Yeah maybe but pressure like this and the CL final last season is another level.
Until we start winning trophies then what I have said stands.
Means nothing scoring a hatful against Huddersfield then missing sitters against arguably the best club team in the world.
The problem is most fans are looking at us with rose tinted goggles. We did well this season, but in the times we didn't there are questionable choices.
1) Henderson as a right back - result, draw against mid table.
2) Gini advanced, Gomez as RB, - result, 3 nil loss.
Now I'm not saying we would have done better without those unusual line ups, but nobody knows. Perhaps the result is the same..
Imagine for a second it is F1 and the person winning the race has good tyres still, but they are told to change tyre, they loose 10 seconds and the race. Later in the season they finish 2nd in the driver standings and somebody turns around and says it's not because of the tyre change, people who blame that are stupid idiots.
It doesn't mean they have been bad all season, but small margins cost titles.
We have done well, most seasons errors don't cost is like this but this season small errors will be the decider. Maybe we'll win the title in the future but if man city stay like they are and we do strange things like put midfielders as right back, we might be waiting a long time for a trophy. Some people will say be patient, some will say second is not a trophy... but this is the problem with making odd things in the line up.
At the end of the day, yesterday's result was because Barcelona's strikers were calm on the ball and our situation was different.. but our strange line up didn't really help matters if I'm honest.
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