Best performance by a visiting team

burnley blue mcfc said:
I honestly thought the 0-0 away at spurs was his debut!! Old age has def kicked in :)
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spurs was his first game back after being on loan at Birmingham. Big debate beforehand as to whether he or Given would play. Hart established himself as number one in that game and the rest is history
 
@BluePhil8 said:
The European teams have always been better than ANY English side we have faced.

Napoli and Dortmund were both class at our place.

Bayern under Pep.

We've played Barcelona a few times and it's been men vs boys.
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That Bayern team was incredible. Typical Pep team we couldn't even get close to them and frustrated the life out of you not seen the ball for ages. I suppose that's how teams feel now playing City.
 
Remember arsenal taking us apart at the Etihad and just having to applaud some of their players for it. Think they did it a few times in those days, can't remember the exact one unfortunately.

Other one that sticks in my mind was when we had Valencia over for a friendly. David Silva and David Villa, looked a very exciting and attacking team.
 
Not read the whole thread but Dortmund were brilliant and there were some great performances by the dippers in the 70s/80s and Arsenal more recently.
However I'll add another: Legia Warsaw in 80/81, I think it was linked to Deyna's transfer. They beat us 2-1 in Warsaw during the previous season and then turned up at Maine Road to administer a football lesson to the tune of 5-1. They were so far ahead it was unbelievable. I'm not sure whether it was early in the season under Big Mal or after John Bond took over.
 
What was the name of that supersub that Liverpool had in the seventies? I remember going to that match. We were just about holding on against them, then they brought him on in the last fifteen minutes or so. He scored three goals in about ten minutes, and nearly a couple of others. He was a ginge, but I can't for the life of me get his name back. Never made a particularly good career in the end, funnily enough. He was only really good as a sub.
I remember we all walked away from the Kippax in a sort of daze, as if we'd been blitzed.
I have to say that I thought Leicester's performance against us during their title winning year was outstanding. I really did keep saying for fuck's sake Mahrez.
 
Dortmund with their style and atmosphere created by fans were pretty special.

Napoli and title winning Leicester side are notable mentions
 
Fans applauding the opposing teams performance... what's that? Isn't the typical response... "You're cheating I'm going home :(..." ?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
What was the name of that supersub that Liverpool had in the seventies? I remember going to that match. We were just about holding on against them, then they brought him on in the last fifteen minutes or so. He scored three goals in about ten minutes, and nearly a couple of others. He was a ginge, but I can't for the life of me get his name back. Never made a particularly good career in the end, funnily enough. He was only really good as a sub.
I remember we all walked away from the Kippax in a sort of daze, as if we'd been blitzed.
I have to say that I thought Leicester's performance against us during their title winning year was outstanding. I really did keep saying for fuck's sake Mahrez.
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Fairclough
 
I can remember circa 1993 playing Leeds on the opening day of the season and they absolutely murdered us. Typical City however we actually took the lead with a couple of minutes left only for Deane?? to equalise in injury time.
 
Individual performance , Thierry Henry , I think it was at Maine road, stood to applaud him off, worst, any Gary Neville performance at Maine road.
 
Nottingham Forest in the cup a few years back. Not even Garrido could have saved us that day.
 
franksinatra said:
I can remember circa 1993 playing Leeds on the opening day of the season and they absolutely murdered us. Typical City however we actually took the lead with a couple of minutes left only for Deane?? to equalise in injury time.
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Remember that well, it kicked off next to us in north stand when a group of leeds jumped up!!
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I agree with all that. I do have an odd recollection (and it might just be me) but I think their reserve keeper (Taylor?) had an absolute blinder in the second half. That being said, if we’d got a couple I got the feeling they’d have just gone up the other end and it would have finished 3-7! I also remember Henry get a huge round of applause when taking a corner!
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Didn't he also get greeted with 'who the effinell are you?' and the team get 'boring, boring Arsenal' as part of the City fans' graveyard humour which caused the Arsenal fans to applaud us fans at the end?
 
Like many others the great Arsenal side's that beat us 0-4 and 1-5 left me in awe of them. I honestly thought I'd never see City play football as beautiful as that. I even remember the City fans applauding off the Arsenal players being subbed.

It seemed like that Dortmund team we somehow managed to draw 1-1 with had 22 men on the pitch, as they worked so hard. God knows how Joe Hart kept us in that game.

I also fondly remember the Leeds team of the early 2000's that beat us 2-5 in the FA Cup at Maine Road. Harry Kewell seemed like Messi compared to some of the dross we'd got used to seeing play against us.
 
The great Arsenal teams mentioned were the ones that I remember the most, incredible football that was a joy to watch even when we were on the end of it.
Napoli were another, at the time I hadn't rally seen anything like it, a back four, three holding midfielders and a front three that just ran at our defence with incredible pace while interchanging positions. I don't think anyone in our team knew what the hell was going on when they got hold of the ball. The interplay and movement of their attackers was incredible to watch, even though Klopp's teams go this route the way Napoli played it was a good two or three levels above Liverpool's interpretation of this system.
 
Talking of applauding Thierry Henry off reminds me of a City v Villa game a few years back. It was utter dross from both sides, with one outstanding exception - Paul Merson, no less.

He was absolute class that day, head & shoulders above the other 21 players. When he was subbed he received a very generous round of applause from the City fans, who had recognised his quality.

Just shows we aren't biased! But we can easily forget what a talented player Merson was.

What a pity he spouts such bilge and has done some senseless things in his life.
 
Bury 0-1,but then again that Arsenal 4-0 game at Maine Rd was impressive.Remember the standing ovation Paddy Vieira got as he came off after being substituted.He was a player in his pomp
 
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