RB Leipzig (A) | Post Match Thread

[simon23]

In the Champions League?

doesnt matter....we are playign the same way in what ever comp it is.......same turgid sideways passing...ever since the WC this new way Pep has spoken about he has found olf playing isnt working

 

[RayCTID]

They are everything that we are not - at least based on last night. Dynamic, attacking, purposeful.

We were like that last season but were very wasteful in the first leg, and naive in the second.

 

[I'm Blue]

trouble is that even though you are right they. are a much better team, there were clear opportunites where all our midfielders had the option to put a ball in behind the defence and they dont do it.....Pep even mentioned this in an around about way in his post match comments saying something like that "Mahrez and Grealsih and Gundo make the extra pass" - well they are doing it far far too often and its becoming a very bad habit - no one is taking risks anymore....at least Sterling use to try and take a risk or take someone on,,,,no one is doing that from anywhere

I think Jack is trying to be direct, unfortunately one or two players doing it doesn't really work, we need the whole team to attack the goal, build some pressure, with intensity.
Pass to the big invisible lad up front.
We've always passed the ball sideways but we used to do it to create space, now we do it cos we are static.

 

[Franny 1234]

A draw for man city away is bad if Brentford and weaker times can beat man city at home. El tihad is not a fortress

It is in the champions league

 

[blueballs84]

I think Jack is trying to be direct, unfortunately one or two players doing it doesn't really work, we need the whole team to attack the goal, build some pressure, with intensity.
Pass to the big invisible lad up front.
We've always passed the ball sideways but we used to do it to create space, now we do it cos we are static.

Never thought I'd say this but Jack might be our most consistent player right now.

 

[madloaf]

We were like that last season but were very wasteful in the first leg, and naive in the second.

We were. Deep down, do we all know that was our chance, at least for a couple of years. We beat that knackered liverpool side in the final.

We outplayed madrid for 179 minutes. Not sure we'll do that this season Ray.

 

[simon23]

I think Jack is trying to be direct, unfortunately one or two players doing it doesn't really work, we need the whole team to attack the goal, build some pressure, with intensity.
Pass to the big invisible lad up front.
We've always passed the ball sideways but we used to do it to create space, now we do it cos we are static.

So many times they had opportunities to play it into space...and they refuse....and its not just this game and its not that we didnt have KDB as he hasnt been doing it either anywhere near as much or as successfully as he should be doing this season

Oh for David Silva....Haaland would have a field day!

 

[RayCTID]

We were. Deep down, do we all know that was our chance, at least for a couple of years. We beat that knackered liverpool side in the final.

We outplayed madrid for 179 minutes. Not sure we'll do that this season Ray.

We are still capable of that level (although it is bit much in expecting it week in week out) and we are making sure that we don't get hit on the counter attack on a regular basis.

 

[Franny 1234]

This season is the opposite. We've been garbage most first halves and got better 2nd half. Palace, Arsenal, Tottenham....etc.

I mean no two halfs are the same.
Except Southampton away when both halfs were shit

 

[madloaf]

I mean no two halfs are the same.
Except Southampton away when both halfs were shit

Agree totally. Putting a full 90 mins together has been almost impossible. Even the derby, where we ripped them a new one, we turned off, understandly so. The lack of a full 90 mins of quality, concentration and commitment is a worry - not as worrying as how shit we are to watch, but it is a worry.