Match Thread | Manchester City vs. B.Leverkusen (25/11/25)

[Legal Alien]

Good subs!

COME ON CITY!!!!

 

[citytill1die84]

The bench cost again! ****

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

First good decision of the night, Pep. The thing that would have really, seriously pissed me off would have been us losing to the seventieth or seventy-fifth minutes, maybe even conceding a second goal, and then — and only then — Guardiola making subs. I can't stand it when he does that. If we lose with this, I'll find it easier to accept.

We've got two away games in the CL after this. We need a point. Actually, we need the three.

 

[vicblueman]

Bt keep going on about the 400m on the bench
Fookoff tossers!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Good news my dad will replace him at half time he's 89 but will be better than silvinho

Username checks out.

 

[CΛL]

Viana is buying players like he’s still at Sporting

 

[flook]

3 decent changes

 

[daveiw01]

He looks good against relegation fodder.

Hope the commentators let us know how much our bench is worth...

 

[Cigs&Alc]

why not Savio for Doku? He’s been awful as usual and Bobb has been ok.

 

[deano ou812]

Bobb didnt play well at all.

Lewis poor too.

I’d rather have kept either of those on than savinho

 

[spiny]

To slow, no intent. City playing pass the parcel with the ball so no one is looking to score. No City player making a claim to be first choice.

At least Pep has made changes for the 2nd half.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

I was a bit concerned the bench value wasn't going to get a mention.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

How much ????

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The biggest thing we need to add is intensity.

 

[argyle]

Why do so many of our players slip and fall over??

Always sliding all over the place

 

[Craig]

I don't really understand the logic about making a lot of changes means drop in quality...I mean it's not as if these guys a strangers...they all play and train together 6 days a week and have done for atheist nearly a year if not more...they all play the same way in training and are coached playing with each other as a squad of 22 with a handful of academy players so I don't buy into that their is bound to be a drop off. For me it's a lack of match sharpness and the longer the game goes on the more comfortable these players should be. 3-1 City...Bobb, Savinho, Lewis.

They’re nowhere near the level of the players who have been left out. A few changes with most the better players in they’d probably do ok. Put them all together and you get that performance!

 

[Chak19]

3 subs at halftime, something that Pep never makes, everyone could see that coming when the lineup came out.

 

[noseve]

After last UCL season - ambling through matches in the mistaken belief that 'of course we'll qualify!', I can't believe the lack of intensity shown, again.

 

[Stoned Rose]

The crowds faces and emptying seats 10 mins before half time says it all

That was all the foreigners who’ve never watched football before. They thought it was 35 per half.

 

[B\connellblue]

Doku, O'Reilly and Foden on, Pep clearly not happy, saw the shite we just watched.

He put the team out so he can hardly be absolved of blame