Real Madrid (H) | Post Match Thread

ancoats said:
I would just like to welcome MANCHESTER CITY TO THE ELITE LEVEL.
We have finally made it and last night game made the watching public sit up and notice,

we belong on the elite level and everybody watching last night now knows Manchester city are a major club
if last night game did not plant the seed (Manchester city) to the watching world, then nothing will ?

Am so proud to be a lifelong Manchester city, and last night I can go to my grave knowing we can play with the elite and beat them. We earned the respect of the best club in the world and 14 times winners of the Champions League winners
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Great post Ancoats.
We really are witnessing the best of times.
Beating Real Madrid in the Semi finals of the CL with the confidence that we can make the final again.
It wasn’t perfect but how many games against top quality opposition are ?
I just wish a few more of us would not be so insistent in finding someone to whip every single game.
Love this club.
 
They were there for the taking last night and we didn't take advantage.

Some poor defending cost us cheap goals, no idea why Laporte just ran and ran backwards without going over to challenge him, the handball for the penalty was unlucky though.

I can't see what they can do to improve their defence next week but we will have Cancelo back which will improve us so confident we can see the job out although as Pep says we will have to SUFFER.
 
Blu1 said:
He was shocking in the 2nd half. He went missing & his weak challenge led to one of their goals. he also left fern on his own countless times with not tracking back.

I actually think Grealish for his 1st season has been very good.
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So even though it was obvious Mahrez and Foden were told to stay up & wide you blame him for not tracking back. This hatred of Mahrez is bizarre on this forum. Yet a player who we spent £100m on and has been nothing more than ok is "very good".
 
alexmcity said:
It's far better to create many chances and score *only* 4 goals than to be highly efficient and score 4 goals from few chances.

Wierdly, had we been average and scored a late winner, many people would have felt more satisfied. Which doesn't make a lot of sense really. We put in a great performance, given the circumstances (played a lot of time with our 4th-5th choice RB). We played much, much better than vs PSG last season. But we were luckier vs PSG. Hopefully, this time we'll reach the final again and will be luckier/better in the final.

Given that one of the best left forwards in the world was playing against a nearly 37 y.o. midfielder at RB, I'm happy that we won. Real are not likely to beat us by 2 goals in Madrid. If anything, we are likely to win again. Unlike the game at Atletico, which was 3 days after a game vs Liverpool, this time around we'll have 4 full days to recover after Leeds. This can make a lot of difference, we can put in another great performance at Bernabeu.
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Remember yesterday when you were berating me for saying we should put away this Real Madrid side pretty easily?
 
richardtheref said:
So even though it was obvious Mahrez and Foden were told to stay up & wide you blame him for not tracking back. This hatred of Mahrez is bizarre on this forum. Yet a player who we spent £100m on and has been nothing more than ok is "very good".
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Sadly he cost us yesterday big time. From the sublime for our first goal to absolute dross for the rest of the game. Not sure why people calling it out is a bad thing as he's had a lot of praise from all corners this season. He could of single handedly put that game out of reach (bit like the chance at the end against Liverpool) but his poor decision making had a big impact on the final score.
 
Blu1 said:
I turned nasa down waiting for musk to give me a call. :-)

with a 1 goal lead the % should be in our favour but I don’t think it is. They are at home & will score. We miss too many chances is my point. I would say they are favourites
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If you think Madrid are favourites I think you'll get favourable odds on them making the final. I don't know what the odds will be as I'm not a gambling man but I probably could have made a small fortune over the years if I'd gone with my gut feeling, but I've never bet on City losing and I never will.
 
glasg0wblue said:
They were there for the taking last night and we didn't take advantage.

Some poor defending cost us cheap goals, no idea why Laporte just ran and ran backwards without going over to challenge him, the handball for the penalty was unlucky though.

I can't see what they can do to improve their defence next week but we will have Cancelo back which will improve us so confident we can see the job out although as Pep says we will have to SUFFER.
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If he goes over he leaves a man. Pass to that man then Laporte is asked why he went over. Cant win really.

If it was anythings fault it was having a couple of RBs out and a 37 yr old midfielder replacing them.
 
willipp said:
Sadly he cost us yesterday big time. From the sublime for our first goal to absolute dross for the rest of the game. Not sure why people calling it out is a bad thing as he's had a lot of praise from all corners this season. He could of single handedly put that game out of reach (bit like the chance at the end against Liverpool) but his poor decision making had a big impact on the final score.
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Got top agree. I dont like the Mahrez hate but he's shown poor decision making at crucial times. He can only leaqrn from it and from the bollocking Pep and the boyus will have given him.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I can't understand why you or any other blue thinks like this pal. Was one of the most exciting games in our recent history I think and it must have been some game for the neutral football fan watching on TV.

We once had years of boring football that could be explained because we were often shite and on the end of a 2-0 loss, or more.

It was indeed a crazy night of such mazy nail biting excitement that I can't really remember too much of it.

I didn't bite my nails btw, I was too busy selling fannywipes on the game thread; )
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So we’d have a two goal cushion for the 2nd leg rather than one goal and we’d have expended less energy, giving us a better chance of beating Leeds. I’d happily sacrifice a bit of excitement during a game if that improves our prospects in subsequent games.

Tbh I get my enjoyment from seeing us win, the way we win is largely irrelevant to me.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
If you think Madrid are favourites I think you'll get favourable odds on them making the final. I don't know what the odds will be as I'm not a gambling man but I probably could have made a small fortune over the years if I'd gone with my gut feeling, but I've never bet on City losing and I never will.
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4/1 on Madrid going through someone on the final travel thread said
 
Jogon 127 said:
Not sure what else Laporte was meant to do with their 2nd goal as he was tracking Benzema’s run.

It was a great turn by Vinicius to get past Ferdy, sometimes you just have to admire the quality of the opposition. I even think Walker will have his work cut out containing him.

Either way what a spectacle for both sets of fans and the footballing World as a whole.

Roll on next week.
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I think Walker would have got back and at least put a tackle in or cut him off from shooting
 
Jogon 127 said:
Not sure what else Laporte was meant to do with their 2nd goal as he was tracking Benzema’s run.

It was a great turn by Vinicius to get past Ferdy, sometimes you just have to admire the quality of the opposition. I even think Walker will have his work cut out containing him.

Either way what a spectacle for both sets of fans and the footballing World as a whole.

Roll on next week.
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People must be blind if they can't appreciate the skill of Vinicius...
 
Anyone seen Agueros tiktok, he was watching the game with Balotelli. Foden scored he called Foden his Prince Charming haha
 
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