QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

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He's just a fucking idiot. I doubt even he would have picked such a poor team tonight though with what was available... Yes,it really was that bad. Luckily Spurs are shite so we still have a chance.
 
RICK SLICK said:
Pep will keep on throwing the UCL with unexplainable starting 11s and subs but people will keep defending him on this particular matter. Like Pep never does wrong despite constantly pulling this crap in the UCL playoffs.

Sané and KDB on at the 88' is close to being a joke.

Just my opinion.
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Let's see what pans out in the 2nd leg....Spurs aren't great and we'll smash the fuckers at home in the 2nd leg, all game management fer me and Pep knows what he's doing. Saying that I've no idea why Sane didn't start tonight and if he doesn't start against Palace at weekend then he'll be off in the summer. Never known any club have a pfa young player of the year the previous season get so under used the season after....what's he hoping that he'll sign a new contract not playing games? Fuckin crazy 2 mins football the last 3 games.
 
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Very disappointing result in a very important tie, but 1-0 isn't exactly bad. We've overturned more than that in the past. But the worrying thing for me is the way we've been playing lately and thought that would change tonight and we'd really shift into high gear, but no. Carry on like that with the game against Palace away at the weekend and we could let the league slip pretty soon. Then another league game against Spurs and away at the rags, well ..... I'm low on confidence right now. Really hope Pep gives them a good kick up the ass soon.

I said the same in the last league thread against Cardiff and got called every name under the sun and insulted by a few on here, but I think my point showed itself again tonight. We've just not been "on it" lately and way off our best. Really hoping we finish off strong because shutting off this close to the finish line would be criminal.
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Chin up mate, we will finish the season strongly, we always do. As you suggested we have several more gears to go and Pep knows how to manage it.
 
Why are so many Blues 'ifs and buts' all so negative, "if they score..." they'd be saying the same had it finished 0-0 or 0-1 is the funny thing about that, so how much does it change?

We need to remember Spurs had 6 days with nothing but this game to focus on, City had 2 days. It's also a game they hailed as the most important in their managers career, important for the new stadium and so on. City just wanted to keep it tight and get an away goal by the looks of it(could have done just that with a bit more luck). This was a game they were desperate to win, they could only win 1-0 and they were fortunate to get that in truth.

Were Spurs that good? Did they create that much of their own to shout about? We may have struggled to get our game going in that first half but which team couldn't get out of their own half in that second half as the other team started threading passes together? Did we allow them to look as devastating on the counter as Liverpool did in those 20 mins at Anfield in the CL last season? It's not the same at all, they aren't that good and we aren't the same team as last season(I believe our game management is better). We lost but it wasn't down to players losing their heads because of the pressure or the magnitude of the game.

Maybe rather than prioritise the League over the CL, Pep realised his time was spread thin for match preparation this week. Maybe he left plenty of time to get the gameplan for Palace right, so we can hopefully beat them and then go into the second leg at home with the tie still within our grasp. Maybe wait until we've got this tough 2 weeks out of the way to judge?

Spurs will not have the same advantage for the second leg, they may be without their best striker. Even though they've played better without him, it will still be a blow to their spirits. They also have to play away from home against the best team in the league by a mile and try and cling on to a slim advantage. We score an early goal and it changes everything.

If we dump them out of the CL at home and they then have to play us again at the weekend, especially if they've taken a hammering, we may have the psychological advantage over them and they might be there for the taking again.
 
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I wouldn't blame Pep here apart from not finding someone better than Aguero to take penalties. He is shit at penalties for some time and missed too many to be considered as good default penalty taker. Kepa should have saved his awful penalty at league cup final too.

There's no way we could play strong lines in each of April games, specially with injuries mounting up. it's a hell of a schedule. And this was the single game where potential bad score could be fixed. Spurs fucking up at Anfield made sure we couldn't have this line up vs Palace and these bastards have the chance now to fuck it up even more and make our season average. Hopefully there's enough gas in us to see them off in next two games. 1:0 is pretty demanding score though.
 
Ederson up front when we need a goal would be more productive than Jesus though....
 
Don't worry! We're retaining energy .This boring football at 1-0 in FA Cup semi finals is all planned....Leave the likes of KDB and Sane on the bench whilst Riyad threatens to make a tackle..... What do you mean we lost to a distinctly average Spurs side? Poor 6 minutes from Leroy
 
Why does Pep continue to persist with Riyad "one season" Mahrez. A fucking lamp post would have been more effective. Seriously! Why him over Sané? He failed us tonight Hope he goes to bed feeling embarrassed. Absolute tit. Hopefully this will now make him drop the shit house bastard. Delph cannot start anymore games for us. Gundog isn't a big time player and Silva needs to be dropped to the bench. Swallow your pride Pep, you spent £60+ mil on a shower of shite... he's useless.
 
In what world did anyone think we would beat Spurs three times in the second half of the season? The law of averages wouldn't be with us on that one. Especially not with the games being almost back-to-back.

Yeah we didn't get the away goal, oh well fuck it, so what?! Grow a spine some of you! When Bernardo, De Bruyne and Sane get on the pitch, our play is going to be so metronomically mesmerising that we'll be laughing at home. We are going to absolutely come at their throats with our best team. They could barely play against our heavily-rotated side.

Pep played the lineup he did because at the end of the day, he's not going to let that Jurgen Knob win the league. Resting players for the weekend was the correct move.

They're fighting for fourth. Their same Spurs players will play at the weekend, and again on Wednesday, while our best players will have been rested for a third of the coming games.

Calculated power move that would have been perfected by an away goal, but if you don't think we'll light a fire under them at home under the ambiance of a our hungry crowd, you're probably wrong.

Losing this one makes me feel 10 times better about the next two matches against them. I can almost get superstitious sometimes. I wasn't feeling very positive about beating them three times, and I certainly would never have put money on it...not when the games are within a week-and-a-half.
 
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