Basel (H) Post Match Thread

[Bluemoonie92]

Of course you can say what you like and you have.

Why do you get so upset with others doing the same?

is it because they dont agree?

Don't have a problem with a clash of opinions mate, but I do when people are condescending.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

If he or you think any team can win this comp with anything but their 1st 11 then you're mistaken and it was that comment from him i disagreed with.

We didn't even play a 2nd string tonight, it was a 3rd/4th string and we did it because we could afford too mate.

By all means be upset and dont like it but some just dont seem to know what modern football is about and the need for rotation and the mindset of players at this level when games or ties are won.

It was never going to be a night of champagne football tonight and for those who thought it would be......wake up, sorry.

Seriously, you think I’m some prize dummy who was expecting a 6 goal romp and 110% effort? I’m fully aware of what that fixture was - a dead rubber - and I’m far from upset, but it was poor for all of that. And I’m not sure how you classify a team containing Sane, Bernardo, Jesus, Stones, Gunders, Danilo, Laporte and Zinchenko as 3rd or 4th string. The only two out there tonight who haven’t played at least a dozen times for the first team this season (Laporte excluded cos we’ve only just signed him) were Ya Ya and Foden!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

What concerns me is this is what is going to happen once we win the league.

Games we heavily rotate in, stroll about in and then come CL time we can’t get back to our best.

Gundogan said as much yesterday.

I’m sure Pep will manage the squad well. Players want to play twice a week....just not every week. From here on out, that is pretty easily managed.

 

[west didsblue]

Nothingburger

 

[bluemonkey71]

Was always going to be a dead rubber. Hopefully Delph back for Stoke.

 

[Saddleworth2]

We are through without injury and giving our youngsters some game time. There was a large hole in midfield which Basel were able to exploit and which unsettled our back five. Pep will have learned that he can’t start Yaya. John and Laporte can’t start in a meaningful game based on their performance tonight. Lots learned. Silva and Sane were fine. The rest, meh.

Total focus now though. No need for significant rotation. Best team every game. Stirling, Mendy, Delph, Fern all back soon.

sane, Aguero, B silva/Stirling
Silva. Fernandinho, De Bruyne
Walker, Kompany, Otamendi, Delph/Mendy
Ederson

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Bloody hell. How come there are so many pages, already ?

 

[Bluep*ss]

Positives: Diaz looks superb every time I see him. Foden got game time, really needs to bulk up, eat kebabs or something. Sane tried at least. Jesus got minutes. That's it.
Negatives (If allowed on here): booing by City fans in cb stand, f*ck off the lot of you you spoiled gits. Yaya utterly finished as a footballer. Zinch very poor, Danillio very very poor, Gundogan very poor. Some senior players wanting to stake a claim for first team action messed up big time.
Home run of unbeaten games over, that's annoying and unnecessary against a shite team.

Main aim, we're through. Bring on the filth please.(they'll scrape past seville)
Added bonus: the Harry Kane team fail yet again aha ha.

Rubbish !.......

 

[Healdplace]

We broke the 1000 pass barrier today and it looked almost as if that was the plan, to get that record. At least it will be almost impossible to beat that level without actually standing still. So we can hopefully call it quits at this number. But it might be something Pep actually wanted them to do. This was basically a training game or pre season friendly - a free pass to try stuff out. At least it was more interesting than Liverpool last night. Not losing made no difference over losing on the night when the tie is won - the only real necessity.

 

[mancity1]

By no means all his fault, but we are so pedestrian when Yaya is the midfield general
He's still a great technical footballer, but it's nearly always sideways and backwards. He just doesn't drive us forward any more
I thought Zinchenko had a stinker of a game and Stones and Laporte really were strangers

@Ric tweeted that out of the starting eleven tonight only Sane would play in our strongest team
We'll maybe, but earlier in the season Stones would almost be first name on the teamsheet, Jesus was played ahead of Aguero in the derby and Bernardo has hit form and would challenge Sterling for his place, so even if some players were rusty they should have performed much better this evening

Again what this game proves is that we really miss KDB

Having Bravo in also was a big negative , if Eddie played we would have drawn this game.