Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

Feel absolutely numb today, horrible feeling.

We absolutely bottled it at the end, soon as the first goal went in we panicked and never recovered. The first leg is what cost us, should have been atleast 3 up going in to this match.

I'm not blaming the ref or anything because we only have ourselves to blame but when I saw 3 minutes being held up at the end for added time I actually laughed out loud and then continued to shout into a cushion. How the actual fuck? I was expecting atleast 5 or 6. Realistically it was more like 7 or 8 but that was wishful thinking. But 3!! FUCKING THREE! Then he doesn't even play out the full 3 minutes. Absolutely disgusting.
 
Gutted.
From a brilliant and an easy win as you can get against Madrid to that mad spell.
Not blaming anybody for last night.
Typical City is always going to be there but that was a sore one.
 
Bill said:
we need rid of
Laporte
Sterling ( that hurts )
Zinc
Edison.

Jack gets one more season .
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Usually I think you're on the wind up, but hard to disagree with at least 2 of those. For every worldie he has, Laporte has a shocker (seemingly in the most important games ffs) and I've thought Sterling should move on for a while now.

He'll never get rid of Ederson and to be honest I'm not sure who we could replace him with. Zin is a bit part player, can't fault the lads effort.
 
TFC said:
I had a hard time rationalizing last years final, but got over it (well one day I will) eventually. This one will forever stick in the craw. We should have buried them at the Etihad. It is and will forever be remembered as another huge missed opportunity. Mentality midgets ffs.
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Mentality Midgets or the Bernabeu Bottlers :-)
You’ve got to laugh….it’s the hope that kills you!
 
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willipp said:
Yes i'm mostly in agreement, just feels at times he never really rescues us with a great save. For me we need a settled back 4 next season where we know our best 4. That doesn't include laporte and does include an actual LB. We need to get away from making do at the back and hopefully get Diaz back to his best which i feel he has been a long way off.
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He doesn't have a string of collector's item saves to his name for us.

Agree about a settled back four. I'm not unhappy with Cancel at LB but I think Stones, when fully fit, has been our best CB this year.

Dias has not replicated his form of last year so that raises questions. Maybe Stones Dias is our best option.

We do need another LB though in the squad.
 
Now the dust has settled a little time to reflect on my (and most City fans)emotions of last night.
From feeling pretty confident (ish) to feeling sick, a bit numb and then the old familiar feeling of ' yet again!'
UEFA have got their marketing man's dream final, as their establishment/cartel teams are there.
We can blame the ref, we can say how lucky Real Madrid were. We can even feel we are cursed not to win the bloody thing.
At the end of the day though, we should have been about 9:3 up on aggregate when they scored their first. Same applies to the league games against Liverpool, we should have won both comfortably and now be 6 points ahead in the league.
None of the above happened, you don't put your chances away, you don't defend properly good teams punish you..simple!
We can't control what happens in the finals we're not in. Hopefully Chelsea will feel they need to win the FA Cup to salvage something from their season. Hopefully Real will have the same good fortune against Liverpool (wouldn't bank on it!)
City just need 4 'boring as fuck ' 1:0 wins in the league now! Actually, come to think of it
boring as fuck 3:0 wins (wouldn't trust us going into the final mins with a 1 or even 2 goal lead now would we?)
 
Rascal said:
Yes it hurts, thats football, think of how Gillingham fans felt when we did to them.

Jinx

Cancelo has been superb this year, Zincho a very able deputy, Ake has done well there and you cant legislate for that prick Mendy's sexual pecadillos.

We haven't played with a striker for ages, that has not stopped us winning and competing. As for Ferna, he was 37 yesterday and was on the bench in his final season, Madrid started Modric 36 and Kroos 34

So i assume you believe the bad recruitment is not buying a striker, who wouldn't have played in our system. That makes sense. We buy a striker, we playa different system and change a system that has brought us 3 titles in 4 years and possibly 4 in 5.

That was the price, he almost won us the game last night, then he would have looked cheap at the price.

Negligent, thats a strong word, we are one of the best teams in the world.

Foden is integral, Palmer is getting there, do you want inexperienced players to play in front of established world class players?

You have taken defeat badly, that would be insane.

What do you know of our scouting system, because i know very little, but it has helped us buy players that are world class,.

Happy Birthday, have a good drink and keep smiling

Our day will come.
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Well youve truly ripped me a new one there. Im hurting. Im trying to dissect. Some of it is the rambling of a broken man. Some of it i stand by. Some of it ive come on too strong but the point remains

fuck off city :)))
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
A striker who wasn't a striker.

Outscoring Liverpool without a striker to speak of, winning titles in the process, suggests the lack of a striker is marginal gains at best and revisionism when it's required.

We scored five goals against Real Madrid.

We needed to score six just to take it to penalties.

That would suggest a mentality and a defensive problem, not a lack of goals in the team!
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Sorry mate but I disagree.

A Harry Kane would have converted chances earlier in the game so the last minute brain fart would have been irrelevant.

As I keep banging on about, putting the ball in the net when we really need to is our biggest problem.
 
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