Inter (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

Jonas.shaffer said:
The tactics were lethargic. Pep was lethargic. The players were lethargic. It happens, but more concerning for me is how easily teams are playing through our midfield time and time again. Someone in the match thread mentioned it, but it feels like with Haaland up front and him not being ‘built’ to press like Jesus or Alvarez, everyone behind him has to cover more ground, and we don’t have the legs to do that. Rodri, Bernardo, Gundo, Phil, KDB, etc., aren’t ‘ground eaters’ for lack of a better word. The player I think could help in this regard is Nunes, but it seems that Pep doesn’t trust him, so I’m not sure what the solution is. For all of Rice’s downsides, the huge bid we made in the summer makes much sense from a tactical standpoint.

We’re so spoiled at home that a draw feels like a loss, but there’s undoubtedly a lot to work on this week.
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Fair assessment but feel some fans think we playing an average side!? Inter are one of the favourites and is one the best sides in Europe! I'm more pissed off with the AI draw it's like Ai picked all the teams that are good at parking the bus! This tie was the toughest draw for us and inter!
 
ninjamonkey said:
Not only was I a fan in the 90's growing up, I was there week in week out, it's why I've got the points to go home and away now and enjoy seeing us lift trophies in istanbul.

There's this thing called perspective. We judge our performance on the basis of currently being arguably the best football club in the world and tonight was nowhere near the levels we have regularly shown. I'm not comparing it to a autowindshield trophy fixture 30 years prior because that would be fucking mental.

us being shit in the 90's has absolutely fuck all to do with any performance in the here and now. In the 90's were you talking about the glory years of the 60's as a reason not to moan about how shit we had become? It's okay to have expectations above not being in league 1 when we've had over a decade of blissful dominance.

A very very good team? they drew 1v1 vs Monza last weekend, their second draw against unremarkable sides this season and really didn't produce anything special tonight to earn a draw outside of being well drilled. They're capable of being a very good side, i'm more than willing to accept that but they didn't show that tonight. Brentford were much better on Saturday than Inter were tonight. We drew because we were shit in attack. It's not a disaster, it's not the end of the world but it's the truth.
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Nonsense. We have to base every opinion on one single, solitary season in the third tier. Or perhaps the few we've spent in the second tier.
We've been in the top division for over 80% of our existence so this "remember where we've come from" stuff is utter bollocks.
 
Phil1 said:
I think it can be both, there were periods of the game where it felt dull as fuck but that’s because it was two very well drilled sides who when styles collide lead to a match that is more about patience than anything else.
In the end I reckon we accepted the draw long before the final whistle though ironically the two missed headers were glorious opportunities to Nick the win.
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Both teams had good chances what was the back heel about from their lad second half?? Thought Phil and Gundo should’ve scored. Grealish MOTM for me and great to see. Rico also continues to impress. All I will say is that as well organised as they were they had some very average players - Damian! We weren’t at our best imho and that helped them, we needed to move the ball quicker at times.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
That may well be the most disciplined and savvy defence that's played at the Etihad in years. Anybody not giving them credit needs to take the sky blue specs off. We needed to be sharper into the tackle, sharper in our passes, just generally more up for it, for sure. But it's not only on us. They were very fast in transitioning, precise in their passing, often one touch (us almost never!) to get the ball upfield as fast as possible. The very opposite of us in fact. They could have won it — Mykitaryan (or however you spell his name) should have put that ball in the net, from that range, rather than blasting it over the bar. Their defence was completely caught out once, and once only — perfect ball onto Gundo's head. He really should have done better on that. Otherwise they had our number. A few half chances. Phil could have done better.
Nothing disastrous. I'll take it for the time being. That was one of the best teams in the competition, in my view.
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Thats how I saw it too.
They are a great team. I thought we had three good chances though, Bernie when he missed the ball and Gundo twice.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Not a bad result. We had the chances to win it towards the end.

I think it's a game that'll be good preparation for Sunday. Arsenal arrived at our place last season and were basically set up like Inter did. I can't see them being much different on Sunday. They found out the season before last that we'll hand their arses to them if they try to go toe to toe.
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Can’t see arsenals defence and counter being as good as inters last night.
 
This was a good preparation for Araenal who could argubaly do as well as Inter but with a bit more oompft on the counter

Sadly we kinda failed a bit last night, yea we had chances but the approach was wrong and while you gotta give props to Inter for being fantastic at their game plan we didn't really make adjustments to try and change it up

They worked through our press far too easily and they had way too many counter opportunities

But again, it's was good to have this before the Arsenal game, hopefully Pep sees the issues and fixes it

Think big problem at the moment is this contro style of overplaying does seem to be taking the atmosphere of these big games which doesn't help anything. Stifle the game you stifle the crowd

Enough chances for us to get the W but same for them, draw was the right result

Now let's move onto Arsenal at the weekend, hope Atalanta can make em work their Arsenal off tonight
 
Good manager and team Inter, always disappointing not to win your home ties though.
Not a loss though and the squad will be getting close to match fitness now.
 
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