Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[purplenose]

By you maybe, but take a look at the bigger picture.

Raz was our most dynamic player all night.

He gets a free pass from me.

You can be as dynamic as you want but goals win games. To win games at this level you have be able to nail that one half chance that comes in those big games against class opposition. Sterling cannot do that. The miss tonight was the finest example of a growing collection from him, simply not good enough. You can look at as many pictures perspectives or angles you want.

Here is the fact you still have a bloke who cannot put the ball in the back of the net un obstructed from a few yards out, not acceptable at Sunday league level let alone CL last 8.

Equally Jesus with his miss were it not for Sterling then Jesus would be rightly being pinpointed...These two are simply not good enough to be lead strikers and certainly not good enough to both play at the same time in a CL winning side. 2nd strikers at a push but neither are instinctive finishers.

Yes Pep is tightly being questioned but regardless we had enough chances once again to have won, but due to a complete lack of a clinical strikers, piss poor defending, and slapstick and shite goalkeeping we are quite rightly out....Fuck all to do with VAR or UEFA, and fair play to Lyon who deserved to win, but this failure is down to the manager and the team, can blame nobody else.

 

[chesterbells]

Not arsed about that, tbh. Just fucking hate Bayern.

Not too keen on Lyon either after tonight. A Red Bull win overall for me, just to stir things up a bit, especially in Germany ;-)

 

[Beanhead]

Not the stats of a team poorly set up. The players must take at least equal responsibility

Sorry but due to our totally inept set up, we only finally started playing football at 55 mins.. no team is good enough to give sides a goal lead and condense the game to 30 mins and expect to win. Yes we had loads of chances inside the last 30 mins but our margin for error was non existent at that point.

it all comes down to the preparation.. and set up. I can’t believe people don’t understand this.

 

[BolinCell]

Tbf thank fuck I wont have to watch Bayetn do that to us.

They'd have absolutely wiped the floor with us.

Not if we played to our strengths and no compromises. Why have we changed the way we play for a weaker team, its the equivalent of rearranging our whole midfield because we are playing the mighty Leicester city.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Not arsed about that, tbh. Just fucking hate Bayern.

I hate them, as well.

I would just rather lose to the eventual winners who beat the German Rags on the way.

 

[ctid1894]

Numerous things so wrong tonight.

1st and foremost - the original team selection. Playing a midfield 3 of Gundogan and Rodri and Ferna - we are one of the most creative sides in world football normally and Pep has a brain fart and decides to reomve all of it. 2 of them 3 together is bad enough but all 3 is shocking and it showed with zero attempts on target in the first half - we created nothing unsuprisingly. Pep is obsessed with Gundogan and its his blindspot - paired with enough legs drive and creatvity we can have gundogan in there as the water carrier but anything else and we lose so much and especially against decent teams..

The set up also nullified Kev - i can understand wanting him closer to goal but he had no supply due to the 3 midfieders beihind him....when we changed it its no surpise that he started to have an influence.

2. Not having a natural goalscorer- sterlings miss is unexplainable and its somethign he used to do but stopped and the last 2 years of so he has been deadly - but he simply should score. Jesus as well had at least 2 chances and needs to do better....the argument about Jesus being a good enough finisher has been going on so long now that it should show that we need more than him.....not saying get rid of him but he needs to be playing as part of a 3 with someone who is a natural finsiher (Kun or someone like him)

3. Defenders who cant defend - from garcia's pitiful tackle for their first to Walker playing people onside and Laporte going walkabout for the second plus Ederson inexplicably gifting them a third we need better in a couple of positions. Garcia defedned the first like he was already playing for Barcalona last night!

The second half was more like it until the shit defending and Jesus and sterlings misses happened.

Aouar looks like the imdfielder i hoped Gundogan was but isnt.

Sterling will be having sleepless nights about that miss

You think Fernandinho was playing in midfield? Did you watch the game?

 

[sky_blue]

Pep bottled it. Also we've two big game players in this team - Aguero and Kev. Everyone else is world class when the going's good, but wank when it gets tough.

 

[WestGorton]

C'mon Leipzig

 

[decmancity]

Tell you what, for a fanbase who alledgedly hate UEFA and all it stands for, regularly state we're not arsed about the CL, we've turned into a right bunch of mard-arsed self-entitled tosspots tonight.

Who actually gives a fuck?

PL or CL? PL all day fucking long.

We can't have it both ways.

I give a fuck that we are being embarassed on the world stage each year.

We have been given the Carabao cup whilst we limply handed over the prem, so forgive me for thinking we would beat Lyon and get to a semi final of the CL to try restore some pride in the season.

 

[Bianco1979]

What are you on about?

Here to WUM tonight?

What are you on about? Did you not see them consoling Jesus and

What are you on about?

Here to WUM tonight?

in that they consoled our players. Nice touch.

 

[lazerblue]

Fuck UEFA
Fuck VAR

it wasn't uefa or var that wasted 50min playing a shite formation or waiting too long to make subs or missed an open goal or couldnt defend to save their lives

 

[jollylescott]

Having calmed down a bit, I'm looking back 8 days to that game against Real Madrid, one of the best games I've seen us play. We hounded them all over the field and could easily beat any of their presses.

Yet tonight was the complete opposite. Our pressing when not in possession was almost non-existent and we seemed consistently incapable of playing out of Lyon's press. It's completely baffling.

Phil’s energy had a lot to do with the pressing against Real. It was a big miss tonight.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

I agree with you mate on showing them too much respect but some numpties calling for peps head. A lot of trolls out here tonight

So you’ve said about 10 times, we get it....you’re the biggest blue on here. Good for you. Now, get yourself a nice hot chocolate and slip those comfy slippers on and leave the post match discussion to those who actually want to discuss that shit-show of a performance.

 

[kaz7]

Blah blah blah if we scored a goal like that and VAR disallowed it you would still be calling out VAR for not doing their job. Every decision against us is a mistake in your book.

We were shit at every level and paid the price for it

It was shown and discussed and decided it was a foul,blame fucking bt not me,it was a foul !

 

[Marvin]

Sorry but due to our totally inept set up, we only finally started playing football at 55 mins.. no team is good enough to give sides a goal lead and condense the game to 30 mins and expect to win. Yes we had loads of chances inside the last 30 mins but our margin for error was non existent at that point.

it all comes down to the preparation.. and set up. I can’t believe people don’t understand this.

Every blue knows Pep f'cked it up and you don't get away with a mistake like that at this level.

 

[SebastianBlue]

What are you on about? Did you not see them consoling Jesus and

in that they consoled our players. Nice touch.

Seemed to be a sarcastic post, but fair enough if it wasn’t.

You do seem to be on the warpath otherwise, though, which is interesting for a new member.

 

[blueballs84]

Nope leipzig will play Munich in the final..

I hope Bayern don't win it..fking scum.

 

[PragueBlue]

Having calmed down a bit, I'm looking back 8 days to that game against Real Madrid, one of the best games I've seen us play. We hounded them all over the field and could easily beat any of their presses.

Yet tonight was the complete opposite. Our pressing when not in possession was almost non-existent and we seemed consistently incapable of playing out of Lyon's press. It's completely baffling.

Perhaps team selection may have had more than a little to do with it.

 

[Blue Pete]

Pep got it wrong.

By the time he changed it we had 30 min left, and were 1-0 down. More importantly he'd given the opposition belief, whilst at the same time knocking the confidence of our own team. Yet we still had some good chances, Jesus volley and Sterling sitter, to keep in the game.

 

[domalino]

Having calmed down a bit, I'm looking back 8 days to that game against Real Madrid, one of the best games I've seen us play. We hounded them all over the field and could easily beat any of their presses.

Yet tonight was the complete opposite. Our pressing when not in possession was almost non-existent and we seemed consistently incapable of playing out of Lyon's press. It's completely baffling.

That's what this side is all season though Colin.