It wasn't just changing one player that was the issue, it's the domino effect.I think for all the ifs buts and maybe’s, we have to accept that Chelsea played very well, executing their plan to perfection and they might have won anyway playing that well. They really should have sealed it in the second half with that chance that he put wide and could have had two more in the first half. We will never know what would have happened. For me too many players didn’t show up. We looked nervous and edgy and our usual crisp passing was missing. It’s was just a very poor performance and a very good one from Chelsea. I’m not sure changing one player would have led to an exhilarating performance. We have been stuttering since the rags match for me with 3/4 exceptional performances thrown in. We needed one last night and we didn’t get it.
What was bent about last night?We may all have to accept that we wont win this bent competition with Pep at the helm. Personally I am okay with that as I only care about the domestic stuff anyway but I accept I’m probably in the minority with that view.
It’s just that year after year after year after year he tries to be clever when what is required in the CL is pragmatism. He does it in big league games too but we invariably have 30+ games to make up for it in the league.
I’ll be quite happy to wait for success in europe until after Pep has left which I hope is in a few more years yet.
My only frustration this morning is that I believe Pep doesn’t see City as ‘big enough’ or ‘historically important enough’ to really be at the very top table and consequently feels the need to try and over egg the pudding in compensation.
Let’s have another few years of domestic success and worry about Europe when we change manager eventually.
He did tinker. We messed up.Can't believe how many posts I'm reading complaining about Pep "tinkering".
We beat PSG with a 4-4-2 low block and two counter attacks. We never play like that. Where were the people saying he should have played the strongest team the same way as usual then?
The year Leicester won the league Pellegrini played the same way he always did against them at home and we went to the ground knowing we'd be set up all wrong for them, with Demichelis in a high line. No surprise we lost. Everyone complained about that then.
The adjustment last night made sense but it didn't work. Fair fucks to Chelsea, they executed their game plan well.
The sense of entitlement is a joke. You won't know how lucky we are to have Pep until he's gone.
Straws? who cares what the media say, Chelsea have a big daft eared pot on the plane going home to London.Looking on the bright side, if we had won then the trophy would be ”worthless, you paid for it, plastic” today it’s Chelsea who are filling that slot.
in a bizarre way it also takes pressure off the Glazers and the euphoria of City getting beat should pacify the zebra pant wearing numpties and keep the wonderful Glazer reign going for another few decades.
and yes I am clutching at straws!
Nothing last night but you remember the corrupt ban right? Last year, February.What was bent about last night?
Did UEFA chose the team?
Mate, it was the fear most City fans had, & something most pundits debated as a distinct possibility. Essentially Pep shot us in the foot.thats the line up i was quietly confidant about all week , than 6:45 saturday and my heart sank !
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but given what happened last night, if Pep had the chance to replay the match, would he put out the same lineup & formation again?
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I think @ayrshire_blue was expressing a feeling of confidence rather than being arrogant and why shouldn’t we be confident? We didn’t fluke it to the final and bad judgement potentially cost us the trophy.
last year. Time to move on, remember the super league? we were part of that.....Nothing last night but you remember the corrupt ban right? Last year, February.
Double like. Yes we have but jeez Guardiola leave the team sheet to the fans you just focus on coaching.We lost because Chelsea did not allow us to play. They marked tightly and closed down every pass in the final third. Mahrez was denied time and space. Sterling was dominated by James.
It looked similar to the way Brighton played us recently. Have we been sussed?
I hope the senior execs are questioning last night, they should be.He looks a right tit today,for doubling down.Getting flak from everywhere for dropping Fern to the Bench.
Should have held up his Hands, and said this was the biggest fuck up of his managerial career.Which it was.
Not a bit of it.
His genius was not to be questioned.
We played not so good first half,better in the second.
His tactics had fuck all to do with the defeat.
Plucky City,the Club with no history until his Ego arrived,gave a good account of their selves against a Big Club,with lots of history.
I wonder how key players feel today.
Got a feeling we have not heard the last of this debacle.
This.Exactly this. I doubt that any rag, dipper or whoever else is kicking off that they won't be in position to win the league ever again. Feel the same with us for the CL. We lost a cup final, it hurts, but it happens. If we had one or two in the bag the hurt probably wouldn't be so bad.
But we're a top side now, well run and no reason that we'll completely regress from this point. It might not be next season or the one after but we'll get there eventually I'm sure.