Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[ancoats]

thank god we will not get a tonking 8.0 facing munich in the semi's hahaha

i don't want to go and watch last night game again and pick wholes out of it ? its painful and hurting right now
the fall out will have to come and questioned asked and not just at pep but the club and lack of options up front and in defence ? and having players play out of their normal roles

the need for another top draw striker is clear to see, jesus and sterling and injury prone aguero is not enough
we just did not have enough up front and that is why we lost ? we need a world class striker in this team every big game we play somebody to get you out of a hole and score that goal sterling missed last night

am not saying sterling is the blame or a striker in anyway but in this setup pep picks he's in the team to score goals just like jesus ? but that out and out striker scores that goal and the couple more and takes the game from lyon

 

[chickaroon]

Have we reached a time when a new style of play is taking over from the wonderful Barcelona days. Pep brought that to us and it was wonder to watch. However, we now see teams like B. Munich and Liverpool playing a more energetic, high tempo, athletic game with very skilful players. Okay, Liverpool have three defensive players in midfield who's sole job is to not let the opposition get out of their half and attack their defence. However, those three midfield players are strong and imposing. We only have one of those in, Kevin. Both Munich and Liverpool have fast defenders in every position. We need, strength, energy and speed injected into our play. When he was younger, Ferno gave us some of that. Just wondering are we now behind the new successful trend?

 

[Tb1981]

That shark at Napoli has probably lumped another £20m on top for Koulibaly after last night.

I don't want him, but that defensive showing has put clubs across Europe on high alert there is a killing to be had out of us this window.

The inclusion of Garcia made me almost as angry as the result, he has made his intention clear and yet we overlook Stones for this ungrateful kid?

Remember the only reason Garcia was in the team in the weeks before is that stones and ottamendi have been awful
At least we are trying to replace them
Playing either of them only goes over old ground
Left back issue is same, we need to sort this in next four weeks
I would put 50m and Angelino down for upermecano
Possibly even take Angeline back and bin Mendy/zinchenko

 

[Tb1981]

Cue further meltdown when Red Bull beat Paris and then give Bayern a serious game...

Well they can’t say they can’t afford angelino now!

 

[Tb1981]

I don't know why PEP keep acting like a drama queen on his knees what the fuck you are manager of Man City not a pub team who missed out a qualication in a cup game

Think you might realise how much of A genius this guy is when he leaves
Look at the swamp in last decade

 

[Akpowell]

Feel sick every time I think of that Stering miss

 

[west didsblue]

Feel sick every time I think of that Stering miss

Me too :-(
On a media blackout today.

I’d like to say we were robbed because of that second goal of their’s but in reality we got what we deserved. Too many individual mistakes and not enough creativity.
Pep fucked up spectacularly.

 

[Withnail]

He had enough intelligence and pace to get back and make the tackle, when the other quicker, more experienced players didn't get back. You can keep criticising him like everyone else but we all know why. The same thing happened with Sane, who is now openly considered a lazy twat who never did anything and never deserved to be in the team because he was shit anyway. Grown men who can't handle a bit of rejection.

What the hell you going about? , all I said was Garcia has n't any pace, albeit he did well to get the tackle in.

Garcia like a lot of our defence struggles with pace eg when Aubameyang ripped him to pieces.

 

[give it to gordon]

i think one of the main reason so many of us are pissed of because of the game before we bossed RM over two games 2-1 each leg. We were up and at them giving them on respect no time to play. Than we give loads of respect to Lyon we dont press them we change our style play to stop them, why ?

I am not a Pep out person but last night i just couldnt make sense of what i was seeing, a team that was so confidant, full of running, exciting turned into a slow, scared lacking confidant team. What happen ?

Yes VAR fucked us over but we werent good yesterday

 

[Woody13]

Still mulling over the hugely disappointing defeat and performance last night.

So the three at the back that was far from a success was implemented due to Pep’s worry about the pace of Lyon’s front and their ability to get in down the sides of the centre backs, so he preferred three defenders to deal with them than two, which I guess makes sense. Still present with those three defenders though was a high line and a lack of pace, so it didn’t resolve things. Surely moving Walker into the right side of the three would have had a more positive outcome ?

Thing is that would just have exacerbated the fact we were going away from what we do well and overly focusing on Lyon’s strengths. Yes we needed to be aware and cautious of their threat and counter-attacks but surely we should have played more to our strengths!