Young Boys (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Wienerwald]

God, the group stage is dull

Won’t exist next season.

 

[Ste68]

Well I was pretty bored for most of that game. Two nice goals worth seeing but the rest of it was like a training exercise. 8-0 wouldn't have flattered us. Not sure any of the fringe players did themselves many favours.

Think we could have easily racked up quite a few more if we'd really needed to but was content giving game time to those who needed it and protecting as many as we could for bigger games. Think Haaland was played to grab a goal to get over his dry spell against Bournemouth, thought Kovacic , Nunes and Lewis all did ok just lacking some calmness/quality with the final ball. Difficult to gauge exactly where we are in terms of hitting top form as a team given the last 3 sides we have played have been poor but top of league , safely through to last 16 CL and think we are some way off being at our best yet.

 

[KS55]

Stones starts every big game for me in that role now because it's pivotal to our new system and nobody else can do it.It was noticable this season how much we improved out fluidity as soon as he was back.

Given Stones injury proneness, we need to train another to perform this role. Gvardiol?

 

[geoff hammond]

Won’t exist next season.

It will be even more dull with plenty of dead rubbers

 

[Citizen Mike]

Not much to take from that. They were just a really poor side that can't compete with a team as good as ours. Hard to judge anybody when we're so superior to the opposition. Complete walk in the park, just about getting it done which we did with ease and getting out injury free which unfortunately we couldn't manage.

losing stones once again Is a huge blow, even moreso when you see the fixtures ahead and what he is likely to miss. him and walker and the two defenders we need available as they're unique, the others are somewhat interchangeable. Akanji pulling out of the lineup too is far from ideal that, could now leave us with just 4 fit defenders with our crazy decision to go intonthe season with just 6 defenders.

Special shout out to gmp's finest who once again stood motionless at the front and watched on as another set of away fans come to the etihad and are allowed to launch absolutely anything they want into the home ends. They do that in leipzig or belgrade or any other country and they get leathered by the local police.

City and the police must be liable for a failure to provide adequate protection, it's every fucking champions league game.

And whoever threw the blue flare on the pitch from our end is a grade A wanker, hope you're found and banned

Dias is our best defender. He is excellent in one on one situations

 

[sheikmedick]

Nobody has mentioned peps new coat yet !

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Where do the scum enter this list?

They are 21st with 40 shots.

Bottom is Celtic 26 shots in 4 games.

We have scored more goals than Celtic have had shots on target in 4 games.

 

[youngbob]

Won’t exist next season.

It'll be even worse next season.

 

[TP2707]

Fantastic performance for me.
Hats off the their fans, didn't shut up all game although that melt with the microphone was annoying.
That little sequence from Doku when he sent 2 of their players to the shops was unreal!

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Won’t exist next season.

Yes they’ve somehow replaced the group stage with something that takes even longer and has even less jeopardy involved.

Now instead of about 20 teams battling for qualification in the final round of fixtures we’ll have maybe 4 or 5.