Lyon (H) - Post Match Thread

[Vienna_70]

I don’t see how you can criticise Delphs attacking qualities when he started majority of our games last season at left back and many thought he was good for the balance of team. If anything’s to blame for this seasons shaky start, it’s Pep trying to experiment with formations and different players. Just play the same set up as last season. Sane and Sterling on the wings, with Bernardo and Silva creating in the middle.

This.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Easy to say in hindsight but if there was a game where we could rest Fernandinho and play Gundogan in the number 6 role then it was last night as Ferna tends to struggle against teams that press. He would have been fresher going into Cardiff, the type of game we need him for and that he excels in. As it is he's probably going to look knackered at the weekend.

 

[93.01]

Another good example of one you need to proofread mate. Unless you’ve been literally getting drunk on our success, in which case I’ll forgive you.

And so you should.

 

[Mancityus]

Pep has a real job on his hand - how to motivate the team after a season like last year and so far it looks like it is not going as expected.

 

[eyalluvitt]

It’s a weird feeling isn’t it.
It’s supposed to be the biggest club competition in the World, yet when we lose in it I really couldn’t give a flying fuck!
Yet when we lose a league game I’m fucked off for days & days.

Same here , Max Boyce Fc on saturday means way more than tonights cheese-eating surrender monkey snooze fest.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Hopefully, a one-off night when most of the team - Sane apart - were well under or just under the normal level. Not watched any highlights - two errors cost us.

Btw, apart from those of us who go to all Ch L games, do our fans realise that the owner's vision is all about the Ch L, and that Pep is primarily here in that context ? Ten minutes to kick off and I'm hoping and praying that there's a late filling of the stadium. I know some will say 'Grow a pair', but it's embarrassing. Why do our superb Prem attendences not translate into Ch L big crowds ? Almost universally, City fans now hate Liverpool fans more than any others, but they turn up at Anfield on Ch L nights. I can't stand YNWA, but they have a fanaticism in huge numbers - not exactly an affluent part of the world either. Pep deserves a full/nearly stadium on Ch L nights. Poor performance apart, I'll bet that the size of the crowd tonight pissed him off.

 

[squirtyflower]

Not at the races tonight

 

[Mattyc55]

Really poor all over the park.

We have to get at least 4 points from the two away games now.

 

[TonyM]

Pep has a real job on his hand - how to motivate the team after a season like last year and so far it looks like it is not going as expected.

But it is going as expected if you believe that Pep has a real challenge to get us back to our best.

 

[super_city_si]

Our transition was appalling. We’d knock it to the midfield and instead of turning and attacking or playing a side ball and looking for a return, it would come straight back to the defence first time. This gave Lyon all the time:in the world to reset. We went forward twice I think from this position md nearly scored twice. This is where putting gundogan in there was a fail. We really missed kdb. Gundo and fern with only Silva as the creative outlet is too stifling.