FogBlueInSanFran
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Agreed. The number of passes back to a trailer while the player passing doesn’t move forward into space behind the defender was frustrating. Give and don’t go.
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Crystal Palace (N) | FA Cup Final | Post Match Thread
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Absolute garbage. NOBODY can say we didn't deserve to win the match today but we didn't. Classic case of parking the bus, and in one-off matches sometimes it works for them and today was one of those days. Get over it.Mard arse **** lazy coward wankers.
I didn’t think my opinion could get any lower after the derby home game. But fuck me they achieved it today.
From the manager to every single player. Absolutely shameful and not a single one of the twats deserve to wear our badge.
Bunch of fucking cowards.
Ahhh, so that was the problem!
I wonder if Pep ever contemplated switching the wingers over today. Clearly wasn’t working and yet we kept plugging away with the same tactics. The amount of overloads we had in years gone by is ridiculous yet at no point today did we have a player free in their box.
Johnny Mars Bar
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Absolute garbage. NOBODY can say we didn't deserve to win the match today but we didn't. Classic case of parking the bus, and in one-off matches sometimes it works for them and today was one of those days. Get over it.
Didn’t really watch the game did you.
Zabbasbeard
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Gutted but we didn't deserve it no matter what decisions the officials made. Yes, Henderson should have been sent off.
Slow, slow football wins nothing. Playing an out of touch Haaland was a mistake that was made at Southampton in the previous week. In any case there's no point in playing Haaland if you don't feed him and we didn't. Even when we did he and Marmoush weren't there to capitalise. Poor performance by City with only Bernardo and Doku having good games. Savinho is no more than a squad player with an erratic first touch. Taking Bernardo off was another in a long line of bad decisions by Pep this season - tactical, selections, substitutions and strategic. Kevin De Bruyne looked leggy after the break and needed subbing.
Akanji's selection was understandable given the alarming lack of pace in the City defence but Eze still nipped in ahead of him. The lightening quick Khusanov who has strangely not featured in recent weeks probably would have made it.
Credit to Palace for taking their chance and pleased their fans who are brilliant as ever. They're just joyous and no trouble in my experience.
Pep needs a rethink. We cannot go on playing slow football in front of massed defences.
Players don't take enough risks probably for fear of annoying him. It is at the cost of spontaneity and we are way too predictable.
City’s rebuild needs to continue apace with genuine top quality needed to replace Kevin De Bruyne and a quality winger on the right to complement Doku.
He is tired and the team reflects this with its staleness.
Losing a 2nd successive FA Cup Final and sitting 6th in the League and needing to beat both Bournemouth and Fulham to even get 5th place says it all.
The failure to refresh the squad since Ustanbul two-years ago has been very costly. Now we are playing catch up.
We need energy and impetus in midfield that was sadly lacking with Kovacic unfit for this game. Hopefully he can make Tuesday's must win game.
We've had much worse times but it's been a bad week for us at City.
Slow, slow football wins nothing. Playing an out of touch Haaland was a mistake that was made at Southampton in the previous week. In any case there's no point in playing Haaland if you don't feed him and we didn't. Even when we did he and Marmoush weren't there to capitalise. Poor performance by City with only Bernardo and Doku having good games. Savinho is no more than a squad player with an erratic first touch. Taking Bernardo off was another in a long line of bad decisions by Pep this season - tactical, selections, substitutions and strategic. Kevin De Bruyne looked leggy after the break and needed subbing.
Akanji's selection was understandable given the alarming lack of pace in the City defence but Eze still nipped in ahead of him. The lightening quick Khusanov who has strangely not featured in recent weeks probably would have made it.
Credit to Palace for taking their chance and pleased their fans who are brilliant as ever. They're just joyous and no trouble in my experience.
Pep needs a rethink. We cannot go on playing slow football in front of massed defences.
Players don't take enough risks probably for fear of annoying him. It is at the cost of spontaneity and we are way too predictable.
City’s rebuild needs to continue apace with genuine top quality needed to replace Kevin De Bruyne and a quality winger on the right to complement Doku.
He is tired and the team reflects this with its staleness.
Losing a 2nd successive FA Cup Final and sitting 6th in the League and needing to beat both Bournemouth and Fulham to even get 5th place says it all.
The failure to refresh the squad since Ustanbul two-years ago has been very costly. Now we are playing catch up.
We need energy and impetus in midfield that was sadly lacking with Kovacic unfit for this game. Hopefully he can make Tuesday's must win game.
We've had much worse times but it's been a bad week for us at City.
mick10
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lolAhhh, so that was the problem!
Lavinda Past
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Some embarrassing takes on here, show some loyalty you bunch of cunts,the greatest manager of all time and he is ours,he's not playing it's the idiots who don't listen to him and the fact that the greatest player in the last few years is missing plus age related issues collectively that's the issue, what do you want fucking Alan pardew or some other bell end in charge, you will all be eating your words next season sound like fucking rag's, we've won everything ffs, entitled pricks,we can't possibly win everything every year.
Bless.
We were shit today. Pep Guardiola takes ownership of the good days, he takes responsibility for the shit ones.
The most embarrassing thing today was him having a go at Henderson. He looked a right twat.
He's not got long left in the job after this season of boring, predictable, risk averse football, and in my opinion, he can't leave soon enough.
The whole club needs a refresh.
fathellensbellend
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Akanji and Haaland back, and 0 goals and all the momentum built-up out of the window.Atwell is a ****.
simon23
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On the basis of this season:Names of players who are of high quality?
Haaland
Doku on occasions
Rodri obviously
Gvardiol
Marmoush- but where does he fit in?
Then on previous seasons... foden
Unknowns: Khusonov, Reis, Gonzales
That's it
Gordyola
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Agreed will all that and yes the ball went wide because Henderson palmed it wide the hand of godI keep saying it, the handball outside the box by their keeper and VAR not doing their job changes the game,
What gets me is Why Haaland is used for touching the ball wide ???
What am i missing here ?? Didn't the goalkeeper handle the ball and knock it wide of Haaland
clear and obvious stone wall RED-CARD and everybody watching agrees with, even Rooney called it at half-time
I would love to hear the conversation with the VAR team and the Referee on how they got to the decision of giving nothing by claiming Haaland and the ball was going wide ?
So is VAR saying handball, but not a red card and just a yellow because the ball was going wide, so award City a free kick to Manchester City outside the box ?
WHY IS THE BALL GOING WIDE ? Maybe the keeper pushes and handles the ball outside the box
VAR will look but unless they decide it was a clean and obvious errror not nothing happens IMHO this is too convo for them to hide behind It was a clean handball and the ref should have been told to look it’s not VARs job to decide if it’s going wide otherwise that would be re-reffing the game
Lee the Blue
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Just back at the Hotel Bar.
Very hard to win when none of your big players turn up at all. Haaland, Marmoush, KDB, Doku, Savinho & Foden all on the pitch and not one of them could provide a spark.
The keeper handling the ball outside the box and getting away with it Scot free somewhat frustrating but it felt like we could've played till Tuesday and wouldn't have scored. 4.5 hours of football vs the collective titans of Wolves, Southampton & Palace and we've scored 1 goal. 1.
The manager seemingly pulling selections/formations out of a random hat also quite bizarre. We don't see Echeverri for 6 months yet he gets pitched in for the last 20 mins of the FA Cup final. Rico & Grealish who played in every round don't see the field at all.
Haalands played 7 games now at Wembley for us and hasn't scored or influenced any of them. A damning stat for him. He hasn't scored in any semi or final for us either in 3 seasons and those are the games big players turn up and turn it on.
Both the wingers we started today - their best position is on the bench and 20 min cameos at the end against tired legs. Neither are good enough to start for a team serious about winning big pots. KDB again gave the ball away too much & once again failed to provide any spark when he used to run games like that. Sad to see him go but the time is right I'm afraid.
A waste of a day, another wasted final opportunity and tbh it's been a waste of a season where they've all gone off the boil - from the boardroom downwards to the squad, including the manager. This squad needs a huge overhaul.
Very hard to win when none of your big players turn up at all. Haaland, Marmoush, KDB, Doku, Savinho & Foden all on the pitch and not one of them could provide a spark.
The keeper handling the ball outside the box and getting away with it Scot free somewhat frustrating but it felt like we could've played till Tuesday and wouldn't have scored. 4.5 hours of football vs the collective titans of Wolves, Southampton & Palace and we've scored 1 goal. 1.
The manager seemingly pulling selections/formations out of a random hat also quite bizarre. We don't see Echeverri for 6 months yet he gets pitched in for the last 20 mins of the FA Cup final. Rico & Grealish who played in every round don't see the field at all.
Haalands played 7 games now at Wembley for us and hasn't scored or influenced any of them. A damning stat for him. He hasn't scored in any semi or final for us either in 3 seasons and those are the games big players turn up and turn it on.
Both the wingers we started today - their best position is on the bench and 20 min cameos at the end against tired legs. Neither are good enough to start for a team serious about winning big pots. KDB again gave the ball away too much & once again failed to provide any spark when he used to run games like that. Sad to see him go but the time is right I'm afraid.
A waste of a day, another wasted final opportunity and tbh it's been a waste of a season where they've all gone off the boil - from the boardroom downwards to the squad, including the manager. This squad needs a huge overhaul.
East Level 2
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Didn't it chalk off their second goal?VAR is a complete waste of time.
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Well at least the North Stand expansion is coming along. Meanwhile it may be completed before we score another goal on today’s showing.
simon23
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Does move away from the fact that there isn't the quality in the squad...excuses stop us progressingChanges the game and 10 vs 11, also he doesn't save the pen or Doku shot
gray740
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Your an embarrassment to the club get back in your boxBless.
We were shit today. Pep Guardiola takes ownership of the good days, he takes responsibility for the shit ones.
The most embarrassing thing today was him having a go at Henderson. He looked a right twat.
He's not got long left in the job after this season of boring, predictable, risk averse football, and in my opinion, he can't leave soon enough.
The whole club needs a refresh.
But that's the jeopardy, therein lies the dilemma. If Kev had one of those performances like he did in that Palace match we probably win the match today. All ANY coach can do is put out 11 players he thinks are good enough to win the match and more often than not a performance like that is enough. Today it wasn't. The problem is that many on here don't seem to be able to recognise that, but that's why you'll never be paid to lead a team out at Wembley.He shouldn't be anywhere near the starting XI now. He simply isn't up to the job any more. Which isn't his fault. Time (and injuries) wait for no man. Not even him. The performance against Palace (irony alert!) a few weeks ago was clearly the exception these days, and not the rule. I hope he gets a brilliant goodbye on tuesday night; he's been an outstanding player for us. Possibly the best in the Pep era (though Rodri fans might argue about that!). But he should only be coming on for the last 10 minutes or so, and that's provided we're fairly comfortable.
bavarian blue
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Fuck off.Pep rebuked him ,and he will never forget that.
The man of the match is a **** who purposely handballed it. Purposely cheated.
He didn’t get a red card because the ball was away from play. IT WAS HIM WHO FUCKING PUT IT AWAY FROM PLAY BY CHEATING.
Ludicrously bad decision and changed the whole final.
We all know that if that had been a league match it would most likely been a red. They bottled it because it was the cup final.
But by bottling it, it makes it an even worse decision, it was a good yard outside the box and about every cameraman caught it clearly in 4K, Just watching a single replay shows he clearly handles the ball outside the box.
If this were evidence used in court, a GUILTY verdict would be given