Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Gumzy97]

Attack is toothless without Haaland scoring

 

[magistadreadnought]

Feels like 16/17 all over again, pep has not been backed at all in the transfer window and it’s causing devastating consequences. People thought my criticism of the squad was hyperbole after the Bournemouth game, well unfortunately I’ve been proven correct.

The simple fact is despite having arguably the greatest manager of all time, our squad is so poor I do not believe we will get Top 4 this season unless we sign at least 2 players in the Jan transfer window.

 

[Barcon]

The ref was a bent ****. Clear pen on Bernado. Didn’t give the one that Earl missed and gave one against Nunes that wasn’t anywhere close to being as much of a foul as the one on Bernie.

 

[AlexGrimaldo]

Humiliation
Pep should be ashamed. Putting a youngster with 16 minutes played in a Champions League game against a good team. If that was the plan should give him more minutes in other games. Disaster

 

[chaddblue]

Don't even know where to start

The only player that can hold his head up is Foden

Every other player including subs were a fucking disgrace

Ake must have been really unfit cos you just can't chuck a kid into a game like that

 

[southamptonblue]

Not his greatest fan.....but Silvinho and Doku (when he starts) show exactly why Pep bought Grealish, and I never thought I'd say it, but he has to play when fit, particularly without Rodri.....we have so little control as the above 2 give the ball away so much, it's not % of possession but how/when they do. Grealish has that control of a game. Tbf alot of the others were poor tonight, if he doesn't score, Haaland is generally a liability.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

The worst of it is the manner of the loss. If we lost 2-1 it wouldn't have been that bad. We got embarrassed. They were toying with us

 

[Claytop]

Can we play at the Etihad for fucks sake, sack these away games off.

 

[jayblue]

We're a shambles

 

[ProofMCFC]

No point throwing tantrums.

The team has won so much and slogged their way over the line last season.

The winning run was not going to continue indefinitely.

Injuries have caused us issues. Particularly Rodri who is the engine.

The annoying thing from me is the inability to stop counters. Don’t have any players capable of breaking up play.

All in all tho, it’s the end of this team. The boss needs support and hopefully he has the hunger to build again.

City will rise again.

a lot of reflection needed but no panic and no pointing figures at players and a coach that won it all.

Issues is down to recruitment. The club has failed in that department. Too many pats on the back and resting on our success.

Interesting time ahead.

I did mention that in 3/4 seasons from now where would we be? Where would the rags be with this new guy and got laughed at.

Not about throwing tantrums, there was genuine errors in this side that haven’t been resolved for two years. People want to know why and are rightly angry, you don’t get extra blue points for not being annoyed. The next fixtures are not looking good…