Post Match Thread | Juventus vs Manchester City

[moomba]

Not great but not too bad. Desperately need a little Spanish bloke in the middle of the pitch.

 

[eversince 76]

Another 94 minutes of total waste. Unfortunately the Sevilla away game was a one off. We are shite in Europe and not an inch closing at the top of Europe. Light years behind Barcelona, Real and Bayern.

Totally toothless again today. Juventus had an easy night. They scored and shut up shop. Pretty much what they serve their fans week in week out. Home loss in the 1st game cost us. We will finish second, draw one of the top 3 and that's it. Same old.

Yaya a disgrace tonight. Blocking creativity of KDB and Fernandinho. With the former hiding and nowhere near his best. Not a single player in the back 4 that can pass a ball when feeling the slightest pressure. The usual boring slow passing game that we have seen too frequently in the last 4years.
Sterling again so poor in a big match. How on earth did we pay this kind of money for him is beyond me. Dippers having a weekly field day watching Sterling. He might become good but so far he's not worth half the fee.

And if it couldn't get worse Hart injured himself. What a night. What a week. And I'm not looking forward to the next game.

 

[lancs blue]

But, the sad fact is that if you can't side foot it straight into a net from four yards, you probably shouldn't have been a footballer in the first place.

Any number of youtube vids will show you how wrong that assertion is, all forwards miss tap-ins at some point.

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Does he deserve all the stick he's getting? Does he deserve being called a poncy prick and other personal insults that have nothing to do with football? I don't think he does. Call him out for missing a chance or for losing possesion but we're becoming too quick as a fanbase to revert to being nasty twats when there's no need.
He's a young kid at a new club. He's got a huge price tag weighing him down and a national press willing him to fail so their beloved Liverpool can point to wonderful business whilst we're painted as the mugs.
The lad needs a bit of backing, not torn to shreds.

No, I agree. I wasn't referring to any personal abuse. Just stick for missing the chance itself, and criticism of his finishing. Not going to accept any excuses for missing that chance, it was shocking. And it's a major flaw in his game that he needs to work on.

 

[Lenblue]

Will you shut the fucking fuck up about Lars fucking Gerson. You've posted the same shit about half a dozen times.

but he is a fucking fucker, ruined our season!

 

[Burtonblue]

Very succinct

We just looked like we couldn't be arsed most of the time. Far too much passing the ball backwards or sideways and too little forward movement.
Much too slow in possession and too loose at the back.
Missed a few good chances.
Better?

 

[Phil1]

You're right. But, the sad fact is that if you can't side foot it straight into a net from four yards, you probably shouldn't have been a footballer in the first place.

The stakes are high and although I agree you have to give him time there have been chances that frankly, were harder to miss than score.

I'm sure he's more than happy with his decision to become a footballer, mate :-)
I'm just willing to give him a bit more time before I make any rash judgements on the lad. I've seen a player in there and others haven't - that's football.

 

[East Level 2]

Sterling is young and needs time to develop, but for £49m couldn't we have bought a 2-footed player!? Shocking left foot!

£49 Million? Sniff, sniff is the correct response. Only twats in the media think he cost £49 Million. - At the moment anyway.

 

[dasein]

We just looked like we couldn't be arsed most of the time. Far too much passing the ball backwards or sideways and too little forward movement.
Much too slow in possession and too loose at the back.
Missed a few good chances.
Better?

Succinct was good anyway

 

[ono]

We overpaid for him, but the fee has nothing to do with it, lots of 20 year old wingers have lacked finishing composure and gone on to be great players. He was great against Seville and one of he reasons we have qualified.

He wasn't great. He was as good as what you would expect such an expensive player to be. I'm sorry but for 50m you should get a player who does occasionally best his man and does finish off a clear one vs one.

Sterling's problem isn't 'finishing and composure'. His problem is far deeper than that. He simply doesn't strike the ball cleanly. Even when he is passing. He doesn't even control the ball cleanly when receiving passes and he often leaves the ball behind him when he dribbles. He just isn't a technically clean footballer.

Not only that, but by playing him on the left wing we are negating his main asset.