Post Match Thread: City v Juventus

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We weren't at our best tonight, but then again, we didn't seem to be in too much danger.
If anything, the turning point appeared to be the Bony dummy that put Silva through on goal.

In those situations, Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Aguero, all score. Instead, you could almost sense that the players knew they had blown a golden opportunity to kill the game.

Also, because City always defend with a high line, there will be occasions when the opposition break the offside trap. Muller scored a similar goal for Bayern Munich at the ETIHAD in 2013.
 
Just got in from the game absolutely gutted we were in control of the game. Quite simply it's down to not taking chances at this level especially in the first half. Bony had a shocker not just the chances he missed but his all round play everything seemed to bounce off him! Nasri should have been subbed earlier for De Bruyne I can't understand why he didn't start? At times in tbe second half we slowed the game down to walking pace which suited Juve. 5 games to go I am confident we will qualify but a lack of concentration defensively has cost us again.
 
the_invisible_man said:
I don't understand so many of these comments. We were really unlucky tonight. They got two goals out of nothing, that second in goal goes flying into row z 99 times put of 100..
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No it doesn't end up in row Z 99/100. That's the different in this tournament, the top teams put those away more often than not. Tonight reminded me of Arsenal; could hardly stick it in the net then beaten by the other teams clinicalness. I fear that's the way we keep heading towards
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
We weren't at our best tonight, but then again, we didn't seem to be in too much danger.
If anything, the turning point appeared to be the Bony dummy that put Silva through on goal.

In those situations, Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Aguero, all score. Instead, you could almost sense that the players knew they had blown a golden opportunity to kill the game.

Also, because City always defend with a high line, there will be occasions when the opposition break the offside trap. Muller scored a similar goal to the equalizer for Bayern Munich at the ETIHAD in 2013.
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This is what I made of the game tonight. We played far too deep! This is strange considering we usually have our back line camping on the half way line. You could see pellegrini trying to urge the players forward. Being so deep meant we took far too long to get up the pitch to support bony, on top of this, we were very slow in the transitional play. Nasri loves to take the easy option;if it's there he takes it every single time, without fail! I find it rather frustrating how cautious pellers is with new signings, they just don't need this long to bed in, especially forwards. Kdb should have started tonight, he would have wanted to impress and show what he can do. Look at pedro for Chelsea, threw him straight in and he scored! What good is a £50+ mil footballer on the bench for 70mjn
 
BlueTG said:
No it doesn't end up in row Z 99/100. That's the different in this tournament, the top teams put those away more often than not. Tonight reminded me of Arsenal; could hardly stick it in the net then beaten by the other teams clinicalness. I fear that's the way we keep heading towards
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20 yards out on the turn? Maybe not 99 times but more often than not that doesn't go in...couple of cm to the left and thats going off the post and out..inch or two to the right and Hart saves it!
 
Well and truly had our pockets picked there.
The game was there to be won and a smarter team would have put it to bed. Unfortunately there were too many attacking players not on their game tonight. Sterling, Nasri, silva to an extent and Bony all had poor games. Coupled with Yaya going back to last seasons performances and Kolorov regressing to his old self there was always a chance a club as experienced as Juve would grab something.
I'm fucking gutted tbh. That was a great opportunity to win our first ever opening CL game and I can't help but think we bottled it. I'd really hoped that the whole mentality thing was going to be put aside and we'd go into the game confident and raring to go. Instead it was pedestrian football with no cutting edge and the result reflected that, even though on balance we deserved to win it.
Gutted tbh.
Special mentions for Kompany and Sagna who were both excellent.
 
remember arthur mann said:
They looked crisp, clinical and very disciplined, not the weak side portrayed by the media today.
We changed our style for todays game completely, understandable but for this match sadly wrong.
If we'd have taken our chances the outcome would have been totally different.
C'est la vie !!
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We had double the chances juve had, only Aguero & De Bruyne r clinical enough at the top level in my opinion.
Thats difference at the top level, juve were ruthless we were not & consistently haven't been for 5 seasons.
Gutted still as we did not deserve that, mugged, sucker punched, give it a name...
Hopefully we can improve, otherwise horrible de ja vu again, I sincerely believe if we can keep kev & aguero fit we will improve.
C.T.I.D
 
Positives: Sergio got minutes ahead of West Ham, Fernandinho is back to his best this season and we have a top class replacement in Otamendi if Vinny is out for any length of time.
 
blue jay 16 said:
Just got in from the game absolutely gutted we were in control of the game. Quite simply it's down to not taking chances at this level especially in the first half. Bony had a shocker not just the chances he missed but his all round play everything seemed to bounce off him! Nasri should have been subbed earlier for De Bruyne I can't understand why he didn't start? At times in tbe second half we slowed the game down to walking pace which suited Juve. 5 games to go I am confident we will qualify but a lack of concentration defensively has cost us again.
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Bony has played little football so it's completely unrealistic to expect him to come in and perform as he can.

The game was not played at walking pace. It was absolutely ferocious in midfield. I was on the touchline and the intensity of the game was cranked up several notches from any of the Premiership games I have seen this season, although both teams played conservatively. Only time we slowed it down was after we went 1-0 up and then I thought we were playing our best football as we were more confident and relaxed. I thought we'd go on and get a 2nd but instead we didn't take our chance and out of nowhere they scored. And again. 2nd especially was class. You have to give them credit for two pieces of great skill. pogba's ball in and morata's shot. Overall though we played a good game, and were a bit unfortunate to lose. We can't afford any slip ups now, but given our history in this competition you feel one is around the corner
 
New champs league season, same shit. Up until now Pellers has got things bob on. He fucked up tonight though. Nasri is twice the player Navas will ever be, but we are a poorer side when he starts, we lose balance. Slow predictable fucking shite yet again. Some poor individual performances too. Bony was shocking, his best asset up to now was holding up the ball. I think he managed it once all game.
Disappointed with the performance but not shocked. Gutted about the result and my paddy power account being a bit healthier hasn't taken the sting away.
 
5 defeats from last 9 CL home games. That's a record that won't get you anywhere near the latter stages.
 
We won't do well in the champions league until we have a tactically sound manager like ancelotti, Benitez, Mourinho or sacchi, which lets face it isn't going to happen as he's 69
 
Good performance. Fernandinho was incredible, by far the best player on the pitch. Kolarov, Sagna, Kompany, Yaya & Mangala also had good games.

Imo, the buck falls on Silva, he's being called the best player in the League, well these are the sort of games he should be winning. For all of his magic domestically, he's yet to hit those heights in the CL which doesn't get talked about enough. Needs to start scoring more in Europe for me. Just 4 goals isn't good enough in 6 seasons isn't good enough.
 
I just do not understand why Nasri and YaYa are picked for these games.
Time and time again they are shown up to be so slow in European games and easily loose possession. Their ineptitude mean't Silva had to drop deep and get the ball leaving Bony totally isolated. Lucky to get ahead but Juventus responded with two fantastic strikes.
As a result we're in the shit again in our CL group.
Can Kompany also keep his trap shut in future as every time he says "City have to deliver", we don't. Just fucking get the team to deliver on the pitch rather than talking about it.
 
Not seen a replay but for the first goal, it seemed to me like Managala didn't have a clue someone was behind him, the same someone who drifted away from him time and time again, he's not good enough
 
We just cannot get out of our own way as far as this tournament goes! Not even blaming anyone and not even upset about it, as it has has distressingly become the norm to get off to a bad start and then be chasing points.

Still not done and dusted, though. Just lost all margin of error and are going to have to overperform in the away fixtures.

Somewhat reminiscent of last year at times in all competitions. Opposition gets 1-3 real chances the whole match and bags most/all of them. But we screw up most of our opportunities one way or another and then lose. Mostly bad luck there, I think.
 
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