European Cup Final, Porto 2021. Pep plays 60 odd games - all season - with a holding midfielder and Fernandinho arguably the best in the world at the time.
For the most important game of the season - and arguably in the clubs history to that point - he ditches the system/team that got us to the Final, and crowbars Raheem Sterling into the team leaving a huge gaping Fernandinho sized hole in the middle. We lose 1-0 to a goal I will maintain to my dying day we dont concede if Ferna is playing. A mind numbingly insane team selection and defeat
You can make the above argument but after 20 minutes you can see the system is clearly not working. Change it and use the subs in the bench.Fernandinho was 36 at the time, he wasn't even the best DM at the club back then. A Fernandinho shaped hole in your memory explains your frustration.
Rodri was better that season, but he lost form in the final month or so. Made a mistake for one of Chelsea's goals in the league game at the Etihad. Fernandinho played in the FA Cup semi vs. Chelsea and was poor. No wonder Pep tried Gundogan there.
You can make the above argument but after 20 minutes you can see the system is clearly not working. Change it and use the subs in the bench.
I forgive Pep for trying something different tactically especially with the previous 2 games v Chelsea in the weeks before the Final. But to not recognise it wasn’t working and doing fuck all about it was unforgivable.
Finished 2-1 didn't Musampa nick one? I believed too. Monday night when all QF were midweek iirc.The obvious ones have already been mentioned (the 2021 CL final, the Palace/Wigan/Rags Cup finals, the 2-3 in the Centurions season, Luton in '83, the Spurs CL game, the no show at Madrid under Pellegrini, etc etc). One I'll pull out of the hat. A home q/f in the cup against West Ham sometime in the mid 00s. I actually thought we had a slim chance to win the cup that year (I know, I know!), but we bent over and lubed up that evening. 2-0, IIRC (Ashton with both goals?). I was raging after that game.
On this we will disagree 100%.Fernandinho was 36 at the time, he wasn't even the best DM at the club back then. A Fernandinho shaped hole in your memory explains your frustration.
Rodri was better that season, but he lost form in the final month or so. Made a mistake for one of Chelsea's goals in the league game at the Etihad. Fernandinho played in the FA Cup semi vs. Chelsea and was poor. No wonder Pep tried Gundogan there.
yes, it was dissapointing, but it was a good game, no complaints re the ref.Losing 4-3 at Coventry in 2001. We equalised 3 times in that game but still lost in the last minute. It was the only time when I thought I couldn't take anymore.
You can make the above argument but after 20 minutes you can see the system is clearly not working. Change it and use the subs in the bench.
I forgive Pep for trying something different tactically especially with the previous 2 games v Chelsea in the weeks before the Final. But to not recognise it wasn’t working and doing fuck all about it was unforgivable.
Spurs again for me, champions league qtr final 2019.Most of the ones I think of involved Spurs. On this occasion, the 4-2 home defeat in the FA Cup quarter final somewhere around 91. First proper chance of a cup final for years. Shite.
It wasn't even the conceding, it was our inability to get the ball moving quickly from the defensive third without Rod/Fern. However as I have never watched one second of that game again I can't be sure.European Cup Final, Porto 2021. Pep plays 60 odd games - all season - with a holding midfielder and Fernandinho arguably the best in the world at the time.
For the most important game of the season - and arguably in the clubs history to that point - he ditches the system/team that got us to the Final, and crowbars Raheem Sterling into the team leaving a huge gaping Fernandinho sized hole in the middle. We lose 1-0 to a goal I will maintain to my dying day we dont concede if Ferna is playing. A mind numbingly insane team selection and defeat
personally looking back I feel that was a blessing in disguise missing out, feel Pearce would have taken us down following season, if I remember im sure we lost 9 of the final 10 games following seasonI initially answered the cup final defeat v the rags but just recalled one game that really wound me up…….
City at home to Middllesboro last game of the season. Winner gets a place in the UEFA Cup. A draw and Boro qualify.
The crowd is all whipped up and ready to cheer the Blues on - and the team came out wearing next seasons away kit.
The club totally misread the room. Had the game been a meaningless affair then do that but not when it’s a game of that importance. The change drained the blues inside the ground and muted the atmosphere. Fowler missing an injury time penalty was the icing on the pissing us blues off cake.
I’ve forgiven him. Nobody gets everything right so Pep’s 95% is probably about as near to perfect as anyone can ever be.You can make the above argument but after 20 minutes you can see the system is clearly not working. Change it and use the subs in the bench.
I forgive Pep for trying something different tactically especially with the previous 2 games v Chelsea in the weeks before the Final. But to not recognise it wasn’t working and doing fuck all about it was unforgivable.
Probably just his opinion to the OP. The shite that folk come out with when someone has a negative about pep is bizarre. Pep makes selection mistakes often. He can be a proper weird **** about substitutions and his dress sense is fucking horrendous. Before you ask..no I’m not a manager of a club I’m just sharing my opinion on a football forum for sharing opinions.Is that based on your career as a top manager? Every good manager changes tactics after 20 minutes if the performance doesn't match the expectations of the fans? That's silly.
Even Wigan have a chance to win a cup final, let alone Chelsea. It's football, even the best tactics don't guarantee a win or even a good performance. Nobody can be sure that if Ferna/Rodri had started, we'd have won. We might have lost by 3 goals. Given what Pep has achieved with City, it's small time to characterise his decisions as unforgivable.
Haaland bottling the penalty made my piss boilCrystal palace cup final . Their keep should have seen red . Everyone knows that , if it would have been other way round city’s keeper would have been off ..Palace keeper went on to be motm .
Fucking no handball call cost us a possible quadrupleSpurs again for me, champions league qtr final 2019.