Galatasaray (H) | CL | Post-Match Thread

I thought we played well. Another day it would have been 6-0. How or what pep has to do to get the players scoring baffles me, it's a delicate line between scoring freely and not being able to put those shots away.

It's really critical sometime.. Against utd, or a lot of the games we've lost, those early chances we miss really change the shape of the game.

At the moment it feels like we have to be 3 up before we relax and play our game whereas in the past just 1-0 up would suffice.

Anyway, the players last night put in a lot of work, bernardo is my motm, he is a linchpin for us I feel.
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
100% it will be real or inter again, how can we possibly play someone again we just played in the 'league' campaign
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WE have to think about it differently... The group stage is simply to determine rankings. Once that is done, the real stage begins...

Real and Benfica having just played each other may end up facing each other again. The first stage is simply a ranking exercise.

The real competition starts now.
 
Marvin. said:
Ait-Nouri's best game for City. I would be wary of him as a defender though. I have him down as good going forward and not so good defending but early days.
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He's like two different players, depending upon in which part of the pitch he happens to be standing.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Finishing top 8 means that your side has 2 games less to play - an obvious advantage.
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The 2 extra games give you a 2nd chance, but the draw for the knockouts is a joke
The play-off advantage gives the likes of Real Madrid PSG and the other so-called big teams a 2nd chance and that can put the cats among the pigeons, Does playing 2 extra games really hurt your chances

Arsenal top the table, but what does it get you that City and the other 7 teams get ?
Finishing 24th and win the Champions League earns you more money
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I thought we played well. Another day it would have been 6-0. How or what pep has to do to get the players scoring baffles me, it's a delicate line between scoring freely and not being able to put those shots away.

It's really critical sometime.. Against utd, or a lot of the games we've lost, those early chances we miss really change the shape of the game.

At the moment it feels like we have to be 3 up before we relax and play our game whereas in the past just 1-0 up would suffice.

Anyway, the players last night put in a lot of work, bernardo is my motm, he is a linchpin for us I feel.
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The amount of times 2nd half last night where i thought if that’s KDB on the ball Haaland is clean through and they didn’t even end up as chances. Cherki and Foden basically had easier passes on for Haaland than the Doku one for the goal. They didn’t even look for him and nothing came of great positions
 
noseve said:
Agree with your assessment of the second half.

There are 12-year-olds playing in parks who understand who's in the best position to be given the ball.

Everybody in the team last night grew up playing football, knowing this same thing.

So at what point between being a kid in the park and becoming a pro did some of our players forget this, then? And why just our players?

Experience? Honestly!

Still - straight through, that's all that counts, for now. Improvement definitely required, though.
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Think trying to find Haaland as often as possible is fine but sometimes there is situations that that player needs to take responsibility when in the pen box and fucking shoot!
 
Let's face it, we are lucky Madrid are so shit.
Because we switched off in the second half and no one wanted to shoot, we could have ended up ninth.
2 more goals would have seen other teams go below us and therefore we'd be safe, instead we decided to pass it into the net rather than shoot.
Doku was outstanding in midfield and I assume the injury was caused by one of the several fouls on him.

Ah well, we made it but I say again, if Madrid hadn't imploded (2 sent off) we'd be a very angry forum right now.
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
I presumed people would of known Bodo be in the question, but still not sure how we can be possibly playing them AGAIN so soon?

Would be QF/SF in previous comps before potentially playing someone from the group we were in!
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I think the way it is organised is that the league phase just gets the ducks in a row for the knockout stage.
This new format means that we play a minimum of 8 different teams at least once. Previous to this it was playing 3 different teams twice.
Its just unfortunate that we may have to play one of the 3 teams mentioned in our next match.
If we had got a point from either Bodo or Leverkeusen , we would have avoided this scenario
 
ancoats said:
The 2 extra games give you a 2nd chance, but the draw for the knockouts is a joke
The play-off advantage gives the likes of Real Madrid PSG and the other so-called big teams a 2nd chance and that can put the cats among the pigeons, Does playing 2 extra games really hurt your chances

Arsenal top the table, but what does it get you that City and the other 7 teams get ?
Finishing 24th and win the Champions League earns you more money
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No it doesn't. You get more for qualifying in the top 8 than you do for playing the 2 qualifiers for finishing 9-24
 
It's rare that I don't enjoy a game, but last night was one of those rare occasions. I find it hard to get into European ties in the same way, but I thought the second half was turgid.
 
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