***Champions v Bruges CL Official Match Thread***

[city72]

Laughing thread the gift that keeps on giving

[PeterParker]

Blame it on Nunes, on injuries or aging squad, but we are so fucking predictable it's mental. We've become something that is an absolute nightmare with players rotated so much on positions they have no idea what they are playing, what they are doing.

And again, what do you do? Because the manager that won everything with you lost the plot completely?
What a terrible position we are in. And sad.

[Sparklehorse]

Patiance, concentration and guts.

We’ve got oodles of the first, but alas not the second and third.
I can see Bruges scoring more. We will have to play the 45 of our lives to get through this one. We are making some average sides look very good in this years CL shocking performance given what’s at stake.

[Indianablue]

Superb passage of possession play, everything coming back, forward and sideways via that superb inventive player Akanji. Then we have a rush of blood and try to attempt a quick attack, lose the football and bugger me, Bruges counter, beat us easily on the break and fucking score.
Anyone tell our team that we have to score to win the game and stand a chance or do we do the same old thing we've done for ever and try to bore the opposition to death,
Absolutely the definition of insanity, doing the same things repeatedly and expecting a different result.
SAID A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE ARE GOING OUT AND I'VE SEEN NOTHING TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE

[carl_feedthegoat]

What did anyone expect ? Really expect ?
Pep plays foden on the left and we all knew he’d be shit
Pep plays Nunes on the right of defence and we all knew he’d be shit as well !

I’m not shocked at all with the half time score

[PeterParker]

Absolutely the definition of insanity, doing the same things repeatedly and expecting a different result.

This should go to the legendary posts.
It sums up our whole season and the situation we are in.

[sheblue]

Pep has to change this.
Why isn't savinho playing? Get him on he can beat a man.

[Sparklehorse]

EVERYONE but baldy knows that Nunes is shit on the right
EVERYONE but baldy knows that Foden on the left is a waste of time

I would slightly correct that statement……Nunes is shit whatever side he plays.

[PeterParker]

Pep plays Nunes on the right of defence and we all knew he’d be shit as well !

If we win tonight he will start again vs Arse.
And that is insane.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Absolutely the definition of insanity, doing the same things repeatedly and expecting a different result.

This should go to the legendary posts.
It sums up our whole season and the situation we are in.

Pep knows no other way of playing football …. NO OTHER WAY - that’s why we are where we are.

[blues2win]

Were at our most vulnerable deep in an Opposition half. Again and again. Funnily enough we played ok against Inter in that first match. Saw the match and we might have won although a draw was fair.

[johnny crossan]

Superb bpassage of possession play, everything coming back, forward and sideways via that superb inventive player Akanji. Then we have a rush of blood and try to attempt a quick attack, lose the football and bugger me, Bruges counter, beat us easily on the break and fucking score.
Anyone tell our team that we have to score to win the game and stand a chance or do we do the same old thing we've done for ever and try to bore the opposition to death,
Absolutely the definition of insanity, doing the same things repeatedly and expecting a different result.
SAID A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE ARE GOING OUT AND I'VE SEEN NOTHING TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE

Akanji was just joggIng back - watch the replay. Eddy should have kept it out too. We need pace = Savio for Gundo, Bernie inside and Phil on the left. Might tuurn it round but unlikely now. COYB.

[just sayin]

PASS...PASS...PASS...PASS...PASS...PASS...PASS!!!!
How the bleedin hell do you expect to win playing like that?
Every time Brugge gets the ball they 'attack' like we should be doing and Nunes!!!! whoever sanctioned that signing (and at that fee) need f#cking!!!

[carl_feedthegoat]

[quote="sheblue"]Pep has to change this[quote]

[johnny crossan]

Pep has to change this

[blues2win]

Joe Bray of MEN says Savinho coming on at half time. No surprise.

[city72]

70% position zero shots on target

[Indianablue]

EVERYONE but baldy knows that Nunes is shit on the right
EVERYONE but baldy knows that Foden on the left is a waste of time

I would slightly correct that statement……Nunes is shit whatever side he plays.

Nunes isn't a bad player, he just isn't a full back. Our problem is that the creative players we have in the side are not getting on the ball or are stuck out wide

De Bruyne, Silva, Foden they can all play and break a team down but they are receiving it with backs to the goal and a defender up their arse. We seem to think Akanji is the play maker of this team. Everything is recycled through him and he can't do anything with it.

Good players will be demanding that fucking ball, dropping off their markers and making life difficult. At the moment it is all to easy for Bruges and they have control of this game

[Sparklehorse]

Superb passage of possession play, everything coming back, forward and sideways via that superb inventive player Akanji. Then we have a rush of blood and try to attempt a quick attack, lose the football and bugger me, Bruges counter, beat us easily on the break and fucking score.
Anyone tell our team that we have to score to win the game and stand a chance or do we do the same old thing we've done for ever and try to bore the opposition to death,
Absolutely the definition of insanity, doing the same things repeatedly and expecting a different result.
SAID A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE ARE GOING OUT AND I'VE SEEN NOTHING TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE

Spot on……why not get two wide players on with instructions to actually cross the ball into the box, you know…where we might actually score if we get on the end of it. Fuck me it’s not rocket science, if I was Pep I’d be fucking screaming at the lazy cunts at half time. Remember, they’re getting paid hige sums of money to lollop around.

[john@staustell]

Joe Bray of MEN says Savinho coming on at half time. No surprise.

If he wasn't I'd go and watch a film