Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Dribble]

Part 2:

I feel fuckin sick! The Rags were praying for this, & we gave em what they wished for! The fucking twats started ringing & texting me as soon as the final whistle blew.

Why Pep? Why not start the team that barely gave Mbappé & Neymar a kick?

Sterling hasn't been on form for weeks, yet we start him in the CL Final? The biggest piss take was naming a starting line up without a CDM against a team who've beaten us twice recently, because we never played our strongest 11, or best formation.

If we'd played the team which beat PSG, & our preferred formation, I could congratulate Chelsea & say well done. When that ball was played to Havaertz (sic), he received it right where Fernandinho or Rodri would have been!

Luckily for us, he scored, otherwise Ederson would have been sent off for handball. We defeated ourselves by taking the piss against Chelsea. We disrespected them, & lost the opportunity to give Aguero the send off he deserved.

Pep, you're one of the greatest managers ever, but tonight you believed your own hype, & underestimated a team who reached a CL final. They can't be mugs to achieve that, so why were we treating them like Cheltenham at The Etihad, instead of Chelsea in a final?? Just why? Didn't our two recent defeats against them teach you anything???? :-(

 

[Bluescholar]

There's some real shithousery going on in here.

Tuchel copied and pasted my name to this...

in 4 months has done what Pep couldn't in years.

Arsehole.

What win the premier league? Prick.

 

[Akiva]

Well that’s just plain fucking wrong. He’s been our best non-Centre back this season. He’s our top scorer. He carried us up to Christmas and was the best player in the league by a mile during our winning streak.

Recency bias.

Like last week we all choked up as pep cried over Kun and professed his love for the club - now we have morons calling for his exit.

Similarly, our top scorer and a major catalyst behind our rebirth into eventual league title win has a few less amazing games and suddenly he's always been awful.

This forum, however, has been pretty dire for a long time

 

[Keeper!]

Like pep just said in presser in a 62 game season we have played 61 not to shabby.

Drop the obsession with the league cup, and prioritise this

 

[SidJames]

To all those fans that think there was nothing wrong with that starting Pep system.

Specsavers.

 

[come-on-barney]

The mad thing is that tuchel may well get the sack next year!

I said before and will say again. Roman was unhappy with the unspecial one for the boring and negative football. He craved Pep and an attacking style of football. Let’s see how long this one lasts.

 

[Zinchilla]

People keep stating we needed to start with Fernandino yet the problem was no focal point in attack to play off. Nothing up front to worry the opponents, bet Chelsea were absolutely delighted we started without either Jesus or Aguero.

Not at all, a DM gives you the platform to build an attack - it’s a safety net for the defence as well as the other midfielders who will be caught in two minds - when to attack when to defend, they looked confused.

 

[madloaf]

Is it though 5 years have proven it, it's not like I'm speaking gibberish. Pep bottles it and brings out a system no one has seen

Who here can say they weren't nervous about Peps selection, in all honesty. Mods, can we have a vote?

 

[OntarioBlue]

Right, I am going to bed, one final thought - did Sergio even touch the ball after he came on ? It’s an incredibly disappointing end to a brilliant career at City. Thanks for the memories Sergio.

 

[Silvaguerro]

gutted like everyone else but really won't have too much time thinking about it. I'm not finished celebrating the PL yet. That is still a hugely successful season without a doubt.
PS. Pep soft spot for an all technical midfield will haunt him again, this is not the end of it.

Except that pep will pick gundogun again next year in a key CL MATCH. and that's the end of that. Worst Citi player since 2012