CL Final Thread

[gavin]

Rudiger is a disgrace. Deliberate foul taking out our best player. Off with a black eye. It's supposed to be football.

Okay, we didn't play well. It happens. We'll be back next year.

[Neil Mcnab]

Was it Tuchel got it right, more than Pep got it wrong. First goal was crucial and we really didnt look likely. I detest the theatrics that crept into the Chelsea play. But a final is about winning and they did it.

[lee]

The biggest fuck up tonight was playing a player who is not in form=Sterling

How the fook did he get the nod.It didn’t work from the get go....Fuckin spewing i am.We would have done them with a holding midfielder.How the fook Sterling made that starting 11 tonight is a joke.

Missed opportunity ..Wank

[Stephen Paul]

Sterling was poor but so was the rest of the team

A bad night at the office

[Paddy]

Three in a row Pep, not bad for the worlds "best" manager !!!.....

[Hesperus]

Having thought about it a bit more, I agree, the team selection was strange and had an impact but would starting Fernandinho have made a big difference? I think you have to give credit to Chelsea, the tactics and their players performances.

Standout players for Chelsea:

Reece had Sterling in his pocket all night
Chilwell was all over Mahrez like glue
Kante played like a man possessed

their midfield pretty much man marked KDB and Foden out of the game.

Even if Fernandinho or Rodri would have started Chelsea would still have stuck to their game plan of killing out attacking play
and If we don’t have an attacking threat we look vulnerable.

Im not so sure one player would have made a huge difference last night.

[KunDB]

I broadly agree with Hesperus, basically our players did not turn up on the night and theirs did. I could almost see that in the 60 minutes before kick off, they looked focused as a team, we didn't. It then showed on the pitch in the game.

Bad night sleep, but hardly the end of the world, onwards and upwards.

Sterling appears to be well past his best.