Pep's Greatest Game

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supercity88

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So the great man leaves having brought success beyond our wildest dreams.

I had a think about what game I enjoyed the most, what performance I thought was our best and this game for me was not only our greatest performance but one of the best any side has ever produced in my opinion.

Total dominance in that first half. They didn't have the ball in our half for 20 odd minutes which is just mind blowing.

Considering who it was against and the matches we had played against them before, to do that to a side coached by Ancelotti makes it even more exceptional.

 
supercity88 said:
So the great man leaves having brought success beyond our wildest dreams.

I had a think about what game I enjoyed the most, what performance I thought was our best and this game for me was not only our greatest performance but one of the best any side has ever produced in my opinion.

Total dominance in that first half. They didn't have the ball in our half for 20 odd minutes which is just mind blowing.

Considering who it was against and the matches we had played against them before, to do that to a side coached by Ancelotti makes it even more exceptional.

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This was as close to perfection both on and off the pitch I think we will ever experience.
 
He text wio before the game, telling him we are going to beat them tonight. He could smell it :)
 
supercity88 said:
So the great man leaves having brought success beyond our wildest dreams.

I had a think about what game I enjoyed the most, what performance I thought was our best and this game for me was not only our greatest performance but one of the best any side has ever produced in my opinion.

Total dominance in that first half. They didn't have the ball in our half for 20 odd minutes which is just mind blowing.

Considering who it was against and the matches we had played against them before, to do that to a side coached by Ancelotti makes it even more exceptional.

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I must have watched the highlights of that game about 50 times!
 
I couldn't believe what I was witnessing in the Madrid game, just stunning. I'd also make a strong case for the Liverpool game in January 2019. The occasion, the atmosphere, what was at stake, the levels those two incredible teams reached - and whatever we all think of them and their fans especially that Liverpool team was absolutely unbelievable. Utterly brilliant match, totally draining. Vinnie standing over Salah bellowing at him after he'd cleaned him out. The Stones 11mm clearance. Leroy's winner. And I've still got no idea how Sergio just battered the first goal past Alisson where there was no space. What a game, what a night.
 
Red Scouse this season, most games against Real even when we lost we bossed them. Plus beating Spurs when Ortega made the save,not for the perfomance but the result.
 
That 4-0 Madrid game was absolute peak City.

There have been some classics over the last 10 years but that game was just extraordinary - probably the best, most complete, most perfect performance from any City side that most of us will ever see. A complete dismantling of the competition’s serial winners, a team full of superstars, making it look like men against boys at times.

One of the enduring images for me was when Bernardo’s second went in and then during the replays, the camera cut to the Madrid bench where Ancelotti and one of his assistants were watching the goal back and just shrugged at each other as if to say “what can you do?”.

Just brilliant. Will live forever in the memory, that one.
 
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For me this is the best game I have seen from a Pep side, it was in the middle of a run of great games including the RM one but for me beating Bayern who are well organised in the way that we did was a job done well.
 
Should be what was his second greatest game as it's Madrid and it is really not close.

Madrid were right in their most feared era, they were reigning champions, heavy favourites to retain it and went on to win it the following year too, they were in that moment, the best team in Europe, we knocked them off that perch like no other side has ever done, a complete dismantling of them.

They had no answer to it, it wasn't them playing poorly or missing chances or bad luck, it was men against boys, they couldn't lay a glove on us. Madrid and the media surrounding them are the most arrogant around yet after that game, nobody offered excuses, they accepted they were thoroughly smashed, the players and their most vocal media mouthpieces all said they've never suffered like that.

Everyone who witnessed it will talk about it forever.
 
I’m going to go for a game that not many people will even think of.

City 4 - 2 Spurs February 2023 (I think)

Losing 2-0 at half time, Spurs doing their usual number on us. 115 charges had just been released and Arsenal were numerous points in front of us, title challenge seemed dead. The club seemed dead. The second half we twatted them, and it ignited something inside the club to go on the most memorable run in our history. The game changed everything.

Come to think of it, there was so many games during that run in that were memorable. Beating Arsenal 4-1 was unbelievable, followed by a few weeks later the demolishing of Madrid. Never heard our ground so loud.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Whilst it wasn’t the best performance of the Pep era, I will always remember going to Stamford Bridge in his second season, when they were reigning champions, and just pressing the life out of them and dominating the game. That was when I knew We had reached a new level .
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Yes that was a big standout for me. We'd had some great away performances under Mancini and Pelligrini but i'd never seen us completey dominate a game like that before. They were reigning champions, on their home turf and they couldn't get a kick of the ball. It was clear then we were on the verge of something special.
 
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Apart from the obvious ones previously mentioned in this thread, I'll always remeber beating the scum at the swamp with Maureen in charge.
We didn't play with a number 9 and just rotated all around them and they didn't have a clue how to handle us.
Plus the loud and long chant of "park the bus man utd" that really humiliated them.
Really made me feel we were levels above them both on and off the pitch that night
 
Georgian Maestro said:
Yes that was a big standout for me. We'd had some great away performances under Mancini and Pelligrini but i'd never seen us completey dominate a game like that before. They were reigning champions, on their own turf and they couldn't get a kick of the ball. It was clear then we were on the verge of something special.
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That’s how I remember it. I rang my dad straight after and said “That’s the best City performance I have ever seen” and he agreed. We’d all seen it building, even during his first season (I seem to remember winning 6-0 at Watford in the final game) but that was when we made the football world stand up and take notice.
 
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