Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[AlgarveBlu]

It's very bizarre really is pep pragmatic away in the CL? No he plays the game according to his beliefs. Then we play the French equivalent to West ham and he goes for the slowest midfield in history.

A bad decision. Laughable defending. Shit keeping and we are out again. I started a thread about pep being at the end of his cycle and got pelters.

Best shush because it's here. Whatever tools you give this guy in Europe he is a failure.

agree he got this badly wrong and he is floored with his own legacy of being a master tactician and screws up just for the sake of it but he has still given us some of the greatest moments as city fans and football ive personally never seen before.

 

[blueballs84]

Far to slow, we have two players with genuine pace and one of them is a right back. We play far to high with the pace we have. Not replacing Sane was a huge mistake.

A poor shot stopper in net. 95% of "one on ones" go in.

Thankfully we didn't have to face Bayern as they'd have had a field day with this defence.

Starting to worry why Pep can't see the lack of pace is a major factor with the way we play and the way we get beat!

Great with the ball, terrible without it.

Ask yourself which of our defensive players suit our high line tactics? one, Kyle. The rest are great players, but are to slow when we lose the ball. If we face one or two speed merchants we are in for a tough game.

My fears are we have been found out.

Pep did more than just not replace Sane.
His behavior towards Sane and treatment of him was a written invitation for Bayern to tap him up.

 

[Petetheblu]

Pep is a Useless Cup Manager.

Champion league maybe, but have you seen the amount of cups we've picked up over the last 3 years?

I expect better from you.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Just got up and watched the game here in Australia.
Absolutely gobsmacked at the team selection.. I had a feeling as soon as I saw the team we would lose.
3 defensive midfielders and Walker on the right wing.
Absolutely inexplicable team selection for the biggest game of the season.
When you look at the attacking talent on our bench.
I'm actually speechless.

bang on - and this is not a hindsight reaction, frustrating as we could of blown these off the park with more energy in that midfield - love the guy but he tries too hard to reinvent the wheel at times

 

[Petetheblu]

fook pep and fook the players that was so disappointing all I can do is act like a child and swear

Hahaha....brill.

 

[Keeper!]

That's very Raggish , did you know 80 odd of the clubs in the four divisions win f*ck all every year, you can bet your bottom dollar if the Rags or Villa had won the Carabao Cup it would be massive , maybe we have been spoilt.

We are one of the biggest clubs in the world, we are not the Manchester City of the 80s and 90s.
Our owners have invested hundreds of millions into the club, they demand success and multiple trophies.
We have finished second in the title and a massive 16 points behind the winners, totally unacceptable for the club.
We have just lost against a reasonable but far inferior French team in the quarterFinals of the Champions League , again unacceptable.
I would think this morning our owner and Chairman are not happy people and want some serious answers from the people running the football side of the club.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

The team was set up to play cautious with no balls, bite or courage. That starts from the manager. All these CL QF losses are due to his weird cautious set up.

Were there individual errors involved? Yes. Missed chances? Yes. But the biggest issue was our mindset.

 

[Allianz]

Can someone please tell me why Bernardo was on the bench today? He wasn't injure right? WHY Pep left him starving on the bench?

 

[mjkismgs]

We actually finished a massive 18 points behind in the Premier League, an outcome that in the end I was grateful for because it meant we retained the record of winning by 19 points. Maybe for City there's a curse on the European Cup (as it originally was) going right back to 1968, he said gloomily...

 

[Keeper!]

Can someone please tell me why Bernardo was on the bench today? He wasn't injure right? WHY Pep left him starving on the bench?

Agreed, a player whom has underperformed by his standards this season but a perfect time to bring him into the team, especially a game in his home country and an occasion which he showed in his pre match interview meant so much to him.