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Man City to finally win it?
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ko 8:00pm
Man City to finally win it?
going for a 2-1 Man city win
I'm sat in a bar as I type (1.55am) it's going to be a long night - I hope I can see it through.
Btw: Manchester City 3 Chelsea 1
I hope they both lose
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Don’t seem to be much segregation in the stands.
2-0 Chelsea for me, wouldn’t mind if they both could lose
Werner is no Glatzel.
Wide open at the moment. Great stuff so far.
Who was booing the knee? City or Chelsea? Or whoever else was there?
All the racists in the crowdQuote:
Originally Posted by Maccy Blue
As much as I think the knee has had it's time in the limelight I found that quite sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNDERHILL1927
Hope everyone on here is doing okay watching this. I know two sides from the same country trying to reach the top isn't what you usually want and instead you'd rather them race to the bottom, just as long as your chosen side is slightly higher.
Cracking cup final so far. Tuchel might be one of very few managers who can outwit Pep.
Pep overthinking the Champions League again? Much as I don’t like saying it because I can’t stand Chelsea, they’re the better team again following two consecutive wins over City.
I must be watching a different game as it's not been a good game at all.
Chelsea have looked the better side and if Werner was any good they'd have been at least 2 up.
This is the worst showing from Citeh in a long time. Sterling shocker.
Expecting a lot more from Citeh 2nd half and expect pep's given them the hairdryer treatment.
It’s certainly looking that way, but it also feels as if a couple of Man City substitutions could have a big impact. Both defences have looked vulnerable. Chelsea’s has a bit more shape at present, although a change in formation for City could change that. More goals looks a certainty.Quote:
Originally Posted by surge
I also hope they both lose , heavily
Much as the earlier game made the weekend, a Chelsea win would ruin it again.
Reckon it will happen all the time next season if it’s still going on....Quote:
Originally Posted by Maccy Blue
It certainly will with Chelsea , always had a hard core right wing following from South West leafy London and the home countiesQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
7 mins added time
FT 1 nil. Feckin awful game
Dreadful performance from Man City, Guardiola seems to overthink big finals
Think those pundits saying Man City had so few shots on target should speak more about Rudiger's and Azpilicueta's last ditch block.
Cracking match with so many good players on display - the control of the ball! - and a real pity we didn't get extra-time.
Chelsea defence played a blinder, first time I’ve seen James he looks like a top players. City didn’t play with their usual freedom so didn’t play....gutted for them
James is a fantastic player. Kante had a blinder too. At half time I thought Man City had enough on the bench to change the game, but sadly for them (and for us neutrals) the change that really mattered was De Bruyne going off. That seemed to dent their confidence, while Chelsea’s grew.
Chelsea thoroughly deserved it, Citeh even resorted to playing Warnock tactics late on out of desperation. Think Pep tried to be too clever with his team selection and tactics.
Chelsea seem to work harder in winning those vital second balls, Kante is such a tireless contributor it's like having an extra man, mid season managerial changes can work.
Put an asterisk next to the trophy. If Lewandoski stayed injury free, PSG would have been brushed aside and so would have both of tonight’s finalists. You would have been looking at Bayern retaining the trophy.
Surely the Spanish archer for Pep now.
Brought in to win the CL, and has failed miserably.
he's hardly failed miserably he got to the final and won the prem again playing the greatest football the UK as ever seen !Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Not done what he was brought in to do though.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
agree with that but I would reword your paragraph with something like it was disappointing pep didn;t win the CL for the club
his free flowing futsal style game as been captivating to me for the last few years . To me no one will ever come close to him in the modern game
Having watched what passes for football at Cardiff City Stadium since 14/15, I certainly appreciate smaller, technically proficient footballers these days if I didn't before. However, while Pep is, justifiably up there with the best coaches of all time, I'm definitely starting to believe that his lack of success in the Champions League in the last decade or so is playing on his mind. Last night's selection just looked wrong - you need to balance the skill with a smattering of power and athleticism and Chelsea had far more of that than Man City, while also showing the ability you'd expect from a team which reached the Final of a such a competition.
The goal summed up the difference between the teams. Just imagine what, say, Kevin DeBruyne would have been faced with if he had found himself with a bit of time with the ball at his feet in the position Mason Mount was for the goal. Based on what happened throughout the ninety minutes, he would have seen a Chelsea back three sitting deep with one or both of Kante and Jorginho patrolling the middle and James and Chilwell keeping tabs on Sterling and Mahrez on the flanks, even a passer of DeBeruyne's capabilities would have found it next to impossible to completely open that defence up with a single pass.
However, if he was able to do so, who in the Man City would have made the forward run that Havertz did for Chelsea? Sterling, who has been in poor form by his standards for most of the season, yes, but could he have been relied on to score? Foden, maybe and that's about it - Gundogan, who has been proof of Pep's greatness with his transformation into a goal machine of a central midfielder might have been another if he had not been shackled by the defensive duties which should have been Fernandinho's or Rodri's. So, for all of their surfeit of neat, technical footballers in front of their defence, Man City were short of the sort of players who Mount had for targets when he got the ball just before half time.
So, with more dangerous attacking runners in front of him in Havertz and Werner to name but two, the pitch in front of Mount was still far less congested than the one deBruyne would have seen and there was also all of that grass to run into behind the Man City centrebacks. The pundits raved about Mount's pass to Havertz, but I thought that, for a player of his capabilities, it was q pretty simple one to play when it came to the amount of technique and vision needed. I'm not sure where Gundogan was, but he was unable to stop Dias and Stones being exposed.
So, in effect, the goal showed that Pep's selection left Man City weaker at both ends of the pitch.
He should have started with the players he brought on I reckon....like he has all season...Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
How Sterling gets into that team, on form, I'll never know. Quite happy to see him in the England squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
N’GOLO KANTÉ:
2014. Debut in Ligue1 with Caen.
2015. Joins Leicester for €9m.
2016. Premier League winner with Leicester.
2017. Premier League winner with Chelsea.
2018. World Cup winner with France.
2019. Europa League winner with Chelsea.
2021. UCL winner with Chelsea.
(from various places on twitter).
It's highly likely that either England or France win the Euros this summer so there's a chance he breaks his streak of one major trophy only per year since 2016.
He is outstanding and so self effacing.Quote:
Originally Posted by surge
I always remember what the Leicester fans used to say about him:: "2 thirds of the world is covered by water, the other third is covered by Kante."
He’s a great and proper role model for Kids!Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not what the intrepid BBC reporter expected visiting Phil Fodens school. Top Red Kid.. 😆 <a href="https://t.co/5syFLn3xi6">pic.twitter.com/5syFLn3xi6</a></p>— Scott (@scottlley) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottlley/status/1398258351792865281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>