The whole issue IS about what Pep said after the match. He did EXACTLY what many of us feared he would & we lost.
A mistake is only a mistake if you don't learn by it. If you do learn, it's called experience which forms parts of the building blocks of life. With this in mind, PLEASE quit with the victim complex where Pep is concerned. He's wearing his big boy y-fronts & is quite capable of explaining himself.
You've taken a comment he made before a match weeks before, applied it to a final which took place weeks later, added some whipped cream & a cherry on top & put that forward as a justifiable reason as to why Pep did what he did.
The reason many are pissed off is because Pep has form for these strange decisions at crucial times, & more recently it's costing us. More to the point, & most crucially is the fear that Pep will do it AGAIN!
I asked you to stop cherry picking which multi-million pound players played against Chelsea in the two matches before the final, & post the complete starting line ups. It's not lost on me & others I'd imagine that you've neglected to do so. Why? Because it will probably blow your whole argument out of the water.
I can accept a mistake, but what I find hard to take is when someone keeps making similar mistakes over & over again. Again I repeat, this is the fear many fans have with Pep. We don't want rid of him, we just want him to trust what he's built & not to panic at crucial moments & most importantly to NOT underestimate our opposition.
The Rags, Chavs, Dippers & Spurs are no mugs, so we should always select a team to reflect & respect that. I don't need to PM you, as I respectfully fail to see what else you can add to this debate, judging by what you've posted.
I await the FULL line ups from our last league meeting with Chelsea & the FA Cup semi. Don't worry if you can't see the relevance, I'll explain once you post it. Or perhaps I won't need to. Your reluctance to post those starting line ups speaks volumes. :-|
Right, so you could say it was a mistake playing Fernandinho and Rodi in a double DM against them in the semi final because we lost. Pep thinks, won't do that again.
So in the league game he plays Rodri by himself, we lose that game as well. He thinks, won't do that again.
CL final rolls round, he plays Gundogan. We lost.
You seem to struggle with the idea that Gundogan can play at DM at the level required, so I gave you a quote from Pep saying he rates him there. So when a CL final rolls round and he doesn't want to use Rodri or Gundogan, its really not beyond the realms of possibility that Pep thought Gundogan could do a good job at DM is it?
That is not adding cream and a cherry on top, its a fact.
As for your obession with these lineups, are you incapable of finding the lineups yourself or something, why do you keep asking for them from other people? :-|
Is your argument that City played two weak teams in the semi and the league so its not a fair reflection? :-|
Had Pep picked Fernandinho or Rodri alongside 10 other strong players in the final we would have won? :-|
If so, you might be right, might be wrong. Unfortunately football isn't played on paper and you can't go back in time. We lost. Get over it. :-|
We lost in Lyon as well when Pep went fucking crazy and played 3 at the back. :-|
We lost against spuds as well when our players couldn't hit a barn door. :-|
We lost against the dippers that time as well when we had a full capitulation and lost it in the first leg. :-|
Its a game of football, Pep gets far more right than he does wrong.
Lets leave it here because clearly going round in circles. :-|
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