Match Thread | B. Dortmund vs Man City (14/04/21)

[nmc]

4 players around us whenever we get near their box.... how many have they got on the pitch?

 

[super_city_si]

We were sooo passive. At keast now were pressing.

 

[Brendan110_0]

Too slow. Going to be a slog before Pep realises.

 

[Blu1]

We are not causing them anything to worry about all over the pitch.

This is very poor from city & pep.
We look terrified

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Just play fucking fernandinho. For fuck sake. He is out most important player

 

[bballchinaski]

guardiola's fear of going out early in the cl is contagious to the players, bad stuff

 

[teddykgb]

Pep has clearly got some mental scars when it comes to champions league knockout stages. When we get to the quarter finals, we seem to put the brakes on and get ourselves into bother and don’t realise before it’s to late. It really fucking baffling considering our domestic form over the past 4 months. Same could be said about previous seasons.

What has this got to do with Pep? There are no outrageous tactics here. We have arguably looked our best with this exact XI with KDB up front. There’s nothing here the manager has done wrong. He hasn’t tinkered. We just have to play better

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

In a way I always felt we needed to score at least once so we are still in this

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Need to get Mahrez a bit of space.
Phil and Kev will do the rest.

 

[Cornish_Blue]

Fair play to them. They’re defending really well, and we can’t break it down. They know they’ve done enough, so it’s up to us.