Bottomless_Sailor
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No reason to panic. We were outplayed for sure, but I actually think it would have been a VERY different game had Hart stopped that relatively easy Ribery goal early on. The opening stages were likely to set the tone for the match and you literally felt everything deflate at that moment. It's hard to play with confidence from the back when your goalkeeper is letting in pea shooter shots left right and centre; Hart was the platform Bayern built from.
It's all well and good blaming Pellegrini and saying that we should have played 5 in midfield, but 4-4-2 is the formation that clicked against Manchester United, did we really want to make a last minute change in formation in order to try and beat the European Champions at their own game? And mid-game, chasing goals, would it have really made a difference sacrificing a striker to bring in a player whose job Aguero was supposed to be doing anyway?
Plzen are a Champions League comedy side, CSKA only just scraped past them at home today, we'll qualify for the knockout rounds whatever happens and by the time of the knockout matches themselves hopefully Hart and the rest of the team will have built up some consistency.
It's all well and good blaming Pellegrini and saying that we should have played 5 in midfield, but 4-4-2 is the formation that clicked against Manchester United, did we really want to make a last minute change in formation in order to try and beat the European Champions at their own game? And mid-game, chasing goals, would it have really made a difference sacrificing a striker to bring in a player whose job Aguero was supposed to be doing anyway?
Plzen are a Champions League comedy side, CSKA only just scraped past them at home today, we'll qualify for the knockout rounds whatever happens and by the time of the knockout matches themselves hopefully Hart and the rest of the team will have built up some consistency.