Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

[come-on-barney]

Look on the bright side Blues. Willie Caballero's a CL winner. Pleased for him.

Oh yeah I’m absolutely f***n delighted

 

[Akiva]

Bollocks and so very wrong, we are one of the giants of the game, not owned by the TV rental man

Giants of the fucking game but never been in a CL final before today? Off you fuck.

I'm proud of my club, we're the champions of England again and we'll be back for that CL title. Chin up blues! We go again

 

[Burtonblue]

Got City to the club's first ever CL final.

Why are people ignoring this?

It’s the disappointment and the arrogant belief we should be winning everything

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

I think if Fern as on from the start it would still be 0-0. Chelsea only ripped us apart, or threatened to in the first half. Maybe the only way of beating them was to play them at their own game and grind out a 1-0.

I do not blame the City players. It was wrong team selection and tactics that cost us. But Chelsea stopped us playing and defended exceptionally well. If fact, In the first half especially, they defended with the purpose of winning the ball and counter attacking.

 

[LongsightM13]

Fern changed the game when he came on the others were stitched up by the ego

Yeah can’t fault Ferna tbf he was OK given the fucking shambles he belatedly entered. The rest have to take personal responsibility for their performances as much as Pep, who once again lost his never-ending battle with his inner fucking smartarse

 

[Legal Alien]

Zinchenko not being in the right position gave them their goal. Not that it matters now.

Not having balance in midfeld cost us the goal.

The ball was played right through where a holding midfielder would be.

It was a strange time to play without a holding midfielder, you'd think Pep would try it against Brighton or Everton first, not in the biggest game in our history!

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

I thought we had done.

Yeah but people are chuffed to have lost

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I may have had a beer or two tonight...

But really???

Some of our fans are a bunch of entitled FANNIES.

 

[Keeper!]

We all could have predicted that Chelsea team tonight. However, Pep picked a team unlike any other we’ve put out all season, including the big games in the Champions League semis and quarters. Maybe it is something he’d worked on with the team for weeks but it didn’t look that way on the pitch.

Chelsea are a quality side with three centre backs, two holding midfielders, and hard working players in the other positions. We needed to accept that we might need till extra time to get a goal. Instead we put out a team like we were already a goal down and desperately chasing the game.

It’s been a good season but after a game like that you can’t help feeling disappointed.

For such a good side we perform like tonight’s game an awful lot, so maybe tonight isn’t all down to the selection and formation for this game. It certainly helps the case for signing a Kane or Haaland because if this is our plan B we need another one.

Chelsea played like Chelsea do under Tommy, yet Pep did not seem to understand.

 

[madloaf]

I thought we had done.

Me too. We'll win this one too, eventually...probably...