The final score didn't tell the story of the game. Undoubtedly City should have scored 3-4 goals (possibly more). Created far more clear cut chances than us. Matic played well and our physical effort was good, but technically, it was a poor performance from us. We didn't have any ideas on playing out vs. high press, each time passing it to Lindelof or Shaw, only for them to be forced to clear it back to City players. Fred did ok with running out of the press a few times. Matic is the only one who can actually pass out of a press well.
Wins that this feel hollow, not only because we're out on aggregate, but even if we did go through there's just a level of dissatisfaction involved with our general play. Some of the players are poor, yes, but the coaching instructions are not designed to help any of these players perform well on the ball in these kinds of games.