It's certainly unpopular with you."unpopular", not ludicrous.
Agreed and he had a fabulous season but the point being made was he never scored a point winning goal. His one goal that season came at home o Newcastle when we won 3-1, therefore his goal couldn't be said to have got us three points or one whereas every other player did score in a one goal winning margin or drawn game.harsh, he was brilliant in the 6-1
Why do you think I'm "looking for excuses"? The best team won on the day. We just didn't give ourselves the best possible chance by not picking the best possible team (in my opinion).Team
- Zack Steffen
- Joao Cancelo
- Benjamin Mendy
- Ruben Dias
- Aymeric Laporte
- Rodrigo Cascante
- Fernandinho
- Kevin De Bruyne
- Gabriel Jesus
- Raheem Sterling
- Ferran Torres
Team
- Ederson Moraes
- Joao Cancelo
- Benjamin Mendy
- Ruben Dias
- Aymeric Laporte
- Nathan Aké
- Rodrigo Cascante
- Raheem Sterling
- Gabriel Jesus
- Sergio Aguero
- Ferran Torres
Team
- Ederson Moraes
- Kyle Walker
- Oleksandr Zinchenko
- Ruben Dias
- John Stones
- İlkay Gündoğan
- Kevin De Bruyne
- Bernardo Silva
- Raheem Sterling
- Phil Foden
- Riyad Mahrez
three different selections. Same result in all three. Stop looking for excuses. On the day, the collective team were not good enough. Hopefully next time we play to our normal level.
Absolutely, a really contrived way to try to prove a pointNot that I want to relive this but Team 1 features Fern and Rodri so rule that out.
Team 2 was 3/5 at the back with no creative midfielder so rule that out.
Team 3 had no holding midfielder.
Not one of those teams is our standard 4-3-3 with one DM, 2 CM/AM
We lost all 3.
Why do you think I'm "looking for excuses"? The best team won on the day. We just didn't give ourselves the best possible chance by not picking the best possible team (in my opinion).
It was clearly a case of Pep overthinking it rather than going for the obvious (and best) line-ups, as he has done so often in the Champions League. One of the things elite sportspeople want is to be as close to being in their comfort zone as possible. Picking that team (specifically Gundogan as CDM) put people out of their comfort zone immediately as it came totally out of left field. We managed to get to the final last season precisely because Pep hadn't fucked about in the quarters and semis.
As for your potential starting line-ups above, so you've compared the actual starting line-up with two teams that nobody would have dreamt up in a million years (Steffen, Mendy, Ake etc). Not sure what point you're trying to prove with that but it isn't a good one.
Maybe we would have done. But it's a better team / formation then the one we did pick so would have had more of a chance.We put the same formation like against semi final PSG, we will still lose.
Agreed and he had a fabulous season but the point being made was he never scored a point winning goal. His one goal that season came at home o Newcastle when we won 3-1, therefore his goal couldn't be said to have got us three points or one whereas every other player did score in a one goal winning margin or drawn game.
Far from a criticism just an observation. 80)
Except Pep. Genius when he rotates his squad And wins. Fucking loser when he rotates the squad and loses.so you've compared the actual starting line-up with two teams that nobody would have dreamt up in a million years (Steffen, Mendy, Ake etc).
Maybe disrupt the squad’s comfort zone in a league match rather than the Champions League final.Except Pep. Genius when he rotates his squad And wins. Fucking loser when he rotates the squad and loses.
How dare he disrupt the squads ‘comfort zone’, what a bunch of shit.