Juventus (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Ken92]

To be fair we were very lucky earlier in the season. Haaland was actually scoring which papered over the cracks but teams were still ripping us open and we were very lucky to record wins over Brentford, Fulham and Wolves

You are right actually.

 

[Brendan110_0]

Every team we play waits. They don’t give us the space in the final third & then wait to use their speed when they can exploit our weaknesses.

Every team we play has pace. We have none, or the players that do like Haaland, are given no space to run into.

Does Pep see Lewis as Philip Lahm 2.0? I don’t get it.

Feels like we just rock up to every match without analysing what the opposition will do.

Anyway, we know our squad is small, missing players of the quality and bedrock of the last few seasons - stones, Foden, ake, Akanji, rodri, coupled with the ageing drop off of Walker, Gundo, Kev and Bernardo. That’s a huge hole. But I suppose this is the price we pay for winning 4 on the trot.

And being honest, if offered this situation after winning 4, I would have taken it in a heart beat. Nobody has done it before, and I’d be surprised if any team does so again in the next few decades, and I’ve got to remember that. A new, different cycle will begin.

Not blaming anyone at the moment. Buying 4 or 5 top class players to take over from some of the above last season or this was never going to happen. Top class players don’t sign to sit on the bench and wait their turn. Another reason no team has ever won 4.

Things don’t taste good right now, but we’ve had so much honey over the years and that taste will come back.

Well said, we just have to swallow some bad medicine.

 

[daveiw01]

We might not make the playoffs.

Right now, it may be a blessing in disguise.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Lose against the rags and I can see him walking.

We need to be mega vocal on Sunday and back the manager.

We can sell every single one of those useless embarrassments on the pitch for all I care but Pep needs our support.

Lose against the rags and I would expect him to walk.

He's never known anything like this but he knows that it can get even worse. The sad fact is that the players just aren't good enough to play in his system, and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it before January.

Sunday is a must-win for us. Anything else is totally unacceptable.

 

[supercity88]

Well. Not sure how we'll get out of this rut. Gundogan is pump, Lewis just doesn't have the quality, Walker is our Captain, our wingers don't know how to cross a ball. We play such a high line that it's difficult to think of a team who would struggle to make chances against us.

We better fucking beat those cunts at the weekend.

I never want to see City lose, but if we had played some kids in recent games or even someone like Nunes who has been one of our best players you could at least have seen some improvement and had some hope. Had the likes of O'Reilly, McAtee and Wright been used they might have settled into things and shown us the light at the end of the tunnel.

You can't lose trust in Pep but doing the same thing and expecting a different result...any other manager would be gone by now. I just hope he doesn't take it upon himself to walk.

 

[dom]

Great post match interview with Ilkay speaks truth to power

Nope

 

[Dazzle84]

It doesn't even look like we're struggling whilst trying to figure things out. Our style of play has become really old fashioned - other teams have adapted to us - probably for a while now but individual brilliance has glossed over it a bit

 

[Gabriel]

Quite impressed by Juventus. Technically very good, to a man, and a fantastic defensive performance. Their tackling was first class, especially in and around the box, and they knew how and when to play around us.

 

[hilts]

Goodness me, that was a hard watch!
How I fondly remember that time we got a cross in. Yes, it was last Saturday, and went right onto the head of our big 6'5'' centre forward. He scored!
I wonder if we'll ever see that happen again?
I bet Haaland thinks that too.

He's missed plenty, he doesn't get a pass.

 

[Eccles Blue]

The Boys in Blue didn’t give in. They fought to the end. It just wasn’t to be.
Thank you City, thank you lads, thank you fans. We need to still hold our heads up high. We will come back again. We are MANCHESTER CITY THE BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD.

Just keep trying, keep giving your all. We’re behind you all the way.
Thank you.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

I think if other teams had scored less and we had scored more we could be top of the league.

If 0 goals counted double we’d have drawn. Edit, 0 would have to count as 2.

 

[chaddblue]

It’s almost got to the point where you expect this shit now and it’s no surprise

The season is a write off. Wish it was fucking over now

 

[argyle]

I was going to wait until the thread doesn’t get a hundred posts per minute. But fuck it.

Some of you should fuck off and support someone else, and I say support lightly. Even camel gob has just said it right. It’s great when it’s going well, but when it’s not you dig in.

A complete **** in the match day thread said Haaland is rubbish. We didn’t do the treble without him. The previous Haaland we had, it was just nice to win.

Some of you need to get your minges turned back into cock and balls and man the fuck up. You are a disgrace!!!

6 out of 7 league tiles. 4 titles in a row. Champions league winners. Treble winners. Setting record after record.

Then a bad 2 months and people on here have turned on the team, turned on certain players and some have even turned on the manager.

 

[Semper aggressus]

We may as well just sack pep now before we lose anymore games..

It’s not Pep. It’s on the players. Most are too old, or too slow, or injured.

We need to grow some massive fucking bollocks and spend hundreds of millions on fast, direct, powerful players already doing well at other clubs.

No fucking about with net spend shit, we’re not a fucking bank. No giving a shit what any of the cartel think. Fuck them. Fuck 115.

The board says we’re innocent, so put their money where their mouth is. Back Pep in January and again in summer. No excuses.

 

[David White]

We control the game really well in areas that have absolutely no impact at either end… sideways and backwards passes allowing the opposition to get organised before we move up to the edge of their box for a bit of sideways and backwards passing.

Poor defending, poor goalkeeping, no creativity in midfield or attack and feeble finishing.

I don’t think it was our worst performance this season, it was just flat and without enough endeavour. We cannot keep trying the same thing and expecting a different outcome. We seriously have to stop this if we want to see an upturn in results.

The only game we’ve looked decent in was against forest. Not just because we won but how we won. We moved the ball quicker, Haaland dropped in deeper and got involved. We got our shots off quicker.

Sadly, it’s another knock to our confidence and if we think carrying on with that type of intensity and pace is going to change anything we’d better get used to losing again. A decent counter attacking team is going to put 5 or 6 past us soon.

Oh well, Sunday…

 

[RayCTID]

All I'm saying is...fernandinho is still an active footballer.

Remember how david Pizarro did a job for us

Neither are at top flight clubs. At least Otamendi is still playing for a Champions League club. If there was an opportunity for the short term we couldn't do any worse but he won't accept that and we couldn't offer him more of a look in.

 

[madloaf]

I dont know why we are not putting Nico O'reilly in midfield he's 6ft 3, he's got to be a better option than lewis from a physical point of view

Picking Lewis out of this shower shite as the problem is kinda dumb.

 

[daveiw01]

All I'm saying is...fernandinho is still an active footballer.

Remember how david Pizarro did a job for us

Is Gerry Gow available too?

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

One thing that really wound me up tonight is how many times we not only just pass it sideways, but when we rarely did have chance to push forward we pass it sideways so the player receiving it always has to stop and wait for the ball.

In the past I remember players and pep talk about positive passing, effectively passing the ball so players can come on to it and positively impact the game. At the moment we are the complete opposite. Confidence is on it’s arse, but we are so negative with the ball now, teams don’t need to do anything other that make it difficult for us and they know how bad we are defensively they will get their chance to win.

They are way out of form and playing it safe in the final third for sure

 

[Damien10]

Is Gundo going to look even slower against the scum at the weekend. The guy has had no rest. I’m genuinely very concerned.