Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[Brewster's millions]

Absolutely terrible and performances like that are simply unacceptable given the resources behind the club.

The individual errors will probably get the headlines but if you take a step back and look at the performance as a whole, we are a million miles away from where we want to be.

Four years into the manager's term and given the investment made, our team should be passing it around like clockwork with the right players in the right positions, but we looked like a bunch of amateurs tonight. Poor team selection, poor substitutions and the players lost their heads when the pressure was on.

Guardiola has been overindulged and after the good we're now seeing the flip side of it.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Let’s not forget we were cheated yet again for their 2nd.
We were well in control and we’re going for the winner,
We bossed that 2nd half until that shit VAR CUNTS decision the dirty bastards!
I said a long time ago, we are good enough to win it but we won’t be let win it!

Whilst we keep this victim mentality nothing will ever change. Did VAR make sterling score a conversion, or make LaPorte (if he’d been fit all season we’d still have finished a long way second) play the most ridiculous cross field pass of the night, or make Ederson drop one an under 12 keeper would have held on to?
I usually fall into the happy clapper brigade but the only 3 letter word that cost us, tonight at least, was PEP not VAR.

 

[antspider]

Ahh come on it's not that bad......

Well clearly not cis I'm just finishing it :)

 

[come-on-barney]

Kev,different year same thing,bet he is pissed off with pep,he said first half we didn't p!ay like us

I read into that the same thing, seemed to be a dig at Pep.

 

[Jamiblue]

Yes hes said you always play this way and we dont. But we will train at it for 3 days and we will be better.

No chance could we do that.

We are man city. We should play our way. But he keeps fucking it up when it matters

Fair point can’t disagree with that, I’m livid with him

 

[kaz7]

Another what?! He is correct. We’re useless on corners. You’re embarrassing yourself right now. Stop haunting ghosts. We are City fans and we’re pissed off, and we have every right to be.

Are you going to die defending them?

 

[Pedestrian]

Does anyone else think our team is massively overrated. Maybe we got carried away by all the media hype about our 'billion dollar' squad.
Our rivals think any player we sign is world class, maybe playing with better players hides the limitations of some of our players.
I genuinely think Laporte is very overrated, I always get a feel he has some mistake in him. This is his 2nd UCL qf cock up.
We don't have a world class DM, Rodri is good but slow and gets easily overrun.
Jesus will never be a striker, even a half decent defender pockets him easily, his work rate and dribbling skills are good though.
Gundogan should be playing for a midtable Bundesliga side, not ManCity.
Ederson is not a great shot stopper, but least of our worries.

Sniff

 

[Nellies left peg]

Can anyone come up with a plausible explanation for why Garcia started given the past couple of weeks?

I'm so livid nothing is making sense with that selection and performance tonight. I'm glad I didn't watch it stone cold sober, it would have turned me to the bottle.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Look at Bayern yesterday. They went for Barcelona’s throat from the first minute. It would not made a stuff of difference if UEFA or Var were against them. They would still have won by a cricket score.
what Was stopping us doing similar?

A full season of shite defending undermining the team & weakened even more tonight.

Slow centre midfield.

Plus shite finishing. Imo solve the 1st 2 & the other will come.

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

Pochettino got to the final. He’s demolish this competition with this team. Just saying.