It hasn't upset me as much as I thought I would

Rascal said:
I am arsed and I am not, I am bothered and I am not. I went into the game not expecting to win, I do believe Chelsea are a fantastic side and defensively as good as it gets. So i was not surprised we lost, that does not make it any easier but it makes it bearable. Being a blue is about a life of disappointments and we have had many, so i am not going to get over bothered about losing a CL final, a CL final i never once in my life expected us to be in. I was more bothered about losing the FA Cup semi final, because that is the trophy I want us to win every year more than any other.

I also believe we have been systematically set up to fail, the media wanted us to fail, because out media loving bigging things up and there is copy in failure. They over hyped us all season when any one with a sense of realism knew winning 4 trophies was virtually impossible, trebles are very rare, doubles are not common.

We have had a great season, yes we could maybe have won more, but I am happy with two trophies and the experience of losing a CL final will make us stronger and next year hopefully we will be in St Petersburg lifting the trophy.

At the moment we are best team in England, the second best in Europe, if you had told me that 20 years ago I would have thought your bats had flown your belfry.
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Great, sensible post. But we were only 3 wins from winning those 4 trophies, and despite what many are saying, in my opinion it was extremely close in the CL final and could have gone either way. Foden was only one fantastic tackle from putting us one up, we lost KDB, they maybe could have gone down to 10, on another day Mahrez' last minute shot hits the top corner....extremely fine margins.

I don't care what anyone says, trying to outwit Chelsea by changing the formula was only that far away from being a masterstroke, and all of those players have played well in different positions before so it's not all down to that. He could have played the formation everyone expected and Chelsea had set up for and still not made a difference. They stifled us extremely well; for those who don't want to admit that, I feel sorry that they're not able to see it. The stats show us ahead in just about every area except the final score.
 
argyle said:
Its true there's no guarantee we would have won. We'll never know.

However he sent the team out completely hollow with no defensive midfield against a team with Kante in it and with players completely baffled of what to do.

Not just that, it's that he left it and didnt change it when it was clear to everyone that it wasn't working.
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I think everone is over reacting. I didn't see anything about the formation that ws a problem, we simply came up against a team that stifled us extremely well. It was very close, not the 0-6 debacle that some people's reactions seem to be suggesting and he tried to outwit a Chelsea manager that is a great tactician and had planned against the team everyone expected us to play. I think that takes balls, playing your best team and hoping it's good enough doesn't guarantee anything. As I've said, there's a reason he's one of the best coaches on the planet and we're not. It didn't work this time because it's not an exact science, on another day it might.
 
King_Ralph_Blumer said:
And that’s the very crux of my dislike of this competition. Chelsea are not the best in Europe no matter who’s name is on the trophy.
Even if we would have won it and I am Disappointed we didn’t, it would have felt hollow as we didn’t qualify as champions.
To me true European champs are those who have won their own league to win it, everything else is just not right.
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Absolutely, that's why I'm not that bothered. 38 games to win the title says alot more about you.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I’m fortunate enough that defeats have never got to me as much as most other supporters, especially cup finals which don’t have as profound effect on the following season as relegations.

We had a great run to the final, with some incredible nights along the way. Much like I view our journey to Wembley in 1981 with great fondness, I guess.

We’ve had a brilliant season, won the league, had an incredible run of victories (which became increasingly intoxicating the longer it went on) and have lost a CL final to a team that was discernibly better on the night. I can definitely live with that.

This period in our history won’t last forever; nothing does and I’ve been determined since 2008 to make the most of this gift we’ve been given as City fans and accept that we can’t win everything.

Losing a CL final, against the backdrop of where we find ourselves, for me, is pretty easy to take. Shit happens, but it happens to us less than for pretty much any group of supporters in the land, and that’s good enough for me.
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I agree. It's disappointing but to me it sounds a lot on here have just become trophy hunters, the one thing we all hated. If you're going to be that bad about losing a final and not being able to accept it, you've got a problem. We don't have a God given right to win anything. We've had another incredible season that's been an achievement in itself. No team EVER has done what we've done, played and entertained like we have. Juat over a decade ago I thought "Great, we might get to the odd cup final now and again". This is already way beyond my wildest dreams. If you'd have walked into a bookies back then and put money on us winning all this, they'd have been too embarrassed to take it.
 
The perfect fumble said:
This takes me back to my student days.

Since the final whistle blew we've seen hundreds of pages of cognitive dissonance. Anxiety caused by the gulf between what we want and what we have.

What you've outlined is the perfect coping mechanism, you've created a bridging cognition between what you wanted and what you got, and in so doing you've reconciled your longing that we won with the reality that we lost.
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I think being a Blue for so long has trained me to think like that. In real life I am an optimist, because of health issues I have had to be positive, so I always look for positivity in the most negative of events.

With City, I am the opposite, I am a eternal pessimist, because I have been let down so often, I come to expect to be let down. That makes winning sweeter and losing more bearable.
 
I was on edge all through Friday, all through Saturday, and then through the match. I knew almost as soon as we started playing we were up against it. There was something 'not there'.

Chelsea are a good defensive side, but there was nothing they did that surprised me. It seemed we fell to the same tactics as the last two times.

We just have to 'go again'. It's tempting to say the side needs major surgery, and we should sell three or four players. I think it's probably a bit more subtle than that, that we need some tweaks and some serious thoughts as to how to counter the sort of tactics Chelsea use.

We could be a lot worse off. We could, for example, be United. We have a good foundation to build on and I am hopeful for 21/22.
 
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