Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[East Level 2]

4-1 away at Lincoln in League Cup. I knew we’d never win a fucking trophy ever again with that shower of utter shit.

We were great for the first 60 seconds.

 

[Gordyola]

I agree with some of this but "Relentless games" is not true. Liverpool have played exactly the same amount of games. They are not in the same position as us. They do not have the same injuries as us. Nor the same ability to commit defensive suicide every game at least 3 times.

This season maybe but no where near what ours have played in the last three or so, we had the most players at the Euro’s and the WC before that ours also went deeper in the competitions both for City and their countries

 

[manimanc]

The "we was shite once so anything that happens in the future is ok" post. Bingo. What a load of shite, when we was shite it wasn't fun but it was expected. No pot to piss in, average players and so on. It isn't the 90s anymore mate, we are a juggernaut of a football club with the best manager and players in the game. Losing games happens, losing playing like a bunch of half arsed idiots shouldn't ever happen

Ah well horses for courses and all that.
I've followed us for nearly 40 years so I feel I can say what I say and mean it. Yes I compare the past with today and rightly so as it was shite but it was also great not having a pot to piss in as that what made us.
Anyway I'm getting sidetracked. We're only human. We aren't robots. This has been coming for a long while, teams lose form, players get tired.
Calling this team half arsed idiots shows how entitled a lot of our fans have become, now that is a load of shite.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Yes but does not excuse us being so awful with our finishing, Even our goal was straight at the keeper who messed up

I couldn't agree more. We miss far too many chances .

Pretty sure Pep knows that too.

 

[Bluewars II]

Yeah honestly this is daft. We’ve gone from wingers who score 15+ to these lot. If Haaland doesn’t turn up we’re fucked

Any elite level winger would struggle getting G/As in this City team, it's not the quality of winger it's a combination of teams playing so deep against us and Peps tactics.

 

[ancoats]

We've been shite for weeks mate.

We still love city but let's have it right.

Injuries or not the "way" the teams playing is tactically shit.

And before you say your a bigger blue, I could easily take being beat of the scum 10 nil as long as I could see our team trying.

We've been shite.

a couple of things..
I would never say I am a bigger blue than anybody else and losing hurts me just like everybody else.
The team did try tonight, but we put ourselves under pressure after missing loads of chances in the first half

Look behind the scenes nobody knows what going on ? Pep leaving ? Players are struggling but we just don't know.
They say you don't become a great team overnight, But I also don't think you become a shit team overnight as well

We all have to stick together and get behind the team right now, The media will be loving it right now and we will be getting shit left right and centre so do we really need to help by slagging off our own club and fans

 

[The Black Shed]

Somewhere lurking within Manchester City is a brilliant counter attacking side. I just wonder (not being a coach, manager obvs), what tactical changes could be made to play this way, other than pulling the high defensive line and the horseshoe attacking pattern back into our half. Give some space for the wingers to run into and get fed.

 

[Metal Biker]

*I left here, I left here, I left here when we were shit (for six daaays)
I left here when we were shit*

 

[paulchapo]

4-1 Man City


Manchester City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to TNT Sports: “Cannot say much when you lose 4-1. Congratulations to Sporting Lisbon for the game.

“We had a fantastic first half, now we are struggling to score. We create and concede when the opponents don’t do much.

“The first half was really good, we scored a goal, but every pass, the simple things we missed sometimes.

“It can happen. After the third and the fourth we have to avoid it. Emotionally we were not stable enough and in this competition you have to be stable. At 2-1, many things can happen. We have to be emotionally more stable.

“It was a very good action for them. They made a good moment, they were fast and scored."

Defensive changes a problem? “Maybe. I don’t know. When you play lots of games you cannot play the same line up and same back four. We have had these problems for day one but it is what it is.

"Now is the difficult moment in terms of results but I want to be here. I want to fight and not give up, I like this challenge as a manager I have ahead of me. Who wants to follow us will be there.

“It is football. Maybe what we lived in the past is the exception. Sometimes you can lose. We were in the position where they punished us for the few they do and we struggled for the chances we had.

“The first half was almost enough to finish the game and then we were losing 3-1."

 

[Blue and still suffering]

'We could have scored more'

FT: Sporting 4-1 Man City

Sporting forward Viktor Gyokeres to Uefa: "It's always nice to score and even better to score a hat-trick. Most important was to win the game so it was a brilliant night for us.

"We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't start off well. We knew they would give us space and we could have scored more than four to be fair. They could have scored more as well.

"You need to raise your level when you play better opponents. I tried to keep doing what I've been doing."

On manager Ruben Amorim leaving for Manchester United: "We will miss him a lot. We've done amazing things together. We will miss him and the other guys in the staff who will leave. We have to look forward and attack the next challenge ahead of us."

There is the crucial part. "We knew they would give us space."

So did we Viktor, so did we.....

They could have scored more! Six shots on target and two of them were penalties!