Over a season you finish where you deserve to. New coach comes in, players work harder to impress = honeymoon period. No team finishes in a false position. They finished 7th in a mediocre league. All teams have injuries.
We lost this game and many others this season in the last transfer window.
We didn't buy a quick CB to replace Kompany and all of our goals conceded yesterday and the formation change were based on us having slow vulnerable centre backs.
I would find this much easier to deal with if we had set up in our normal way, did everything we normally do with the attacking brilliance at our disposal, creativity, pace, drawing Lyon out of their shape, Kevin in the middle, pinpoint balls for Raheem and Gab to run onto. If we lost (fairly) doing that, knowing we'd done everything in our power to win, I could deal with it.
Can you imagine Klopp changing his Mane, Salah, Firmino trio to go 3 at the back when they face Lyon?
Forgot about that !
But out of our nine league defeats i only remember Wolves away where we scored first
There you go again 'If this, if that'. You're assuming we lose all those players to injury and all the other big teams don't lose their equivalents. 'If' doesn't come into it. Lyon are 7th best in France. Finished 7th.No. How can you be this reductive.
If we lost Aguero, Laporte, Sterling, Walker, Bernardo & Ederson to injury and finished 7th, but they were all fit and firing again by the CL mini tournament, would we be the 7th best side in England when the tournament came around?
No. Of course we fucking wouldn't.
He's right though. We're no where near the elite in the champions league.
But what I will say is we've only been in it for 10 years, teams in it longer than us haven't won it so I think time is on our side, kind of.
The fact that we've spent big somehow gives authority to the media to say we should have won it already which is bollocks in my eyes.
Come on Pep. Admit you fucked up. Because you did!
I would find this much easier to deal with if we had set up in our normal way, did everything we normally do with the attacking brilliance at our disposal, creativity, pace, drawing Lyon out of their shape, Kevin in the middle, pinpoint balls for Raheem and Gab to run onto. If we lost (fairly) doing that, knowing we'd done everything in our power to win, I could deal with it.
We always play against 5 man defences so that not a surpriseI read a stat somewhere yesterday that 90 per cent of games we have lost this season was facing a three or a five-man defence?
There you go again 'If this, if that'. You're assuming we lose all those players to injury and all the other big teams don't lose their equivalents. 'If' doesn't come into it. Lyon are 7th best in France. Finished 7th.
I get the anger and disappointment, losing big games will always hurt and its natural to blame somebody.
This bollocks about Pep having an ego or trying to be clever has to stop though. He picked the team that he thought would work best against a very good Lyon team and although on the night several players didn't turn up, had things gone for us we'd have won the game in spite of some poor performances.
Talk of sacking him is insane, the only people benefitting from that happening would be the rest of the football World.
Nows the time to stick together, brush ourselves off and get prepared for next season.
It's not been pleasant reading this forum over the last 12 hours. There are a few posters who should be fucking ashamed of themselves with their comments.
Stunned by that complete shit show last night that started at 7pm. Pathetic, inept showing in the biggest game of our season.Apparently we just lost against one the best teams out there. We should be proud we managed to score against a team that finished 7th in a farmers league because they had two players with long-term injuries. Why didn’t Pep come out and say we were the true underdogs in this matchup?
100% correct I'm not alone when I say Rodri for me is still a big doubt againt better & quicker teamsNot even angry, I expected this against Lyon. This team simply can't play against any half decent team who can park the bus and play on the counter.
And it's not all about the defence. DMs who have no idea how to stop a counterl, attack not clinical enough against defences where you don't get 20 chances.