Atalanta (A) CL Post-Match Thread

[Ban-jani]

To be fair we’re all talking about how bad a performance it was, me included, but Walker was the only keeper to make a save, that was straight at him, we conceded only 1 and we had about 10 chances to win the game.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

The 2nd half was a bit of a farce really after being totally dominant in the 1st half. What concerns me is how little (if at all) we improve season on season in this competition. We have a team to go toe-to-toe with anyone but I just never feel that we are comfortable in the CL. Atalanta are average at best, yet have scored twice against us in the two games. We gift far too many goals in this competition and every season we have paid the price in the end. So far, I don’t see anything different this season.

 

[cleavers]

As a 59 year old it was great to have the old City back fir the last 15 mins ....please lads I prefer the new City lol

I think you mean most of the second half until Bravo's brain fart. After the resulting free kick, we were excellent, Atalanta barely had a touch of the ball in an attacking sense, and we managed the 7 extra minutes brilliantly.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Who would have thought they would have scored a header with the 5'11" keeper behind the 5'9" and 5'10" centre backs?

JP's philosophy out the window at the end when we had the chance to win it but shit it. Like May 1996 all over again.

Free headers are easy when no bugger bothers to track the run from deep. One of our midfielders was close enough to do that but simply jogged back and watched (yes I mean you Gundogan).

 

[BigOscar]

It’s harsh on Bravo, he’s not actually fouled anyone and he has to go for it.

It’s a 100% dive.

It was a pretty fucking awful bit of goalkeeping as well as a dive. No idea why he thought charging 20 yards outside of his box in that situation was the right decision, but then the lad did inexplicably dive instead of just rolling it into the open net

 

[mccity]

I think we as a team suffer when Walker's not at right back.

It's not that Cancelo (or Danilo before him) isn't a good right back, he obviously is, it's just that Walker makes us so much more resilient to counter attacking teams. He's the safety net that lets us go a bit nuts on the front foot when we have the opportunity/need.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

I agree with Joao, on both counts.

He's bang on the money there

 

[Cityfan]

Not read all the comments but most seem t think we were terrible.
I disagree we drew against a decent Serie A team away from home and totally dominated teh first half.
Second half wasn't great I agree but they didn't have many chances.

 

[Roachy]

Just seen the highlights. Jesus, wtf with that penalty. Gundogan, wtf with that pass. Bravo, wtf coming out like that. Kyle Walker, WTF!

 

[mikemcfc]

Yes I said to my good lady that I thought he had been on the wacky-backy it was so bad.

the whole team could use a session in the ganja den and unwind tbh.