UCL SF 2020/21 | Man City Vs PSG

Imagine pointing out money when the opponents were Paris Saint fucking Germain.

Have a bit of self awareness for once, the reason football nowadays is shite is because all of the teams are like this.

Complaining about it for one team just makes you a hypocrite.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Imagine pointing out money when the opponents were Paris Saint fucking Germain.

Have a bit of self awareness for once, the reason football nowadays is shite is because all of the teams are like this.

Complaining about it for one team just makes it you a hypocrite.

Exactly. Doesn't Mbappe and Neymar combine cost more than City's entire lineup?

Tbf also Pep keeps saying his success is due to having the best (ie. expensive) players (also team)

BarcaLearning wrote:Tbf also Pep keeps saying his success is due to having the best (ie. expensive) players (also team)

Obviously to play the way he does he needs large scale investments, but he also says that just to take the piss out of the haters who love saying that themselves.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Imagine pointing out money when the opponents were Paris Saint fucking Germain.

Have a bit of self awareness for once, the reason football nowadays is shite is because all of the teams are like this.

Complaining about it for one team just makes you a hypocrite.

CL is not just one match. What about the rest of the competition that they've outspent and failed miserably for years?

Get Pep's cock out of your rectum to all those who upvoted.

danyjr needs to stop watching pr0n

I already stopped many years ago. Can't afford fast internet.

Completely agreed with Cas. My man has seen the light. Tbh; I had my frustrations with Mahrez too, but he is insanely effective.

Go check out the Real Madrid sub Reddit; they’re still defending hazard like their life depends on it. I expect him to flop if he starts. I got Permabanned for saying Mahrez is better although I was a complete doorknob and asshole about it. Anyhow; I’ll never complain about GL again, you guys are far more knowledgeable then the fifa kids on Reddit

Man city this year completely changed their approach. I really like how pep has his teams selectively use the press, but also stay compact when needed, instead of the gung ho style he used to employ. He deserves a LOT of credit for this win. With di Maria and Neymar double teamed by Mahrez and Foden, Icardi was never going to do damage on his own. I agree they missed mbappe badly. He is more important to psg then Neymar; no question.

Neymar is an individualist trying to play the 10 role, similar to messi. The difference is that even grandpa messi scores goals and has game winning moments. Neymar is all flash right now. No substance

When did Neymars finishing get so bad? He used to be a monster in front of goal but the last year or so he's hit everything but the back of the net

Pathetic by PSG. Neymar indeed is a bit overrated by now. Tries to take the game by himself and creates nothing for others. Mbappe is at least young. Neyman is 29-30.

Mahrez being doubted always was a sham. He can be a bit of an idiot in wide areas but he will always have my respect after that season with Leicester and then his international exploits.

Hard for PSG to win when they are effectively playing with 9 men. Icardi and whoever the LB was were total passengers.

City's defense was immense. Well deserved win.

danyjr wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Imagine pointing out money when the opponents were Paris Saint fucking Germain.

Have a bit of self awareness for once, the reason football nowadays is shite is because all of the teams are like this.

Complaining about it for one team just makes you a hypocrite.

CL is not just one match. What about the rest of the competition that they've outspent and failed miserably for years?

Get Pep's cock out of your rectum to all those who upvoted.

Barca spent 390m on 3 players alone in recent years. What's this BS narrative that only City spends money. Every big team is the same these days so thats a nonargument.

Only caught the last 10 of the 1st and rest of the 2nd half. Heard PSG did well to begin with, but from the point of me watching it was clearly very one sided and PSG didnt look at all dangerous.

Icardi has no use in these types of games, needs more control over the game so you can put balls inside the box and not transitional attacks. Without Mbappe, that threat to the back of the City defence just wasnt there and Neymar looked untrusting of anyone outside of Di Maria who was not at his best at all.

City looked very good and you'd have to make them the favorites regardless of who they face in the final.

The best 11 looks pretty much set outside of Cancelo/Zinchenko and I think that's a big plus.

Yep PSG had 0 shots on goal so thats all they can write home about.

All things considered Ive come to the conclusion that PSG are basically a marginally more successful Anzhi Makachkala.

haha yupp^^

Myesyats wrote:Yep PSG had 0 shots on goal so thats all they can write home about.

Poch is so lucky to get this PSG job . He has not won anything in his career so far, except some tom-jerry trophy in France and he still receives so much hype. The way he surrendered league and Europa league both when he was at Spurs. Then the way his team played against Liverpool in the CL final, Poch is worse or maximum at Rodgers's level as a manager.

PSG did knock out Bayern though, so lets not again be so typical of GL lol, we need to change a bit and be more reasonable?

Also shows I guess no system is perfect, as good as Flick was, his defensive high level and non stop press and attack was just suitable for a team like PSG with Mbappe to exploit I guess.

so knocking out Bayern gives you a CL trophy or an equivalent trophy? So is that the reason that I should not criticize Poch at all? What has Poch achieved which is different from Rodgers so far, for example?

Tottenham were somehow invited to the Super League. That shows why Poch has been hyped in his career.

Tottenham before Poch were a middling, mostly shit team that would occasionally put a good season together and *maybe* finish fourth. Before Poch, it took one of the great Premier League seasons of all time from Gareth Bale to drag them to 4th.

During Poch, they made the UCL every year fairly easily and challenged for the title twice, while making the UCL final.

After Poch, Tottenham went back to finishing outside the top 4 two years in a row, as well as bowing out of the Europa League, and getting picked apart by RB Leipzig in the CL RO16.

Poch also achieved all of that with, I believe, a negative net spend. He was not really allowed to buy players, due to construction of the stadium.

The previous manager of PSG is Thomas Tuchel who won a solitary DFB-Pokal with Dortmund and managed a good Dortmund team. So it's not like hiring Poch is some out of left field lucky appointment. It's arguable he had a better case for the PSG job, heading into it, than Tuchel did when he started at PSG.

Helmer wrote:so knocking out Bayern gives you a CL trophy or an equivalent trophy? So is that the reason that I should not criticize Poch at all? What has Poch achieved which is different from Rodgers so far, for example?

I was just talking about GL in general lol, I mean look at all the posts above, tend to over praise/hype or criticize/rubbish someone when they win or lose. I was just saying PSG and Poch arent that bad since they just cos they got outplayed by a very good MAn C.

Poch is getting too much flack. It's his first season and he joined like halfway through and he got them to the semis. I'd wait before making judgements on his tenure/pedigree.

City will *probably* win it all. Losing to them, especially with the luck that City had with their goals in the first leg, is not anything embarrassing at all.

Next season is the real test for Poch.

Feel like poch has a lot of divas and egos to sort out. The PSG job isn’t as easy as it looks. The team also has weaknesses all over the starting XI