Bodo/Glimt (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[RayCTID]

Horrible feeling but the last two results feel like the end of an era and huge changes are inevitable and imminent

To be honest up until Christmas we were looking in a better place to challenge Arsenal. Two major injuries have put a spanner in the works.

 

[TFC]

Might be time to shelve the ‘we fight to the end’ song until we actually fucking start to again.

 

[blueju]

The high line kills us, where the opposition used to fear it, for the last three or so seasons they’ve come to love it. Every team knows the game plan, sit back then bang. Unfortunately that isn’t going to change until we make a change.

 

[wolviedinho]

Ok so we still need to buy more players? That don’t seem to be the answer. We always need something else for it to work.

The players look awful, unfit and disinterested. Pep looks stressed and the football is stale. We don’t play his philosophy. I don’t know what the fuck is going on but a start world be be to acknowledge the situation. Pep is burying his head in the sand.

He said recently that he has no time to train the players due to games. Hearing this alot and it shows. Players can’t execute a plan they have not practised. It’s drifting unfortunately. Tiredness all the time? Injuries, all part of football. Yes we have had more than our fair share but it’s still not enough to excuse the lack of effort in the recent performances.

Gonna have to go back to basics. Try tweaking. Anything is better than moaning or pretending it’s ok. The results and performances show a decline.

Time the club sort it out before another season goes. Nothing can be quickly fixed but start with defending deeper. The games wouldn’t get away from us so quick.

Time to find our feet again.

 

[heslops barnet]

I doubt we get top 8 even if we win it now.

Only to go out……

 

[walker_is_faster]

 

[Dizbuster]

But we don't have a small squad.
Its the same as most.
What we do have though is several injured players who are not available, several since the start of the season. I think we all had a good idea that Kovacic , Stones and Ake could not be relied upon to be available and Bobb/ Rodri would take a long time to reach full fitness.
Several young and inexperienced players bought and loaned out while replacements for KDB, Gundogan, Walker not currently up to their standard.

KDB and Walker were terrible in their final seasons at City. Gundo blew hot and cold for two seasons. We are in this mess because Pep, by his own admission, refused to sanction the beginning of the revamp of the squad two years ago. Instead, we only brought in Savinho, who has been a massive disappointment, and thrust Rodri out there, match after match, until he did his ACL. Since then, it's been falling dominoes. As I see it, this is on Pep, who has not been the same manager since his wife filed for divorce...there, I've said it !!

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Which game is this from?

 

[heslops barnet]

Every side now does the exact same thing against us, defend deep, crowd the penalty area, give Haaland no room to run into and wait for an opportunity to break at pace into the wide open spaces of our half. We need to develop new tactics. Our tactics have now been sussed and teams are quite happy for us to have 60% possession without getting into the penalty area.

Salford will use the same tactics against us as well

 

[blue whippet]

Had a crap day!
It was really stressful at work. When I got home I went for a walk only to get bitten by a stranger's dog.
I then found out the Internet was down.
I went round to a friends to watch the match but there was an accident enroute so it took ages to get there. I arrived 20 minutes into the game, and when I did she was still working and on a Team's call so I had to watch the first half with the sound on mute.
To cap it all off, I had to watch that dross as we were comprehensively beaten and outplayed by a group of minnows.

That really is a rubbish day.

 

[I'm Blue]

That is infuriating.

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‘But not today’
It’s ok Blues I’ve found our problem, Pep’s gone blind.

 

[East Level 2]

It’s like we were playing against two teams today

Shouldn't be a problem. Seven seasons ago we won the league by beat Brighton and Hove on the final day.

 

[Ajm1985]

That's a start

 

[CΛL]

Watching Madrid here unable to fathom how we beat them, and they all look so fresh.

Every prem team looks blowing out their arse, particularly us, at this point in the season. This focus on pace and physicality and an ungodly amount of running is killing the English football.

 

[1964]

wonder if we can get semeneyo to throw a few in on saturday

 

[waspish]

Does anyone reckon Pep is leaving at the end of the season and the players have been told?

History says he sees out his contract unless that 2 year contract was 1 year + 1 which wasn’t announced that way..

 

[AliBobbyJ]

What an absolute feckin tool Guardiola is!

In short, if Guardiola had anything about, him would fuck off tonight as his race has long since been run.

Catman, eh? These two lines and everything in between came out of the litter box.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Talk is cheap. They need to show more effort on the pitch and put it right with performances.

 

[deano ou812]

Anyone see the Haaland interview going on about games coming thick and fast,when asked about tiredness but before that was saying experienced players like Rodri and reindjers should e taking more responsibility,don’t know what to make of this,oh and he apologised for tonight’s result which isn’t acceptable as this is Manchester City ..edit beat me to it few posts above ..

 

[Ken92]

Look at the difference man. Pass and move, pass and move, pass and move - all with movement off the ball from players trying to create angles for those on the ball. Night and day to the shit served up now.

Dont have that quality anymore, nobody is even close to David and De Bruynes lvl, i think there isn't a single position apart maybe goalkeeper ,where we have a better player compared to that time. It's time to go after top lvl players.