Monaco - Post Match thread.

[gocity]

No one to blame but ourselves. You should never expect to progress conceding 6 in two games. We wasted chances in the second half and were hardly even trying it seemed in the first half.

They did

 

[simon23]

Kdb ballooning every set piece well past the mark. Sterling bottling his final balls. We just didn't deserve it. FA cup it is then.

KDB was also pulling out of 50-50's as well

 

[Danny_Johnson4]

But stones unneccesarily gave away the free kick which led to there goal.

Oh shut up. He gave a free kick away 50 yards from goal.
Which we utterly pathetically decided to play high on, and make it a semi goalscoring chance

Stones was the reason we dominated for half an hour second half, he was magnificent bringing the ball out from the back

The manager and the senior players carry the can for this, they bottled it yet again. A new era awaits with this manager probably, but certainly with some of these younger players; with Stones captaining off the back of his dominance in the second half today.

 

[geoff clipp]

Only City would manage to crash out against arguably the weakest team left in the competition apart from Leicester. So infuriating.

Who says they're the weakest team apart from Leicester? They look a pretty decent side to me. Gave Spurs a torrid time and they're above PSG. Let's see how they do in the next round. They clearly have weaknesses at the back but they're a massive handful going forward and i don't think anyone would fancy playing them.

 

[Armaan]

How the board thought we were going to challenge Europe's elite this year with 4 x full backs over 30 and one of them playing centre half is worrying. Stones is a good edition but he and possibly Otamendi should be the only defenders still at the club come next season. Just really annoying that average fans could see this problem developing 2 years ago but not the club.

Your last line is what shocks me the most. People that are paid millions can't fucking see it yet so called clueless lads on a forum like us have seen it for ages!

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

One thing that seemed more obvious tonight, was that if Chelsea hadn’t have imploded under Mourinho, then we probably wouldn’t have been in the Champions League this season.

That’s how far we’ve slipped since 2014, and it also explains why Aguero and Silva now appear ponderous once you get to the knockout elite. Neither were bad, but they seem to drift on the periphery, whereas Sane looks lean and hungry, even when he's just made a mistake.

As for our sloppy defending from set pieces, it’s been camouflaged by a slightly misleading run of clean sheets. Sunderland and Middlesbrough should both have scored from free headers.

The future is bright, but the pressing demand is for two mobile full backs, and a younger, leaner, sharper version of Yaya.
We also need to sort the goalkeeper, because for all his limitations, we actually missed Bravo's quick distribution tonight

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

What was Pep's post match interview like?

 

[somethingelse]

Yaya must be fuming nothing worse than waiting to come on and keep getting knocked back,
Ref seemed to think a French team in the next round was important

 

[kaz7]

Actually pleased we are out,need to regroup for the top 4

 

[Marvin]

Not a good performance at all today.

1st half - you have to expect them to fly out of the traps, it was far to slow, no one could be arsed trying to get near the ball and we paid for it.

2nd half much better and shit marking from a cross cost us.

The whole team didnt play well as a collective i would probably say with the exception of John Stones who looked not bad tonight,
to name a few that stood out tonight as being utter garbage all game -Sterling (who has been so good all season) - both full backs ( how hard can it be to put a cross in which isnt over hit or past the first man) - KDB was poor for his standards.

How do we solve this? buy half of the monaco team namely Mendy and Fabinho and Lemar

Sane, stones and Silva played well 2nd half. We're too reliant on Aguero for goals. We've got a great attacking line up on paper, but we are inefficient at scoring goals. Perhaps that's already sorted with Jesus signing.