Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[nmc]

Wasn't a pen.

You may be correct but we simply weren’t given the chance to form a view was my point... if that was the Rags there‘d have been hours of forensic evidence.

 

[bluesteel]

Thought Stones, Silva and Sterling were poor and we were unlucky losing our best player to injury, other than they just played better, probably because Guardiola decided to not play the team that won the second leg vs PSG and use a formation they probably practiced for a week or two.

Not too gutted as we’ll be in a CL final again.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Is it getting nasty and personal on here yet?

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Dippers won absolutely fuck all this season
Rags have won absolutely fuck all for 4 years.

You'd think some of the comments on here tonight are from Rag and Dipper fans.

 

[coolcity]

I think I have had enough of Pep.

We get to another CL final, what will he do? We all knew CFC would play 3 quick forwards and play counter-attacking football so why did you do that Pep? We needed cover in this game more than any other.

Sorry but that and many of the other comments on here disgusts me. If any of the team read this forum I wouldn't blame them all for walking out. What he's done is beyond my wildest dreams even 10 years ago. There's no guarantee any other manager would have even got us close. Nobody else has.

 

[nellyonthewing]

I actually felt worse when Pep decided it was OK to let the rags beat us yet again.
What pisses me off is his stubborn arrogance that rather than admit it wasn't working at half time he persists with this crap into the 2nd half.

 

[give it to gordon]

Playing without a DM unbalanced the team. To many players playing out of their normal position. Made the players nervous.
To me it didnt feel like a champions league final probably because we were playing another English team.

 

[1961_vintage]

They really won't let us win the biggest club competition in the world when rags are at their lowest.

"They" didn't stop us. We stopped ourselves.

 

[German]

They let themselves down. They were poor all over the park and that, despite his poor selection and tactics, cannot be solely down to the manager.

He tends to overthink it in big games -

Thomas Müller about Guardiola after quarter final loss last year ...




Similar to his mentor Marcelo Bielsa, Pep Guardiola sees it as his duty to give his players as much information as possible about their opponents. Peps brooding, his analytical skills and ideas, paired with the individual strength of the players, especially in the league, lead to the often extreme dominance of the Guardiola teams. "In the long run, Guardiola is therefore the best coach and his teams are the strongest," Bayern's Thomas Müller told The Athletic in February. Guardiola's 28 titles since 2008 cannot be ignored, even if it was only enough for the Carabao Cup this season.



Before knockout games, however, the coach may be too cerebral, torn between adapting to the opponent and maintaining his own style of play. "Sometimes it was therefore not one hundred percent clear what we were doing," said Müller. "Perhaps Müller is right," replied Guardiola at the time.





Von meinem iPhone gesendet

 

[madloaf]

Maybe, but none of our players were anywhere near as aggressive in closing down Chelsea as they would normally be and we started with none of our players who 'get stuck in' i.e. Fernandinho, Rodri or Cancelo.
People complain about Pep over thinking things and in this case I think he over thought the referee rather than the opposition.

I'm with you matey. We needed to play our natural game, but we need a DM for that.