I couldn't agree more. I really want Haaland and we are absoulety in need of a new striker, but last night we had the game won and fell apart in 6 minutes of football. We scored enough to win the tie but defensively we were shocking. I've never felt so low after a game, due to the nature in which we lost it. Ahead by 2 goals on four occasions, led for 178 minutes of whole tie, better team in both legs (apart from extra time) we just shouldn't have lost.A striker who wasn't a striker.
Outscoring Liverpool without a striker to speak of, winning titles in the process, suggests the lack of a striker is marginal gains at best and revisionism when it's required.
We scored five goals against Real Madrid.
We needed to score six just to take it to penalties.
That would suggest a mentality and a defensive problem, not a lack of goals in the team!
And not for the first time I`m afraid.If Cancelo had retained possession from the corner instead of launching into the box we’d b on cloud 9 now. Even Gundo signalled to him to keep calm. Next minute he panics instead of playing back to Ederson he launches it across goals into the stands. Lost his head.
Jesus just gonna through the Pep and player threads , if some had there way we would be looking for a new manager and about 8 new players , they didn’t have a shot on target till 90 minutes
Jesus just gonna through the Pep and player threads , if some had there way we would be looking for a new manager and about 8 new players , they didn’t have a shot on target till 90 minutes
I thought Bernie was reasonably fast tbf...Add to that the total lack of pace in the team, Walker aside we are so slow
City myth 543.Add to that the total lack of pace in the team, Walker aside we are so slow
Im not entirely sure to be honest. Preferably someone with a lot of pace and and can work well with Diaz which for some reason Laporte just doesn't seem to do very well. Few people mentioned Torres at Villareal but i wasnt impressed that much with him in the games with liverpool.Out of curiosity, who’d you replace him with?
That's the whole idea of the E.D.S.When you strip away all the noise, it pretty much boils down to exactly that!
it’s not UEFA, not the referee, not mentality, but spending vast sums in the wrong areas.
We have some serious young talent coming through and hopefully they will address some of those weaknesses and stop us having to rely on big-money purchases that may or may not work.
I'm telling you the truth. I was there in our 60s glory days - 70s we had a brilliant team but not much trophy glory, and then the 80s/90s dark days. I never thought we'd have a team like we do now. We were brilliant first leg (just a few seconds of madness) and pretty good last night for 88 minutes. I feel that last night was a combination of us being unlucky, and a biased ref - e.g the Casemiro shirt pull on Phil amongst other factors. Casemiro should have been off. The ref let things go early on, but when players were tiring he got the yellows out. Cheated - and there is a history of it - Llorente for example.i take it that posts comparing how we feel today — and I feel like utter shit, believe it — to how Pulis felt in ’99, or how we felt in relegation seasons, are humorous?
Please tell me that they're sarcastic humour?
Exactlywinning mentality and performing under incredible pressure is a thing in CL and we are not great in those situations.
and we do concede goals in quick successions if you look back our CL exits under Pep in Monaco fuck up, Lyon fuck up, Real fuck now, Spurs fuck up.
our defending certainly isnt calm, chaos takes over, and we dont even do the basics like jumping up with the attacker, trying to block a cross.
dont get me started on our conversion rate of chances. Foden, Mahrez, Grealish did have the chances to win this tie for City first and second leg combined. they scored 2 goals combined only what should have been 4-5 really.
an older version of Kayky called Rodrygo came in as sub and scored two out of two under pressure like this in 90th minute.
Kun missed the pen in Spurs away first leg in CL.
Benzema had two pens vs City, both under huge pressure, scored a Panenka last week and sent the keeper the wrong way yesterday.
you cannot have these and still win CL.
And, to think, had it been the rags or the dippers who’d lost like that, we’d have been full of sympathy and been offering kind words, the bastards!Anyone else feel like the fans of other teams can’t help themselves today? Don’t think I’ve ever seen some people this giddy