How's your mood after the RM game?

There's nothing to be sorry for regarding the overall performance, but I'm not sure if we had been preparing data and analyzing Madrid's penalty takers and their keeper to give us a scientific edge, or if we were just relying solely on hopes, luck, and emotions at that moment.
 
Some weird combination of a bit depressed and handling it pretty well. Losing to Madrid in Europe is never a disaster, we played incredibly well for most of the tie and the stuff that isn't quite working I am very positive we will get right next year and be even better. We still are in great positions in the Fa Cup and in the league where both would be tough to take if we don't win them at this stage but on balance I would be pretty happy with just one of them.

On the other hand, the CL run last year really sold me on the competition and it feels like it suddenly got taken away yesterday which is a bit shit and it also annoying to think about the great feeling I had after the Bernabeu and how it was all for nothing in the end.

But we will get another chance next year, hopefully a easier run to the final than the past 2 years and hopefully some new teams to meet rather than bloody Madrid every single year
 
OB1 said:
The disappointment is a bit worse than last night but one should be disappointed about going out of a major competition. Not disappointed in the team though because they gave their all and were the better side in the match.

Frustrated that we have been the best team in Europe for a few seasons now but will end the season with only one UCL to show for that.
Click to expand...
Yep, we could of easily had 4 in a row in the CL as well if not for fine margins and circumstances. Outside of Bayern in 2020 we have been the team on the planet for a very long time now.

Makes the one in Istanbul more special for us though I guess
 
I was annoyed at the end. And immediately switched off TNT to avoid their inevitable celebrations.
Mixed emotions. Proud of the team and the crowd. Loved the way we made them play like Burnley to stay in the game. Results like that (draw at FT) have happened before when we have dominated games (refer Forest last year). Shit happens.

Disappointed but not angry at only scoring one, Kev’s miss and Erling/Jack woodwork attempts stick out. Delighted with Edd’s pen, but gutted winner was scored by the thug.

Absolutely no problem with penalty takers. It’s only a bad pen if the keeper guesses to go where you put it. If keeper had dived, Bernie would be lauded for being the coolest bastard on the planet. Same for Kova. You need balls of steel to volunteer.

As with loads of others, this didn’t feel as bad as other times when we didn’t do enough. Eg Lyon QF, Chelsea.

I think it will galvanise the team for the league. Now THAT will be historic.
 
Nowhere near as bad as I used to be, if we’ve lost a game like that, you can’t win everything all the time.
 
On the plus side, that's 1 fewer horrible round trips from s. wales to manchester to deal with mid week

I really felt before yesterday we'd have too much for them. However getting into the ground, something felt off, despite Kev missing his chance I still felt confident until a couple of mins into the 2nd half of ET. Then for some reason I knew inside me it wasn't going to happen

On the other side
1. Who knows what state the squad will be in on saturday, chelsea will be full of confidence they'll be playing a tired and dejected city
2. getting through last night would've given us probably our easiest chance for a few more seasons to claim it again and for that I'm gutted
3. whilst fair play to RM, they dug in and rode their luck, I take no solace from battering RM into behaving like a less effective Brentford

After getting home at 4:30 and eating far too much crap on the journey, today I feel dreadful

I want to get excited for my trip to wembley on saturday, but right now just can't
 
bluethai said:
There's nothing to be sorry for regarding the overall performance, but I'm not sure if we had been preparing data and analyzing Madrid's penalty takers and their keeper to give us a scientific edge, or if we were just relying solely on hopes, luck, and emotions at that moment.
Click to expand...
I thought overall we played well and never gave up. But I am still baffled by the first 12 mins when we were totally static with Ederson holding the ball for 15 secs at a clip. Especially given the way we blitzed them in that same period last year. .
 
I’m alright now. But couldn’t sleep last night. We deserved to win but that’s football. Sometimes the better team doesn’t win. Just worried the extra time will affect us on Saturday. If we win the league it will be a great season, a league and fa cup double would be fantastic. I hate Steve McManaman more than ever as well.
 
Might be an age thing and having suffered the indignity of losing to various lower level clubs , losing to Real Madrid doesn't feel too bad especially once it went to penalties (Ederson has a lot of qualities but saving penalties is definitely not one of them).
 
fergal_oc said:
On the plus side, that's 1 fewer horrible round trips from s. wales to manchester to deal with mid week

I really felt before yesterday we'd have too much for them. However getting into the ground, something felt off, despite Kev missing his chance I still felt confident until a couple of mins into the 2nd half of ET. Then for some reason I knew inside me it wasn't going to happen

On the other side
1. Who knows what state the squad will be in on saturday, chelsea will be full of confidence they'll be playing a tired and dejected city
2. getting through last night would've given us probably our easiest chance for a few more seasons to claim it again and for that I'm gutted
3. whilst fair play to RM, they dug in and rode their luck, I take no solace from battering RM into behaving like a less effective Brentford

After getting home at 4:30 and eating far too much crap on the journey, today I feel dreadful

I want to get excited for my trip to wembley on saturday, but right now just can't
Click to expand...
Thats excatly how i described them yesterday - like playing Brentford.
 
fergal_oc said:
On the plus side, that's 1 fewer horrible round trips from s. wales to manchester to deal with mid week

I really felt before yesterday we'd have too much for them. However getting into the ground, something felt off, despite Kev missing his chance I still felt confident until a couple of mins into the 2nd half of ET. Then for some reason I knew inside me it wasn't going to happen

On the other side
1. Who knows what state the squad will be in on saturday, chelsea will be full of confidence they'll be playing a tired and dejected city
2. getting through last night would've given us probably our easiest chance for a few more seasons to claim it again and for that I'm gutted
3. whilst fair play to RM, they dug in and rode their luck, I take no solace from battering RM into behaving like a less effective Brentford

After getting home at 4:30 and eating far too much crap on the journey, today I feel dreadful

I want to get excited for my trip to wembley on saturday, but right now just can't
Click to expand...
All reasonable points but there are counters:
1. Players will be tired but I think they will be doubly motivated to win (retain) the Cup. I think we will start strong and hopefully get ahead. We could become leggy in 2H, but Pep will need to make subs and trust our backup.

2. Not clear. We lost players this year so were not as good. If we have a good summer, we could be significantly better next year particularly at the offensive end. I think your comment is prob driven by Mbappe to RM, but we dont know how that will turn out. In theory Messi, Mbappe, Neymar together should have been the dream team, but it turned out as too much ego in a small space

3. Their ultra-defence strategy and the battering indicates they know we are man-for-man better than them. That will not change next season. Not saying we have an automatic right to win, but they have a fear for us that exists with no other team.
 
lasereyes said:
I thought overall we played well and never gave up. But I am still baffled by the first 12 mins when we were totally static with Ederson holding the ball for 15 secs at a clip. Especially given the way we blitzed them in that same period last year. .
Click to expand...
I thought that was weird also but put it down to Madrid (cleverly) defending deep/parking the bus.
 
I said a long time before Istanbul that I would be happy to win this cup just once to get the monkey off our back so I'm not gonna change my mind now

I would be much more gutted to see us blow the league from the position we've somehow found ourselves in now
 
Lavinda Past said:
Losing in the CL doesn't bother me a quarter as much as losing one in the PL.

The PL is all that matters.
Click to expand...

John Wayne said:
I generally agree with this viewpoint. I think we had to win the CL at some point and we did. But it is a cup competition, just with more games than the FA Cup and League Cup.

If we win these last six league games then we are in a league of our own.
Click to expand...

I think what these two legs have proven, yet again, is that in the CL you get punished for a split second error of judgement (and Real's goal last night was pretty much that) and that you can huff and puff as much as you like (for 119 minutes and then some), and in fact be the better team, but you don't win the competition.
That just isn't going to happen in the PL. Teams will drop points, have defeats, here and there. But you've got to turn up and perform over most of the 38 matches, and if you do, you will be champions. Forty-two matches in the old First Division. The champion of the PL is always — but always — the best team that year.
The 18-19 season was easily the most exciting, and exhausting, season I have seen in getting on for sixty years of watching football. No CL campaign, or the European Cup before it, whether City were involved or not, is even in the same conversation as far as I'm concerned. People love the show biz of the CL though (especially in Europe, I've noticed), especially younger people, while we older ones look on sourly at all that.
 
chaddblue said:
I said a long time before Istanbul that I would be happy to win this cup just once to get the monkey off our back so I'm not gonna change my mind now

I would be much more gutted to see us blow the league from the position we've somehow found ourselves in now
Click to expand...

It would be fairly devastating. And this hasn't even been a particularly good season, as far as our standards are concerned.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP