Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Roachy]

Ragged because there was no pivot. And there was no pivot because he put in Sterling instead. A guy who's been useless for months.

The whole team played poor because Sterling was selected?

 

[CityPar]

give pep 2 world class strikers

Why? He doesn't play with strikers these days. Haven't you noticed?

 

[silvathechihuahua]

At the end of the day we got to the final for the first time in our history so we now know how to get there a few tweaks in personnel hear and there and we will get over the line and win it it’s inevitable!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It's not second time in two years, we've seen it long before that?

Liverpool QF away, he changes his best team and picks Gundo as a wide forward?

Spurs QF first leg away, no De Bruyne and Sane, brings them on with just minutes to go.

Baffling for ages.

He changed the formation to two holding mods at Spurs and dropped our captain Kompany, our best player de Bruyne, our player of the season Bernardo, and Sané

 

[Bald fraud]

Lyon last season Chelsea this......Pep really needs to calm down over opposition.
Its the same when we play the Rags.....he builds them upto fuck and we end up losing.

fuck the rags fuck the competition.....we are Manchester City FC

Yep. He’s probably spent the whole week telling the lads how good Chelsea are just like he does with the rags. Just start the team that beat PSG ffs

 

[Keeper!]

I thought we played a good game but we were wide open to counter-attacks. Pep left the team fighting with one arm behind their back.

Which game did you watch, if Werner could shoot , they would be 3-0 up at half time.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Gundogun not good enough to start for city. Absolutely garbage player

Have you considered following tennis?

 

[Blueknows]

???

Says we were exceptional ffs

 

[YayaTouresEars]

At least you can all go to bed. I've got the whole day ahead of me in NZ. Off to watch Peter Rabbit 2 with the kids.

FFs - as if losing tonight wasn't bad enough...you've now got to suffer James Corden too.

 

[kanovic]

At least have the decency to admit you fucked up. Don’t be so egotistical that you’d rather not lose face than speak the truth.

If he didn’t think that wa the best team he wouldn’t have picked it. What does he have to admit?

 

[Bluescholar]

Absolutely it will stay with him. It will stay with me too, and everyone connected with City.

As long as Pep doesn't lose the dressing room, then it probably spurs us on. I am just glad I didn't go and watch that.

We lost a 90 min cup game, I'm pretty sure the premier league champs will stay with their boss, and you're not glad you didn't go, non of us are.

 

[Chippy_boy]

In fairness I thought Chelsea were class tonight. Best I’ve seen them play in a long time.

In fairness, so did I.

If they get a 30-goal striker next season, they will be a handful.

 

[come-on-barney]

Nothing to do with my perspective of the game, as I said it was disappointing but some people really should take time to calm down before posting some of the shite they write.

Genuinely interested in your perspective of the game.

 

[bluethrunthru]

We lost. End of. Can't change it. Leave the post mortem to Pep and his team. Leave the in's and outs to the club. 14/8/21 it all starts all over again. We just roll the dice go again and see where it all ends up. Remember when the ESL was proposed and everyone said " but it removes all competition" tonight was what competition looks like - you can't win them all......................

 

[Elbow beards]

Except that pep will pick gundogun again next year in a key CL MATCH. and that's the end of that. Worst Citi player since 2012

Knob

 

[madloaf]

Nothing to do with my perspective of the game, as I said it was disappointing but some people really should take time to calm down before posting some of the shite they write.

Passion is good! It makes us say stupid things but with feeling. This is a safe place. We will forgive you tomorrow (please FORGIVE ME TOMORROW!)

 

[Dribble]

I'll explain it to you.
We have gone out of the Champions League three times due to the referee we had tonight making the wrong decisions against us.
This referee has a long history of being against Pep Guardiola and against Manchester City.
Pep looked at this and realised every tackle, every bit of pressure will result in a free kick against us (at best).
With this in mind Pep decided to pick a team that were better at keeping possession rather than winning it back as that was the least likely to result in freekicks, penaltys, red cards against us.
He decided that due to the above it was sensible to pick Sterling rather than Fernandinho as that minimises the risks of red cards but allows Sterling's pace to keep James pinned back, thus negating one of their biggest threats.
Foden and De Bruyne were then allowed to roam up front in the hopes that this would then pull their back 5 out of position a little allowing us to exploit the space somewhat.
Hope this helps.

Sorry, but the ref had nothing to do with our lineup tonight. In other crucial matches, Pep's come with some curious team selections & formations, when that ref was nowhere near. What was Pep's excuse then?

What happened tonight is exactly what many of us feared. Chelsea treated us with respect, we took the piss & got what we deserved. Nothing! That was ALL on Pep! :-(

 

[smallsteve]

You being serious about Gundogan? Pep threw him under the bus playing him as an holding midfielder.

You clearly don't watch us if you can't see what Gundogan is good at, he's vital to the way we usually play, he keeps hold of the ball so well. Also you should check who the leading goalscorer is.

There have been many games that I have watched gundog and wondered what he brings to the team. Then, you see his stats and realise the impact he has.
He is one of those strange players that goes largely unNoticed, but is a vital cog in the machine.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Arf

More shite from another cry baby.

To listen to BT, you'd think that Chelsea are some plucky underdog, not the original super rich megabucks club. When we play the way we did winning 20-odd on the bounce, we're near unplayable. We gambled on getting the first goal and forcing Chelsea to over commit.

 

[mixer]

We didn't win not because of 1 player. Come on lads. I know it's fun to WUM but we know that it isn't true. Remember we're all blues here.

That 1 player upset the balance of the team and did piss all this season to warrant a start in the final