tactics.

But I think you are right overall. He seems more confident in the side now. He has established a real balance to our team and is trusting on the usual tactics, formation and players to get the job done in Europe. There was a definite reluctance to overcommit in the first half. Whether that was Pep or the players I'm not sure, but I'd guess it was Pep. We reverted to our usual game in the second and were top class.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

i think it was one of the marhez foul he turned away marhez started laughing the city players and captain KDB had a word with the ref ? after that it was like the ref shit the bed and give up. even the marhez freekick when he scored the BT commentators said finally the ref gives us a freekick hahahah

Kev whispered in his ear, "The world is watching."

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

You can't score if you don't have the ball

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[Luke The Blue]

First english team to reach double figures in wins in a champions league campaign, I believe

Yeah I wouldn't cheer for Liverpool, was buzzing when Madrid beat them in the final.

 

[ancoats]

Kev whispered in his ear, "The world is watching."

it was getting to the city players 2nd half when the ref just was having nothing from the city players
but so funny when neymar fouled dias and told him to get up haha

 

[Cityfan]

I wouldn't so readily dismiss a 4-1 away win in the Nou Camp in a CL last 16 tie.

With players like Mbappe, Neymar and di Maria they can turn a tie on its head in 5 minutes. There's justifiable confidence and there is bravado.

A bit late into this thread but:
PSG have clearly got very fine attacking players a good away record and we underestimate them at our peril.
But to put the Barca result into perspective Barca are a currently a team who are determined to get our 5th best centre back because they think he will improve their defense.