Borussia Dortmund (H) Post-Match Thread

[phargrave]

I don't think I'm being over dramatic when I say that's the worst we've played in years.. goodness gracious. What was up with us tonight? The effort was poor from minute one.

And after over a week off!

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

UEFA said no national anthems and a massive outpouring of resistance was seen. Get inside the stadium and nothing.
For me now boo the CL and you are an absolute wa**er

Boooooo

 

[Matt the Giant]

Weird game, uncharacteristically poor performance from us, really right up until the subs. Then we got going, with the pressing and tenacity from Alvarez (what a little whirlwind this lad is!), Foden and Silva changing the game for us.

Happy with the three points, top of the group.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

The Trivela king Cancelo strikes again... is there anyone better?

Trivela;
The technique of putting curl on a ball with the outside of the foot is sometimes known as a trivela, a Portuguese term, with Ricardo Quaresma a notable user of this skill.

Joao Cancelo needs adding to this list..

 

[Paul1970]

Good result but very poor performance. Good job we have haaland because we would be miles off the pace and his goals are covering cracks atm . Title race is going to be very tight this year . Grealish is not even worth £50 million and as for Mahrez another mistake giving him a contract . We cannot play both in the same team .
Positives
Haaland is a once in a lifetime striker who will get better and really like the look of akanji aswell . End of the day good good result but if we turn up like that at wolves we will get beat as we are atm looking like a one man team .

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Tap in.

 

[kinky's boots]

Fair play to Pep making the changes when he did.

Rather than sleep walking in to 80 minutes.

Mahrez and Grealish kill our play.

They are both so slow and predictable in everything they do.

Was like night and day after the Subs.

Big season for Grealish, i am not seeing a long term future with us based on what i am seeing so far.I feel like he is on Easy Street,putting on the Shirt and in cruise mode.

I'm not impressed with Grealish but I disagree on that point. If anything I think he's trying too hard. Perhaps he's just not intelligent enough to play in a Pep team, football-wise?

 

[applecentral]

He's still only a teenager too. BT didn't mention it, but I heard it somewhere!

17 by all accounts

 

[applecentral]

The Mrs has the same problem.

Yes I noticed that with your Mrs

 

[M12Blue]

Fuck me half you lot on here must have thought we were playing Blackpools 2nd team. The amount of player criticism if we're not winning 4 nil at half time is fucking cringeworthy. I've listened to utd fans giving us more credit than some bellends on the match thread.

Dortmund are the Bundeslieges 2nd best side most years and theyre full of very good German internationals. Reus, Hummels, Sulle and plenty of others. They played a disciplined 5-4-1 where both Citys wide men in posession were doubled up on nearly all the time. Pep admitted what was obvious that we didn't play with sufficient tempo to break their lines particularly first half. I knew this would be tight. The previous 2 games against them have been 2-1 wins i think.

What is obvious to me is that we tire teams out with constant posession and can inject great quality against tired legs. It shouldn't be a surprise we can go behind and win out in the end. When Foden and Silva came on their midfield were already walking in recovery phases. Their goal gave us sufficient kick up the arse to quicken the tempo enough to kill them off.

Jack, after a decent preseason has had an injury keeping him out for a couple of weeks followed by not a lot of game time to get any rhythm. Much like KDB last year all the know nouts love a scapegoat and want to write him off as not good enough after what, 3 - 4 games this season? He's obviously doing what Pep wants him to do currently. We all want to see him running at defenders and beating them, creating and scoring goals and hopefully it will come. Can't we stay off his back in the meantime. Our enemies seem to want him to fail, that doesn't mean we should. Theres now a media narrative that im not buying. Let's see how it goes this season for him. I'm sure he expects more from himself as much as we do. We all know its in there.

Onwards now to Wolves early Saturday. I'll say it now, we won't be 3 up after 10 mins. It won't mean we're shit or Peps lost it with whatever rotated starting 11 he picks after only 2 and a half days recovery time.

You'll get a ban for talking like tgat if you're not careful