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Backwards or sideways are all part of the job of moving our opponents around to patiently wait for a higher percentage opportunity, not for fans who demand instant high risk play but a legitimate tactic.

Well done lads and a great privelege to have been able to watch live online, well done City+tv

If he maintains his current progress I sincerely hope we find a way to keep this lad under City contract for a long time.

We bought a lot of players carrying or picking up injuries when they arrived, thankfully not so many nowadays.

Slightly underwhelmed when David Silva arrived, at the time would have preferred his attacking partner at Valencia, David Villa, (or better still both), but it turned out well and not so choosey now. I trust our transfer team.

Thank you Man City for providing us with an opportunity to see events like this live. A wonderful service for those interested in the entire club, unable to attend these games, damn the begrudgers, it's a football lifeline for some fans.

He's my favourite player but I fully agree, a real risk/benefit choice, and why I prefer the benefit of him playing F9 in our current set up.

It is amazing indeed. It is also amazingingly difficult to find space to make a risk free forward pass in a third of the pitch containing 10 City players and 11 Atleti players. What's the option, keep the ball and wait for a rare opening or bring our CB's back to the halfway line, give Atleti...

I wouldn't leave him out of the starting lineup, on current form either. But Katsunari said "In terms of our ability to keep possession I don’t think Kev makes our strongest 11", taken at face value that's a reasonable opinion not unique to that poster and undeserving of the lazy cliche "I see...

That's the risk/benefit choice Pep has to make in every big game, relatively risk free ball retention or a world class attack focused risk taking player in the mix. My hope would be Kevin as F9, defensively less risky, offensively sheer class in a roaming role.

Enjoyed the way Machin's team played, if not all the results. Had great hopes when Allen arrived, thanks for this post explaining why those hopes were extinguished.

He probably thinks they are more likely to react badly to the booting they will get in Madrid.

Watching a football match to count an individual player's errors seems to be a terrible waste of our short lives, unless it's a well paid profession. With over 70% possession every player has more likelihood of making errors as well as doing good things, hardly shocking.

Went to the loo at 90 mins, poor decision, oh shit ! missed the fun.

Name 3 "world-class" strikers, with records at least as good as prime Aguero, who were both available for transfer and wanted to join City, in the past 2 years.

Fully agree.

The vultures sniff blood.

It's wishful thinking from those barely capable of rational thought.

Any hint of weakness and the vultures sweep in for a cheap feed. Something similar in some people's nature.

His quality is best judged when absent. A huge loss.