Match Thread | Manchester City vs Lyon (19/09/18)

[teddykgb]

strange number of crosses so far

 

[Drubas]

I think Pep has a weak spot for him based on how he played at Dortmund.

Problem is, he is still a very good player, better than some city fans think, but nowhere near that level, and trying to accommodate him can sometimes imbalance the team - Liverpool away last year, and today as well. We needed Sane to run at the other full back and Bernardo in the middle, I reckon

Many of the players from the Klopp era are over rated. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Dortmund fan so I have the deepest respect for Gundogan, but Klopp has a way of making teams/players looking good, with his style of play. Götze, Kagawa, Miki, Gundo, etc. Some good players, but not the world class players they looked like under Klopp.

 

[Homar]

Why play with inverted wingers when the fullbacks aren’t overlapping? It just narrows the pitch. Sane has to come on at the break.

Seems like there’s still no improvement in our passing either. The single time we managed to string a sequence of passes together we arrived at their box dangerously.

 

[Bluep*ss]

Lyon not being threatened.......Come on City.

 

[buckshot]

Gundogan is a neat, efficient player. He is good technically. However he will never produce a match-winning piece of skill or a wonder moment that gets the crowd off its feet or win the ball in his own half and drive 60 yards to lay on a goal for a team mate. You want him to be the one who occasionally is capable of grabbing the headlines the next day but he can be invisible for large passages of play.

Yeah, like 8-12 months at a time.

 

[Mattyc55]

You might as well just keep the ball when passing it to gundogan - he’ll only give it back where it came from.

Get him off for Sané and get Bernardo back in the middle!

 

[Bluep*ss]

Not the first time they have been on top of Young Boys

PMSL........

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

The referee is marking David Silva. Keeps standing in his passing lanes

 

[@BluePhil8]

I'd go 3 at the back and hook Delph off too, shit pass after shit pass.

 

[Afterthefact]

I try not to be down on gundo by my goodness he loves the square/backward/safe pass. Almost like he’s more concerned with not giving it away to stay in pep’s good graces. And I think pep needs to tell him that’s not the be all end all.