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We made two chances out of pressing high and winning the ball. The rest of the game with that sterile possession we created nothing.

Shut it down.

Whilst this is true, the bigger requirement is to have a serious engine due to how much ground they need to cover. And they have two 30+ physically declining players here. Seeing Candreva and Young have to sprint from their own half to close down our full backs when receiving the ball from Tek...

Just looks like he has never fully recovered from the multiple adductor injuries this season. (Mainly as he keeps being rushed back)

Team looked unrecognisable. Also, where are the Matuidi haters at? The guy clearly has a role to play in providing balance to the team.

As Mandzukic has stayed quiet, it’s not clear whether it was Sarri or someone above him that made the decision. I know which out of the two is more likely.

Expecting someone to be an effective Right Winger at the drop of a hat when you have deployed him as a right back all season is poor decision making. There is a clear theme here with our current management.

We bought Ronaldo and stuck him out on the left wing to put in crosses for Dybala and Cuadrado. I’m 100% sure we could ruin De Bruyne or any other professional player in existence. We’ve kept 1 clean sheet in 11 against poor quality teams. I don’t see us not conceding in the second leg.

Bunch of mediocre overpaid lethargic *expletive here*

Shitting on Matuidi seems to be the common thing to do. He should be judged on his performance and he had a decent game today.

The fouls on Ramsey and the elbow on Cuadrado are more of a penalty, but the dumb application of the handball law in Italy gives those as penalties. The lack of cohesion in the team is a joke, there is still no visible gameplan and I’m not sure we can rely on individual brilliance to bring a...

The whole thing felt like it was an error carried forward to recorrect the problem of introducing Ramsey and playing him at right wing. So to try and get Ramsey back as the RCM, De sciglio was introduced and the ‘system’ looked a mess. A smart ballsy coach may have considered going 5-3-2 early...

Outside of Juric using the same system at Genoa, I’ve never seen an all out man-to-man marking system used to that extent.

We’ve been used to undeserved wins in games like this because we didn’t make silly mistakes. These idiotic mistakes have littered this season and the desire to mark zonally at set pieces has managed to somehow make our set piece defending even worse.

Worse than the fact the players haven’t been replaced is the fact that those established players haven’t been given deserved contract renewals and some are still sitting there with low motivation and desire. I believe a similar situation to an extent is also starting to emerge at Spurs.

I’d rather it wasn’t that, having been scarred by that song playing 4 times in the Cardiff final.

Not sure how this is a desperation move. Signing Matri in January for whatever price it was, was a desperation move. Quite excited to see how he develops. In terms of the team and our scouts, I do question why we have built such a collection of strongly left footed players when over the past...

Just some observations not solely related to today’s game: Understand the need for rotation, good to see Sarriball trying. However, when someone is in form and doesn’t have fitness issues then don’t rest them. Playing Dybala today and Woj every day case in point. The ball into Boga for the...

How do you miss that many decent chances in one game. With the amount of lost time in the second half, only 7 minutes added on is bullshit.