Real Madrid post match post mortem

[Matty M24blue]

Anyone think the ref got in the way of our passing lanes and potential through balls multiple times last night? Thought we had to change direction multiple times as he was a 12th man. Apologies if someone’s already mentioned this.

 

[geoff hammond]

To win a game you have to put the ball in the net. Sorry Erling but flat footed and not strong enough. Use your weight man and be a bit more aggressive. Watch some Drogba videos and be an animal like you are built to be.

And score at the same rate as Drogba too?

 

[kaz7]

Another big game this season that we bottled

Lol

 

[Tbilisi]

Was proud of the team. Just not our night.
Game played in a good spirit from both teams imo.

I am glad its the FAC Semi this Sat as Pep can at least rotate.

Then its on to winning those remaining Cup Finals.

 

[Bez]

No, the worst thing is "fans" not appreciating how good we are and not realising that we can't win every single game every time. Most times we don't it's when the opposition got lucky and today was another one of those., Any one of those attempts we had could have gone in, but when a team parks the bus it's like trying to play football in a forest. I'm proud that we made a team like Madrid do that, in the end it was exactly what Steve Mac said it would be, toss of a coin.

Spot on. When teams park the bus, like Real Madrid did, it is like playing through a forest. I agree. Its the only way team's can avoid defeat against us and maybe do a smash n grab. That is exactly what Arsenal did a few weeks ago and Chelsea did the same in the CL final. You need luck to beat City doing that and the teams I have mentioned definitely got it in those games. Shows how good City are when top teams dont think they are able to stand toe to toe against us. The best teams do not always progress in knock out competitions. I remember Chelsea beat Barcelona in 2012 over 2 legs and Chelsea did a smash n grab. Hopefully we can bounce back on Saturday. Come on City!

 

[jimharri]

I'm guessing that Senor Tebas enjoyed a spot of "self love" last night.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Was proud of the team. Just not our night.
Game played in a good spirit from both teams imo.

I am glad its the FAC Semi this Sat as Pep can at least rotate.

Then its on to winning those remaining Cup Finals.

I really don’t think Real Madrid played in a good spirit at all.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Surprised Rodri didn’t take one. Must have been too knackered. Banged them in for Spain.

He must have had a bit more in the tank than Bernie did. Bernie was out for the count. There were at least a couple of options before Bernardo, it seems to me. Anyhoo, as Sollozzo “Turk” says in Godfather 1, “What's done is done”.


Almost — I said almost — feeling upbeat about this whole business now. Now we can get down to concentrating on the two things that I've always cared most about: the Cup. And the League.
(I will most decidedly not be feeling upbeat if we cock those two up).

 

[Revolver]

Disappointed but this hurts far less than any recent defeat.

Realistically we cannot keep winning every trophy we are in (though you hope otherwise) and it wasn’t one of the English cartel beating us.

Short term I do worry about Saturday as it is so near and we have a history of losing FA cup semis.

Long term everything hinges on the outcome of the witch hunt

But as ever proud to be a City fan and of these particular group of players and coaches.

 

[Citizen Mike]

I'm not that bothered about last night. We were the better team and lost on penalties after having 33 shots on goal to their 8. That is knockout football. That said , it was Shit defending for their goal.
I just hope the physical exhaustion is not too much for us to recover for the Chelsea game