Chelsea (H) | Post-Match Thread

[The Fat el Hombre]

Should have killed it with the aguero pen. Should have killed it with the stonewall pen on sterling. Gave the second string a chance and even so we probably should have won. No key players injured. Title delayed but still inevitable. One big fish left to fry...

Same as the Leeds game no need to get too worked up about it because the league is in the bag. Only one game matters now and if we play as we should that's that, signed sealed and delivered. Yes it was disappointing today but so what? If that's a modern day 'typical city' moment I'll take that all day every day every year over Blackburn away in the cup or Liverpool at home when we were relegated or jimmy bullard and Fulham doing us 3-2 after we were 2 nil up. One game matters now and we're the better team, turn up make history and that's that. It's been a tough time for everyone and these players have barely had a break for a long time. If we end up with the league and that sweet sweet Carabao then that's great, if we win the European Cup then they're all immortalised. Today means little or nothing and i'm sad aguero felt the need to apologise for his pen. No need for anyone, particularly him, to feel down about what has already been achieved this season. Just need to top it off with the European Cup, and today will have little bearing on that, it may even benefit us one way or another

 

[iceman]

Should have played a team killed it no mind games 3 wks rest

 

[WhereWereWeWhenWeWereWhat]

Yada yada.....

I knew my talent wouldn’t go unnoticed

 

[paulchapo]

just checked..

Draw with southampton
Draw with utd
Draw with Leeds
Loss to West Brom
Loss to Porto
Draw with Brighton
Draw with Real Madrid

And if I’m frank... you could factor at least one loss against us if we didn’t play largely our second string. They also leave it tight.. hardly won a game by more than a one goal margin.

They are chasing top 4.. we have had the league rapped up for a month. When playing our best side we have lost one game against (rather annoyingly) the rags.

Their form simply isn’t close to ours. It really isn’t.

Their form since he took over has been a lot more impressive than the stats you've provided. In 25 matches they've only lost 2, with 17 wins and 6 draws.

 

[mancityvstoke]

A hundred and eighty pages! FFS!.

No fucking way I'm reading all the wrist slitting.

Would someone, please kindly summarise it?

We are all to jump off a cliff cos we are going to lose everything

Me? I’m looking forward to pep winning us the league and the champions league final .

 

[WhereWereWeWhenWeWereWhat]

We don't know that. I guess you can understand the fans being upset as they are our CL opponents, we just expected a bit more seriousness maybe.

Of course this won't be the way we play, of course it is not our strongest XI, and of course we will make changes and be a lot more aggressive. But all that said, let's not undermine them. They have made the CL finals after all, no matter how easy the route was. In a one-off game anything is possible. No first timers in a CL final have ever won it. Lots of other factors. We shouldn't be overanalysing the final right now, but the point is, we should also not be taking them lightly.

I think Chelsea are good and capable of beating us in the final even if we have full strength. Im just saying that today will have no baring on what will happen. Pep made a decision to rest the players, and the worst thats happened is we failed to win it as early as we could have. None of our first starters are injured. I reckon that the people moaning we didn’t go full strength would have been fuming if we played the first team and picked up an injury.

 

[Ja Salford Blue]

Tarnished is the word. The only other potential word now is redemption, if he is allowed the opportunity. I don't think he should be. The spirit the entire team have put in this season, personified from Foden through to Ferdy epitomises it.

Tarnished?? Wipe you fanny mate!

He made our dreams reality!!!


(By the way he has scored 15 goals against Chelsea in the past for us)!

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

By Friday Pep will be able to play the under sixes for the remaining games in the League.

In the summer I'll be sad to see Aguero leave for all he's done for us.....Mendy well thats a different scenario.

 

[Ja Salford Blue]

We don't know that. I guess you can understand the fans being upset as they are our CL opponents, we just expected a bit more seriousness maybe.

Of course this won't be the way we play, of course it is not our strongest XI, and of course we will make changes and be a lot more aggressive. But all that said, let's not undermine them. They have made the CL finals after all, no matter how easy the route was. In a one-off game anything is possible. No first timers in a CL final have ever won it. Lots of other factors. We shouldn't be overanalysing the final right now, but the point is, we should also not be taking them lightly.

Plenty of Teams have won the European Cup/ Champions League in their first final!

Celtic
United
Nottingham Forest
Liverpool
Benfica
Marseille
Red Star Belgrade
PSV Eindhoven
Ajax

 

[john blue]

When will pep learn, our best 14 or16 players are good, that team he picked today would not finish in the top half of the prem, but he thought he could get a result against chelsea. 3 time now he has fucked up making massive changes to the team. Soon as i saw the team iknew we would struggle , i thought a point would beok, but they were the best team ., cant just turn it on like a tap pep, as for the pen. wants fucking.