RB Leipzig (A) | Post Match Thread

Reading a scattering of the 102 pages on this thread thinking to myself that a draw against a top European team away was a good result makes me feel that I've been watching another team for 50 plus years .
But on hindsight I realise that a good away performance needs applauding
Well done Pep and the lads and the fans that travelled quite a lot on here need to reign in the negatively and get behind the boys
 
Another match day, another blown lead.
We aren't good enough this season.

Haaland has made us slower, more predictable, easier to play through and worse at pressing.
 
Apols I put this in the wrong thread, I meant it to go in the one about how bad our supporters are on here - oh well I shall leave it here anyway:

I said the other day both the PL and UEFA have it in for us. If they can't get us in the courts (and it is unlikely they will - UEFA couldn't and I doubt the PL will either) so they will try to get us the other way - dodgy refs and dodgy VARs.

To avoid this, 1:1 draws are no good. Some 'weird' decisions in the 2nd leg could soon overturn that. I said after the Forest game, we need to aim to win matches such as that - and tonight - by such a significant margin that they can't 'get to us'. People say - Oh we can't win every match by 5:0 or 6:0, but we should aim to at least, look at the Spaniands last night vs Liverpool. Such speed and such direct activity, not all this side-to-side tippy-tappy stuff.

We should be able to also.

If Haaland isn't working after 60 mins, but Alvarez on.

Tell Grealish to go 110% for 45 mins and at half-time swap him for Foden and tell him he can do likewise for the 2nd 45mins.

Use the wealth we have (on the bench) otherwise if we did or didn't play a bit fast and loose with the FFP rules - what is the point if we don't then apply that 'advantage' in matches, it becomes irrelevant.

Is Pannick going to stand up in court and say "M'lud yes City have two of the best number nines in the world, but because the manager doesn't use one, we should be excused?" I don't think so!
 
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JWCH-99 said:
Has anyone read peps post match comments. He has said he doesn’t think we have the pace to play in transition with speed and play forward quickly. He named haaland and walker as the only ones with real pace. Ignore the fact that you may disagree and name foden etc as others. But, he obviously doesn’t feel we can play any way except from this. We obviously need new players this summer to put some life into this team.
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If that is truly the way he feels then we're well and truly fucked. The ball moves far quicker than anyone can run. Just play the fucking thing forward. Whats the deal with galloping back towards your own goal.? Plenty of times tonight first half we were in a great position until we played ourselves out of it.
 
VOOMER said:
We have become stale, predictable and vulnerable.
That was a tired looking team with no depth on the bench.
If Pep was concerned about the team lacking pace, why has retained slow ageing players and let Leroy and Raheem go?
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Leroy and Raheem wanted to go.

The squad does need a refresh and hopefully there will be one with players better than the standard of Phillips.

I think people are over-reacting because of the standards we've previously set. A draw away in the CL isn't a bad thing.
 
buckshot said:
I don't think so. I think knocking the ball around the halfway line is playing into their hands because it puts no pressure on them. Bigtime NFL offenses don't come out and run the ball up the middle every play, they go deep. Sluggers don't bunt in baseball, they jack long balls and scare the hell out of pitchers. City used to stretch defenses and make them lose their shape, now they're so plodding and predictable they make average teams look good.
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Stick to American football mate
 
A590 blues said:
Reading a scattering of the 102 pages on this thread thinking to myself that a draw against a top European team away was a good result makes me feel that I've been watching another team for 50 plus years .
But on hindsight I realise that a good away performance needs applauding
Well done Pep and the lads and the fans that travelled quite a lot on here need to reign in the negatively and get behind the boys
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We are not playing our best
We are second in PL
Still in CL
Still in FA cup
I would have dreamt about that years ago
 
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