Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[eastmanc]

I broke a record last night, most bottles of coronas drank in one night, got through quite a lot post 10pm.

Gonna take a long time to forget that game last night, still fuming

You want to watch that corona mate.

 

[momo88]

Just one day ago in Office (France) were talking with a friend about CL games he doesn't know am a city fan, he asked me what do i think about the coming game, i said city but you never know in one game bla bla he said are you crazy Lyon are going to get dicked.

Then after 10 minutes i got the feeling of those games... when you can smell shit from the other corner of the street :)

 

[Keeper!]

We cant go into the new season not knowing what Pep is going to do, the players will just go through the motions until the new manager comes in.
I think we're at that crossroads of 'either he signs an extension or he leaves immediately' and someone else starts the rebuild.

To me Khaldoon gets them all together tomorrow morning, are you in for the long term? if the answer is no, pay him off and we move on.

 

[Marvin]

I'm bitterly disappointed and last night the air was blue (!) as I fumed about the result. I know we were poor and the performance was well below par. The intensity was gone from our game and we never played at the tempo associated with City, but much of the criticism is way out of order, especially of Pep. I have no right at all to question Pep's team selection or his formation or his tactics and no-one else can argue with him either. Demands that he be sacked are little more than applications for a place in the mad house. What happened last night was that we lost a football match because we didn't play very well BUT also because Raheem missed and absolute sitter at the end of a season in which he has been truly phenomenal and at the end of a match in which he was one of our best performers and in which Eddie made one of a handful small number of mistakes he has made all season BUT MOST OF ALL BECAUSE we were, YET AGAIN, shafted by the travesty which masquerades as VAR. But this team and this manager and this board and everyone at the club are strong enough to keep a cool head - unlike the armchair strategists who feel they know best - sleep on it, and try to do better next season with a little help from the gods ( and no malevolence from the establishment) this time.

Sterling has always been hit and miss and we made individual mistakes. That is true but perhaps if you give the players the best possible preparation and strategy they will have performed better. Selecting a pedestiran midfield/central defender was a mistake and he keeps making mistakes in iimportant games.

I know he's a genius but maybe he has a flaw.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

And a lot of the posters didn’t give a toss about this competition. Make your minds up

 

[Marvin]

Fuming when I saw he was in the team. Shouldn't have even travelled.

In truth every City fan across the globe would have felt exactly the same thing. Maybe on another day we get away with it but he tempted the footballing Gods and we got what we deserved.

 

[shemnel]

that wasnt a good performance.

i think i'll leave it at that.

 

[The Blue]

Pep always comments on our mentality when it comes to Europe. He points out that compared to other clubs we are still trying to find that arrogance in the competition. He then undermines that by playing three defensive midfielders rather than our best team and makes the team play within themselves. The arrogance should come from playing the way we do all year against the top teams and winning. We need to get over the inferiority complex in the competition and that needs to start with Pep.

 

[chickaroon]

I don’t get it either the ball was played to him and he dummied it. Regardless of whether he touched It or not it is still interfering with play. Both the keeper and defenders are focussed on the player through on goal. It’s bizarre to even begin to claim he’s not having an impact on play for that goal.

Absolutely. If a player gets in the keepers view he is deemed to be interfering. When a player leaves the ball for a teammate to run onto, you see them raise their hands o

 

[Roachy]

I hope people like you have the bollocks to stick to your opinion that Pep is a danger the club and root of all failure when we are successful again next season and don't just try an melt into the background.

Folk are cheesed off dom as you're response shows. In relation to your next season comment, success isn't guaranteed. In fact I don't think we are in a very good position. We have to blow this season out of our system, recover and prepare for the next campaign in a little over 3 weeks. This includes embedding new players into the team. If we're not careful things could be over before they've begun.