Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[BlueAnorak]

As soon as I saw the team I knew what the result would be.

 

[The perfect fumble]

We didn't win tonight because of sterling

Sterling's inclusion was a consequence of a poor team selection, a team selection that was not made by Sterling.

We did not lose this game because of Sterling's performance, we lost because of the team selection, a very poor team selection by Pep.

 

[bluemoon32]

He's a liar

 

[Keeper!]

Not true.

Bollocks would be more appropriate.

 

[kdbrise]

Pep should have played the PSG team and formation. We handled Neymar and Mbappe with that team. Werner and Havertz would have been easy.

There were moments in the PSG and Dortmund ties that we got the feeling Pep may have messed it up, but luckily we were saved by some individual brilliance.

This competition is really not Pep's forte maybe, back then with Barca with no VAR and all was a different story.

 

[Decepticon]

Defending his BS formation, fuck off.

 

[deano ou812]

KDB can play poorly, but turn a game in a heartbeat. He was SMASHED out of the game UNFAIRLY tonight. Could have and should have been a red card. It wasn't, and we lost and that was that.

We go again...

2 trophies, including the PL title. We played 61 games this season, and we've been brilliant all season... except tonight...

CTID!!!

He was smashed out of the game by a coward would he try shit like that on his own if confronted by someone in the street he’s a cnut who deserves all he gets coming to him,billy big bollocks would shit himself if approached you can bet on that ..

 

[madloaf]

As soon as I saw the team I knew what the result would be.

I didn't know we'd lose, but i didn't feel as confident that we would win. What a fucking shame.

 

[BlueAnorak]

As soon as I saw the team I knew what the result would be.

Sadly I was right.

 

[Gray]

I'll explain it to you.
We have gone out of the Champions League three times due to the referee we had tonight making the wrong decisions against us.
This referee has a long history of being against Pep Guardiola and against Manchester City.
Pep looked at this and realised every tackle, every bit of pressure will result in a free kick against us (at best).
With this in mind Pep decided to pick a team that were better at keeping possession rather than winning it back as that was the least likely to result in freekicks, penaltys, red cards against us.
He decided that due to the above it was sensible to pick Sterling rather than Fernandinho as that minimises the risks of red cards but allows Sterling's pace to keep James pinned back, thus negating one of their biggest threats.
Foden and De Bruyne were then allowed to roam up front in the hopes that this would then pull their back 5 out of position a little allowing us to exploit the space somewhat.
Hope this helps.

Very well put, and if our team could have actually scored a goal it would have helped.