Spot onThere's a big difference between best XI and best team for me, the team he picked might be the best XI on paper, but the team lacked pace, guile, and energy, only injected when Walker and Foden came on.
Despite all that we had enough of everything else to negate the errors and still win the match, and I think that is what frustrates us the most.
yep. i was shouting "foul him" at the tv.Don’t know if it’s been mentioned but someone should have taken a booking on shaw around the half way line before that second goal
yep. i was shouting "foul him" at the tv.
That would be a big fucking fear.People lose their heads when we lose and all the more so when we lose a Derby.
The fact remains that very often when we lose, we have dominated the game in terms of possession shots for and against etc, but we have fucked up in a few key moments. We have dramatically reduced the cock-ups and that's why we are 11 points clear.
The level of concentration required is tough and we have had one or two lapses recently so that laser focus needs to come back but shit will still happen; let's hope it is avoided in cup games.
As to team selection, I wonder if in Pep's head that was his current best XI? I'd beg to differ but a brief look through that best XI thread shows how divergent views are on that.
Fernandinho would have stopped himDon’t know if it’s been mentioned but someone should have taken a booking on shaw around the half way line before that second goal
That depends how big a game you consider it actually was. I suspect Pep looks at the bigger picture and actually saw it as just another league game in a season which we’ve already won the league.So frustrating but shouldn’t affect our league season.
However for me this encapsulated why we havent won CL yet. And the manner in which we havent.
Our consistency will always give us a brilliant chance of winning the league and our quality gets us through plenty of rounds of cup competitions when things go our way.
But we really struggle to overcome shocks in big games. Its almost like we went behind so early and unexpectedly we didnt know how to react.
Luckily Pep doesn’t suffer from Likkle City syndrome.
Ive quite enjoyed over the last few days looking down my nose at United fans and asking if they enjoyed their cup final victory and telling them i remember when the derby was the biggest game of our season.
This is the post match thread to be fair. What do you expect City fans to be discussing in here?Exactly! It is a role reversal we as fans could have only dreamed about 15 years ago.
Were the dominant force in English football, compete for every trophy, to the latter stages, have the best manager in world football and yet some of our fans still cannot see the big picture.