[Club World Cup] Juventus 2-5 Manchester City [26th June, 2025 21:00 CEST] (127 Viewers)

[GordoDeCentral]

When did it become ok to cop 5 goals even if game is meaningless

 

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[Bjerknes]

That was fucking horrendous. So embarrassing and shameful.

I understand the need for squad rotation, but I would have done that against Why Dad - not Manchester City.

Why is Rugani not getting minutes? Our central defence is starving for some minutes from an experienced player.

Why is Douglas Luiz not getting minutes in a game like this?

I am going to fucking piledrive someone if I see us start another game with a 2 man midfield. Even worse when it is Locatelli & McKennie. It is so out of touch with the way modern football is played. You need midfielders who can resist the press and dictate the tempo of the game. Look at the impact Rodri had.

We are heading into the summer mercato with no sporting director. What is Comolli doing?

For anyone saying this tournament doesn't matter and this was an exhibition game, enjoy your fucking copium. Winning this game would have given us a straight path to the final. Seriously, go and look at the tournament bracket. Now we'll we facing Real Madrid in the next game. Progressing each phase is worth around €20m. We're counting our fucking pennies for Chico Conceicao because €30 million is too much money ... could we not use the extra cash? This is pretty fucking far from a friendly.

I love your post, but there’s going to be a lot of broken jaws in Aussie land. Tudor is not giving up his double pivshit system unless it’s too late.

 

[Orgut]

Watched it.
City didnt impress me. Yeah they controled the game but I think it could have been a different game with few adjustments.
Vlahovic must leave - he scored one but wasted 2.
Our defense of Savona Kelly is not even Serie A level.

Get Bremer back add another CB of high level and suddenly covering will become much better.
City played a bit predictable IMO. Better defenders would have made their life way tougher...

Anyway Real Madrid.. Its going to be a tough one sided game. Real are way better than City in my books

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1. To beat City you need very fast players on the break, for example, Muani for Vlahovic, Weah for Kostic, Mbangula for Nico. Instead of looking for a quick buck by selling the players that actually try to play and were useful, sell the expensive flops now. Luiz and Koopmeiners are trash and Vlahovic can move on. That will be plenty to rebuild with.

2. Why play 3 at the back when they always have fast wingers? Adding extra defensive mids doesn't solve the wing problem and Kelly was completely lost with nobody covering him either. Why not change formation? 3-4-3 requires possession and a attack mindset so that the back 3 stay up a lot, a defensive 3-4-3 gives you zero outlet to release City's pressure so conceding 5 was expected.

3. Attack is the best form of defence in modern football, those days of parking the bus are long gone. Pep has got his new players and a bunch of bench warmers playing slick football, while we only focus on "pressing" in training. Why not cultivate a new style and thinking? Mbangula would've been way more useful than Nico or Vlahovic. Is Tudor another dictator coach?

There is also fatigue to consider. I dont blame Tudor but I do blame the management.
Our team is way too thin to compete and our defense is laughable even with all fit (Bremer aside)

Major upgrades needed.
Top CB, and replace all these useless subs who currently play as first choice. Kelly Savona. I dont mind Gatti and Rugani as subs but the first two arent even Serie A level.
Mid - There is something missing in distribution, honestly I still cant figure why Rovella got sold while we kept others beneath him. Im not saying Rovella should have been our guy but it emphasize the poor management

 

[Alin]

The way we forfeited our way out of this tournament should be a future case study both at coverciano and at courses on business administration because no matter how we look at it there is still no logical explanation as to why would we literally choose to bench and rest half of our key starters in the most important CWC game when we only needed a draw to secure an easy path to the later stages where we’d also benefit from huge financial boost, nevermind the negative marketing impact such a result brings when most of the world is watching, or the lack of confidence that comes with it.

 

[Akshen]

Defence look awfull, even against those shit teams we played before. Only MDG is doing good or even extremely good.
We should be getting rid of Kelly asap, he is such a liability.
Then there is Savona, who should be bench player.
Kalulu had a bad game, but i trust him still.
Gatti is Gatti, personally I would sell him asap, but he has admirers. Guy just can cope with pressing, he will let us down so many times in CL.
Hoping Bremer is back, but that wont be enough, we should get two more CBs.

 

[Al Birdie]

Well, at least this ought to end the 1 year long collective delusion that Kalulu is good defender

 

[Orgut]

Well, at least this ought to end the 1 year long collective delusion that Kalulu is good defender

He is ok. He had a bad game but he isnt the main issue.
He is good just not great

 

[Al Birdie]

Evidently not.
I guess we deserve what we have then.

 

[Stevie]

The way we forfeited our way out of this tournament should be a future case study both at coverciano and at courses on business administration because no matter how we look at it there is still no logical explanation as to why would we literally choose to bench and rest half of our key starters in the most important CWC game when we only needed a draw to secure an easy path to the later stages where we’d also benefit from huge financial boost, nevermind the negative marketing impact such a result brings when most of the world is watching, or the lack of confidence that comes with it.

Sack worthy imo

 

[Alin]

Sack worthy imo

I’ve been fully behind keeping Tudor especially when looking at the alternatives we’ve been linked with, and was pleasantly surprised to see him securing 4th spot and balance the ship while now also doing well at the CWC in the first two games, but i just can’t get behind the way he interpreted this City match, nor do i trust his planning in regards to squad rotation, basically decided to throw out the window all the good that was done till now, and makes me worry about next season when he will likely pull more baffling decisions like this.

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But ofc we are now in the heat of the moment, i don’t expect a sack nor am i asking for it yet, after the mercatto is over he’ll maybe have better options to pick from and will look to learn from previous mistakes, or maybe that’s just my coping mechanism kicking in but i’d rather not make him the main scapegoat before the new season even started.