Brentford (A) | Post Match Thread

[stan bowles]

Inconclusive from any perspective. Fringe players are exactly that.

 

[mancityscot]

Shame to lose twice to Brentford, and finish the league season with a loss but meaningless game and none of our big players were risked. Onwards to the two huge finals!

 

[Gundoggin]

Absolute shite .

 

[bluemoon32]

Our most important players weren't involved in this abject performance, hopefully the rest has done them all good

 

[Zabbasbeard]

I always hate losing. Just hope we haven't lost momentum and that our big players are available for the two huge games.

 

[cookster]

2 x 50m player for every position. Biggest myth in football, our depth is not great.

 

[MrCheeseGrater]

Everyone was fairly shite bar foden. walker especially shite again

 

[lust overlord]

Second string team get beat by a Brentford side busting a gut in their final home game.
Whoop de dooo.
I'll be upset if we perform like that in the next two games.
Certainly not going to go overboard over this defeat.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Kelvin Phillips does not belong at this club. At the very least Jack and others showed flashes in their first years. This has been downright ugly every step of the way. No idea what happens here because I doubt the club would sell him after just one year.

Can’t see him being here next season. Hope not anyway.

I think he was done for when he came back from the World Cup overweight.

 

[CC1]

For those crying about City "losing momentum", would you have preferred Rodri, Grealish, De Bruyne, etc. having to play at full pelt, chasing the title down to the last day of the season? Potentially risking injuries? Didn't think so.

Exactly. Why celebrate winning with 3 games to spare before 2 cup finals if it doesn’t mean we can look after our top players

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Brentford are the new Wimbledon.

As for Gomez, Jesus H Christ...

What's Mahrez's and Phillips' excuse?

Foden class.

 

[WyongBlue]

Disappointing result for us but good to see Shea Charles get some minutes.........

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Slight concern we'll be undercooked for the two important games remaining, but it's Pep's call

 

[eversince 76]

Can’t take anything from this match.
Saturday will prove if Pep and his team made the right decisions.

Purely looking at the PL-season it has been great. Again !! Let’s not forget that.

CHAMPIONS !!

 

[RobinHood]

Supremely confident in the finals with first XI.

 

[CC1]

Second string team get beat by a Brentford side busting a gut in their final home game.
Whoop de dooo.
I'll be upset if we perform like that in the next two games.
Certainly not going to go overboard over this defeat.

It took a lot of Brentford bookings to do it too (as usual)

 

[SidJames]

I would have preferred Pep to play a strong team today to keep people match fit and ticking over.

We have 2 really big games coming up.

How would you feel one of our Star players doing himself in a meaningless game against a pretty feisty Brentford side ?

No thanks.

Back to business next weekend.

 

[roach3]

This is the one game I couldn’t care less about
And anyone criticising the selection today
Needs to have a word with themselves
The Brentford hatchet men would have injured someone important today

 

[blueinsa]

Utterly meaningless game other than keeping key players fit and injury free.

Right decision Pep.

Now it’s business time!

 

[DMA's]

Then you need 3 players willing to do their roles in the squad...

It’s a really tough part of recruitment arguably harder than finding starters. Not arguing with the starters we have brought in but the players replacing fern, zinchenko etc are a downgrade imo.