A shit show from the start.
Most of this falls on Pep, that initial formation/set up was just fucking bizarre. It gave too much respect to a good but not amazing Lyon team (lowest finish for 23 years in Ligue Un!).
What is wrong with playing our style, with our players, some of whom happen to be the best in the world who were all in a high from besting Madrid?
It's just not good enough from Pep. He does this time and time again in CL.
He then essentially asked our players to win a game by chasing it from a goal down with half an hour left. Increasing the pressure to perform, which no doubt led to the individual errors. Laporte's pass for the 2nd, Sterling's miss, Ederson's blunder all avoidable but all made when in a fucking dire position being asked to play a system unfamiliar and unsuitable for the situation. Not changing it sooner just amplified the clusterfuck.
Not going to down the VAR rabbit hole, that goal shouldn't have stood, but there was so much else wrong in that performance that it almost pales into insignificance. Questions need to be asked, that was fucking wank.
And thanks for everything Silva, gutted for him that it ended in such a fashion. If you could take Fernandinho with you to Italy too that'd be great. Love him but old father time has caught up with him too, it's like he's running with an open parachute these days.
