Luck to win the Champions League

[Fordyboy46]

I just think we were completely fucked, physically drained as we reached the end of the game. Players just switched off and couldn't keep up with Real's final ten minute tempo. Then extra time totally killed us, we just never got going. Not sure luck has much to do with it

 

[Paul1970]

That shit blue kit has brought us nothing but bad luck . Fuck off puma with that shit kit .

 

[Paul1970]

luck plays a part, I think both Liverpool in the league title fight and Real in CL were very lucky that Txiki/Pep decided to not bring in a striker last summer.

And also selling Torres in January is a major fuck up .

 

[Aguero_Element]

City were trash. Thats the end of it. We are the worlds best at keeping possession but at the end we invite as much pressure as possible by letting real have the ball and completely shit up our defenders in the most important match of their lives

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

A lot of luck with the second goal with the glancing/deflected header going straight onto Rodrygo’s head and into the net
Couldn’t have known much about it unless he has unreal reflexes

 

[MarsLlama]

City were trash. Thats the end of it. We are the worlds best at keeping possession but at the end we invite as much pressure as possible by letting real have the ball and completely shit up our defenders in the most important match of their lives

Not at all. By far the better team over the two legs.

I hate when teams play shit for ninety minutes, grab two goals with a bit of luck at the end and then everyone calls them amazing.

City's philosophy is to dominate possession, have more shots and create more chances. Nine times out of ten that's enough, but sometimes freak results happen and you can bet last night was a freak result. Scoring their first two shots on target? No, that doesn't make them good and it doesn't make us bad.

I don't blame the squad or Pep for this one at all. The board have been playing a game of "let's see how much Pep can scrape together while we wait for a cheap striker to magically appear" and the team have basically done the best they can with this massive self-inflicted disadvantage hanging over them. Before then it was playing without a left-back. God knows why with the money we have but this board are allergic to having a player for all eleven positions at the same time. The only reason we've won so much in these years is that Pep's a wizard who can make Zinchenko and Delph look like great left-backs instead of decent midfielders, and can get a striker's haul of goals out of Gundogan or a series of wingers who clearly have no idea how to play false nine but are doing what they can because they've been left no choice by the board's indecisiveness and frugality.

By not signing a striker, the board sent a clear message that this season was "just do your best with what you have" rather than "we're going to try to win everything". Any other manager would have us languishing in the battle for third place- we might actually win the league with nobody getting above eleven goals. That's ridiculous considering the last ten champions before last season had these top scorers:

Liverpool- Salah (19) and Mané (18)
City- Agüero (21) and Sterling (17)
City- Agüero (21) and Sterling (18)
Chelsea- Costa (20) and Hazard (16)
Leicester- Vardy (24) and Mahrez (17)
Chelsea- Costa (20) and Hazard (14)
City- Touré (20), Agüero (17) and Dzeko (16)
United- Van Persie (26)
City- Agüero (23) and Dzeko (14)
United- Berbatov (20) and Hernandez (13)

Generally the champion has someone with at least 20 goals and someone else around the 14-17 mark. That just goes to show how crucial having an elite goalscorer or two up front is. Our title win last season was in spite of having no goalscorer, and let's not kid ourselves, Liverpool having an injury-hit season let our board off the hook big time.

 

[lasereyes]

Everything you are blaming RM for has been leveled at us all the time. What we did to AM away was exactly what RM was doing to us and what we should have been doing in the last 15 minutes of the game. Bernardo, Raz, jack are labeled by every single non-City fan as serious divers. Tactical fouls, ditto. BUt nothing to do with us conceding three times in mere 6 minutes.
None of above what you are saying stopped us playing after scoring that goal and we've been doing that quit a lot recently. But RM is not Burnley or Leeds. We are an amazing collective as long as the things go our way. As soon as shit hit the fan we turned into the bunch of robots with busted CPUs. And then when it was needed to reach for that emotion and character within to push you forward as and individual it was not there, because it has been coached out by Pep. And the result is all that ambling all over the pitch for almost 25 minutes. But fuck it, it's water under the bridge now, let's just hope we somehow find whatever is needed to win the remaining four games.

Total claptrap. So winning 14 in a row to lift the title in 2018 was turning into a bunch of robots? Doing the domestic treble is robotic? R titles in 4 years?

 

[Bill Walker]

Luck has fuck all to do with it. It sounds cliche but it's a truth, you make your own luck in football. That game was ours last night, and we crumbled. The referee didn't tie our back four up in straight jackets in injury time. Nor did he coerce Cancelo into launching an idiotic ball into the box when all we needed to do was close the game out. We're far too naive for our own good.

Agree with this completely. 2 goals up with 5 minutes to go, it was up to us to game manage those last 5 minutes, but we didn't. We kept seemingly playing to score again. It was idiotic and sheer fucking madness. And very fucking annoying. We've gifted it to those scouse twats.

 

[samarasra]

We cant keep on blaming luck , VAR , decisions , difficult draws etc etc , often we have been tactically inept at crucial stages in big games , Pep is the best coach around but he is stubborn , when you get into a two goal lead we have to learn how to manage them better or we will always beat at risk in one-off cup games and crunch title games.

The media at the moment are portraying us as a pub team , but it isnt any surprise they cant hide their glee at our exit , but we need to use these headlines as motivation for the remainder of the season and shove their taunts straight back down their throats

Some good arguable points. You say we have been "tactically inept" at crucial stages, what precisely would you have done, tactically, when Mahrez scored, that would have meant we won the game in normal time, apart from faking fouls and injuries.

 

[samarasra]

there are many circumstances which lead to a result - the imprecise art of foot ball when the best team in a cup game may not necessarily win - cup games are far much harder to predict and it is clear this season we have had a catalogue of injuries since the turn of the year- I'm pretty certain KDB hasnt been fully fit all season yet he has been admirable in his efforts - similarly kyle walker was patched for last night and did an amazing job - it wasnt meant to be last night sadly - but lets be honest we ALL KNOW who the best team were over those two legs - it was City and I thank everyone one of them for their efforts not just those games but all season - Ive followed them for 60 years now and cannot believe the quality I see every game and this is the reason I travel over 400 miles for very home game - its a privilege and we have to be aware where we came from to this day - dont be sad be proud!! it will come and when it does -BOY OH BOY!! Worth the wait and all the trauma.

Great post, you epitomise the true meaning of a "supporter", following the club through good bad and indifferent, hope you enjoy it when it comes, and every game in between.