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Think of them fans 400 - 10 degrees or whatever at least £1,200 in flights hotels etc every one of them should be reimbursed. That wasn’t a performance it was shameful take your receipts to the ground and demand a refund you went to watch a game of football not that shite we saw, ps great effort just after Xmas feel for you all this morning safe flight home blues
 
We’re a long way off title winning or CL

I get that mate, and commend your positivity. However, what is happening now is like a car crash in slow motion. Carry on playing like this, and slowly but surely each one of those opportunities for silverware will vanish one by one until nothing is left. We can all see it coming except (seemingly) Pep which is crazy. All he needs to do is tweak the tactics and things would change relatively quickly. Don't play so high, don't try to pass through teams, use the pace we have, use the striker we have, look to counter attack. It goes against Pep's ethos, but it's better than him dying on his own sword

We’re a long way off title winning or CL winning team

We aren’t a long way off the title at all
 
Think of them fans 400 - 10 degrees or whatever at least £1,200 in flights hotels etc every one of them should be reimbursed. That wasn’t a performance it was shameful take your receipts to the ground and demand a refund you went to watch a game of football not that shite we saw, ps great effort just after Xmas feel for you all this morning safe flight home blues

Fair play to them but no.

You pay money to watch sport knowing there's a possibility it may be rubbish.
 
Man alive, the levels of hysteria are hysterical. City started the game really well, gave up two goals from bad individual errors, and paid the price. You can't gift two goals to the opposition away from home in Europe then expect to get much of anything.

Thankfully the club's run by Khaldoon, probably the most level headed and intelligent chairman in world football. The player churn alone (which everyone was desperate for a year ago) should by this team a little bit of grace. But seemingly not.
 
Rodri at the moment reminds me of the return of Colin Bell. He looks like Rodri, has Rodri’s posture, but he isn’t Rodri. Opponents can stroll past him as though he isn’t there and he’s needing extra seconds on the ball which he doesn’t have. Which caused the brain fart of the two yellows last night no doubt. I really hope that unlike Colin it’s only temporary. In the meantime we badly need Nico back asap.
 
And that's the concerning thing, the total lack of effort. It's a collective shambles at present including Pep
Time has caught up with this siystem we play.

All teams know how to defend against us by letting us push them back into their box where defending with 11 behind the ball becomes easier for them to defend and harder for us to break down.


It also give the defending team the chance of winning the ball back and attacking our short numbers in our defence usually be cause our fullback get caught in our attacking phase. Also we defend narrowly giving opponents wide men acres of space to run into unopposed.

If we haven’t got a defensive coach can we get one and if we have got one can we fucking listen to him.

I know we have injuries at the moment but this system we use has been found out.

Haaland has had an atrocious lack of service which I think has affected his confidence I also think he’s getting bored shitless. So the few chance we have he missed them.
 
Pep is to blame, just as the players are. There's a collective issue. Some of our tactics over the past two games have been baffling, not to mention being completely overrun in both games but doing nothing in terms of game management to do something about it.

Playing your left footed left back essentially as a right winger? Where did that come from?

We continue to persist with outside the box sideways passing despite having a 6ft 5in striker stood in the box waiting for someone to give him the ball.

Yes we've got a young and inexperienced defence, yet the team in front of them is set up to offer them no protection whatsoever.

Let's not blame the defeat on the fact we were playing on a plastic pitch we aren't used to, but the opposition were. They had 3 CL points before tonight. They had never won a CL game before. We SHOULD be sweeping teams like that aside but as it played out, they swept us aside and fully deserved their win because they worked ten times harder than us - just like our opponents did a few days ago.
Hit the nail on the head.
 
ooo eck. That was grim. Been a tough few days, but not the end of the world.

A little confused by Rodri's actions though, unfit or not.
 
Rodri at the moment reminds me of the return of Colin Bell. He looks like Rodri, has Rodri’s posture, but he isn’t Rodri. Opponents can stroll past him as though he isn’t there and he’s needing extra seconds on the ball which he doesn’t have. Which caused the brain fart of the two yellows last night no doubt. I really hope that unlike Colin it’s only temporary. In the meantime we badly need Nico back asap.
That's my worry too. Scared of being tackled, slow and seemingly scared of the ball now. Nico Gonzalez is 3 times better right now and should replace him when back from injury. Rodri is gone IMO.
 
Feel sorry for those blues out there

Imagine waking up in your hotel room in the back end of nowhere and facing that long journey home in sub zero conditions

Do the right thing and reimburse them city
 
We aren’t a long way off the title at all
As per my message you quote above. Correct, we aren't far behind off NOW, carry on our current trajectory and we'll soon be a long way off, and out of all other silverware hopes. Action needs taking immediately
 
Given that we had no wingers available and a shaky back line, playing Aït-Nouri on the right was absolutely the right call. It allowed him to step inside in the build-up, use his stronger foot for passes into central areas rather than down the line, make it harder for the opposition to press, and help protect a slower back line by keeping the team more compact.
 

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