Barca v City Post Match Thread

Funny how this is the first game we have matched Barcelona yet is our heaviest defeat in the CL
 
Damanino said:
We keep making mistakes and of course a team like Barca can punish them. Even teams like Everton, Spurs, Celtic punished our mistakes and got a draw or win against us. Barca is way above any of these teams.

But when Pochettino saw Kolarov/Zab starting and Enrique saw the same last night I am sure they were very happy.

We need to come up with some ideas that we can actually perform against top sides. Chelsea away, Arsenal away, Liverpool away, we need to get something out of these fixtures instead of just losing them trough silly mistakes and bad finishing.
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Good post. Sagna injured doesn't help of course but in the 2 biggest games of the season so far Pep has gone with what I, you and a hell of a lot others would also claim our worse full back combination right now and its puzzling.
 
I'm hugely encouraged and excited by that performance. I know it sounds odd but I think we are right on their shoulders now. I think this team, with the defensive additions which will come over the next two windows, can and will win the Champions League. I'm sure many people have commented on the bad luck and errors, but I maintain my belief that nobody can live with our attacking players when they get going, and we showed that when it was 11v11 and 10v10.
 
Benarbia said:
Funny how this is the first game we have matched Barcelona yet is our heaviest defeat in the CL
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I will ask you again seeing you ignored my earlier question.

You claim nothing has changed the way we play and you seem unhappy with that situation.

How do you want us to set up and play and is there a manager out there you feel would do it better?
 
You don't read my posts. I've seen a massive improvement in the way we play but we have still come up short in the 4 toughest games we have played this season. I don't feel there is anyone better out there.

But the love in on this board is pathetic. Once we've beaten decent opposition then I'll start signing from the rooftops
 
Benarbia said:
You don't read my posts. I've seen a massive improvement in the way we play but we have still come up short in the 4 toughest games we have played this season. I don't feel there is anyone better out there.

But the love in on this board is pathetic. Once we've beaten decent opposition then I'll start signing from the rooftops
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You're going to look daft by the end of this season.
 
Benarbia said:
Once we've beaten decent opposition then I'll start signing from the rooftops
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You see its statements like this that is frankly laughable and allows posters like yourself to move the goalposts as and when it suits.

We won our first 10 competitive games and we sit top of the PL and 2nd in the CL because of it.

Losing to Barca is no disgrace and Spurs aside, its been a magnificent start to the season.

To try and claim nothing has changed is just laughable imo.
 
We played nobody decent. Celtic were the first team to run at us and we shit ourselves.
Tottenham played us off the park.

I've already said we have improved but not to the degree people on here would have you believe. Stop twisting my words
 
blueinsa said:
You see its statements like this that is frankly laughable and allows posters like yourself to move the goalposts as and when it suits.

We won our first 10 competitive games and we sit top of the PL and 2nd in the CL because of it.

Losing to Barca is no disgrace and Spurs aside, its been a magnificent start to the season.

To try and claim nothing has changed is just laughable imo.
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Whilst I agree with you, it's a simplistic view... we know that even though we did win those 10 games, the signs were there in the last couple that we were starting to struggle a little bit!
Losing to Barca is no disgrace as you say... but handing them the game on a plate is!
All that said, I have faith in the club and Pep that we will sort it out.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I'm hugely encouraged and excited by that performance. I know it sounds odd but I think we are right on their shoulders now. I think this team, with the defensive additions which will come over the next two windows, can and will win the Champions League. I'm sure many people have commented on the bad luck and errors, but I maintain my belief that nobody can live with our attacking players when they get going, and we showed that when it was 11v11 and 10v10.
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I was also encouraged by a lot of what I saw, but I think you're being too positive, I said on Saturday that our defence isn't good enough, it's not, and it should have been sorted in the summer. When Everton have 3 attacks, score once and could have scored 2, you rightly worry about playing Neymar, Suarez, and Messi. The other concern is our finishing, and has been for 18 months, despite the goals we do get, it's not good enough for the very top level, as they showed last night.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I'm hugely encouraged and excited by that performance. I know it sounds odd but I think we are right on their shoulders now. I think this team, with the defensive additions which will come over the next two windows, can and will win the Champions League. I'm sure many people have commented on the bad luck and errors, but I maintain my belief that nobody can live with our attacking players when they get going, and we showed that when it was 11v11 and 10v10.
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Was just about to write a very similar post to this, so I'll just agree with you instead.
Only to add that after the game last I felt (and still do) the same as I did when we'd just been beaten at Old Trafford and Mike Summerbee said we we will go back there and tear them apart, to much sniggering in the studio. Not to say we'll tear Barca a new one to the tune of 6-1, but they know we're getting closer. They also know 4-0 flatters them immensely.
 
dario2739 said:
Whilst I agree with you, it's a simplistic view... we know that even though we did win those 10 games, the signs were there in the last couple that we were starting to struggle a little bit!
Losing to Barca is no disgrace as you say... but handing them the game on a plate is!
All that said, I have faith in the club and Pep that we will sort it out.
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How is it simplistic in its view?

We won our first 10 competitive games, thats a fact and we sit at the top of arguably the hardest league in world football because of it, full of teams that have invested £Billions is some incredible talent.

Spurs aside which was a very poor performance, we have played really well and i include Celtic and last night in that assumption.

Individual errors are killing us right now but they happen and im sure work is under way to cut them out and that over the next few windows, we will bring in the type of player Pep requires.

Its been a magnificent start to the campaign and its simplistic to take a result like last night and the one really poor performance and say nothing has changed imo when its clear so much has.
 
What annoyed me last night Silva,sterling,nolito and de bruyne all had easy chances after beating their man to pick out an unmarked team mate with a cut back and none of them could do it !
Even if they were glowing orange like a bloody bin man !
 
I actually thought we more than matched them for the majority of the game, the only difference really being was they capitalised on our fuck ups and we didn't on theirs. Obviously the red card made a huge difference but beyond that I don't think there was a lot in it.
 
Benarbia said:
Funny how this is the first game we have matched Barcelona yet is our heaviest defeat in the CL
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Yeap funny old game but last night's performance certainly offers the most hope. Last time we went there we were shite but had a keeper inspired and then last night a keeping howler ruined the match. That's not wishing to start the Hart Bravo dispute on here that's just a comparison between the 2 games.

It'll take some doing to match last season's achievement of reaching the semi but this time if we do we'll actually believe we have a genuine chance rather than attempting to keep the score down
 
Last night's result was typical European football. We were punished by individual mistakes, fair enough but we didn't take our chances and gave them far too much respect.

We need to learn some lessons and fucking quick.

We need to 'play the game'. We will only get on if we adopt the same principals as the other big clubs in Europe - we need to roll around like we've been stabbed up the jacksie for the simplest of fouls for a start.

We also need to get new boots that are capable of allowing us to play on European turf because our versions are shite, it wasn't just Fernandiho that was on his arse yesterday.

And Messi... best player in the world... for fuck's sake, I could be the best player in the world if everybody was scared shitless of tackling me.

We played really well for most of last night, had we been given the pen for handball at the end of the first half, had a number of other decissions gone our way it could have been very different. But we are where we are. To be honest I hate Champions League football with a passion. Give me the FA Cup any day!
 
We were better than Barca for large parts of the first half, but they were strangely below par.

Even so we gifted them the first goal with a poor Kolorov tackle and Fernandinho falling over - then we proceeded to waste all our chances.

Second half Bravo decides to act like a Sunday league player and the team fell to pieces.

We need some mentally strong players to bolster this team like Kompany (if he stays fit) and another like Nigel de Jong in the midfield.

If we don't sort out our abysmal finishing and crappy defending there will be more results like last nights to come.
 
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