Basel (H) Post Match Thread

[Gray]

Come on mate we made a thousand passes

Not quite, but it must be fun for the statisticians.

 

[Gray]

Lol. Entitled much? Gonna play badly sometimes, gonna be knackered sometimes. Suck it up.

And yes I was there.

Well done for going, I never criticise people like your self.

But I do not like fans being short changed, after all I don't thing many of them are on £300k a week.

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

Lots of people complaining about certain players rightly too in some cases. Biggest complaint should go to Pep, the team was out of balance for a comfortable win. However good experience for the youngsters and good game time for the rest. In hindsight I would have preferred Delph instead of Yaya.
Never mind no real harm done.

 

[tonea2003]

the full backs were poor last night, and highly likely club legend yaya's last game in a blue shirt

but pleased for more minutes in foden's legs can only get better, diaz looked lively also,

felt the more established players were holding a little back for games to come.

bottom line we are through spurs aint

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Oh well.

How absolutely brilliant were the Basel away fans last night. They were superb to a man.

Best this season.

 

[its a Barm]

The only thing that worries me from watching last night is what happens when 21 and 17 don't play, it scares me.

 

[fergal_oc]

Shows we need to get the league wrapped up pronto so that we can stick kdb and Dav in cotton wool, safe for the CL.

Glad we’re through, happy with anyone except Liverpool in the quarters.

 

[shemnel]

don't like to see us lose whatever the circumstances but i guess young players, 2nd XI etc etc...

but still, i thought a lot of the team ethos went astray.

 

[FantasyIreland]

We rested key players and prevented possible injury,we gave second stringers game time and,very importantly,we gave two gifted kids extremely valuable minutes and experience.Although the result on the night wasnt what we wanted, we still qualified with ease.
Last night was never going to be anything more than being efficient,using the game to our advantage and ultimately getting into the next round.

Job done.

 

[dickie davies]

So we lost a game which had no purpose.
Who cares.
Would people have rather won at the expense of injury to one of our critical players? Thought not.
On the positive side our youngsters got an outing and we rested our first team.
We have much bigger fish to fry in th coming weeks and if there ever was a game we could afford to lose that was it.
Looking forward to Stoke.

I'll tell you who cares, around 47000 City fans who paid to watch
How do we know anyone would have been injured! But the fact is, it was a heartless performance by a number of very highly paid players who should have been extremely motivated to give the manager a selection headache for Stoke