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He might if he does not draw Arsenal^^ Conte has never won a cup competition in his life, I doubt the CL will be the beginning.

they were so confident we would never score, they pressed us with only 1 goal up. it is so pathetic with the game being mathematically all but open, it ultimately was decided with Kante being out. To lose against the best side in the world 1-0 is ok. but to lose without putting on a fight is just a disgrace.

.this is so Bad. Never Seen this hor ific Build up play

Conte is obviously right, but if the board gave him 200m he would not attract the attacking players Guardiola attracts. We can get the likes of Barkley and Kante but we are not gonna sign ready made world-class attacking talent over bigger clubs or those with more fancy managers.

If he had played like that for us his last 2 years here, he would not have been allowed to leave. Still selling him was the right decision. Replacing him with Bakayoko and Drinkwater was bullshit tho.

what we need is a manager to see us through the huge transition this club is going through. For the next few years we are going to be like the Milan teams. 10, 15 years of mediocrity again until we are back where we were 2005-2015. We used to have some not so good squads then too but we always had that leadership, that winning mentality, that edge in the players that always got us CL qualification + the odd trophy. Conte's title was a masterstroke especially given the players the board gave him. But it somehow threw us back in this transition because the board obviously thought we could carry on like this and not upgrade the squad anymore and now we got a squad without an identity. Are we a defensive team? well we are not really good at that anymore, are we a counter attacking team? we can't play out a counter attack to save our life? we got no midfield to be either, our strikers are misfiring and we got a manager who knows fuck all about how to deal with this situation. What we need is someone who backs youth, who knows how to bring the best out of them, who freezes out the deadwood, who finds a new strategy, a new formation, brings out the best in the qualtiy we have left. knows how to deal with the board and does so on a budget. That guy is not Conte. LvG actually did a similar thing at Bayern but I don't think he got it in him anymore + he's an ass.

I said it before and will say it again. It was right to introduce the back 3 back then, now it is the right time to ditch it. We are not going anywhere with 5 defenders. Surrender midfield because we are most shit there and load the attack. Will this leave us exposed? Most probably but heck. No manager ever should be hailed a defensive tactics master when all he does is loading the defense with players. Any team in the league can do that. Great defensive tactics is assuring maximum protection with a minimum loss of creativity and offensive output. We are not scoring enough. That has been a consistent problem under Conte, even when we won the league. You can always lag the odd goal because of a defensive error or a just bad luck. That happens whether you have 1 or 6 defenders. But we could have scored more here and we could have score more vs Barca. In those training videos you always see the players scoring free shots on a mini pitch. What I would like to see us is training the players scoring after a lung-busting 60 yard run, on the stretch, between three defenders with one contact in minimum time and in no space at all. Or how to fucking play out a counter without hitting the defender with every pass. This requires loads of practics and we have been shit at that all season.

No they are not. Only City is Utd is just as shit as we are, but they are the bigger brand and have more of a winning mentality. that is why they won today. we dominated them at the bridge and should have won by double digits. an today we should have gone into halftime 1 or 2 goals up. but we are unable to take our chances and falter under pressure. Commit suicidal errors in defense without being forced to. that is why we are where we are. the team is inc omplete disarray. Conte and most major players are elsewhere with their heads. Load this with a bunch of average passenger squad players and we got the situation we are in here. This problem has many dimensions. The wrong manager for the phase this squad is in. A board that is clueless in the transfer window and values economic success over footballing success. This big ass stadium rebuild project. An increasingly disinterested owner. A squad that lacks both genuine quality both in depth and in peak, barely working as a cohesive union because of the gaps in quality over the formation.

I think it is gonna happen and maybe that is just what we need. This generation is dead even though it is not old yet but it does not have the character or the durability of our former core. The squad and this club needs a major rebuild. Our prowess in the transfer window has obviously been crippled by incapable personnel and the prioritzation of the new stadium, so the rebuild will have to wait until that is over.

Morata was definitely onside. and even if not, it was too close to call. but the ref would have given the decision to utd no matter if he was ten yards on or offside. This is because 1) refs are shit and unable to interpet the offside rule "when in doubt for the attacker" and 2) because it is at old trafford and bc it is Utd, no referee would ever give a close call agains utd this late in the game.

obviously no offside perfectly legit goal by Morata. Ref at it again

This team just lacks cleverness. Completely lost the plot here

We cant defend and we cant attack so many passengers

Ref is so biased

Alonso is so useless in building attacks. All he does is pas sthe ball back to hazard in a worse position than before

Btw could Christensen have feigned a head injury there dor their goal? Play would have stopped

It is such a shame. We are not really good at anything. We are mediocre in defending, wasteful in attack. Horrendous in midfield, untidy on the break.

The naturalness with which willian buried that one is kust mind boggling usually he would blast that over

also Barca triple-marked Eden at every opportunity and he still got through to the byline a couple of times. Willian had much more freedom as a consequence. Furthermore, the support for our wingers on either side are Alonso and Moses. Both rarely beat their men and bascially all they do is deliver the balls to their winger somewhere near the sideline. I hope that until the return leg Morata recovers some form. Having three pacy players with confidence to worry about might be too much for them to handle

the best thing about Mourinho specials is that they heavily rely on the opponent's wastefulness like in midweek where sevilla squandered like 8 clear cut chances. All we have to do to stop a game becoming a Mourinho special is to take our chances. Not our strength, admittedly; but we might have a lucky day from time to time.

He is such an annoying babbler. Why does he have to talk about Madrid every week. let him rot in the u18 until his contract runs out when he is not signing that new contract Luckily there are so many good goalies out there, who might not have the same control of the area as courtois but are better on the line. and most importantly are top professionals. Alisson Becker, Jan Oblak, Donnarumma, sergio rico, heck even Butland could do a job and would be good for our homegrown quota. Then are Trapp and Leno. Plus in Bundesliga where traditionally the standard of goalkeeping is highest in all top leagues there are tons of very good non-german goalies like Hradecky and Gulasci. Might even pounce on the one of Neuer and Ullreich who loses out at bayern next season. The most important reason however if we were to lose Courtois to Real this summer was setting a dangerous precedent. Hazard might follow and maybe other top performers.

5 days rest should be sufficient for all players from today to be fresh. Go all out to win this and then tank the city game with an academy side i would say

One final thought. We created loads of breaks. But we were unable to finish them off, the final ball was untidy and played with too much haste. We will get these chances in the away leg too. If we manage to be more clinical we will win.

Yeah and thank fucknhe cant play vs us. Would have ruined our gameplan if they had any danger from deep

Yeah and thank fucknhe cant play vs us. Would have ruined our gameplan if they had any danger from deep