RB Leipzig (A) | Post Match Thread

[Pingu the Penguin]

Show me the petition and i'm the first name on it.

I will PM you my CM saves

 

[argyle]

Sorry, but tonight tells us that it's over for Pep. Thanks for some amazing years, but it's obvious that 10 mins before Lepzeig equalized that changes needed to be made and he did fuck all again.

We have a worldie striker, and we can't get the ball to him, that's poor coaching from Pep. We have a big squad and he won't make a sub, we piss about around the box and then pass back before the half-way line.

Not a chance we win the Cl with Pep, sorry but he's a stubborn old goat who refuses to change and he will cost us the league this season.

It's over for Pep because.... we drew a game?

Some of you have lost your heads.

 

[Damanino]

being afraid to lose the ball is something this City team has developed...
we pass our way out of good chances or half chances just for the sake of not losing the ball. or not making risky passes that can decide the games in our favour. alongside that we lost lot of intensity, pressing. of course that is not a surprise with Haaland, Mahrez, Grealish trio none of them can press and being as intense as we had with Sterling, Foden, Jesus upfront...

 

[SidJames]

You would think having signed the hottest striking property in Europe we would have adapted to his playing strengths.

Right now i am beginning to feel like Haaland is being deliberately frozen out in games,and it is bizarre.He might as well not be out there in a shirt, if we are determined to play with only 10 players and try to walk the Ball in to the Net every game.

Crazy to say but we are wasting Haaland talent.

Halland talent is having Beast like strength,and speed, he needs defense splitting through Balls for him to chase on to, terrorize defenses.

Pep it seems is determined to carry on playing his own unique style, the exact opposite of what Haaland actually needs.Instead of defense splitting through Balls,everything has to be worked very Slowly and patiently through the Flanks giving defenders time to get back and readjust,pack the penalty area.

Our style is killing the Lad.He was visibly frustrated tonight.

If Pep wants Haaland to fuck off to Barcelona,,or Real Madrid and score for fun he is going the right way about it.

 

[kupest]

I've got my grip cheers. You watched the game right? We were fucking awful. Like we played leipzig any different than we played forest, or brentford, or everton. Nothing changes. The opposition knows exactly what we're going to do, we do to and ITS FUCKING BORING!

If you think todays game and the forest game were similar you need to rewatch both games. Totally different except the outcome. We wern't in anyway boring in the Forest game.

 

[the blue panther]

Lack of genuine width up front as well. How often do our wide forwards attempt to beat the full back on the outside? Rarely, why? Because they are one footed and cut inside onto the strong foot, it's predictable, kills momentum, and easy to defend against. Remember when we used to stretch the pitch with Sane and Sterling? We are a million miles away from that now sadly.

Remember when we had jumpers for goalposts? In those happy days, wingers would swap sides.
Wouldn't it be great if ..............

 

[Chi-town blues]

Lol. They're the 5th best team in Germany. With timo werner in the team. Jesus christ. We were so so boring and so so bad. It's ok to say it. Its ok. Its ok. Its ok.

Nott forest is 13 th and we are safe .

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

The issues with Phillips is that he's not good.

That may be the case mate but we’ve not really had a lot of opportunities to make that assertion have we?

 

[Witney Blue]

Admittedly a few pints in but for God’s sake…..
Yes we are way below the standards of the past few seasons
Yes we aren’t putting a run together
Yes some players are bang out of form
But for the love of all that is holy - we are getting shafted. Tonight was a STONEWALL penalty - yep we were crap second half. Sometimes that happens…..and when you score a last minute winner after a crap performance it can be season defining - regrettably we don’t get the opportunity. People can bitch and moan about our performance tonight (it certainly wasn’t the best second half) but at the end of the day we were denied a blatant game winning opportunity.
Said game winning opportunity was only discussed “after the break” - had it been other teams it’d have been first up (adding pressure re the next leg). Never been sure about the “agenda” stuff but, Christ, that tonight was a joke - 1. No pen given by ref 2. No VAR 3. Played down by BT

 

[jamielowndes]

Sorry, but tonight tells us that it's over for Pep. Thanks for some amazing years, but it's obvious that 10 mins before Lepzeig equalized that changes needed to be made and he did fuck all again.

We have a worldie striker, and we can't get the ball to him, that's poor coaching from Pep. We have a big squad and he won't make a sub, we piss about around the box and then pass back before the half-way line.

Not a chance we win the Cl with Pep, sorry but he's a stubborn old goat who refuses to change and he will cost us the league this season.

Less than a month ago, he tactically annihilated the Premier League leaders.

We got it wrong tonight, but let's not do this.

 

[NQCitizen]

Foden. Alvarez. Cancelo.

All the spark and unpredictability has been surgically removed from the team.

At this point I honestly think having a much less sophisticated tactical plan and just relying on the fact we've got much better players and actually using subs to influence the game would win more games.

 

[roach3]

5th team in Germany, but they are 4 points away from being leaders. Have beaten Madrid, drew Bayern and dominated both. They have lost once in like 30 games. They started very poorly the season, if not they would be leaders in Bundesliga.

You sir have no idea of football if you think we were so bad

thats the first time ive watched liepzig so based on what i saw in the first half thay were either absolute dogshit or just sat back and let us have a training session.
so as good as they are being touted on here i can only comment on what i saw.
what i saw was a team scared to death of us and constantly giving the ball away relying on the counter that came to fuckall.
they were definately there for the taking first half and we fucked about with it probably on orders from pep.
pep definately played for a draw tonight such is his obsession with this competition and i think the players know this hence the reluctance to take risks.
But that second half was crying out for subs and its worrying pep made none.
is he saving players for bournmouth?.
also people saying wait till kevs back hes been fucking awful for a few months now bar the odd game.
in my opinion and its just an opinion if we dont get some new young recruits in the summer and im worried about our spending with all the bullshit going on then we could see a scouse type of decline next season.

 

[LongsightM13]

Brilliant first half
Then: Woeful, weak, cowardly and indecisive.
The team and the manager, both

 

[madloaf]

If you think todays game and the forest game were similar you need to rewatch both games. Totally different except the outcome. We wern't in anyway boring in the Forest game.

The way we play is the same. The attempts on goal are different depending on the opposition. Forest are straight garbage and they played US the same, the way that leipzig played US the same....because they knew what was coming. You get it right?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

It's possible to understand different views on this.

As others have said, nothing sums up a Manchester City performance (and result) this season as much as that did tonight. From total control with little threat, to losing the control and automatically looking threatened. Haaland with his first touch in the opposition penalty area after 70 odd minutes perhaps tells a story of where we're at just now.

That being said, we were a ridiculous (non) decision away from earning a last gasp penalty and probably winning 2-1 away from home, and their keeper did make one really top drawer save from Gundogan at 1-1.

It's so frustrating, and people mention subs - or using players with more energy. Fine but I've seen Alvarez a few times this season have little to no impact (not having a go - he's adjusting and he's also played some blinders), Foden hasn't looked great for a long while, so where do we go from here? What could we have done differently?

 

[RayCTID]

Brilliant first half
Then: Woeful, weak, cowardly and indecisive.
The team and the manager, both

Could have nicked the win near the end with that cast iron penalty decision.

 

[buckshot]

Mods- please ban this rag

You're the one who has some sort of Save our Dave campaign going for a manager who just blew two matches in a row because he refused to do the simplest thing and make a substitution. If Pep were as infallible as you pretend he is they'd be top of the league and 3-0 up after the first leg of this tie. Instead they dropped points to a team that is playing in the PL for the first time in over a decade and another team that has a squad worth about 1/10 of what City is worth. These are inexcusable results all things considered.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

I’m much happier with the recent form. We’re in the middle of 5 consecutive away games and we’re handling it well. Although we didn’t take our chances, I think we were just unlucky against Forest and tonight’s game was always going to be tricky. Beat Bournemouth and and it’s a decent return.

 

[Username Required]

Good result against a German side that has only been beaten once in twenty games , we now have home advantage to finish the tie off , of the four remaining English teams we are easily the better placed to progress.
Leipzig had a good 20 minute spell , cannot understand how their centre back was allowed to put both hands on Dias's shoulders to get to the height to head the ball for the equaliser and the referee did nothing no VAR etc.
The handball in the last minute again is obvious but Var refused to get involved , yet again being stitched u by UEFA , nothing new there.

Well said.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Admittedly a few pints in but for God’s sake…..
Yes we are way below the standards of the past few seasons
Yes we aren’t putting a run together
Yes some players are bang out of form
But for the love of all that is holy - we are getting shafted. Tonight was a STONEWALL penalty - yep we were crap second half. Sometimes that happens…..and when you score a last minute winner after a crap performance it can be season defining - regrettably we don’t get the opportunity. People can bitch and moan about our performance tonight (it certainly wasn’t the best second half) but at the end of the day we were denied a blatant game winning opportunity.
Said game winning opportunity was only discussed “after the break” - had it been other teams it’d have been first up (adding pressure re the next leg). Never been sure about the “agenda” stuff but, Christ, that tonight was a joke - 1. No pen given by ref 2. No VAR 3. Played down by BT

Totally agree. No doubt the players and the manager are not fully “on it” but we are on the wrong end of so many bad game changing decisions week in week out it’s untrue.

Btw, I think it’s healthy to be critical of the performances and the managerial decisions but a bit of perspective is needed