Champions League Final | Post-Match Thread

danielwood5 said:
No offence Marvin, as you're generally an OK poster if not massively pessimistic, but tonight you've said you've had enough of Pep and that he needs to go as if not winning the Champions League is the be all and end all.
The Champions League is an utter pile of over hyped, cheaty, divey shite and if you don't recognise that this is the best football you will ever see then you are in for some of the most serious decades of disappointment you will ever see.
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Absolutely spot on. And although most can't bring themselves to admit it, getting through Chelsea's defence was always going to be the biggest challenge tonight and I though the tactics might just work. There was one shot on target between them winning or extra time, I rate Tuchel and they will probably be stronger challengers for next season than most people give them credit for.
 
All I was hoping for, was to not throw the game away with any silly red cards, or to be done by a dodgy V.A.R decision. Oh, and to turn up, and show those chav cants that we can play when it matters most. To say I'm gutted, would be to say that humans appreciate oxygen.
 
A loss in the champions league final, bollocks to those saying they don't care its fucking gutting.
Impotent and depressing performance but we're here on merit. Won't be easy to be back here again but hopefully the campaign does the confidence good. We were the best team in Europe this year, which is as excruciating as it is something to be proud of.
 
People keep stating we needed to start with Fernandino yet the problem was no focal point in attack to play off. Nothing up front to worry the opponents, bet Chelsea were absolutely delighted we started without either Jesus or Aguero.
 
BamberBridgeBlue said:
Very few teams win it first time around. This was a huge step forward for the club versus our previous best when Pellegrini never laid a glove on Real Madrid. It’s all part of the process.

As an aside, fireworks around my neck of the woods. Plenty of chat gardens with Liverpool flags on poles. We get under their skin. We go again.
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Same here, funny how so many Rags who claim we just don't matter to them can't stop texting tonight.
 
A pissed up fan on the terraces would have picked a better side tonight.

They would have played the same side tat beat PSG.

It wasn't Rocket science.

We lost because were all over the show with a crazy system.

Not taking the gloss of Chelsea deserved win.

Just stating a fact, that fact is our own manager sabotaged our chances tonight.

I will calm down in time ,right now i am really angry with The Ego.

He is paid to pick a side to win Europe most prestigious Trophy.

Not feed his fucking Ego experimenting with an unproven system, at the expense of a proven winning system..
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
It’s maybe where a no9 will help
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Yeah its the same problem as last year, we just have better CBs but the tactical issue isn't fixed. I think we need a number 9 and a box to box midfielder to unlock 532s.

Our midfield is too static, too many 10s and no one making late runs from deep and lacking a proper striker does kill us against the 3 CBs because it removes the key question the false 9 poses which is to stay in position or come out to the false 9. With 3 CBs, you can do both.
 
RayCTID said:
The Champions League has always been a strange competition to win. It is a lottery. Pep didn't win this draw, but has still a few tickets left
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goalmole said:
If he'd have played something like the PSG team and lost, I could have taken it with good grace and moved on.
I just can't handle the fact that we handed them the game on a silver platter.
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Totally agree, no argument if he played ferna for sterling and played same formation , then fair do’s
 
Stelea said:
Couldn’t have gone worse.
I doubt the 9 change Ake, Mendy etc team would have done any worse. Pathetic effort tonight which was undermined by Pep tinkering
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Here's why it mattered that we played properly against Chelsea in the two run up games (which a lot of people think didn't matter). It would have showed how to beat them with the players that were going to play. Imagine we play our best 11 and get stifled like tonight - it makes you think. Then you get a 2nd chance - and you tinker then. It's experience against a common opponent. If you don't think it matters then fine - it's your opinion, but you'ld rather spar someone twice before the real fight to know their strengths and weaknesses right?
 
Fucking hell, that hurt like mad. Mad how we’ve won two trophies, but the season ends on the biggest downer ever.
Just a word on the gloating Rags beeping their horns and cheering out their car windows, whilst we were coming out the CFA. A couple of my grandkids are about to start their first school and yet United haven’t won a trophy in their lifetime. Us losing is literally all the cunts have left to cheer.
 
alexmcity said:
People have already forgotten how difficult this season was for us. No preseason, many injuries, covid, only one fit striker for most of the season, etc. etc We were 12th in November and won the league by 12 pts which was exceptional including those record-breaking 21 wins. Pep has won 14 from 16 finals in his career. So, it's not like he wins one-off games rarely. His record in finals is the best in the world by far.

Think the biggest problem today was that half of our players weren't in top form due to the heroic efforts from December to March. Kevin, Bernardo and Mahrez did very little today, Gundogan wasn't Gundogan from January and February, even Dias wasn't Dias. We were at our best during that record winning run. It's only normal we lost a bit of form. Even against PSG we weren't very convincing. We were a bit lucky in Paris with both goals. Even Pep and the players admitted we weren't good in the first half at the Etihad either. It's not like we were out of this world with Rodri/Ferna. We struggled against PSG with either at DM in the first halfs away and home.

Generally, it was an excellent season. Sign a great striker this summer and win the lot next season. Wish people didn't say stupid things about Pep and the players and give fans of other teams the stick to beat them with and laugh at us. Great season. Let's hope the next is great as well!
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So the pundits saying Chelsea should be scared looking at our destruction of Everton, were just being silly?

The fact is we went into the game today as the clear favourites.

I mind when we lose having played well and just got beaten fair and square. But it boils my piss when we lose because we played like clowns. And we played like clowns today because of how we set up. I am convinced if we'd kept that waste of space Sterling in the stand and played Rodri or Fern, we'd have won today. We will never know, but I'd rather that team lost than the shambles we saw this evening.
 
As soon as I saw the lineups I knew we were going to disappoint. Gut feeling. And it was clear Chelsea had us sussed after first 15 minutes. Why oh why did it take Pep so long to try and change things? Pep needs to take ownership of this defeat. I'm pissed off. His tinkering cost us the CL tonight and it didn't need to be that way.
 
We didn’t look right from the kO.

Chelsea deserved it, we didn’t.

Couldn’t even make their keeper save a shot.

They’ll win PL next season with their 7 man defence.

Sterling not good enough all season, yet makes CL final?? Explain that!

At least we win the PL comfortably, but it won’t be the same next season.
 
Keeper! said:
no european cups, but there model works, they were in 8th when Tommy took over and going nowhere, he's done a great job, fair play to him, PSG must be also having a long hard think tonight.
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Chelsea needed Spurs to help them hugely to finish in the top 4. The model isn't working that well.
 
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