Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[Burtonblue]

Disgraceful way to treat a club legend.
10 fucking minutes in Champs league final and giving that useless Sterling 80 minutes !
Pep has took us as far as he can,
Time to move on.

The only thing that’s disgraceful is your post mate.
We all feel for Kun and yes Sterling was poor. Wrong selection on this occasion.
But to suggest getting rid of Pep just cos we haven’t won the CL is ludicrous.
Take a look at our trophy cabinet and think again...

 

[BlumerMooner]

Oh well, over to the transfer forum...

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Like everyone else as soon as I saw the line up, I knew we were in trouble.

Fernandinho has been the best player in the world in that position. He's been superb all season, but more than that he leads by example and is a natural captain. He will break up play and provide cover for the defence. Why he didn't play mystified me. If he wasn't fit then Rodri should've played.

The midfield was an absolute mess and was overrun by Chelsea. It had no structure and what was even more annoying was that he couldn't see that it wasn't working he didn't change it

The subs came too late and were the wrong ones.

I love Pep, but he needs an absolute rocket when he gets back. Sorry, but his ludicrous form of brain farting in big CL games (Chelsea, Liverpool, Lyon, Spurs, Monaco) has cost the club genuine attempts at winning the CL. To try a new formation in the final was shocking.

I'm honestly not sure what to think now. Next season we will do the same in the CL. The players must also start to think the same.

We are the best team in England, I honestly don't understand why you change your team for the 4th best one in England!

Finally, he absolutely needs to look at how we continually get picked off by deep lying teams who counter. He doesn't seem to learn and that's frustrating.

Ultimately we've still had a good season but rankles that it's Chelsea who've spoiled it for us.

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

after last night , he does not deserve that mantle at this time

Yeah that’s fair enough. I do worry about how much this will affect our players. If I were one of them I’d have lost a bit of faith in him last night

 

[Chippy_boy]

We face 10 men behind the ball nearly every week, you’d think we’d have figured it out. Last night was the same, conceding 1 shouldn’t have made any difference - scoring is the problem.

I don't disagree that scoring is an issue against packed defences often.

But usually we dominate possession and have many chances. We didn't do that yesterday. Chelsea played well for sure but I don't think they won it so much as we just lost it. Had it been Liverpool or United we were playing, we'd have probably lost that as well.

 

[Mcfctony]

Still fuming

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Like taking the Harlem Globetrotters and playing Ronnie Corbett.

 

[burning blue soul]

We face 10 men behind the ball nearly every week, you’d think we’d have figured it out. Last night was the same, conceding 1 shouldn’t have made any difference - scoring is the problem

Scoring is NOT the problem. High shots to goals conceded ratio is the problem.

I repeat... scoring is not the problem!!!!!

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

It sucks even more when you wake up with that sick feeling of what could had been if we played to our strengths and didn't play such a disjointed line up.

Substitution was warranted by 25th minute mark as it was clear as a day light it wasn't gonna work out, i seriously doubt if we ever gonna win CL under pep

 

[give it to gordon]

I would just add that if in my eyes our strongest team starts I would have taken it badly. The team that played the quarter and semi finals.