#47 | Phil Foden - 2020/21 Performances

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The single silver lining I take from tonight is that, if he's the player I think he is, this will drive him on.

I'm not saying winning everything at a young age is inherently a bad thing but the hurt will fuel him.
 
Very frustrating for Phil tonight , not sure where he was meant to be playing but he is strongest coming in from the left flank and he has a great understanding with Zinchenko but Pep chose to dismantle that pairing by bringing an out of form Sterling into the team which i think cost us the game.
Hope hes is philisophical about tonights final , he has another decade or more to appear in more big finals , and i have a feeling he will have a brilliant euro's, he's got a great future , tonight is a blip for him and the pain of defeat will make him an even better player.
 
He’s been quite poor in central midfield this season. All of his worst games for the club have come in central midfield.

He’s grown into the best left forward in Europe for me over the last six months and gets stuck in midfield tonight. And to see a lad who has had one good game all season playing wide left instead was infuriating.

Baffling from Pep!
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
He’s been quite poor in central midfield this season. All of his worst games for the club have come in central midfield.

He’s grown into the best left forward in Europe for me over the last six months and gets stuck in midfield tonight. And to see a lad who has had one good game all season playing wide left instead was infuriating.

Baffling from Pep!
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Pep has been the one who has been reluctant to play Foden at 8. He’s basically said that he isn’t ready to play there yet because he wants to do everything at one pace. Then plays him there in a CL final. As you say...baffling.
 
Seems the game was a bit too big for him tonight. We have to remember it means more for him than anyone else in City shirt because hes a fan first if all as well as a very young player in his first season.

He got passed by early on, then there was a spell when he was diving into challenges 3x in quick succession and that was worrying, and then when he went on the left he vanished from the game entirely.

There were a few glimpses of his quality, he just couldn't impose himself on the game and I'm sure when he looks back on it in time he will learn more lessons from this game than any other hes played so far.
 
domalino said:
Seems the game was a bit too big for him tonight. We have to remember it means more for him than anyone else in City shirt because hes a fan first if all as well as a very young player in his first season.

He got passed by early on, then there was a spell when he was diving into challenges 3x in quick succession and that was worrying, and then when he went on the left he vanished from the game entirely.

There were a few glimpses of his quality, he just couldn't impose himself on the game and I'm sure when he looks back on it in time he will learn more lessons from this game than any other hes played so far.
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Surprised at the comments on Foden from a few posters in here.

He was not played in his usual position (that’s on Pep) so not as effective as he has and can be, but I thought he was better than Sterling, Mahrez, KDB, Silva and Gundo. (ie the best of the midfield/attacking 6)
 
Trying to take anything from tonight from any of our players is daft, but to look at fodens display is moronic. The further forward you played for city tonight the more hampered you were by Peps instructions and Foden was the most advanced of anybody in a blue shirt until he finally changed it.

I don't think its much of a lesson for him either, we will likely never play like that again so nothing to take from a tactical perspective and he didn't play well or badly he just didn't get to play because of Pep so nothing to analyse in his own game to improve on. At absolute best it's a bit of a life lesson in how to take an unexpected defeat on the chin and we will see how he responds to that in the euros.
 
Great touch after Sterling and De Beuyne had combined and he so mearly scored but for Rudiger's block. And the run to weave in before setting Mahrez up for the ball Azpilicueta cut out was class.

Still tried to have an impact but should have been played wide left. Pep clearly thought tonight was the night he ran the midfield but I wasn't sure exactly where he was supposed to be playing and he didn't look to know either. Bernardo was buzzing all over the park and it seemed to be Foden was playing the role Gundogan usually would but the interchange and fluidity was nowhere near as good.

He will get over this as we all will. We haven't lost many finals so it was always going to happen at some point. Fuel the fire.
 
Ridiculous that he was having to come deep so much and play at the half way line - it really is fucking simple, play him as close to their goal as possible

Could have been a totally different game with him left wing and our regular lineup
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Invisible like the other offensive players. When we don’t have control of the game, these players are out of it. A masterclass from Chelsea unfortunately.
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Agreed. For most clubs 55% possession is perfectly fine and for some, far more than they need to function. For us it is terrible. This side is not built for not having the ball, once possession numbers get remotely even we suffer, especially if the other side is capable of taking advantage of their increased possession. Chelsea are more than capable.
 
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