Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[SamBlue]

Poor Bernardo, I imagine him on the plane back to Manchester reading Camus or Sartre, all those unanswered questions for a little man.

Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva to TNT Sports: "It's disappointing because we're a bit in a dark place right now. Everything looks to be going in the wrong way.

"Even when we are playing well we don't score our chances and we concede too easily. We definitely need to look inside and check what we're not doing well. And we need to get better very quickly otherwise it will be very difficult to come back from these losses.

"It's football. It's difficult to find reasons for what is happening to us. I don't remember in seven-and-a-half seasons this team losing three games in a row. It just looks like this team is going the wrong way now.

"The good thing is even though we have lost these three games we are still in a good position especially in the Premier League. After losing three games we are still in the main competitions fighting for everything. But we need to better, obviously.

"Our injured players need to come back because we need them and it's just not good enough tonight."

 

[East Level 2]

Of course, the result stopped being important in those days, we weren’t ever going to abandon the team however shit things got. We embraced it and have been rewarded by the footballing gods in ways we ever could have imagined.

I doubt anyone is thinking about abandoning the club after three defeats. However they are rightly asking WTFIGO?

 

[Gordyola]

Can we please stop saying Nunes is ok and making excuses for him.

The man is absolutely wank. How can there be so many of you who just won’t have it?.

Not making excuses for him as there is no need he’s playing out of position and doing well his stats back that up Yeah stupid pen but he was trying to recover and the slight pull resulted in a pirouette

 

[Joe Corrigan's legs]

Thought we played well 1st half and looked like we were back in the groove but then we surprisingly capitulated ... the 2 pens were needlessly conceded and demonstrated our shocking indiscipline during that 2nd half ... twas a difficult watch and our lack of physicality out of possession is borderline incompetent territory ... we have become so easy to play through and sloppy in possession ... this is the collateral damage of the team selection v Spurs coming back to bite us in the arse ... really missed a Dias or Stones tonight for that bite in the tackle ... that said, thought JSP accounted himself well given the shitshow around him, good to see Kev return and Doku got more minutes in the legs .... we need them as we face the prospect of 4 defeats in a row ... need to pick ourselves up like champions do for Saturday ... come on City !

 

[skillman]

Pep’s interviews recently remind me of when he went at the team after Spurs in 22/23. He’s trying to get a reaction.

From saying Haaland can get a break during internationals if he needs one to insinuating some players aren’t going through the pain barrier or admitting to getting pissed off at NT injuries and that we pay the wages.

He sounds pissed off. And rightly so.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Hopefully tonight will inspire teams to have a go and we'll have less parked busses to deal with. In many ways a wake up call we needed, onwards and upwards.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

I would say he looked half decent when they were shit!
They really were shit for 30 minutes, all over the place at the back and the keeper looked garbage but we didn't capitalise.

When they turned it around he did his usual disappearing act.

Fair enough, don't really disagree that he didn't step up when the going became tough.

 

[Stoned Rose]

He's looked half decent against a couple of poor teams. Therefore he's brilliant.

Does my fucking head in.

I called him as complete and utter shit after his debut.

I genuinely cannot believe this many people can watch football and not be able to see when someone is gash.

 

[I'm Blue]

What goals.
Hes not scoring.

He’s the top scorer in the premier league, Gvardiol and Kovacic are the next best with 3 goals each and that’s the biggest problem.

 

[chris85mcfc]

3 captains on the night sort of summed up where we are at the moment

No real identity to our season, club captain clearly has major off the field problems, and isn't actually good enough to be playing every week

Of tonight's 3 captains, 2 of them came off the bench and its hard to say which one of them is closest to getting anywhere near their previous levels

Who actually is the leader of our team? Is it Walker, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Dias, Rodri, Bernardo or Stones, as I'm fairly sure all of them have been captain at some point this season. Can't think of any other side who has a different captain every single game!

Brighton is a huge game now, as we could be in serious bother going into December, when we play Liverpool and United.

I'm just not convinced it's all injury related, there looks to be something seriously wrong with the overall mentality of the team at the moment. That side put there tonight was capable of getting a result against an above average Sporting side, they certainly weren't a great side.