Monaco - Post Match thread.

Totally let down by the De Bruyne and Fernandinho today.......both gave the ball away too much (and committed fouls) in dangerous areas. the defence individually did Ok.... But were offered very little protection.
I'd agree with the starting line up.....but would have soon changed when we couldn't keep the ball....Yaya, in hindsight would have been a better bet.
Should still have gone through.....we had enough chances.....got nothing from the ref......not even the correct amount of injury time!
At least we can concentrate on the league and cup.....without a fixture pile up now......every cloud !
 
Shocking first half. Absolutely brilliant second, and still very unlucky to go out. You can't really pick out any individuals though and I wonder what our mindsets were going into the game as we simply just didn't turn up. But the second half leaves a good taste honestly and I see no reason to go on a meltdown or anything.
 
GeekinGav said:
All the blame has to go down to Pep tonight. He was naive and frankly, arrogant, to go there and attack.

with a 2 goal lead in a away game, you dont play 5 attacking players and leave the back exposed. Should have had another player like Yaya or Fernando in the middle with Ferny to whether the storm at least for the 1st half

There was oceans of space between Ferny and Kev and Silva that killed us, not on the flanks. Kev and Dave weren't tracking midfielders in the 1st half.
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He was particularly arrogant defending that free kick I thought.

Should have brought on an actual defender.
 
quiet_riot said:
No one ever said we would, progress is all we want, especially after we've moved hell and earth to get this guy here. I'm all for giving him time, but the fact is that we have not moved forwards at all.

The single positive right this second is Sane, IMHO.
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So what time do you give him. 1 game, 10 games, 100 games.
I think that there was always going to be difficulties playing this system, with the personnel we have.
We've seen it enough times this season. If it doesn't improve when Pep gets his players, then i will start to worry.
Tonight is still a big disappoinment, as we threw that away.
 
Thought the team selection was ok (though personally would have had Yaya in there) as we showed 2nd half. It was the tactics of sitting deep with no pressure on the ball in the first half that cost us badly. We should have gone after them from the start.
 
I really don't want to hear any more 'we have no history in Champions League' excuses. We were poor defensively, in both games, and matters could have been even worse had Monaco scored the penalty in the first leg.
 
We didn't lose because of the defence we lost because our big players went missing. Why the fuck did yaya not play???
 
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