Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[Abu_Dhabi_Doo]

Very, very poor by our high standards. We started with at least 3 of our best players in the bench in terms of David, Bernardo & Phil. No way Garcia and Gundogan should have started ahead of any of those 3. Pep has been great since he came in, but tonight’s selection was an absolute brain fart!

 

[nmc]

Rodri not good enough.

Gundo goes missing yet again.

Fern is too old.

Garcia wants to leave yet gets 90mins.

Foden loves the club and is best player since restart but is dropped for entire match.

Did Rodri and Gundogan manage a forward pass between them?

 

[BlueAnorak]

Pep over thought it again.
The formation would have been OK if the right players had played and we put the ball down the channels one in 3 times (but we never do).
Fern is finished and Bernardo should have played instead with him swapping places with Walker.
As to Gundogan - well Pep sees something that I don't.
BTW - Since the restart it has been "Dont start Foden and we lose."

 

[ShaunMCFC]

This is concerning

But he's right isn't he

 

[lancs blue]

3) VAR misses ball through the legs of the offside player

No, he didn't attempt to play the ball so offside isn't applied. It was the foul in the build-up that was the VAR fuck-up.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

45 minutes of dross and individual mistakes cost us the game. The same old mistakes of poor defensive
judgment. We need to attack the ball better in dangerous areas and stop giving away silly balls. We got fucked
on the 2nd goal, that's true, but we didn't have to put ourselves in that situation. So deflating after getting
ourselves back in the game.

 

[blueinsa]

Bayern would have spanked us.

Fucking hate the competition, literally feel fuck all for it so I'm genuinely not arsed.

Typical City tonight with weird selections, shit finishing, VAR and mistakes but make no mistake, no fucker is beating Bayern.

 

[kaz7]

What did he say???

New year same thing,we didn't play like us in the first half

 

[Fordyboy46]

Has Pep taken full responsibility for this, or is it another case of " I'm so so proud of my players"

 

[Paul1970]

I thought cancelo didn’t do too bad tbh . I know I’m gonna get blasted for this but here goes . I’m starting to think pep has run his course with us . We have had 2 great seasons and 2 good seasons and I wouldn’t swap them for the world but this style of football which was so effective is now suddenly not working so great and my big concern is the lack of a plan b . When we run out of ideas we don’t don’t seem to know what to do next and that is worrying when we are faced with chasing down a team who were 18 points better than us last season . End of the day this is my opinion and we are all entitled to one .