Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Kompany Car]

Absolutely gutted, but we didn't deserve to win, lots of players went missing and James for them played out of his skin. Ref was not gonna give us anything particularly with the history between him and Pep.
Regroup, add a couple of fresh faces and we go again next season.
Ctid

 

[BlueBas]

Can a stats merchant confirm that we played all other 55 games or whatever this season with either Rodri or Ferna as a defensive midfielder in the starting eleven.

except tonight

Apart from one other according to to the commentators.

 

[argyle]

Tuchel in 4 months has done what Pep couldn't in years.

 

[Bandofblues]

Pep needs a smack

Prick. You, not Pep.

 

[M Gaudino]

Can't believe all of the Pep bashing. We were set up to attack, but the players didn't perform. Chelsea defended well, and were incapable of breaking them down. Happened a lot this year where we just couldn't create good chances. I'm gutted, but we won the league and move on to next year.

we wernet set up to attack we were set up to not control the ball and opposition like we did for the other fuxking 50 games thise season!!!

 

[its grim up north]

What we must not do is cry. It's OK if we cry when we win but we didn't quite manage it this time . This is just a step on a long journey. We will.be back ,no doubt. Then we can cry.

 

[ws01]

They don’t need to be great on the whole. They have Kante, who is supremely great. He’s their ONLY great player. And he was great tonight. And it was enough because our great players didn’t play great and our great manager didn’t give our great players the best opportunity to be great.

Kante's great in every big game. Gives everything he has without fail, despite how limited he is on the ball

That performance should come as a surprise to no one, especially our so called genius manager

 

[bluemoon32]

well played to Chelsea, outplayed us, out thought us and tactically in a different world with lesser players.

Yep, the better side by a huge fcuking distance

 

[Cheesy]

That be is bollocks my friend.

Is it though?

It's not the first time that poor team selection has cost us in the CL

All of Pep's 'WTF?" moments have come in the competition.

 

[chesterbells]

We played a weak side in the cup semi and in the other we should have won. No excuses tho they deserved it tonight and we didn’t

And I defended those ‘reduced’ line ups for those 2 games, but having seen tonight as well, I think we need to view those 3 game’s against Tuchel’s Chelsea as a whole, and in all 3 matches, regardless of players, we’ve been second best.