QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

[Marvin]

And who would you like on here to explain his tactics - good god marv, you have come out with some gems today. Chill

We lost because Aguero missed a pen but mainly because our coach, got it wrong in spite of having better players.

You think otherwise?

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

We’ll know around 10pm next Wednesday if Pep made the right calls last night. We could still have the League in our hands and be through to the CL semis in which case he did or we could be out of the CL and Liverpool have the league in their hands and therefore he didn’t.

Anyone else getting very nervous?

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Always interesting to see posters come on and slag our manager and players off having been members for 10 years with a post count of <20 or so and nearly every post is disparaging
Anyone would think they weren't really City fans!
I'm not a happy clapper and yes not our best performance but I'll reserve comment for the coach's decisions until after the end of the season.
I don't have access to the fitness scores or mental health evaluations of the players or medical reports on their injuries to criticise decisions on which this data is based upon.
I just put my faith in my coach/manager because he has a fantastic track record, is generally recognised as one of if not the best coach in the world and does have access to all this information that enabled him to create multiple Premier League records last year and make us Champions and Cup Winners.
Of course he's not infallible but im more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt - because he's fucking earned it!

 

[squirtyflower]

Pep has cost us in the UCL once again, he’s just so naive it’s unbelievable.

I see Poch on the Spurs bench with an iPad so he can get a better view of the game, why doesn’t Pep utilise the technology available to make better judged decisions, maybe then he will see how poorl we’re really playing.

I didn’t know we were out already.
Why have we got a game against Spurs next Wednesday? Is it a friendly or something?


Yep Pep should try to emulate the serial winner that is Pochettino, how many trophies has he got now?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It’s very strange why Pep seems to lose the plot in Champs League knockouts. If he’d viewed that game like our away Prem game we’d have battered them tonight, Spurs are shite compared to our strongest 11.

Fucking annoying.

It is. 1-0 isn't the end of the world but there were so many puzzling and downright annoying features in the game. Last season we went to Wembley and beat them 3-1. We went 2 up (penalty scored by Gundogan, note) they got one back then Pep, almost for the first time as manager of City, showed some pragmatism by closing the game down. Really don't see why we didn't do this last night.

Play KDB & Sane for an hour then bring on Silva/Gundogan and Mahrez to close the game down. We've got 4 full days to recover from this game before we play Palace. Really baffling and really infuriating.

 

[Magicpole]

It’s half time. Not the best performance, but I would bet my left nut Pep will get it right next week.

Sometimes a less than convincing performance is the boot up the arse to let you know it’s not just about turning up.

City will turn up next week.

 

[Marvin]

Plenty keep banging on about us managing games and being in third gear during recent games, that's rubbish as far I am concerned.

Does managing games also entail not playing well, and failing to make the most of improving the goal difference against teams such as Fulham and Cardiff?

If anything, it is Pep who is managing the games. He sees the players every day, knows what challenges are ahead and, quite rightly, hedged his bets last night around a two-legged game, with huge fixtures to follow against Spurs and United.

We haven't performed well since the Chelsea thrashing, Pep clearly knows that, regardless of what he might say in public about the team or certain players.

A 1-0 defeat at Spurs would surely have been deemed acceptable against a top-four team with a home tie to come, everything else is many being wise after the event.

Defeat can happen to anyone but I do not like to see our coach expressing fear for his opponent. He has expressed doubt in the capacity of his own team to overcome Spurs on their own patch.

I can accept the result but Pep made a mistake and the result and performance flowed directly from his decision making.

 

[Mattyc55]

Spurs have another big game at weekend (like us) and obviously they won’t be able to rotate like we have/can.

I think they’ll be absolutely knackered in that second half next week providing we show up and play with the intensity of the Liverpool game in jan.

We need to make a massive noise next week to get behind them. That Liverpool atmosphere was special and there’s absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t replicate that next week.

Pep got it wrong for sure but it’s set up for a special European night and we’ve not really had that many of those in recent years.

 

[Marvin]

It’s half time. Not the best performance, but I would bet my left nut Pep will get it right next week.

Sometimes a less than convincing performance is the boot up the arse to let you know it’s not just about turning up.

City will turn up next week.

That performance had nothing to do with effort. It was tactical.

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Pep has cost us in the UCL once again, he’s just so naive it’s unbelievable. First of all he couldn’t have put out a worse XI with the players available. Playing Mahrez means we can’t utilise the right wing because he is so bad it’s unusable when he plays, David Silva has been out of form since February so should’ve played KDB who always puts in a good performance vs Spurs, the same goes with Sane whenever he’s up against Trippier.

He then allows Aguero to take the penalty instead of Gundogan, Aguero has missed more UCL penalties than he has scored. Why is nobody at the club getting this information, the same lack of research cost us the game at Anfield as Pep claimed he didn’t know how bad Mahrez’s penalty record was. Lloris wouldn’t suspect Gundogan to take a penalty for us as he’s only taken one penalty for us outside of a penalty shootout, he’s our best penalty taker by far, I mean he scored in the UCL final!

He then refuses to bring on our most impactful subs in KDB and Sane until the 88th minute which seems like a multiple occurrence as he has built up a tendency to leave key substitutions too late. I see Poch on the Spurs bench with an iPad so he can get a better view of the game, why doesn’t Pep utilise the technology available to make better judged decisions, maybe then he will see how poorl we’re really playing.

I feel with Pep in the UCL it’s just bad decision after bad decision. The starting XI next game must be:
GK: Ederson RB: Walker CB: Kompany and Laporte LB: Mendy CDM: Fernandinho CM: Bernardo (Gundogan if he’s injured) and KDB LW: Sane RW: Sterling ST: Agüero

Biggest pile of shite I've read on this thread, well done. I look forward to your next post in 2021.