Liverpool (N) | Community Shield | Post-Match

[eyalluvitt]

Hope haaland is up for a huge fight with the media and everyone who isn’t a city fan. He will get no plaudits or praise until he leaves and everyone in the country will seem to revel in his Failure (although it course in reality just the dipper loving media)

He seems to hate the press so he should have some fun!

Erling Bradbury is very harsh

 

[Son of Merv]

Fans today were absolutely magnificent. What a bunch of knobs at the other end of the stadium. Shame about the result, but the only time the 'who gives a fuck' trophy has ever meant anything was when it shared a shelf with the other three domestic cups.
We looked off the pace, but otherwise OK. I am not concerned one bit.

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Wow, fascinating. Imagine what we could achieve with their spirit!?

“Imagine being them” ;)

 

[butlerkb]

It’s pre season and the result doesn’t matter I know, but it still rankles, we never beat this lit and we shipped 3 goals and our star recruit missed a sitter… typical city, but we will still win the league and hopefully the C L too with haarland scoring a hat trick in a 4- 0 drubbing of da pool!!!!

 

[Cambo]

I don't think it's either in particular, I think it's good planning. Guardiola likes the players to get plenty of rest, something that came up a couple of times in the commentary, and come the end of the season we're able to do what we need to do.

Liverpool, on the other hand, had an intensive training camp, played an intensive game today and made it clear how they're going to approach the season. Pretty much the same as they did last season, and look how that ended for them. They were clearly knackered at the end of it. Who's prep would you rather have?

I think we need to debunk this myth that our season was far superior to theirs last year and that our prep was better. They won 2 domestic cups and were runners up in the PL and CL. We limped to the end of the season and won the PL. I think we were more out of gas at the end of the season than they were.

 

[eyalluvitt]

The bus smashers and their media acolytes may be laughing at us now but tomorrow we will still be the summer window net spend champions, the trophy they cherished the most

 

[Erling9]

But I accepted that as there were summer tournaments and players returning several weeks after others, different rest periods, everyone at different levels etc. But this season I don’t see why we couldn’t have been more prepared than previous seasons considering the conditions were better for that.

For me that's no excuse as the other teams filled with internationals like the dippers and rags all had plenty of pre season games under their belt...it's just us that AGAIN have this lackluster pre season time and time again

 

[Erling9]

am i overthinking this or does pep genuinely have a mental block when it comes to facing flopp?

 

[Grassland Blue]

We lost the charity season the Agueroooo season and last season and looked what happened.

Our opponents were not the team you wish to face if your not up to their fitness levels yet

The only irritant is that we have lost to the media darlings (which means a 24 sports media boycott).

Not too bothered about Haalands miss. It happens. The more concern is whether the likes of Grealish and Mahrez who weren’t great at the end of last season are going to push on.

I thought that we played reasonably well.
I believe that City have some work still to do though to get up to speed.
I think the dippers are up to speed, but will they be able to maintain that level of performance or will it drop off?

 

[Kamaro011]

I think we need to debunk this myth that our season was far superior to theirs last year and that our prep was better. They won 2 domestic cups and were runners up in the PL and CL. We limped to the end of the season and won the PL. I think we were more out of gas at the end of the season than they were.

No, our backline is getting injured left and right that's why we ended up more draw and lose toward the end of eason.