Al Hilal (N) | CWC | Post Match Thread

[Whether or not]

The owners will look on this very dimly in my view.

You have to say there is massive pressure on Pep getting a good start in the prem and champions league now.

Pep should be under pressure. Given the rewards involved in working for City, everyone should be under pressure if we are failing. Pep has done great things at City clearly, but he is miles off infallible and has had some absolute selection nightmares in big games, and arguably he did again last night. That result last night has at a stroke destroyed all the positivity that was building, and it certainly will not have played well in Abu Dhabi. I don’t want Pep out, I do want him to wake up a bit, and hopefully the other Pep can help with that.

 

[SilverFox2]

Another strange one, this. They claim that the balls move so much these days, but then they often opt to punch, which has a narrower margin for error than catching the thing!
One day Gordon Banks MK2 will come along and everybody else will have to start catching the ball again.

Unless he can be a decent ball player stopping shots is a secondary concern no matter how good his goal keeping skills are.

 

[paulchapo]

3 FA Cup tossed away.

Fucking annoying.

 

[Gesario]

Pep should be under pressure. Given the rewards involved in working for City, everyone should be under pressure if we are failing. Pep has done great things at City clearly, but he is miles off infallible and has had some absolute selection nightmares in big games, and arguably he did again last night. That result last night has at a stroke destroyed all the positivity that was building, and it certainly will not have played well in Abu Dhabi. I don’t want Pep out, I do want him to wake up a bit, and hopefully the other Pep can help with that.

Yep Agree

 

[Gesario]

Ok Lets talk about Haaland ? Where has the power gone? And where has the hunger gone

Looks so unfit and carrying an injury, spent most of the game bent over with his hands on his knees
If he is not fully fit, then why play him, strange thing was before the Juve Game in the tunnel, the other players were trying to pump him up and pointing and saying you have to do this or that, giving him orders ??

The problem is maybe he's had enough of just making runs after runs and not getting the ball ? Haaland wants to be involved and use his skills and not just be feeding off drips,

A striker not getting the ball in them danger zones and using his skills is pointless, Also not knowing when the pass is coming or a cross must drive him crazy,

Not forgiven him for passing over the pen in the final Didn’t like that one bit

 

[noseve]

Unless he can be a decent ball player stopping shots is a secondary concern no matter how good his goal keeping skills are.

You have seen the comments on here about Ederson's performance last night, have you? :-)

The two skillsets aren't mutually exclusive though.

 

[Lavinda Past]

No wonder! That loss alone cost us £9.5m !

That's about 4 days worth of interest on Sheikh Mansour's savings account.

I don't think anyone at the club is going to starve... ;-)

 

[come-on-barney]

That's about 4 days worth of interest on Sheikh Mansour's savings account.

I don't think anyone at the club is going to starve... ;-)

I don’t think money was his only concern!!

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

A lot of the posters currently slagging the team off and Pep are the same posters who couldn't even be arsed with this tournament and thought it was bollocks.

Well you've got your wish. The lads will be home tomorrow you fucking wankers

I'm genuinely at a point when I can't be arsed with the fucking moaning, whinging, self entitlement right across this board. Whether it be about City or in Off Topic. Maybe it's the internet in general. But I'm fed up of wasting my time reading the same old miserable as fuck posts. Maybe need a break from this toxic shithole. Because that's what it's fast become

Well I flew to the US for the first game in Philadelphia and thoroughly enjoyed it.

However, I was also at Sporting Lisbon, Juventus, PSG, Liverpool and Brighton last season (plus others) when our lack of pace in midfield was ruthlessly exposed.

I feared the worst last night as soon as I saw that Bernardo and Gundogan were in midfield, especially behind two flaky wingers who often lose the ball in vulnerable positions with our wing backs out of position.

If that makes me a fucking wanker then I'll just have to accept that you're a bigger fan and more knowledgeable

 

[goatinho]

One of those 6 shots was saved by Ederson, but they scored from the rebound. If it had gone in directly the stat would be 4 goals from 5 shots. That's Claudio Bravo quality that is.

I've said for a couple of years that ederson gets away with a similar shots to save ratio as bravo but as he can pass a ball he gets away with it.
Has anyone ever compared the 2 for shot to saves ratio?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

That’s where the director of football needs to be stepping in. He bought good players in January, we’ve only seen one of those players now and again. Need a pacey centre half, nah leave him on the bench. The management team need to be asking serious questions, and I am talking Senior Management. £400 million spent since January, and yesterday we looked no better than last season. You cannot drop that sort of money and see no improvement!!!

Its like Santa delivering a beautiful and expensive toy to a young child and they spend all Xmas day playing with the box and wrapping paper

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Just saw the result an hour ago. Wow. 6 shots on target and 4 goals. Fuck me. Imagine my surprise when I saw that stat !

Those stats paint a false picture. They cut through us again and again on the counter in the 2nd half and in extra time. In addition to the 4 goals they had a penalty award overturned by VAR (Dias lumbering into a tackle like some simple minded horse) due to a marginal offside in the build up, cocked up a 2 on 1 with an inaccurate pass, and forced us into 3 or 4 desperate last ditch tackles. Defensively we were an utter shambles and could easily have conceded more than we did in a game we could and should have had in the bag inside the first half hour

 

[uwerosler28]

That's about 4 days worth of interest on Sheikh Mansour's savings account.

I don't think anyone at the club is going to starve... ;-)

But we can't put the interest from his savings account through as a income for the club and help is meet FFP rules can we ?

 

[SilverFox2]

You have seen the comments on here about Ederson's performance last night, have you? :-)

The two skillsets aren't mutually exclusive though.

Maybe but it does seem as though he does prefer to be an outplayer rather than stop shots.

 

[mattyads]

That’s where the director of football needs to be stepping in. He bought good players in January, we’ve only seen one of those players now and again. Need a pacey centre half, nah leave him on the bench. The management team need to be asking serious questions, and I am talking Senior Management. £400 million spent since January, and yesterday we looked no better than last season. You cannot drop that sort of money and see no improvement!!!

Good players are what your seeing, good players finish third, and sometimes get knocked out of tournaments after a shock result, good players are inconsistent and find themselves benched or playing badly after a previously good result.

We don’t need good players, we need GREAT ones, if we are to win the league again.

I think people miss this. We have enjoyed watching generational talents, and now it seems it’s acceptable to consider Nunes at RB, or sticking with Doku and SAV, or giving Gonzalez more game time. It’s pitiful.

This is how bad the drop off in our recruitment has been.

So I guess I’m agreeing with you..absolute shocker!

 

[manimanc]

(Just making a note to oneself for next season.)

Avoid the post match thread always.
The fannies in this thread cryarsing and pulling the team to bits over glorified friendlies and not realising the team has a hangover from last season will be absolutely unbearable.

What am I actually reading?

What.
The.
Actual.
Fuck.

 

[DavidWhitesUnderpants]

Those stats paint a false picture. They cut through us again and again on the counter in the 2nd half and in extra time. In addition to the 4 goals they had a penalty award overturned by VAR (Dias lumbering into a tackle like some simple minded horse) due to a marginal offside in the build up, cocked up a 2 on 1 with an inaccurate pass, and forced us into 3 or 4 desperate last ditch tackles. Defensively we were an utter shambles and could easily have conceded more than we did in a game we could and should have had in the bag inside the first half hour

Cheers for the depressing report ;o) Sounds like we got a bit of a bumming, aided by our usual spectaciular defence.

Fuck, sounds great that. Mind you, could say the same thing about quite a few Prem games. So many shoulda coulda woulda games down the last few years. Games we should have had safely in the bag but inexplicably lost or drew.

 

[Eaststander1]

Pep looking relaxed in the post-match press conference. Not exactly giving the impression that going out of this competition is a crushing blow or he's going to be called in to explain a geopolitical embarrassment.

I think Pep's thinkin' ahead to next season, and wants to start that with a team that isn't fatigued, and in a fit condition .....

 

[Lavinda Past]

'That said, I honestly suspect that they're not football people, and that they will not have any idea just how to progress when Pep does leave'

To think that the board, who have taken City to unprecedented success on the field and from an almost bankrupt club to either second or third highest earning clubs in the world, won't know how to progress when Pep leaves shows disregard for there meticulous running of City.
Unless of course you have posted in the wrong thread, the joke thread is that way>>> ;-)

The Board have had it very easy since Pep arrived. They are businessmen. Very wealthy businessmen, who took over a club (Manchester City Football Club) that was in a reasonable financial state and built a business empire (City Group) on those good foundations.

Our most successful period of squad development (as opposed to winning trophies) was - in my opinion - before the arrival of Bergiristain and Soriano or Pep... when Gary Cook was responsible for signings.

Our Board have had it easy on the pitch... How good they are at running the football side of the business under real pressure, we have yet to find out.

 

[Donmcfc]

Is Gonzales going to be another Kalvin Phillips?