Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

Can’t understand people that blame Chelsea for being bus-parkers. At 0-0 it always felt like they were the team that was gonna find the 1-0 goal. Werner missed a brilliant opportunity and there were a couple of other chances that felt dangerous. We only had Foden’s when Rudiger blocked.
 
KennyG said:
We have no pace to hurt a great defensive team like Chelsea. We needed to drag them out of position. It backfired and it is on Pep, but I could see some logic.

That said, we bottled it, who stood up?
Pep kept saying we were inexperienced, He can’t believe that, Chelsea are a younger side.

We need an injection of pace, a Robben type, and a predator in the box.
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Commentators kept saying about how it was City's first CL final but Chelsea's 3rd and how that experience helps.
What a load of fcuking shit, none of the Chelsea players had played in their previous finals
 
FantasyIreland said:
I agree we have to keep progressing/adapting but you fail to acknowledge the extenuating circumstances in those games,neither faced our best team or system.

And for some unfathomable reason I will never understand,Pep chose to do that again in our biggest ever occasion.
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You'd have thought after Lyon that the players might have had a mini rebellion and said "Don't do that again". I presume that formation was something they'd actually been practising behind closed doors - but we had had a chance to practise it against the real opponents to see how it worked.

One thing it was hard to see from behind the goal was whether our formation stopped Mount, but I assumed from his being substituted that he'd been less effective than Tuchel expected. Apart from the goal....
 
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Vic said:
You'd have thought after Lyon that the players might have had a mini rebellion and said "Don't do that again". I presume that formation was something they'd actually been practising behind closed doors - but we had had a chance to practise it against the real opponents to see how it worked.

One thing it was hard to see from behind the goal was whether our formation stopped Mount, but I assumed from his being substituted that he'd been less effective than Tuchel expected. Apart from the goal....
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This whole debacle made me revisit that old article about Pep when at Bayern. He knows his fatal flaw.

'The biggest mistake of my life’ – How Guardiola got it all wrong in 4-0 Madrid mauling | Goal.com

This extract from Marti Perarnau's new book on Pep Guardiola reveals the background to Bayern's crushing home loss to Real Madrid in the Champions Lea
www.goal.com www.goal.com
 
For all the analsis and disection on here.
As soon as we all saw the team most of us knew we were in trouble.
If we all new why did Peps coaching staff not try and change his mind or maybe they did?
There are rumours the players were aghast with the selection.Pep is a genius but he keeps making the same mistakes.I suppose this makes him the same as the rest of us.Do we always learn from our mistakes?
However he is the leader of our club
and as such we have to believe he will get it right in the CL eventually.
Im sure he will change us again next season and we will all be amazed.Not one of the top managers would i swap for him.
 
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