Champions League Final Liverpool v Spurs

[OB1]

Boring football, low pace, a match to forget. But a major title in the history book.
So, what did we learn from that rotten match?

Sadly and most importantly in CL ko matches: DON'T CONCEDE. ANY.
That's all.
4 goals vs spurs simply being far too much.

If we still try to win all 4 competitions it could helpful to win the league early.
Without lucky dippers we would have been nearly out of reach in early April before CL QFs kick off.

On the other hand, Barca and Juve did win their league early but still went out...

What do we need then?
Pure luck? More confidence on big nights?
More defensive tightness?

Fine margins and all that.
Mané chipped the ball intentionally to Sissoko's arm and the outcome for dipper's matchplan was immense.
Final won, Let's talk about six, Jurgen Cupp and more to come.

It was a poor match but Scousers won't care. Game was effectively over after two minutes. Liverpool are very strong defensively against domestic opposition.

Game was so dull that I did literally fall asleep at one point.

When we went more defensive in first leg vs Spurs, we got criticised. I'm sure an objective for next season will be to concede fewer goals than this but may be centred on even better ball retention and stopping counter-attacks at source. Pep wants the ball to be in the opponents half as much as possible and that is not going to change.

 

[Silva2021]

Don't confuse great with good

This season they have been a great team but I certainly don’t mean one of the greats.

Take away City and who else would you name as being a better team this season?

For the record, we’re an exceptional team so I’m certainly not saying they are level with us.

I think football fans tend to dismiss and downplay rivals, whereas it probably makes sense to give credit where it’s due.

 

[chaddblue]

If there's one good thing to come out of last night, its that the love-in with Sir Harry Kane has been permanently tarnished

In the space of just over 12 months he has:

1) Stolen an important goal off a team-mate (even swearing on his daughter to get the goal)
2) Cost England a place in the world cup final by his greed
3) Cheated his team-mates, manager and fans by convincing them he was fit to play in the final despite clearly being about 25% fit

 

[Kokonut1307]

UEFA selectively decide when to apply their own handball rules. TAA got away with a handball against Porto where Alisson tapped it onto his arm, but Sissoko’s is judged as a penalty. Where is consistency? Then there is Llorente using his arm. Shows you how much VAR matters when there is still a person applying the rules inconsistently.

 

[St.Pauli support]

...When we went more defensive in first leg vs Spurs, we got criticised. I'm sure an objective for next season will be to concede fewer goals than this but may be centred on even better ball retention and stopping counter-attacks at source. Pep wants the ball to be in the opponents half as much as possible and that is not going to change.

Agreed.
But as long as the away goal rule exists you have to score away and keep a clean sheet at home.

Furthermore, put a penalty in and don't give away easy goals if you pretend to play defensively... :-/

I wasn't disappointed that City lost a match, we had more than enough to turn it around and we more or less did.

I was disappointed to not be more aggressive and piss on their new stadium parade and take it in a storm.
Our first half had so many easy and sloppy mistouches that I could see our players were afraid to fuck it up, and we did on that day.
That's a mental aspect and it has to be addressed.

 

[Mancity1980]

That streaker was the highlight

My thoughts exactly. We’re had the Matthews final, the white suit final and now the streaker final!

 

[mayo31]

This for sure. If we had have got past Spurs in the CL quarters, Dont think we’d have had enough gas in the tank to get through those last few PL games.

Who says, you?

 

[Allnightlong]

Very true , offsides are black and white , similar to goal line technology VAR is going to make a difference to a lot of results next season

but we've already seen some dubious angles etc for offside calls, i'm not convinced this will be 100% truthful

 

[Mancity1980]

That final was poor for our absence, even if that pen had been gifted against us in the first 25 seconds we would have opened up that Liverpool side and created a spectacle for the neutral.

 

[half & half derby scarf]