Lyon CL QF Post-Match Thread

[hobbsisablue]

Laporte is done unfortunately

You don't watch much football do you?

 

[Bianco1979]

Problem with the first half was no one in the box when we had the chance to put the ball in.

bayern has 4, 5 and 6 in the penalty box at any one time

Exactly and we had one midget

 

[come-on-barney]

because he was our best option and is a professional footballer and still do the job asked. I thought he was our best player. Made a great tackle just before they scored, was just unlucky with how it fell.

laporte initially at fault for the second goal, but Garcia made it too easy by stepping upon Dembele, left the backdoor open. IF he is leaving sends out the complete wrong message to other players. Was a really poor decision.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Really, if Sterling scored, would anyone genuinely think 'masterclass'? We were playing catch up from the start with the tactics, we were awful. On the plus side, on a personal level, I can save having to take a holiday on Wedenesday only to be found to be shooting ourselves in the foot again.

Yes because that how fickle football fans are.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Everything went wrong.
1. Tactics and selection for first 60 mins - Peps choice.
2. Individuals mistakes. Sterling miss and Ederson fumbles. Players choice.
3. VAR corruption. UEFA choice. Was always likely given the chance. Points 1 and 2 above gave the chance.

Ultimately though City not good enough to win champs leAgue. Disappointed to lose to Lyon, but City are not as good as Bayern.

 

[kaz7]

You can't blame Pep?


With all respect, Pep got us tonight. Can't blame VAR. Whether or not VAR did us or not, that's 1 goal. With the right team out on the field it wouldn't have mattered. We should be slotting teams like Lyon with no problems.

Ffs same I agree but var not getting decisions right,it gives them license to get away with murder

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Ok let's say we go out there with our most attacking creative players and formation and then get dicked 3 times on the break.

He was trying to avoid that. It's a one off game with no second leg to bail us out.

There has to be a balance. Yes we were boring as fuck and not the team we are used to seeing but the option above could've backfired drastically.

The players not doing their jobs is what's eliminated us.

thats another way to look at it and it’s a fair point. I wish he’d have gone the other way tonight and played our creative players but if pep thought this was the best way then I back our manager every time

 

[Toulousain85]

It doesn't matter how bad you play,va r has to stop getting it wrong,it was 1-1

Ok if that was given, what about the shove on Max Cornet by Walker. Could have been red card and penalty if the ref was against us. Fact is we lost to a team we should have won 3-0 comfortably. Anyway we wouldn't stand a chance against Bayern, not because we have an inferior tram, but because Pep is not tactically adept enough in this kind of games against the German.

 

[momo88]

It's been a long time i didn't comment.

Well, Just at the beginning of the game it was like those games you feel something fishy since the start no matter what the players will try. The same against Monaco and Spurs or even Liverpool.

Guardiola will not hide continuously behind "the club is learning must reach the high level" etc

It happen to lose a game to a lesser team, but it should be a rarity not the norm.

The team during Mancini era was poorerd compared to this one but was quiet strong defensively and had the ability to comeback from losing position.

With Pep, it is different, 1 goal behind and you can bet it is going to end with a loss at best draw

So even before the Lyon's goal you can feel that the team is not the same, just waiting for the same mistake.

Its all about details, city is not a good defensive team and Guardiola should take the blame for it, there is always a feeling some missed chances, the mistake come and then the castle crumble.

City had a chance in second or third minute of the match, if it went in, maybe it would have been a different story.

But as i mentioned there is always this feeling of something is gonna happen when city don't score early.

Need some top drawer players it should start with defence.

Walker should shut up next time, every time he came up with his comments the team lost

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Feels like when you are watching a Bond movie and the evil genius could just blow his brains out, but decides to go with the "leave the room and leave it to the shark pool" option.