Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Marvin]

We will never ever know what MCFC team is going to turn up from one week or the next.

Still love Pep. Warts n all.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

You could tell that team had been thrown a curveball , they must have been thinking "where's our leader and wtf is he doing on the pitch?"
Sapped all their belief and mine in one fell swoop. Was feeling so tense till I heard the line up. That tension just evaporated as I realised we'd just thrown the CL final
Brain fart doesn't even begin to cover it

 

[Keeper!]

We will never ever know what MCFC team is going to turn up from one week or the next.

Still love Pep. Warts n all.

Marvin , last night was a nightmare, but to say what teams turns up week in week out is a step too far

 

[Forzacitizens]

What a nightmare. Could understand losing but we didn't even lay a glove on them.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Have we kicked off yet.
What a shitty morning.

 

[daztrueblue91]

Said last nigh, like all geniuses he , Pep, is flawed, serious flaws, and often against the lesser sides.

This is no slur on Chelsea, who rightfully won last night but City have better players, better coach, but last night we failed badly, did not remotely justify our ability.

I think our squad is massively overrated if I’m being honest and it’s much closer in ability to Chelsea, Liverpool and United’s than people think.

It’s Pep’s coaching ability that makes us look so good.

We need to be aggressive in the summer transfer window though and add some quality to the attack.

 

[Keeper!]

What a nightmare. Could understand losing but we didn't even lay a glove on them.

exactly this, was like watching the Wigan FA Cup final all over again.

At least Dave "you know I broke my leg" was not around to gloat

 

[Keeper!]

Have we kicked off yet.
What a shitty morning.

too upset to kick off, this one hurts

 

[Cheesy]

Defenders thinking "would prefer it if Ferny was sitting there protecting us."

Gundy thinking "would prefer to be further up the field so I can create opportunities."

KDB thinking "who's going to cover me if I fuck up?"

Phil thinking "I want space to run at and destroy the fuckers".

The whole team thinking "should I pass to Raheem?"

Raz thinking " ".

 

[Withnail]

Still feel gutted that we put in such a lacklustre performance. As soon as I saw the line up I expected defeat. Pep threw his usual CL curveball and unfortunately it didn't work again.

 

[ctwrd]

I think our squad is massively overrated if I’m being honest and it’s much closer in ability to Chelsea, Liverpool and United’s than people think.

It’s Pep’s coaching ability that makes us look so good.

We need to be aggressive in the summer transfer window though and add some quality to the attack.

This is correct.

also correct:
Fernandinho starts doesn’t mean we win.

 

[grant1977]

Cluster fuck of the highest order

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Kane

Certainly a tall central striker would help as an alternative approach.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Chelsea are a different type of team to PSG and Dortmund. They are more like United in their approach and we shit the bed against them as well.

I don’t think playing a DM would have made a blind bit of difference. The game was lost because Pep couldn’t solve the riddle to break down Chelsea’s defence.

This side was finished in the 70th minute last night and that is what hurts. We normally play our way right up until the final whistle, we are proud to fight to the end. Instead we rolled over and got our belly tickled.

How many times did Walker or Ederson lump it into the box? How many long throw ins into the box did we have?

We were mentally shot and tactically unprepared that’s the big worry.

This 100%. We had run out of ideas well before the end. I don’t think we would have scored had we played another 90 mins. Tuchal has got the measure of us that’s for sure. The lumping balls and long throw ins was a hard watch as it’s just not us but the players just didn’t know what to do so resorted to tactics usually seen at Burnley.

 

[BlueRockape]

A discusting way to treat a man like Aguero don't think he will ever forgive Guardiola for it ( not that it matters ) but neither will I such a sour taste : (

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

I actually wonder whether this happened last night. The team vibe was strange. I imagine they will have thought the same thing as we did - is he over thinking this? And some of them already bear the scars of Monaco, Liverpool, Tottenham, Lyon. I wonder whether some of the senior players - Dinho, Kevin, Walker - might have voiced some opposition?

I hope they did oppose the team selection, at least after the game if not before. I hope his back room staff also have an opinion on such things and are not just ‘yes’ men. I hope our hierarchy saw the same things we saw and have the balls to question him.

he’s the best manager in the world, but Christ he’s prone to cock-ups

 

[PoorTom]

Chelsea can' win the league playing with a counter-attacking team but they will probably add a striker. They will evolve too.

I think their style of play is better suited to strong cup competitions. They are likely to loose surprise points to lesser teams, they are almost like the antithesis of City.

 

[Harrilew]

Gutting.

Not going to say anything different than all of you are thinking/said.

Why change it?

 

[staffs_blue]

Lucky in a way that Havertz scored 'cos Ederson would of been off and we would of had 10 men for 50+ mins

Yep, could have been 3 or 4

 

[Keeper!]

This 100%. We had run out of ideas well before the end. I don’t think we would have scored had we played another 90 mins. Tuchal has got the measure of us that’s for sure. The lumping balls and long throw ins was a hard watch as it’s just not us but the players just didn’t know what to do so resorted to tactics usually seen at Burnley.

Tuchel Ole and Klopp , all 3 hit us on the counter and have Pep's measure.

He needs to get a grip of counter attacking teams and quickly.