QF 1st Leg Post Match Thread

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Marvin said:
It's a bad result because the tie is now more difficult to win. I thought this was going to be more difficult than many expected but I did not expect that approach from Pep. He's given them way too much respect and from a tie that we should have won comfortably, we now find ourselves in a difficult position.
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so therefore if he plays the right team at home we should win comfortably,,i dont think we will have any problems at all
 
chaddblue said:
Oh yes he is

Probably the worst player in our team every time he plays. He just doesn’t fit into our style and he doesn’t help himself by being lazy, a coward and totally totally predictable every time he’s on the ball
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He's come into one of the best teams in europe and the standards are sky high , he is not a shit player by any stretch of the imagination , he just isnt good enough for our first eleven , but he didnt play any worse than the other five forward players tonight.
 
Same as last year. How do we fuck up in the CL so much i simply don’t get it. I dunno. The team selection was bizzare
 
abu13 said:
On the plus side if there was one game that we could afford to lose 1:0 from the remaining fixtures then this was the one.

There are many other positives as well
We are not out of this by any stretch of the imagination.
We will now have to go full strength in the return leg.
Kane is highly likely to be out.
We could have Bernardo back and maybe Mendy or Zinch.
Hopefully Mahrez will find a seat on the bench.
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I would go with Mendy because I doubt Zinch will make it. Delph is OK but it's unfair to expect him to come in after a long time out and play at that level. Could say the same about Mendy but at least he is a specialist left back.

Game in winnable but advantage Spurs in my opinion. Very annoying because that was so unnecessary
 
City_Sean said:
He over complicated things far too much in big away games when you need to go with your tried and tested.

He can say we played well, but we didn't. We offered no threat.
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We did largely control the game but we had no drive from midfield so our front players were living off scraps. As soon as KDB came on we had another dimension - I really wish we’d had 20 mins more minutes of that.
 
Marvin said:
I would go with Mendy because I doubt Zinch will make it. Delph is OK but it's unfair to expect him to come in after a long time out and play at that level. Could say the same about Mendy but at least he is a specialist left back.

Game in winnable but advantage Spurs in my opinion. Very annoying because that was so unnecessary
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I’d go Danilo, Stones, Otameni, Laporte across the back in the second leg.
 
I think Pep will analyze the game and kick himself. I could understand him playing this way against Liverpool or Barcelona away but Spurs? If we had played our normal team and style I think we would have won 2 or 3-1. tonight. A chance missed. Sure Aguero scores that penalty and it's a different game.

We now go into another must win game on Sunday and if he rests key players again we will lose that too. If he plays them and a couple pick up injuries then it just negates his plan tonight. We have four days rest after tonight and have rotated and conserved energy in the last three games. We are at shit or bust time now, every game is a must win. He can gamble and rest key players but if we lose it will be pointless anyway.

If we don't get a transfer ban then we need some quality additions in key areas as we all know some just aren't up to the job and when they are selected our levels drop right off.
 
Marvin said:
It's a bad result because the tie is now more difficult to win. I thought this was going to be more difficult than many expected but I did not expect that approach from Pep. He's given them way too much respect and from a tie that we should have won comfortably, we now find ourselves in a difficult position.
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Totally agree. Spurs have won one of their last 6 games in the PL and lost 4! I think given the form of the two sides and the clear gulf in class it’s a terrible result. Two shots on target in 90 mins and one of them a pen! Poor. We were poor Sat and poor again today. Need to up the level of performances straight away.
 
Mahrez is bone idle.
Pep fucked up with regard to sub times.
Spurs are crap and we will do them at ours twice
Deli and kane are dirty ****s.

And the place is impressive pitch side but the concourse and away end is a wank as any other ground 6/10 overall at best
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The reason is because we are chasing four trophies and are playing 2 games a week.
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But I thought the game management against Cardiff, Fulham and Brighton was to enable us to play our normal game against Spurs - our biggest game for twelve months. My thinking is that we would pick the games to go full throttle - this being one of 'em.
 
I can just about forgive playing for a draw in energy save mode. But failing to make the substitutes when we were a goal down? Had Pep’s watch stopped?

The tie is far from lost though.
 
I don't see them scoring next week from what they showed tonight, sucker punch just as we started to look to dominate, on a different day Son was inches from being offside, the ball inches from going out.
Just fine margins ( remember the 12mm the dippers will lose the premier league by this year) so come on blues suck it up and enjoy the ride.
PS
Where's Mangala when we need him LOL
 
Sergio<3 said:
Nothing more frustrating than Mr offside Gabriel Jesus coming on and being caught offside within 10seconds, and to think some people think he's going to fill Agueros boots when he eventually leaves
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He was very poor and I will say no more.
 
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