I was euphoric at the prospect of the last week's games but now feeling deflated, very very difficult to see beyond a damp squib rubber stamp approach from the cult on Tuesday.
They literally have both the cake and an option to eat it, if the cult go hard early and smash some early goals again they're laughing (as our defence looks comically fragile currently), if they park up and sit back they're laughing because we didn't even look like troubling Karius in the first leg.
Most of all, and I said it in my pre-derby post, if the manager tools around at such a critical point in the season with a below full strength team it will mess with the players and fans confidence, the players he swapped in to positions (Gundog, Bernie, Danilo, Sterling) are not KDB, Aguero, Walker quality yet. I love Pep for what he's brought to the club this season but he got that game all wrong and I hope there's some proper thinking done about pragmatic defending being plugged into matches when we're 2-0 up in season defining games or away in Champions league games requiring an away goal. This stuff is hardly strategic f**king rocket science, schoolboy errors in both games, and if we don't cut them out we'll get a right schooling again on Tuesday.
Come on City, pay attention and turn this glitch around starting Tuesday!