It wasn't just changing one player that was the issue, it's the domino effect.I think for all the ifs buts and maybe’s, we have to accept that Chelsea played very well, executing their plan to perfection and they might have won anyway playing that well. They really should have sealed it in the second half with that chance that he put wide and could have had two more in the first half. We will never know what would have happened. For me too many players didn’t show up. We looked nervous and edgy and our usual crisp passing was missing. It’s was just a very poor performance and a very good one from Chelsea. I’m not sure changing one player would have led to an exhilarating performance. We have been stuttering since the rags match for me with 3/4 exceptional performances thrown in. We needed one last night and we didn’t get it.
What was bent about last night?We may all have to accept that we wont win this bent competition with Pep at the helm. Personally I am okay with that as I only care about the domestic stuff anyway but I accept I’m probably in the minority with that view.
It’s just that year after year after year after year he tries to be clever when what is required in the CL is pragmatism. He does it in big league games too but we invariably have 30+ games to make up for it in the league.
I’ll be quite happy to wait for success in europe until after Pep has left which I hope is in a few more years yet.
My only frustration this morning is that I believe Pep doesn’t see City as ‘big enough’ or ‘historically important enough’ to really be at the very top table and consequently feels the need to try and over egg the pudding in compensation.
Let’s have another few years of domestic success and worry about Europe when we change manager eventually.
He did tinker. We messed up.Can't believe how many posts I'm reading complaining about Pep "tinkering".
We beat PSG with a 4-4-2 low block and two counter attacks. We never play like that. Where were the people saying he should have played the strongest team the same way as usual then?
The year Leicester won the league Pellegrini played the same way he always did against them at home and we went to the ground knowing we'd be set up all wrong for them, with Demichelis in a high line. No surprise we lost. Everyone complained about that then.
The adjustment last night made sense but it didn't work. Fair fucks to Chelsea, they executed their game plan well.
The sense of entitlement is a joke. You won't know how lucky we are to have Pep until he's gone.
Straws? who cares what the media say, Chelsea have a big daft eared pot on the plane going home to London.Looking on the bright side, if we had won then the trophy would be ”worthless, you paid for it, plastic” today it’s Chelsea who are filling that slot.
in a bizarre way it also takes pressure off the Glazers and the euphoria of City getting beat should pacify the zebra pant wearing numpties and keep the wonderful Glazer reign going for another few decades.
and yes I am clutching at straws!
Nothing last night but you remember the corrupt ban right? Last year, February.What was bent about last night?
Did UEFA chose the team?
Mate, it was the fear most City fans had, & something most pundits debated as a distinct possibility. Essentially Pep shot us in the foot.thats the line up i was quietly confidant about all week , than 6:45 saturday and my heart sank !
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but given what happened last night, if Pep had the chance to replay the match, would he put out the same lineup & formation again?
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