It's Quiet 16 - Txiki grinders

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Sunset said:
we lost the CL because KDB literally broke his face in the first half. Our strategy against teams like chelsea is to wear them down in the first half and then break open the crack in the second half. We couldnt do that with KDB being out.
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I think you’ll find KDB injury happened around the hour mark when we were already chasing the game but yes losing him undoubtedly reduced our chances of scoring….
 
Bill said:
it is, except we knew before a ball was kicked he'd picked the wrong team.
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Except we know it isn't afterall, he picked the best he could back then, because both of our dm either didn't work against chelsea or in case rodri have a very poor form towards the end of season leading him to be dropped.
 
Bill said:
it is, except we knew before a ball was kicked he'd picked the wrong team.
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I understood why the team was picked Rodri wasn’t the Rodri now and why it’s easy on hindsight!

Do you think Rodri be on the bench now if were playing that final tomorrow?

Most of us don’t question Pep because the facts are he knows better than anyone he prepares better then anyone!

Again after a defeat hindsight comes in its natural.
 
Keeper! said:
I agree with all you say apart from the "we have been desperately unlucky" part.

Against Lyon we were terrible, yes Sterling missed an open goal but that should not distract from a poor performance.

Last year in the Chelsea final, we did not turn up, our team played unrecognisably from the team that won the title, we were not unlucky in any way, we were well beaten on the night.
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I agree mate but I'm trying to say that's been part of the bad luck, though: we play poorly occasionally and we get unlucky occasionally like any great team. It has felt like a these things have happened disproportionataly in the champions league. Lyon I've never watched since but what I remember is that we were poor but also they scored with their only two attacks, a bit like Palace at home and a number of others. Spurs we got thrown by fixture congestion in the first leg which was about even (that's flattering Spurs not us if anyone) and then in the second we absolutely battered them, Liverpool finished us with 3 goals in the first 15 minutes and that WAS a Pep mistake: ever since then he has stopped pressing Liverpool and they've never done it since. Chelsea I think Pep was overconfident and picked the players he felt deserved to play. On the night I think nerves got the better of us and we weren't near our best and Chelsea won a game which could have gone either way. i think if we'd scored early, or even not conceded, we'd have settled.

That's knockout football though.If we stay at this level we will win the thing soon. I'm actually quietly confident about this season.
 
Bill said:
it is, except we knew before a ball was kicked he'd picked the wrong team.
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I didn't. I raised my eyebrows but trusted him. Just like wen I saw Dias replaced by Stones at the weekend or Zinchenko in midfield against PSG. He's always making bold tactical moves and curveballs and the majority of times it works, occasionalyl it doesn't, because football is an inexact science and all kinds of factors come into play in a one-off match.

Pep is not the best manager in the world DESPITE these decisions, he's the best manager in the world BECAUSE of these decison - along with his many other qualities. When you start crediting us bell ends with knowing better than Pep you are in the territory of fantasy. He's forgotten more about football management than every single member of this forum put together.
 
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