The highlight of our season was winning at CAS. And the League Cup.
Not good enough but I'd take it if we gave everything and then went down just because we weren't good enough
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Not good enough but I'd take it if we gave everything and then went down just because we weren't good enough
Think you'll find there are many blues who are very p'ssed off with Pep tonight.Only some do ;-)
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I know the game was on a knife-edge but it should never have been so, and it was so because of the inexplicable selection of Gundogan, Fernandinho and Rodri.
The game hinged on their second goal. Clear foul on Laporte.
However, I can’t get my head around an attacker being offside if they are in the eyeline of a goalkeeper whilst being offside, whereas an attacker offside making the last defender commit to moving towards them in case their armpit is in line with the defender‘s heel isn’t.
If Garcia had ignored their offside player, he’d have cleared the ball easily, meaning their offside player had a direct influence on their goal.
He'll probably be rather scathing in truth, albeit optimistic about the future.Khaldoon end of season review coming up I assume soon.
Wonder whats his take in this CL failure and the way we let Liverpool win the league with 20 points ahead...
Probably will be mostly about our CAS win tho.
There could be an interesting turn tho if PSG would manage to deliver CL trophy with their relation to Qatar.
Wonder how much pressure City would put on CL then.
We didn't even need a plan B. Foden and Bernado with City fast into the tackle and playing as we did against Real madrid would have been way too much for them. We didn't need to reinvent the wheel. We had a system that works.He has well and truly been found out, the high line is a joke, fast players kill it, we were the perfect team for Lyon, Bayern will kill them.
he has no plan B
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Only some do ;-)
Why do you think that is? Surely everyone can see that‘s how it is and those that can’t are seriously deluded. Call us on 08704...... to let us know what you think.
Shouldn't have been left relying on marginal decisions and at the mercy of refereeing error. You know we messed up in our own team selection.The game hinged on their second goal. Clear foul on Laporte.
However, I can’t get my head around an attacker being offside if they are in the eyeline of a goalkeeper whilst being offside, whereas an attacker offside making the last defender commit to moving towards them in case their armpit is in line with the defender‘s heel isn’t.
If Garcia had ignored their offside player, he’d have cleared the ball easily, meaning their offside player had a direct influence on their goal.
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It was such a gutless way to lose. At least die standing up. Yes the defence is absolutely pathetic and yes he bought most of them but to have the worlds slowest midfield "protecting" them and yes he bought most of them truly was depressing. Some of these signings..f*** me!!
At least this Torres lad and Ake have some pace.
At least this Torres lad and Ake have some pace.
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Not really, we gifted them a goal with some poor defending, though the lad finished it very well. Trouble is we make a habit of conceding goals like that, and its because we have to run towards our own goal, Garcia made a great tackle, and was a bit unfortunate, but it was still poor team defending, and it usually is when the opposition score.We conceded a very unlucky goal.
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Shouldn't have been left relying on marginal decisions and at the mercy of refereeing error. You know we messed up in our own team selection.
None of us know how the game will have panned out if we’d gone 4 at the back. It was rolling the dice. They had very few chances when we had 5 there. We didn't either mind.
Pep has always been about limiting the opposition attack and trying to allow his teams to create and have killers in the box. We weren’t that tonight, but we did limit them effectively, apart from the long ball and the second ball falling to their drama queen.