QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

[MeatHunterrr]

We put out a better team for our semi final against Brighton than we did for the quarter final of the Champions League!

ridiculous isnt it

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

All well and good but will Pep select them, he didn't tonight !

we will see nxt week won't we

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Mahrez staying on that pitch for 87 mins was just baffling. Cut our losses and get rid

He doesn’t fit into our team. He’s weak, lazy and predictable

And also our most expensive and one of our worst signings in history.

 

[madden150]

1-0 not too bad Away goal would have been good, but I can only assume the pussies on here don't think we can beat spurs (without kane at) ours! Wtf!

It's more to do with the fact that defeat could have easily been avoided given the right team selection. Everyone knows we can turn it around at our place. Trying to play a low scoring, defensive game with the likes of Delph and Walker is asking for trouble.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Aguero is a terrible penalty taker and always has been. Others far better.

That said, we were poor in first half but considerably better in second half, with the goal against the run of play.

1-0 isn’t the end of the world, but we MUST get 3 at home, otherwise we are one slip, one free kick, one corner away from going out. That will not be easy, so I fully expect 50,000 nervous fans at the Etihad for that game. Spurs know they need to be solid and hit us on the break. They don’t even have to come out of their shell until we score a second.

Sadly, it’s going to have to be balls to the wall in the second leg, which is EXACTLY what we didn’t need with the league games we have!

 

[nmc]

I guess Pep knows more than me but right now with injuries and poor form I really don’t know what our best team is - but I know for sure Mahrez isn’t in it.

 

[oddfellows]

Mahrez staying on that pitch for 87 mins was just baffling. Cut our losses and get rid

He doesn’t fit into our team. He’s weak, lazy and predictable

And shit

 

[citytillicry65]

Strange decision to rest key players - we have 5 days until Palace to recover. I know he will have believed and trusted in that selection to get a result but the constant changing has to have an effect on rhythm.

It wasn't just the selection that was odd, it was the lack of urgency or pace. They were there for the taking. And let's not even start on the substitution timings!

 

[Mon Autre]

1-0 down and people panicking because we didn't stick 5 in,,in reality 1-0 down at spurs with the return isn't bad at all, it could have been better but its not so lets get behind the side on Wed and do the doable

Nobody is saying we should have stuck five in. But we are a team that scores plenty of goals and in a competition where away goals count more, it would have been nice to see a bit more attacking intent or maybe for us to have changed things earlier.

Of course we can still turn it around but we've made it really hard for ourselves.

 

[manimanc]

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Meaning 45 pages already and thread full of rag mardarses.
Make sense?

 

[Mancityus]

Pep likes to dig a hole in CL away, he is overthinking it and screwing up basic selections and subs.

 

[somethingelse]

it not over but,its fakkin awkward, spurs didn't even play well tonight worst performance for some weeks
Mahrez isn't lazy hes always moving and he did he defensive work well

 

[Burtonblue]

Bonus about Kane, but should still be looking to finish them off at home whether they have him or not really,miles better side than them and we have a fully fit squad to choose from,just hope he selects the right team next week

I for one trust he will
Tonight was about not losing the tie in a difficult environment
The next leg will be about going for the jugular from the get go

 

[Mike S]

Don’t know why we don’t see any of the EDS lads play instead of Mahrez, I’m sure they’d do better. Any city side containing Mahrez, Gundogan and Delph will struggle against any half decent side.

+1

 

[Utter bobbins]

He’s the best manager in the world, a genius, a total one-off but even the best get it wrong from time to time and when they do, they’re not exempt from criticism. I don’t personally agree with calling it arrogance but he’s certainly at fault for that result and only he knows his thought process in setting us up the way he did but whatever the reason, he’s to blame and it’s on him.

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[remember arthur mann]

Did Pochettino just say Delph should have had a red card? Surely it was Kane who dived in ?

No, he was thanking him for being such a shite player !!!

 

[Mr. Wednesday]

And pochettino giving pelters to Delph is rich when you consider the absolute shithouse challenges Kane and Alli made on KDB and Sterling last year.

 

[Marvin]

Strange decision to rest key players - we have 5 days until Palace to recover. I know he will have believed and trusted in that selection to get a result but the constant changing has to have an effect on rhythm.

Illogical. Whatever he was planning did not work. He'll get a lot of criticism if we go out and rightly so.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

This forum appears to go into default , blame Mahrez and Gundogan when Sterling and Merlin did f*ck as well , it was another average performance and we have had four on the trot , just doing enough is not enough at the sharp end of the season , we need to step up , play our best players and start rolling teams over instead of pussy footing about playing pretty football on our half way line. We have zero aggression at times , when we should battering teams , conserving energy is fine but not when you lose a Champions league quarter final to a Spuds team that were there for the taking.

 

[Utter bobbins]

We put out a better team for our semi final against Brighton than we did for the quarter final of the Champions League!

And we are still in both competitions