Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[CTID Somerset]

Think it makes us look daft personally. Fucking hope there’s no move to have a celebrity fan co-coms in every game.

Was in the stands last night

Good support for the team :0)

Rather have a bit of City biase ???

Than Red Biase!!!

I prefer my TV commentary Muted nowadays

Too much hype and nonsense all the time and not just on here!!! :0)

 

[supercity88]

Should have won the game, but so defensively exposed. If we were going to lose three in a row then it's not been a bad three to lose. The league cup was a distraction, the league and CL we can recover from. Brighton is a must win game though with tough games on the horizon.

The defensive structure isn't working. We often have periods where the balance isn't right at this time of the season but we don't tend to see so many occasions of us getting dominated. We've been picked off at ease in a number of games. Brentford, Fulham and Bournemouth had spells where, if you didn't know your football, you'd think they were the reigning champions.

Pep has to sort the structure. We've not got enough mobility to press how we are and not win the ball. The whole shape isn't working at the moment and I think we've got to revert to a flat back 4 and stop allowing Rico the freedom he has. That will at least give us numbers at the back. I also think we need to play Kovacic and Nunes as the midfield double pivot. Nunes has the legs in midfield to help us, and if Rico does push up he can cover the ground.

We can't play two more attacking midfielders in central areas in the current system without Rodri.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Not sure what the hell has gone wrong with the defence this season, but needs addressing ASAP.

Poor last few games, hopefully last night is a kick up the arse for everyone

 

[willipp]

Exactly - which is why we should stay confident of vast improvement soon

Id agree on Sporting not playing as well as the score line suggests, but you can't ignore yet again how open we are to the counter and how bad defensively we were and have been for a much more than these last 3 games.

We seem so intent on pushing defenders into midfield and at times playing everyone 15/20 yards into the opposition half, we just are so open at the back. Teams know if they can stay in the game (last nights game should of been all over after 40 minutes), they will get chances to break on us.

 

[David White]

Why put him on 4-1 down 9 minutes left,why ?

I agree. Crazy decision

 

[traditionalleesy]

In danger of getting stuck in a loop. As a Club, we’re running out of players and as a Manager Pep is running out of ideas.

How about this - ditch the suicidal high line Baldy…!

Show some respect to the finest manager the world has ever seen!!

 

[Tricky_Trev]

I agree. Crazy decision

I get the feeling it wasn’t a decision based on logic or trying to achieve something on the pitch, and that it was more to do with whatever the fuck is going on between KDB and Pep/the coaches/the medical team. Some kind of message. We don’t know exactly what is going on but clearly something is/has.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Worst part is Sporting are shite, not even like we’ve been tonked by a top team. We should have been 3/4 up by half time, could see it coming as usual when you miss chance after chance. We are so brittle at the moment.

 

[mancityscot]

Not sure what the hell has gone wrong with the defence this season, but needs addressing ASAP.

Poor last few games, hopefully last night is a kick up the arse for everyone

when we were at our defensive best in recent years, it was the 2022/2023 season. In those latter CL games we had a back line of Akanji, Dias, Stones, Ake, with Stones dropping into that midfield role.
We still have those players at the club, albeit hampered by injury.

If we can get everyone fit, it would be great to see a back line like that again imo. However, i'm sure Pep will have other ideas

 

[CTID Somerset]

We can blame the defence all we want, but you cant be missing penalties and chances like haaland has. He cant hold the ball up, he cant pass to a blue shirt, he cant shoot it seems at the minute. Dreadful. May aswell play with 10 men. he needs to step up in games like this, but he doesnt.

Was in the stands last night

Penalty Noted Shocking :0(

But if you don’t pass him the ball or play it through for him, you can’t expect much???

If you keep doing the same old thing slowly?

Ball out wide try to beat someone before going back inside,again and again and again and again!!

With no end product??!!

Then don’t expect anything to change!!??

If you want him to be more effective in these games?

Then feed him the ball more and play to his strengths :0)

He left the field yesterday after a little wave to the travelling fans and by himself!!

Unstandably,not happy, But then neither was I with the service he got all night :0(

Feed the Big Lad,he will score!! :0)