Bayern Munich vs. City Post-Match Discussion Thread

Great performance by the newcomers + Boyata was pretty good today

Overall fine performance considering it was Bayern on Allianz Arena
 
A useful exercise against the European champions, who are further along in preparation and played their best available side.

They didn't actually cause us many problems but they did a much better job of recycling the ball; especially in the first half. We tended to sit off the ball more and left some gaps between lines and elsewhere but, around our box, we generally defended well, with Vinnie doing a good impression of the world's best centre back. Boyata did ok, aside from their second.

I expect us to move up and press more aggressively as things progress.

Negredo should have wrapped up the game before their joke equaliser; was the ref German?!
 
First half was as good a defensive performance I have seen from City. We gave them nothing. Vincent is the best defender in the world. Second half we were excellent again. Undone by a freak decision and one long ball. Forget the result. If we maintain this sort of form we will win the title. How good is Navas?
 
NoahCity said:
I didn't see the game, how did we do?
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Ref cheated the f*ck out of us from winning... played really good near the end of 1st half and in 2nd half...

Negredo scored for us... we had a lot of great chances and we pushed champs on Europe to the edge!

All in all pleased, with 2.5 weeks before season starts we are going to scare the living hell and pretty much smash a lot of big teams in the coming comps.
 
Overall a good pre-season. New signings look great; Pantilimon looks great; Dzeko looks great; Richards looks great; Pellegrini really seems to know what he's doing.

Ref screwed City, that's pretty clear. Bullshit offside calls.

But when the older players play together it still looks like Mancini is in charge. City has looked best when Navas and Jovetic are playing with Dzeko and Negredo.
 
Game we should have won if we hadn't been robbed by a ref who obviously had been told the mighty Bayern daren't lose to upstart City on their own patch. Having said that if Negredo had taken a couple of those chances we'd have been out of sight. Can't believe I'm miffed we didn't win after that performance. How far have we come.
 
I'm not enjoying this BT Sports - I don't subscribe to TV channels to have them praise City and say good things about us. I'm switching back to Sky - I'm comfortable with the constant slagging us off and the cheap jibes.
 
Really good performance, the result doesn't really matter but that ref was a bit much.

They had tons of the ball first half and did the sum total of fuckall with it, we looked dangerous every time we went forward, all in all very encouraging.
 
Good game, playing much more tactical now and we didnt even have our starters. Hostile environment and against the winner of the CL, and we came out and played good. Unlucky result
 
Mountaineer said:
Overall a good pre-season. New signings look great; Pantilimon looks great; Dzeko looks great; Richards looks great; Pellegrini really seems to know what he's doing.

Ref screwed City, that's pretty clear. Bullshit offside calls.

But when the older players play together it still looks like Mancini is in charge. City has looked best when Navas and Jovetic are playing with Dzeko and Negredo.
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couldn't have put it better... well said and pretty much bang on
 
Navas is just brilliant.....it does not matter which defender tries to mark him as he just waltzes on past them. He is going to terrify defences in the Premier League.
 
I'm very happy with that performance. Bayern were very close to full strength, we weren't although strengthened our team in the second half by replacing Barry with Yaya. Navas adds real danger to our team, too. Kompany looked almost the best I have ever seen him tonight, anticipating and acting on everything with perfection. Boyata did well considering the high level of the opposition but should have gotten on to the cross that led to their second goal. Zaba was disappointing though.

Make no mistake, we are behind Bayern and will be for a while but we have the right manager I think and are building a squad that in the future could rival them. I think our squad could still be improved some, but it can't all be done in one window. Garcia and Barry being replaced by a third high caliber midfield option (with the developing Rodwell as the fourth) would help us a lot I think. Fernandinho and Yaya are both top drawer but after them there is a pretty big drop off.

Negredo played very well but lacked a clinical edge until his brilliant goal where he made Javi Martinez look second rate. Jovetic also looked very good again but was a little starved of the ball because Bayern had so much.

Finally, this is twice now we've been to FC Bayern United's ground in the last couple of years and had a positive flow ruined by very dodgy referee decisions. This was just a friendly so doesn't matter too much, but we've been treated like dirt by referees in Europe so far. Wolfgang Stark was very much the German making sure the German club won the German tournament tonight.
 
It's pretty fair to say that Bayern on the whole were the better team tonight. And that's Ok. It's fucking Bayern Munich and they're at the end of the pre season on their pitch. Even setting aside the match officials, putting in a good performance today was a real testament to our squad. We just stood toe to toe with Bayern with Boyata as half of our central pairing and Silva and Aguero on our bench.
 
SuperSilva said:
NoahCity said:
I didn't see the game, how did we do?
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Ref cheated the f*ck out of us from winning... played really good near the end of 1st half and in 2nd half...

Negredo scored for us... we had a lot of great chances and we pushed champs on Europe to the edge!

All in all pleased, with 2.5 weeks before season starts we are going to scare the living hell and pretty much smash a lot of big teams in the coming comps.
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did Boyata do well? was wondering if he may yet have some use seeing as CB is where we still need guys (I would still like to see Pepe brought in regardless though).
 
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