FC Basel V Manchester City - Post-Match Thread

[frothy]

Why did lampard have to mention the money sat on the bench?

 

[happy]

Once the game was won we slowed down physically and mentally, it wasn't 'sloppy' it was game management against a beaten team, if we'd have been playing a better side or if the score was closer we'd have concentrated fully.

4 nil away from home and some folk still whinge.

 

[blueinsa]

Lol, woeful was york away :-) and no I didn't go.

I did and no i'm not telling fibs either.

How anyone can say we had some woeful performances tonight is beyond me and even for this place its fucking ridiculous.

 

[BigOscar]

Woeful performances lol?

Jeez.

Yes, from some of our defenders that was woeful. Nothing remotely threatening about that Basel attack yet we managed to make a right pigs ear of dealing with some very routine balls and on another day could have let in 3 or 4. That's woeful in my book, but maybe I just have higher standards for us.

 

[Dreadzone]

Superb.

Gundogan and Bernardo standouts for me.

And Kun. He never stopped fighting for the ball, even at 4-0!

 

[blueinsa]

Yes, from some of our defenders that was woeful. Nothing remotely threatening about that Basel attack yet we managed to make a right pigs ear of dealing with some very routine balls and on another day could have let in 3 or 4. That's woeful in my book, but maybe I just have higher standards for us.

Go to bed and wake up in the morning remembering you have just watched us win 4-0 away from home in the CL.

 

[worsleyweb]

Yes, from some of our defenders that was woeful. Nothing remotely threatening about that Basel attack yet we managed to make a right pigs ear of dealing with some very routine balls and on another day could have let in 3 or 4. That's woeful in my book, but maybe I just have higher standards for us.

Higher standards then the best football we have ever played and 4-0 away to a team who won 4 from 6 in he group? On a dodgy pitch?

 

[OB1]

Yes, from some of our defenders that was woeful. Nothing remotely threatening about that Basel attack yet we managed to make a right pigs ear of dealing with some very routine balls and on another day could have let in 3 or 4. That's woeful in my book, but maybe I just have higher standards for us.

You have no perspective on what woeful is.

 

[Kompany Car]

Fab performance and with players coming back from injuries other teams must be bricking it.
Gundog MOTM closely followed by Bernard.

 

[blue ranger]

Yes, from some of our defenders that was woeful. Nothing remotely threatening about that Basel attack yet we managed to make a right pigs ear of dealing with some very routine balls and on another day could have let in 3 or 4. That's woeful in my book, but maybe I just have higher standards for us.

Woeful is a ridiculous thing to say. We have just beaten a team with an excellent home champions league record 4/0. Yes we were a little bit sloppy early on but it was far from woeful.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

I get the sense that some on here expect 10/10 performances all through the team, and not a single ball given away.
I've read that Kompany should be "put out to pasture"
And that there were " woeful performances"

Some people are only happy when they're moaning about something!!!

 

[chaddblue]

Masterclass. Were they really that shit or did we make them look shit

 

[SebastianBlue]

Masterclass. Were they really that shit or did we make them look shit

Yes.

But don’t tell the missus I said that.

 

[80s Shorts]

Absolutely outstanding. We have a great chance to win it no doubt about it.
Play a shadow side in the 2nd leg.

Play like that against the better teams and we will be out.

Nice result but we wont win if we present the sort of chances to the likes of PSG Barca Real or Bayern that we presented this very poor Basel team.

I personally think we will do very well to get to the semis again. Not quite there yet for me but we will be, eventually.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Anyone who calls that performance woeful is either drunk, deranged, born post-millennium or all three.

 

[Colm mulvenna]

Danilo coming on sitting infront off back 4, could he now be the alternative to fernandinho now it's looking like yaya won't get many mins again?

 

[happy]

I get the sense that some on here expect 10/10 performances all through the team, and not a single ball given away.
I've read that Kompany should be "put out to pasture"
And that there were " woeful performances"

Some people are only happy when they're moaning about something!!!

100% correct, it's either Aguero is past it or we're sloppy...a load of entitled whinge-bag nonsense. The 2nd half tonight was a glorified testimonial and people are moaning that we didn't give everything we have.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Danilo coming on sitting infront off back 4, could he now be the alternative to fernandinho now it's looking like yaya won't get many mins again?

It was a brief cameo but he didn’t put a foot wrong while he was on (actually made two or three key tackles, actually).

Many of us have said he could do a job in Fernandinho’s role against lesser sides to give his countryman a rest.

 

[TheBlueDune]

Basel faulty.

11 man well played.

City excellent.

 

[totnesblue]

When did Basel thrash anybody like this? Maureen in the red car, perhaps?