Liverpool (h) CL QF pre-match thread

[City Raider]

It will all depend how many we score in the 75 mins we control the game. Hopefully it's enough to overcome the 3 we'll concede in whatever 15 minute spell they have [emoji35]

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

Yes it certainly has.

Is anybody else suspicious of the draw for the CL quarter finals.

• The two remaining English teams get drawn against each other.
• Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern the three love children of UEFA are kept apart.

To win this you have to have a clear policy before the season commences.

1. Throw the two Cup competitions by resting all your key players each game, if you win a tie it is a bonus.
2. Rest key players in league matches that take place before a CL tie.

You still have to aim for a top four finish in case your plan comes unstuck, but that should be fairly easy to achieve with a quality squad.

When that draw with the Scousers came out with Anfield first up, I knew we were screwed.

I'd go further and say the scheduling of our Wednesday Tuesday tie was fixed.

 

[city saint]

all depends on the first 30 miniutes if were one or two up I think they may crumble without Henderson in the middle.but if we start slow and concede its gunna be a long depressing night

 

[Pepup]

3-0 at full time, Kun to score in extra time, memobrable city win, then I woke up.

 

[typicalcity...]

Anyone got a spare? Need one anywhere in ground cheers

 

[lightning Rodri]

2-2

 

[bluebrother55]

We have sacrificed winning the league against the Rags for this dead rubber game. If Liverpool attack us which they probably will, then our defence simply cannot cope.

 

[typicalcity...]

I hope i do. On Thursday i was saying we had a chance but after them 2 games with calamitous and comical defending can you honestly say LIverpool won' score?
No chance in hell of us progressing, Pep has fucked up our 2 biggest games of the season because of his blind faith and refusal
to adapt in these 2 games. Some of his choices on Wednesday were crap and yesterday too. If he was managing Barca Vs Real yesterday he would field his best xi with Messi, Suarez etc but no he disrespects our fan base and doesn't get at all what yesterday meant to us. He didn't even field a striker ffs and put his faith in sterling who was hopeless.
Sorry but I couldn't care less about Tuesday and the CL and UEFA. its a foregone conclusion for me and I wanted to win yesterday and he got it wrong.

Absolute bollocks he even said that he knows what it means in his press conference. And you wouldn’t be saying all that had sterling buried at least one or two of the multiple chances he had.

 

[richards30]

We have sacrificed winning the league against the Rags for this dead rubber game. If Liverpool attack us which they probably will, then our defence simply cannot cope.

Yep! What a waste prioritizing this game over the derby!

 

[lionheart]

Let us pray that Klopp tells his players to sit back. If we repeat our Derby first half performance but with Aguero in the striking role, we might just accomplish the miracle needed.

 

[Gray]

It will all depend how many we score in the 75 mins we control the game. Hopefully it's enough to overcome the 3 we'll concede in whatever 15 minute spell they have.

Yes unfortunately "Many a true word spoken in jest".

 

[Franny 1234]

Absolute bollocks he even said that he knows what it means in his press conference. And you wouldn’t be saying all that had sterling buried at least one or two of the multiple chances he had.

Pep f-cked up yesterday and Tuesday is a bridge too far cause liverpool will score.
But come on city Pep has got the other 40 odd games right.
C.T.I.D

 

[balotellishaircut]

Let us pray that Klopp tells his players to sit back. If we repeat our Derby first half performance but with Aguero in the striking role, we might just accomplish the miracle needed.

No we want the dippers to come at us, we have to defend better, this way they will play there usual game and tire themselves out on 60 mins, giving us the chance to score 2/3 last half an hour, but the onous is on us to defend for 95 mins and not concede, that's the only way we will go through imo.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Let us pray that Klopp tells his players to sit back. If we repeat our Derby first half performance but with Aguero in the striking role, we might just accomplish the miracle needed.

Rags didn’t sit back, they tried to press. We need Liverpool to come out all guns blazing otherwise we have no chance. We need to not defend like amateurs. Our team WANTS the opposition to come forward. That’s the goal.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

The players will have to respond now because mentally they have switched off in 2 games back to back. Honestly at half time yesterday after the performance we put in, i reckon any liverpool fans watching that would have been worried. But in that second half they would have been rubbing their hands because the players failed to nullify the game for a 15 minute spell to take the wind out the opposition and instead leaked 3 goals again.

This is what we seem to be lacking when the opposition is going forward. It is not about sitting deep or getting everyone behind the ball, but about gaining control of the ball, staying calm and focused and slowing the game down for a period of the match so that it stops the opposition building momentum.

What this week has done is actually highlight the weakness in our team - unfortunately this seems to be our so called dip in form period even the missed chances were reminiscent of last season - being hypothetical here, had the results against liverpool and yersterday gone for us, this flaw would have been highlighted against Barca/Real or Bayern

It is something that Pep will be annoyed about and you can bet he will be laying into the players about this weakness and trying to see why it has happened. What is out of his hands is the implementation of it during the game because that is down to the players to handle it

Big game Tuesday now, but we should focus on that first half yesterday. If we replicate that over the whole 90 minutes but also be prepared to slow the game down at times to frustrate the liverpool attack when they have a spell of game, we have every opportunity to get the 3 goals to at least go into extra time.

It is April, and it is only know that these questions are being asked of us, which highlights how brilliant we have been this season.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Couldn’t be less arsed about a game of football

Lost faith in the team as they’ve made me think they can’t do it because they haven’t got the mustard.

 

[City4ever18]

This is the time we really see how good this city team is. How do they play in the face of adversity? What leaders will emerge? Cmon City.

 

[rnblade]

Candlepool will inevitably score, Klipperty knows all they have to do is go forward and our defence will gift them chances to score which they will take, unlike us.
Sterling should be playing to attempt to redeem himself for the shocking misses v the rags.
I can’t see us getting a result in this game. Sad but being realistic. No way are the dippers going to give up a 3-0 lead, they’ll look at our performance v rags and probably can’t wait.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Couldn’t be less arsed about a game of football

Lost faith in the team as they’ve made me think they can’t do it because they haven’t got the mustard.

Put your dummy back in and get behind your team.we are all hurting.ill be there tuesday singing my heart out hoping for a miracle.think back to the old 3rd division i loved it some of todays fans think we have a divine right to win every game 5-0 and win every trophy.We are starting to sound like utd fans counting trophys and games by scorelines.im a city fan and will watch them no matter how good or bad we are because its in my blood.look at how far we have come.

 

[dw7]

Yesterday was a huge game pep treated it like a dead rubber. Tuesday is a dead rubber and hes treating it as a huge game weird bastard at times