Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[Keeper!]

We missed Aguero so much, top players will always make the difference in games like this.

Would not have made any difference, we lost this game when the team sheet was handed to the referee.

 

[mjkismgs]

I think it’s very concerning that you can line up with 5 at the back, 4 in front (deny space) and have a fast centre forward to hit a diagonal pass too...(We’ve been caught out by that pass over the top for the first goal so many times this season) and we don’t seem to solve playing against this setup. I saw very little in Lyons performance tonight that was any different to the Wolves performances earlier this season when I knew the writing was on the wall for our premier league campaign.

Agree. Pass over the top for a second goal was what sealed the FA Cup defeat - the Lyon coach I imagine will have taken note of that game.

 

[Keeper!]

Exactly. I am a huge Pep Guardiola fan but If we want to win the CL he is not the guy. The thing that terrifies me is that nothing's gonna change next season vis-a-vis CL. We will be playing breathtaking football at times and would probably win the league. But the CL nah!
If he is brought to win the PL well that's a club hierarchy decision but CL is essential for football dominance. But the insistent of Kaldoon and Txiki has always been CL despite of what our fans say so clearly there is zero progress there..

And this isn't 90s or 80's anymore. This inferiority complex needs to go. We don't get to say ,remember when we were in league 1 when billion dollars have been pumped into this club. Billion fucking dollars. This bonhomie between DoF and the coach needs to stop and we need to get more ruthless in our decisions and also in transfer market.

I am not an expert so I wouldn't mind Pep leaving or signing a 5 year extension but today was a big clusterfuck that needs changing immediately.

I think next season is going to be difficult, games like last night lose dressing rooms.

The likes of KDB, Bernardo , Mahrez must be thinking WTF!

If Berardo did want out, I could not blame him.

 

[jonah62]

More dissapointed in this defeat than the gutless semi v Real Madrid
We had Yaya strolling around, lost Kompany within 10 minutes and really very little on the bench, plus it was peak Madrid.
In the Lyon game, on the bench,we had Mahrez, two Silva’s & Foden, all game changers in their own right.
How we came up with that starting formation, only you know Pep
It’s 2:30 in the afternoon here in Tassie, and I’ve been up since 4:45am, can’t digest what was served up.

 

[Keeper!]

Agree. Pass over the top for a second goal was what sealed the FA Cup defeat - the Lyon coach I imagine will have taken note of that game.

So did the managers of Norwich, Wolves, Southampton etc

 

[mjkismgs]

LOL "the thuggery in the English game" you clearly never watched football in the 60s 70s and 80s

Of course I did, smart aleck - I even saw Stanley Matthews play.

 

[Keeper!]

Of course I did, smart aleck - I even saw Stanley Matthews play.

Then the modern game is soft, far too soft in my opinion.

Aguero is a striker very occasionally they get caught, part and parcel of the game.

 

[bluemoon32]

I think next season is going to be difficult, games like last night lose dressing rooms.

The likes of KDB, Bernardo , Mahrez must be thinking WTF!

If Berardo did want out, I could not blame him.

It will certainly put doubts in players heads regarding Pep, would you blindly follow someone who got it so wrong again?

 

[Wintermute]

I reckon Pep is in danger of losing the dressing room after that.

 

[Keeper!]

To get it right: this comment is in my humble view UTTER tripe. So many crybabies on this forum tonight.

Cry babies? We are one of the biggest teams in the world, we have lost and lost appalling in a Champions League Quarter Final, football is looking on and laughing, it hurts, f**ing hurts, we are far, far better than that team that played tonight.
We were embarrassing and unacceptable.