Yep, Zinchenko has earned a start in the 2nd legZinchenko was very good when he came on.
He gives me more confidence than Cancelo at LB
So glad we didn’t let him go to for £16 million...would have been criminal!
Hope he starts next week
PreciousThen no need to wish. Whatever PSG has, bring them all. We might lose or win, but we'll fight. No need to afraid or hate, they just make us weak.
Good post.Marvin that post is a load of shite and you know it. Are you even a blue?
Things changed in the second half for us due to the fact we played OUR game instead of trying to nullify Mbappe and the cheating ****. Pep asked them to be more aggressive in the second half and to play 10-15 metres further up the pitch.
He moved Foden more inside when the naturally left footed Zin came on (was a revelation) and dropped Kev deeper. The fact that we made them look ordinary second half wasn't luck, wasn't by chance it was the fact WE played OUR usual game and PSG couldn't handle it. Someone said very early on in the pre match thread that PSG tire in the last 20/30 minutes as they aren't used to the speed and stamina of the Premier League and don't need it for 90 minutes in their farmers league. We made 2 of the best strikers in World football look hugely ordinary, it wasn't a fluke, it wasn't luck it was the fact we have better players all over the pitch than them bar striker which we don't even play with.
I couldn't be prouder this morning of the blues and I don't think I ever have been. From Ederson to Foden, right through the team you could see the hunger and fight. Do this again in the second leg and we go to the final.
On a side note theyre diving and play acting and moaning and whinging was the worst I've ever seen. Rile them early doors at the Etihad and I could see them getting another red.
I have to say Neymar is the single most horrible footballer I've ever seen attempt the dark arts of football as its all he ever seems to do. Touch him he rolls round like he's been shot, he fouls you (dias tackle) and he trys to insist he did nothing wrong. I couldn't hate a footballer more than him I don't think. He tried to ref the game all night too. So so so glad we have no one of his ilk at the football club and hope we never do.
I would have subbed him after his yellow though. No point in risking it and he was already knackered. Bringing on Jesus would have helped with keeping the pressure on and we might have got a 3rd.Congratulations to those subbing KDB, moments before he equalized.
I wish we could start doing corners like that - hard in-swinging shots into the box. Always dangerous. It's like we just don't care at all when it come to corners, it's just a mean to remain in possession not a goal-scoring opportunity in itself.wish we wouldnt look so vulnerable when defending corners, yet we dont look too threatening when taking a direct corner - like tonight we seem to score more when playing around the box with stones and dias staying up after the corner has been taken
Its not lucky that we have won virtually every game home and away bar a couple..dominating the ball it is obviously proven by the results.I disagree with your assessment that this was the ‘same as the Spurs game’ at our place from the Spurs perspective.
At no point in the game did Spurs outplay us during the whole 90 mins, where as we completely dominated PSG for the entire 2nd half. They were on the ropes for a long while and they were arguably lucky we didn’t score more than 2 in the end.
We had chances galore against Spurs also whereas PSG didn’t actually have that many clear chances and Mbappe had one of the toughest games of his whole career in terms of trying to get a shot off.
Yeah, a couple of things went our way for the goals but I’d argue scoring from a corner also has an element of chance about it as well.
You wanted De Bruyne off though!WTF i agree with you but I was praising him,He changed to a higher line 2nd half do you not understand what I'm saying
Yep, for all his talent, he'll be remembered for being a fcuking childish brat throwing tantrumsDon't think I could watch that diving tart Neymar every week, disgraceful some of it
I think we were massively fortunate in this game, and we should be aware of this. Against Spurs we dominated the ball but scored through a set-piece. Today, again we dominated the ball for long periods in the 2nd half and were able to create some very fluid passages of play on the outside of their box, but rarely did we threaten their goal. There was one must score moment from a PSG error in the 1st half when Bernardo passed to Foden and he struck it too centrally.
PSG are in a way the counter-opposite to City. Their threat are their forwards in Mbappe and Neymar, whereas our offensive talent is that we have 5 fantastic midfielders in Foden, GUndogan, Bernardo, Mahrez and KDB but we are forever massed against their defence outside their penalty box free-wheeling forever. It is beautiful to watch when we have a lead but frustrating if we need a goal. Nothing came of all our midfield play at Wembley, and nothing came from it last night either. You could say the same about PSG too (took a corner).
Our free-kick was incredibly fortunate. Mahrez can try that a 100 times and will never be able to do that again. What was he trying to do? GO round it, go over it? poor execution that came off simply because he hit it hard and on target.
We got lucky. Same as Spurs did when they came to City in that Q/F. But you need luck.
I think we have make a virtue from a fundamental weakness in our side...the lack of a centre-forward. Our ability to control the ball prevents Mbappe and Neymars from hurting us because it means we dominate the ball but we don't carry the same lethal threat in the penalty area that PSG have.
When PSG have Neymar and Mbappe on the edge of our penalty area, then they have the capacity to shift the ball really quick and get a runner in on the end of a cross e.g., Mbappe to Veratti that he missed by inches. I don't see this City side carrying this kind of threat.
The ability though to suffocate a side by preventing them from building up play, and to monopolise the ball though are huge pluses.
If Foden and/other players develop the Neymar/Ronaldo/Lampard ability to carry a real goal threat without being an out and out centre-forward then this absence of a central stiker does not matter.
In the Summer we have a crucial decision to make. Do we continue as we are, or do we sacrifice a forward to carry more threat in the box but at the same time lose control over possession? How many times do Bernardo and Mahrez cut back inside and float lovely balls in but rarely do these crosses have much threat. Against Villa that's how Rodri scored (from a Bernardo ball).
The plus side is though that most games end up 30:70 possession for City and what can an opponen do with so little possession? PSG are very dangeorous because they are more clinical, or efficient with their 30% possession.
I’m nervous but also have faith in this team. Personally I turn that nervousness in to willing us on. If there’s criticism to be had I can do that afterwards on reflection. Some deal with it by slagging the team off. It’s not the only way.You’d expect so in one of the biggest games in our history.
If people were laidback tonight there’s something fucking wrong with them!
But at least it goes to ET and not kick us out ...Issue is next week even if we score first PSG still need 2, their game plan doesn’t change