RB Leipzig (A) - Post-match Thread

ChicagoBlue said:
This is the time of the season where, in the PL, we need to play the best FIT team we can put on the field. Presently, that doesn’t include KDB, because he’s not fit. Looks like he’s ready for a hard 30 minutes, because when he’s one of the pressing 4 when he plays, but once they get through the press, he’s walking around trying to get his wind.

Don’t often criticize Pep, but this game should have had at least 3 kids starting and a chance to get 90 mins. And, yet again, it feels like yet another CL miscalculation.

Result is meaningless, apart from the fact that every City player was a current international, so it actually looks like we played as poorly as we did!!

Let’s hope that game is out of our system!

Anyone know FOR A FACT if Walker misses 1 or 3 games. I think a straight red is 3, while 2 yellows is 1. If it is 3, we should contest the red card, because it was soft as fuck!

Glad that’s out of our system. Time for normal service to be resumed.
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I looked it up in UEFA regulations and it looks like 1 to me.
 
Bad night at the office.

Should have played the kids. now miss walker for 3 games i think straight red.

Hope kev gets back up to standard
 
Foden's injury and Walker's red card have turned a dead rubber into a really awful game for us. It's easy to say it with hindsight, but I'd have much rather seen a few of the kids thrown in to reduce the risk to the main players.

Having said all that though, we finished top of the group ahead of PSG, so if we judge the games as a package you can only really praise Pep.
 
Manchester33 said:
Foden's injury and Walker's red card have turned a dead rubber into a really awful game for us. It's easy to say it with hindsight, but I'd have much rather seen a few of the kids thrown in to reduce the risk to the main players.

Having said all that though, we finished top of the group ahead of PSG, so if we judge the games as a package you can only really praise Pep.
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I am sure the kids enjoyed the flight and lucky Palmer with his 5 minutes of game time
 
Only the second game in all competitions this season whe our opponents xG was higher than ours ie they played better than we did regardless of the result.

Liverpool 0.16 goals better in the 2-2 draw

Leipzig 0.20 goals better in the 2-1 defeat

The first one surprises me as I thought we were better. Our xG was miles better at half time. Liverpool must have been much better second half.

Weird game with no crowd and nothing but cash in it for us.

Easy to say chuck the kids in but Pep will know all the circumstances better than us.
 
wolviedinho said:
Fern scored the winner against Villa. We all know he is not the same player. Points might not have been secured without his presence on the pitch.
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Sorry mate, but you're getting your games mixed up

Fernandinho's main role has been reduced to late substitutions in games where we need to kill time and concede/win cheap free kicks. That's how he scored the late goal v West Ham, before they notched a consolation with the last kick of the game.

In contrast, Fernandinho has unfortunately aged in recent months, and is now a liability when he starts big games. He was poor last night and he was poor at Villa Park.
 
BringBackSwales said:
knob head, you were the one who came in here giving it large about can’t be arsed to watch the game, muppet. Funny how the negatives always come on giving it large after a defeat, almost as if it makes them feel justified
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Was hardly "giving it large". It was a three-sentence post. You were the one who tried to turn it into an argument and now here we both are. Would also love to know how I qualify as a negative type.
 
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