Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Oh, go on.... please tell me about Pep's record in the CL during his time at the club :-)

Since when do we have a divine right to win the CL? Robbed badly by VAR v Spurs for example

 

[Bandofblues]

I just don’t get how some of you lot are jist so chuffed with losing. Thought we wanted to win trophies ffs

I'm not 'chuffed'. But anyone slagging Pep or the team, or refusing to see how well Chelsea played then ... .

 

[roy.or.r]

Fucking devastated after that. It’s one thing to play our best team and lose but this is fucking pissing me off so much. Why oh why change a winning formula? Pep effectively changed the entire system today for no fucking reason. Fuck off!!! It’s like me having a method for a year to pick up chicks which has worked perfectly but for some bizarre reason I change it when approaching Jennifer Lawrence and fuck it up. Fucking fuming.

 

[coolcity]

Embarrassed at some of our fans here.

The fucking rags are sitting with an empty trophy cabinet while little City are champions of England again.

Have you all forgotten where we came from? I'm not even talking our stint in the second division, but the Prem years when we were the ass end of every joke. Now who's fucking laughing?

Sure, be disappointed about tonight, I certainly am - but it's our first EVER CL final. Who would think we'd make it this far without even a centre forward? We'll be back and we'll win it too, until then, chin up blues, we are the champions

Absolutely spot on. Sad thing is we're beggining to sound exactly like the rags, seem to think we have some god given right to win everything. Not long ago a lot of us would have given our right arm for the title which to me is much harder to win.

At the end of the day we were 3 wins off a historic quadruple and I'm proud of that. Everyone else can go fuck themselves.

 

[Luke The Blue]

None. And Gundogan has - in my opinion - been our best player this season...playing that 8 role. He was desperately missing from there.

He's plays a major role in our team he's patient and keeps possession but Pep decides to throw him in fucking holding midfield, and keeps Fernandinho the best in the business at that on the fucking bench. I'm so angry I cant talk. It's fucking ridiculous.

 

[daflanger]

Chelsea started with 5 defenders and 2 Holding Mids. We started with no holding mids!!!!!!!!!!

The game was lost in the first half. You could notice once Ferna was on he restored order but it was too late cause cheslea went to 5 defenders and 3 Holding mids. It was over

Pep once again tinkers with a winning formula. This could have been our only chance in a while to win this damn trophy. I dont see us getting to the final any time soon again.

Sterling starting was a big nistake Jesus would have been better to start. Sterling did not help the defence or attack!!

Very upset we lost and very sad for the boys.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

All on Pep again, thought more about the opposition than his own team.

Incredibly disrespectful to think he can go into a game like that with no defensive midfielder to speak of.

Chelsea had a game plan to let us play across the width of the pitch but couldn't believe their luck with that midfield press.

I'm not even sad, as we were never in it, thanks to a manager who for some unknown reason, set us up with one arm tied behind our backs.

All just seems like a massive waste of time going this far to perform like that.

The only thing I was upset with was seeing Sergio at the end crying like that.

Players know, they know Pep let them down.

 

[bluemoon32]

What a load of shit all those posts were after they beat us twice recently.
Loads of stuff about how Pep now knew how they played but Tuchel didnt know about us and we were keeping our powder dry etc etc.
All utter bollocks

 

[OntarioBlue]

3rd game in a row that we've failed to score against them and barely had a shot on target and therein lies the problem.

You would think Pep would have figured that out. Chelsea were very impressive defensively and we were unable to find a way through them. The warning signs were there in the FA cup and reinforced in the league game. Didnt our coaching staff learn anything from those games

 

[nellyonthewing]

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.

They had far more goal chances than we did. Mendy and the lack of impact up front with the false 9 was the FA semi main failing. Like against the rags Pep and the players go flaky .