Now that was a long journey home.The game reminded me of when we played Arsenal in the Community Shield under Pellegrini. A game we list 3-0.
Pep has done nowt at City, the two highest premier league points totals and a domestic treble never happened.
Cracking post, completely agree, you’d think a Gooner would have more to worry about, like £72m Pepe, £57m Aubmeyang, £50m Lacazette, £52m White, £45m Partey and £40m Xakah amongst others, none of who have been qualified successes and have brought home 1 FA Cup in the past 6 seasons.You are talking complete bollocks. Pep was a novice when he took over the Barcelona first team. He had managed their B team when he was offered the job and told them they must have big balls to do so as it was a gamble. He won 14 trophies in 4 seasons and is their most successful manager ever. He totally reinvented the side, shipping out a number of big name players to do so and made them into what people regard as the best club side ever.
At City he has done the same. He was laughed at and mocked in his first season as he started to rebuild an ageing squad and implement his style of football. He was called a bald fraud and told by many so called experts his style of football would never work in the premier league. He has since won it three times, the league cup four times and the fa cup once.
He has revolutionised football in this country in that almost every club plays out from the back and now plays better football. He has smashed record after record and became the first manager to win a domestic treble and gain 100 points in the premier league. He doesn't have an unlimited budget, can't spend what he likes or pay any release clause he wants and he is bound by ffp rules like every other club.
Klopp has been here longer and to date has won three trophies. His style is high pressing, more direct and counter attacking. This style has been around for ages, Manchester United played it often under Ferguson
Guardiola is human, makes mistakes but he is a football genius who has changed football for the better as well as remaining kind, grounded and humble. If you deny any of that you are a complete cretin looking through biased envious eyes. Mind you that sums up your average bat shit thick football fan so don't feel too bad.
I’d have started Eddie because it would have been one less change to the back line.I remember supporters having a go at Caballero, back in the day, but his penalty saves won us a trophy.
Ok, Steffen made a careless error but don't hang him for it.
Their first goal should have been scrutinised by var. Steffen, from his position, saw the flight of the ball from the corner and imo he believed it had gone out of play, his belief reinforced by one of our players (Bernardo?) raising his arm trying to draw the referees' attention to the fact. This would explain his lack of commitment to try and make a save. Steffen would also have been aware of the foul (heavy push) on Grealish. Either of these incidents could/should have resulted in their first goal being disallowed.
Jesus and Sterling both missed good chances too, so have a go at Zack if you must, but it wasn't all down to him that we lost.
As for the supporters who made the effort to get to Wembley for the match take pride in the fact that you were part of the occasion and the result, whilst disappointing, wasn't the end of the world really.
How many supporters of other clubs would have given their right arms to have seen their team play at Wembley, win or lose?
You elaborate pal...why have you got an issue with loyal blues who have supported City through thick and thin for years even when we were shit?
Yes Blue Moon was on before YNWACurrently abroad so didn’t go.
Turned on to watch just as the teams were about to come out to the tune of ynwa.
For a second I thought it was a home game for dippers.
Was it fair for the organisers to do that?
Did we get a rendition of Bluemoon over the speaker system before or after that???
Seems to me as if dippers got given home advantage from the off….
Good post mate. Anytime we slip up the knives come out and over the top criticism follows. Envy, jealous & hate being the most common emotive. It’s great to be a blue ;)You are talking complete bollocks. Pep was a novice when he took over the Barcelona first team. He had managed their B team when he was offered the job and told them they must have big balls to do so as it was a gamble. He won 14 trophies in 4 seasons and is their most successful manager ever. He totally reinvented the side, shipping out a number of big name players to do so and made them into what people regard as the best club side ever.
At City he has done the same. He was laughed at and mocked in his first season as he started to rebuild an ageing squad and implement his style of football. He was called a bald fraud and told by many so called experts his style of football would never work in the premier league. He has since won it three times, the league cup four times and the fa cup once.
He has revolutionised football in this country in that almost every club plays out from the back and now plays better football. He has smashed record after record and became the first manager to win a domestic treble and gain 100 points in the premier league. He doesn't have an unlimited budget, can't spend what he likes or pay any release clause he wants and he is bound by ffp rules like every other club.
Klopp has been here longer and to date has won three trophies. His style is high pressing, more direct and counter attacking. This style has been around for ages, Manchester United played it often under Ferguson
Guardiola is human, makes mistakes but he is a football genius who has changed football for the better as well as remaining kind, grounded and humble. If you deny any of that you are a complete cretin looking through biased envious eyes. Mind you that sums up your average bat shit thick football fan so don't feel too bad.
Trust me I'm not ENTITLEDJust an opinion. I just don’t remember it being so toxic amongst other blues and quiet back when we were shit.
I take your point but I am not having a pop at loyal blues
you should of quoted Unwritten rules of football section XI answer IISome boring twat actually shusshed me at Wembley a few years ago. The Liverpool league cup final i think.
I was swearing too much in front of his kid apparently, lol.
A fair point that.I’d have started Eddie because it would have been one less change to the back line.
Cracking post, completely agree, you’d think a Gooner would have more to worry about, like £72m Pepe, £57m Aubmeyang, £50m Lacazette, £52m White, £45m Partey and £40m Xakah amongst others, none of who have been qualified successes and have brought home 1 FA Cup in the past 6 seasons.
I remember supporters having a go at Caballero, back in the day, but his penalty saves won us a trophy.
Ok, Steffen made a careless error but don't hang him for it.
Their first goal should have been scrutinised by var. Steffen, from his position, saw the flight of the ball from the corner and imo he believed it had gone out of play, his belief reinforced by one of our players (Bernardo?) raising his arm trying to draw the referees' attention to the fact. This would explain his lack of commitment to try and make a save. Steffen would also have been aware of the foul (heavy push) on Grealish. Either of these incidents could/should have resulted in their first goal being disallowed.
Jesus and Sterling both missed good chances too, so have a go at Zack if you must, but it wasn't all down to him that we lost.
As for the supporters who made the effort to get to Wembley for the match take pride in the fact that you were part of the occasion and the result, whilst disappointing, wasn't the end of the world really.
How many supporters of other clubs would have given their right arms to have seen their team play at Wembley, win or lose?
Argentina is not Brazil!
Still raging that they played YNWA at full volume just before kick off.
The bias from the BBC was embarrassing, but not entirely unsurprising.
Didn't they play Blue Moon immediately before the dirge?Yep, 25 of the 30 minutes pre-match were all about Liverpool.
I would have thought you would be on your own forum concerned about your teams fall away.Pep has always had the rolls royce on call. Whether is was inheriting that ridiculous core of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta at Barcelona, to the unprecedented power of the single club league in Germany, to his ability at Man City to activate any release clause he wants. Pep has never never known struggle. That's the biggest criticism of Pep, and its valid.
Granted Pep knows how to get a team playing elite level football. But if you gave Pep and Klopp 100m to build up a squad over three years. After those three years, I think I know which team would be at a higher level
Said it at the time that a push on Jackie sent him flying into Jesus. Blatant push which had it been anywhere else would have resulted in a foul. Can’t tell if ball went out of play although Stones raises his hand suggesting he thought it had. Surely VAR would have checked if it had although it didn’t bother with the foul. But, and this backs up my theory that we weren’t that bothered yesterday, nobody go rushing to the ref suggesting there had been a foul. Can you imagine Atletico accepting the goal.Don't know why VVD's push on Grealish wasn't a foul. It was blatant.
Knee jerk rubbish after 2nd loss in 20 odd games. Sane and Torres both wanted to leave and we don't just sign players to make up the numbers.
BTW nice deflection about Rodri, you couldn't get a name because there isn't a better option.