Champions League Final Manchester City v Chelsea

He deserves credit though. He was the biggest spoofer possible with the signings but when it comes to discovering James and Mount who came through the academy and Gilmour who featured now and again it was a resounding success.

I was very surprised at the team selection. No Rodri or Fernandinho in front of the back four and Sterling selected who's been out of form for months. At the same time i'm not sure if I'd blame that for the defeat, given how Chelsea set up and how off form all of City's attacking players were. Would Fernandinho in DM and Foden out on the wing have changed that? Who's to know. 

City literally didn't create a clear chance the whole game. 

The two centre backs and Zinchenko looked ropey defensively all evening, too much stuff they had to do was last ditch, never had control on things. 

Mahrez, De Bruyne and Foden never got going. Sterling was lively early on but fizzled out. Bernardo Silva contributed little

City's best player on the night and strangely the man who created the best chance was Kyle Walker, which says it all really. 

Fair play to Chelsea and Tuchel who deserved the win on the night. Kante was immense, as were their defenders. 

Thats cup football at this level, nothing is given to you for simply turning up. 

In the end City couldn't manage to win a CL with no striker on the pitch and were caught out with Zinchenko at left back. I thought they would, i was strangely in confident mood going into this one, I must go back to being a total pessimist. 

One last point, I was a critic of Rodri last season, but was very impressed with his performances this season up until he was surprisingly dropped for the PSG home leg. A bit of an unpopular opinion at the time but i think Fernandinho's performance was over rated that night. Was strange that the man who had played most minutes in the team up until April is suddenly dropped for the big games the rest of the season. 

This definitely confirmed? I know I saw reports a couple of weeks ago suggesting it could happen after the UCL final was moved to Porto but didn't hear anything more about it since then. 

Argeee with pretty much a lot of that.Chelsea wanted it more and some big players just didn’t perform on the night for city.no excuses though Chelsea deserved the win and I thought they managed game very well.

I wouldn’t be laying any blam at peps door for the defeat.I’m sure Chelsea were expecting ferindino to start so to change it isn’t a huge shock plus it was one player in and one out so not massive.sterling should of scored as should foden in the first half and with the ball flashing across the goal it’s criminal not to have someone in there to take.

Don’t agree about rodri...he’s been caught out in possession of the ball loads of times and has miss  placed passes quite often in games and a player like that in the champions league final could cost you dear.

Villarreal seem sure the Super Cup will be played in Belfast

Hopefully he brings Kante with him.

Pep got the team wrong, no idea what he was at not playing Fernandinho or Rodri as DM. Gundogan hasn't got the legs or positional sense to cover that position effectively and protect the defence.

Had he gone with Fern/Rodri and played Foden on the wing, Gundogan further forward and Sterling on the bench, I'm still not sure that City would have won. The way Chelsea defended with their three centre halfs all on form and Kante doing the job of three men in midfield and allowing no space, and in seeing how James and Chilwell played, I wouldn't be so certain that a false 9 would have had much joy. I said on here a few months ago that it was going to be very hard winning the CL without a striker on the pitch.  

One thing is for sure when they sign Kane, that's not a final they will be losing again like that.

Tuchel to be fair to him, copped this early on and got Kante to drop deeper and Mount also dropped a little deeper to play alongside Jorginho to effectively get tight to Foden, Gundogan and Silva.