Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

I’ve said for weeks a hiding has been on the cards against any half decent side with a bit of pace up top.

That said, you cannot fuck about squandering chances at 0-1 and miss a fucking penalty and expect anything from a CL game.

The balance is all over the show.

The midfield 2 are too slow to stop counters. The back 4 are far too high and don’t have Walker’s pace to sweep things up. The striker is isolated as fuck.

Add a young lad making his CL debut and the absolutely diabolical Nunes to the pot and it’s got disaster written all over it.

We have to get bodies back and fucking quickly.

A very difficult moment indeed.
 
I'm Blue said:
Injuries or not we look shite.
Is Pep off?
Are we getting a points deduction?
Something is definitely wrong.
We’ve gone from treble winners, 4 in a row to looking bang average.
So fucking irritating.
January can’t come soon enough cos we’re lacking something, a spark, anything.
Never thought I’d see us play this badly under Pep across multiple games.
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Never thought id see us loosing 3 in a row under Pep again
 
AColdNightInStoke said:
Posssibly the worst I’ve seen us in years.

Absolutely no heart or spirit at the moment. I get it - we have injuries, boo fucking hoo. We have the depth to be beating teams like this.

Will we bounce back? Of course we will - but it’s pretty shit showing right now.
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Do we have the depth though? Foden on a missing in action year - loads of injuries - KDB smacked arse face tbh..all looks a chore - still onwards we go..up the blues
 
I had to miss the second half as something came up.

Only just seeing the result. I have to say, I didn’t see that coming based on the first half. At all. Sigh. 3 losses on the bounce will affect the lads mentally.

Pep has a lot of work on his hands.
 
Millennium said:
Pep is to be plamed. Every one saw that comming, our performance was poor for sometime, and our defence is easly overtaked by counter attack and he kept playing high defence!!!! Why?
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To be fair they just ran through our midfield and we had no answer
 
Drewmanc said:
I've not been disappointed in a display for long long long time. The last 3 weeks have slowly, progressively beaten each other. Pep will pull it round.
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Not sure even Pep knows how to fix it, the guy just doesn’t have the tools in the squad.
 
Shit happens. We have been exceptional first half bar two breakes too many for Sporting. The other half is combination of injuries, 3 days between games fitness and generally shit period. Not worried. We gonna catch some breath, receive few players for rotation and come back strong after internationals. Wish we dont send anybody and just have some time for rest and preparation without hurry.
 
We should of in the summer lined up a back up for Rodri after the shambles of a transfer Phillips was, but now we are paying for it
 
Lost the best player in the world for the season. We’ve too many injured players which may be linked to players being burnt out after the last 5 seasons efforts.

We need to sign a couple of world class players and have a reset. We may improve over the season but it’s the end of an era.

Main thing this seadon is the witch hunt is concluded and the owners decide which manager should take us forward.
 
SamTheGuru said:
Perspective: We lose our first league game in 2024. We lost a league cup game that 99% of us would have written off given the injury situation, we lose a Champions League game in a new format that noone is used to that under the normal group stages we wouldn't have cared too much about.
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It’s not really perspective when you look at the performances all season. That had been coming and I’m almost glad it happened as I hope it will be the catalyst for some change. Where is rodders doing his rehab? He needs to be at the CFA tomorrow
 
dickie davies said:
We’re in all kinds of trouble
Lewis, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo, Savinho, Haaland all had an absolute shocker
I felt really sorry for Simpson-Pusey as he seem to be held out to dry by his fellow defenders

We’ll qualify for the knockout stages, but we’re nowhere near good enough to win it and I think in the Prem the best we can hope for is a top four finish
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Not really hung out to dry but facing the reality of being a central defender for City and being expected to defend one on one in an high line and also be a ball player. Did his best and look like he’s got a bright future but tonight showed he’s not ready. Needs must though and it tells me that our injuries and fitness of many players are a lot worse than we might realise. Onwards and upwards. CTID
 
We might not have Rodri back until the middle of next season with his injury.
 
magistadreadnought said:
Feels like 16/17 all over again, pep has not been backed at all in the transfer window and it’s causing devastating consequences. People thought my criticism of the squad was hyperbole after the Bournemouth game, well unfortunately I’ve been proven correct.

The simple fact is despite having arguably the greatest manager of all time, our squad is so poor I do not believe we will get Top 4 this season unless we sign at least 2 players in the Jan transfer window.
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Not backed? It's him that wants tiny squads. Who did he want we didn't go for?

It was clear we needed to replace walker kev and backup for rodri and haaland. We didn't do a single one and then sold alvarez
 
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