Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[hilts]

For all of those wanting rid of sterling, £300k per week + £50 million (and then some) signing on fee suggests he isn’t going anywhere!

Bargain, if he could tie his own shoe laces he might be quite expensive

 

[ShedDweller]

You my friend, are not wrong. Ahhhhh FUCCCCCCCCCK!!!!!

I wish I was wrong. Raheem is a shadow of they player he was. Its actually sad to see.

 

[Silvaguerro]

For all of those wanting rid of sterling, £300k per week + £50 million (and then some) signing on fee suggests he isn’t going anywhere!

The players we need to get rid of are- gundogun rodri cancelo Mendy Garcia.

 

[citymad]

"We did our best but it was not our night".

Don't tell us we were "exceptional" when we were anything but. We are not fucking idiots Pep.

Blah fucking blah. Well I hope you include yourself in that statement Your job was to set up a team that will allow these incredibly talented players to express themselves. By Selecting sterling and a no natural DM handed Chelsea the confidence that they could win this. Why the fuck didn’t you play the team that beat Dortmund and PSG. Trying to be clever because they’re an English team.

 

[Pam]

Can anyone tell me what Sterling did to earn his place tonight?

 

[madloaf]

Gundo was not bought as a defensive midfielder, that just bollocks DM was always Ferny's job.
At Dortmund he was very much a playmaker

That's all he has ever been, remember Barca at home a few years ago. He's a proper football player, but a dm he is not.

 

[paulsimpson]

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.

It nearly worked . Lahoz is an awful ref I'll give you that but we didn't have the cunning to get round a defensive Chelsea side tonight and that's the big issue .

 

[Hiley rated]

As soon as the team was announced my household went flat, our crowd sounded flat and the team were flat. Love Pep, but why tinker!!

 

[jamesha]

Lots about Chelsea and banning of posters. Can we have your take on the game, genuinely interested.

I think we never established any lasting control over the match and were fortunate that Werner is such a poor finisher. Chelsea's midfield was very dynamic and their defence very strong. Sterling did not provide the threat Pep hoped for thanks to a strong performance from James and our other main threats were muted. We might have equalised a couple of times but Chelsea got some great last second blocks in. On balance the better team won and, apart from Rudiger's shithouse challenge, the game was free of controversy.

 

[Bluescholar]

What a load of shite!
We’ve gone out tonight because tinkermen has overlooked what has got him to the final in the first fucking place.
Ederson
Walker
Dias
Stones
Zinchenko
Dinho
Gundo
Bernado
Mahrez
De Bruyne
Foden

it’s not fucking science!

So the one selection error did for us? Shite, we lost because we were crap tonight, od of played rodri, but foden, kev, gundogan, Stones, zinchenko, all being wank wouldn't of helped him much.