Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

I’m not as gutted as I thought I would be. I am really disappointed for the people who went out there though, with all the nonsense at the moment. I think they were let down by our team and manager. Piss poor.
 
nellyonthewing said:
This defeat was born with the FA semi final defeat and then the League defeat. If Pep thought he was disguising his hand it failed dismally. Chelsea learnt how to beat Peps system and even if our personnel change they came in confident their system could beat us. Then Pep decided to mix it up with a bizarre move that essentially handed the initiative to Chelsea before a ball was kicked.
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What people don't understand is, if you lose you're damned if you change it and you're damned if you don't. Ferdo and Rodri started the FA Cup defeat against Chelsea, they've beaten us twice recently so who wouldn't try something different? If it was that simple we'd all be managers. If we were that bad we'd havew won nothing. Even Mount is just saying they've more or less just won because they got one break and spent the rest of the game defending, at least they recognise we weren't as bad as people make out.
 
danielwood5 said:
With a neutral ref we pick our best team and win that but when you go into a game knowing you can't tackle you start off on the back foot.
Maybe we over thought the referee ad we were very hesitant to put a foot in although the times that we did generally ended up with a freekick. We were basically a bit naive in terms of European Football, we need to learn that any kind of contact means fall over and scream, tackles aren't allowed and pay acting is king. I'd rather we didn't play that way but we did OK against a million pound Burnley tonight, we didn't play our best but neither did they.
As.Ben Chilwell said, they knew the key to the game was to be aggressive in the tackle, they knew 100% they would be allowed to be aggressive, we didn't. This is European Football.
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Who picks a team based on a ref? It's nonsensical. The refs are always bent in Uefa so why change tactics now.
 
If I was the Sheikh, I would reimburse all the fans who travelled. That was utterly unacceptable. All that money and effort to get there and they were the only thing about City that turned up. The only thing. Heart goes out to them all.
 
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