Barca v City Post Match Thread

[ID70]

7 goals conceded in last two CL away games, your not going to get anywhere winning the trophy defending like that

 

[blue by birth]

Silva, red card in injury time - sums up his match.

Didn't see a red for Silva

 

[stan bowles]

Totally contributed to our own downfall. Like handing out Christmas present two months early. Really need to stop taking liberties - as Lineker pointed out. Sterling the only one who impressed tonight. Maybe Otamendi at a push too.

 

[kaz7]

Go tell your mates on the Barca forum as you have spent enough time on here trolling and wumming.

Hurrah

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Poor defending cost us big time

Barcelona were awesome, the best team in the world.

We need Messi.

And Neymar

And Suarez

And Neuer

Sheikh Mansour will have to stop being a tight arse get his cheque book out.




:-)

 

[george22]

Silva missing the return leg then. Brilliant from him tonight. Not.

Sterling carded in 90th not Silva

 

[Proy]

11 v 11 I thought we shaded the game

Unlucky slip for the first goal.

Not clinical enough.

Absolutely self imploded for all 4 goals

At 50 minutes I was confident. Very confident.

What the hell were we wearing on our feet?

It wasn't a 4 nil game

I think we can beat them at home

That's about it.

 

[CitizenTID]

We still don't have that consistent winning mentality that Barca has. Complete concentration and fighting for the ball always. That, and clinical finishing is the difference between us and the top 3 teams as we can clearly match their quality of build up play.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Didn't see a red for Silva

Me neither, BBC & SKY reporting it though

 

[BlueMedic]

Heaviest defeat to Barca, but our best performance. Bizarre match.

If we had been 1-0 up at halftime it would've been totally deserved. Red card (again) ended the match as a contest unfortunately.

Each side had 5-6 chances, they scored 4, we scored 0. Harsh but just how it went on the night.

Saw little there to worry me, just 3 individual errors on the night cost us 3 goals - the only worry is our confidence, 4 matches now with no wins, even if 3 of them we were hard done by it's still going to hurt our confidence & with Barca again next week it's not unlikely going to be 5 matches in a row. The Southampton game is a big one.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

After a shaky start we were worth a draw at halftime but after the red it reverted to what always happens against Barca and we ended up well beaten.

What the fuck is going on with Kun? I really hope he's carrying a knock, he'll not hang around playing from the bench.

In Pep we trust but not as much as I did early doors.

Last season we made a great start and turned to shit....it's starting to look a bit the same and needs sorting.

 

[Armaan]

KDB's decision making was awful tonight

Yeah he did well to get in to those dangerous positions time and time again but his final pass was very poor.

 

[slicky202]

The bravo gaff finished it heads went down no chance of winning everything after that is by the by. The thing that grates me is that it was simple school boy stuff that's player of his standard should never get wrong.

 

[hgblue]

Frustrating because we could have won that. Barcelona are on their last legs.

A decent side will take them to the cleaners. Not clinical enough, sloppy in possession, mistake after mistake, not impressed.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Before moaning to much about the result, do realize the fact that we were up against 3 of the world top 5 players in MSN and a midfielder in Inesta who would still get into a starting 11 of any side of the world even with his age. We played well up untill the red card after that with us already chasing the game there was no way back. Nothing wrong with the tactics though other than the fact that we could have been a little more expensive with our play

 

[TonyM]

Trump called us a 4.

 

[B\connellblue]

Dress it up anyway you like as long as he keeps picking the same liabilities then nothing will change. Zero composure anywhere including the bench. Mistakes all over the place.This summers buys on the evidence so far are as bad as what went before.

 

[MCFC1993]

His substitutes?
Nolito off instead of Silva?
Otamendi, who was dominating at CB to RB instead of Clichy or Stones?
Continuing with De Bruyne up front despite his non-existent movement?
Buying Bravo?

Honestly any decision made after the Bravo error is pretty much irrelevant. Not getting anything out of a Barca side with Messi, Suarez and Neymar with 10 men.

On the De Bruyne front, he could have maybe shuffled the pack, Nolito or Sterling moved up top but for nearly 60 minutes we were well in that game.

 

[Bozo]

Not a good night. Bravo getting sent off was the big change. Still haven't seen anything from him that makes me think getting rid of Hart was the right thing to do, moving forward as a team. The lack of taking clear chances, or making a serious effort on goal in the final third is also a bit of a concern this season, despite some high scoring games in August/September. That showed tonight.

 

[chesterguy]

Up until the sending off City were right n this game. I think we have played Barcelona 6 times the champions league and have had 4 sending offs and countless bookings we may be invited to the party but we aren't wanted