Al Hilal (N) | CWC | Post Match Thread

Of course you didn’t.
I always seems to engage with our superfans on here who want to tell all the world just how massive a fan they are.
By my reckoning it's 3am in Orlando, surely you should be fast asleep instead of arguing with an old twat from Stockport?

Odd.
It’s 3.10am right now in Orlando. I haven’t been to sleep yet as I’m gutted about the game. Why should I go to sleep, I’m on holiday? I’m only referrring to my credentials as a City fan because you questioned them. I’m 56, I’ve been around the block with this club as I’m sure you have. And I’m sure you wouldn’t be busy on here right now if you weren’t every bit as pissed off as I am.
 
They’ve got a point though, had a soft as shite run to the final, like a free £60m thrown in the bin.
Free £60M in the bin? Where have you made that figure up from?

The maximum the club could of won was £97M and the club had already received £53M just for getting to the round of 16.

Hopefully your profession isn't in accountancy
 
Who said forget about it? You making stuff up?

What has it got to do with now - nearly 30 years later and the club in a completely different position.

Fans are allowed to express anger at losing FFS. You can't just say "oh well.....we were in Division 2 once"
I wanted to win this tournament ….and it was all going so well !
Really disappointed. Okay…shit happens but we’re a top club now (just look at our support) and we’ve got to forget about Lincoln away and losing to fucking Stockport. Up the fucking blues. Get the lads on holiday and let’s smash it next season.
 
Have you not thought that Pep has to rotate the team and the players because of burn out and fatigue and the fact that we've come off a full season, players have played international games then travelled to America and then played more games.
He played gundog and Bernardo in midfield purely for rotational purposes, you can't go with the same 11 it's impossible.
Pep is just saving legs in my opinion.
How can playing Gundo when £50mil Nico can’t get minutes classed as rotation?
 
I wanted to win this tournament ….and it was all going so well !
Really disappointed. Okay…shit happens but we’re a top club now (just look at our support) and we’ve got to forget about Lincoln away and losing to fucking Stockport. Up the fucking blues. Get the lads on holiday and let’s smash it next season.

I'm gutted. Wanted to go all the way. It is what it is. Plenty for Pep and his new coaches to work on before the season starts.
 
Thanks, and tbh I’m just pissed off like we all are. Don’t mean to be argumentative. We’re all blues at the end of the day. Sat in my hotel room in Orlando now at 3am coming up with a new plan for the next 2 weeks,
It's a competition we wanted to win especially when we managed to avoid any of the so called "top" clubs until the final. That performance was just like everything we saw last season and to be honest, I thought Pep might have learnt his lesson but obviously not. Seeing Gundogan amble round the pitch whilst the game passed him by reminded me my dog just before we had to have her put down
 
On a separate note, you have to laugh at how suddenly Sky have decided it’s worth reporting on now as headline news seeing as we’ve been knocked out.

Cunts.
 
Didn't watch the game but noticed that Savinho and Doku played 120. Is that correct?
How did they play?
 
Not sure, as we still can’t break down a parked bus, on the evidence today. They sat back and parked the bus and countered at pace. That is what most premier league clubs do. A lot of work to do, but £400 million and questions need to be asked. We needed pace at the back but Khus is on the bench. Odd tactics throughout the game.
Odd, definitely. Cherki and Phil on so late. Replace at the start for Gundogan and Bernie and I think we will create chances against a low block. Their keeper also made quite a few last ditch saves. Thought we created quite a few overall but the defence and keeper are not good enough.
 
Watched the game and it was unsurprisingly very reminiscent of last season.

Ederson - just would love him to save us a few times with stopping shots you wouldn’t expect. His distribution is great but with our outfield players I would sacrifice a bit of distribution for a shot stopper.

RB - Nunes actually I thought did well, his energy, ability on the ball and runs made a difference in a first half we should have scored 3/4. Akanji came on and it completely made the team lopsided and back to slow plodding football, you can’t have all the creative players on the team and use Akanji like that.
We need 2 rbs who have similar traits so you don’t lose all semblance of style and structure when a change is made.

DM - we were cut open so many times with seemingly one of two balls through our press - ala last season. It does seem crazy you could have more structure and sit Nico next to Rodri or Reijnders and then let the others attack so we aren’t completely open in the middle. Last season showed Gundo and Bernie plus 1 in midfield doesn’t have the legs, so shock horror this was proven again.

Wingers - Doku and Savinho fall into thr flatter to deceive category. Doku was threatening but when he has the square root of fuck all end product it negates that threat. I can’t believe if you put cherki in the positions Doku was in then we wouldn’t have won comfortably. Savinho needs a bit step up, god knows how Oscar Bobb hasn’t had made game time.

Transitions - this could be the real issue. Silva talked about at the end controlling transitions better, I worry if we see more games like this then Pep will revert back to the ultra cautious approach of last year.

Positives, we did for the first half look good, add in a few more killers aka Marmoush, Foden or Cherki and that would have been goodnight Vienna.

We need to really focus on our core players now and keep more of a structure, not so much chopping and changing. Not in big games going for the safe option of the more uncs the better.

The first few games showed what we could do, the lads can have a rest, streamline the squad and hopefully today was a reminder we still need changes.
 
On a separate note, you have to laugh at how suddenly Sky have decided it’s worth reporting on now as headline news seeing as we’ve been knocked out.

Cunts.
Same over at the beeb, full flow on 'conerns for city', even a vote asking blues (although anyone can vote) if they're concerned
 
The lack of game time to our January signings, Marmoush aside, is fucking baffling.

Why bother signing any of them - if we're going to persevere with an over the hill Gundogan and mistakes aplenty Dias/Akanji?

Savinho needs transferred out, nowhere near the level we want to be at.

Ederson, every fucking shot on target against him goes in. New number 1 needed.
 
Have you not thought that Pep has to rotate the team and the players because of burn out and fatigue and the fact that we've come off a full season, players have played international games then travelled to America and then played more games.
He played gundog and Bernardo in midfield purely for rotational purposes, you can't go with the same 11 it's impossible.
Pep is just saving legs in my opinion.
Don’t disagree re rotation but the new signings are barely part of that rotation. Khusanov, Reis, Nico. That’s £100m. Where are they? Are we to believe that they’re being held back for the new PL season or is it more likely that they’ll barely be seen? If it’s the former…great. If it’s the latter…WTF is going on?
 
You may be 50% arsed, but don’t try to speak for “we as fans” just because you don’t care. I’ve been in the USA for the full tournament and I’m 100% arsed that we lost today. I’ve now got to plan something else for 2 weeks before I fly home the day after the final.
"I'm on holiday in America for the next two weeks and now I've got to find something to do."

First world problems eh?

If it's that bad, save the money you'd spend entertaining yourself for the next two weeks and fly home early, like City have.
 

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