Leverkusen (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Doc_Testosterone]

Bobb, Savinho, and Reijnders are certainly not impressing.

Spurs would have paid at least 60m for Savinho. Let that sink in….

 

[Kippax77]

That was a starting 11 for next weeks league cup.
Could of gone through tonight, but we always seem to want to do it the hard way

 

[Allnightlong]

Pep threw the second string under the bus tonight.
Totally stupid decision to start with that line up.
What a load of bollox

 

[GX Blue]

Reijnders is a concern. He’s supposed to be in his prime.

 

[PepsFleece]

Need a serious war chest at the end of the season.

Some players also need to realise that they are the game changers and not to rely on others.

Savinho is dreadful. Needs to go in Jan.

9 nil against leeds coming up.

 

[Champions Again Ole Ole]

That's a disgrace by pep. If he can't be arsed with the game, why should I? We now get beat by Madrid, don't qualify in the top 8 and have to pay potentially £40+ for a knockout game that was easily avoidable

 

[Rodri’s ACL]

Where does Savinho rank out of city players in the Pep era?

 

[eyalluvitt]

One of the most arrogant displays of football management in the history of the CL. Pep treated Levekusen like a League 2 side in the Carabao cup and got his arse handed to him.

Got exactly what we deserved, arrogance personified

 

[shemnel]

Opportunity to go top of the CL table, in a competition the manager has never ever fielded weak teams for..... and he goes with that 11. How odd.

 

[SK14BLUE]

Disrespect from pep, needs to be careful he doesn’t go the wenger route.

 

[tommybooth]

Jesus

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Pep's completely lost his head the last few days. Worrying.

 

[HoneyMonster89]

A combination of too much rotation and wasteful finishing caused that.

Haaland has missed quite a few chances across the past 2 games.

Leverkusen played like United do when they beat City in recent years. Organised, efficient and clinical. They took their chances and were calm on the ball when they did have possession.

Decent cameo from Cherki. He showed a bit of fight and desire.

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

Tourists from Eastern Europe around me.

Credit to them.

 

[mancityscot]

Shameful. We all saw a tough night coming with the lineup but holy fuck that went beyond expectations. Second best all over the park. Credit to Leverkusen, they were outstanding.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Pep, I can forgive you for 10 changes and virtually throwing the game. But to leave fucking Savinho on all game was totally unforgivable! If this clown isn't moved on in Jan then we deserve everything we get. And the injury that Bobb had has totally fucked him up,looks a shadow of his former self. But just fuck off Savinho you useless fucking shithouse ****!

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

If you don’t respect the opposition they won’t respect you.

 

[willipp]

Really needed a pick me up after Saturday and that’s just made it so much worse. Shambles of a team selection and that showed right through the whole performance.

Fair play to Leverkusen, showed us up massively for what we were tonight.

 

[No1 was Colin bell]

City were back.
Selection and performance as annoying as that bloody drum.
I think we have learnt a lot about our supposed strength in depth. For example our £70m Brazilian wonder kid…..and what has happened to Reijnders!
Sadly that’s on Pep on his 100th CL game. Might now slide out of top slots with tough final games and that could have been so different with a win tonight.

 

[come-on-barney]

It’s pretty obvious that Pep has had a hissy fit with the team and dropped pretty much everyone to send a message because he was pissed about Newcastle.

Cut his nose to spite his face here and it could cost us top 8.

There’s definitely more to all this, nobody looked happy tonight.