Borussia Dortmund Vs City (CL) Pre Match Thread

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sjk2008 said:
Although the Europa League is no Champions League, IMO, if Mansour was offered a PL & EL double or a PL and FA Cup double, I honestly think he'd opt for the former.

Much needed co-efficency points, plenty more experience (as a team) in Europe and a European trophy to boot.
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you should tell mancini then because he has said if we qualify for europa he will be fielding a reserve side

Roberto Mancini will not field his first team players in the Europa League, should Manchester City qualify for the tournament later on this evening.

The Premier League champions’ hopes of reaching the knock out stages of the Champions league for the first time were ended when they failed to beat Real Madrid at the Etihad a fortnight ago. City are still rock bottom of their group, but if they manage to beat Borussia Dortmund and Ajax fail to beat Real Madrid, Mancini’s side can gain entry into Europe’s second competition.

But Mancini has confirmed that he will field a weakened side in Europa League games, should they qualify for it, a necessary step according to the Italian due to such games taking place on a Thursday evening.

"If we go in the Europa League, we will play different teams,” Mancini said, Sky Sports report. “When you play in the Champions League on a Tuesday or Wednesday you can use the same team on a Saturday or Sunday in the Premier League," he said.

"But with the Europa League this is impossible. If you don't get any help from the FA, then this is the problem with the Europa League. We want to play in it, we want to try and win it, but if we do stay in it, we will play two different teams, one Thursday and one Sunday."

Mancini faced a similar dilemma last season, where the manager chose to opt for a strong XI in Europa League outings. However City still failed to progress through the tournament, eventually being knocked out by Sporting Lisbon in a last-16 tie.
 
Fans of other clubs questioning City fans' attitude for being disparaging about the Europa League don't quite get it.

It's not at all that we don't want to win absolutely every trophy we're in or that we consider ourselves too bigtime for that now. We're still as self deprecating as we always were, witness the continued presence of "We never win at home ....." at away games. But we know that our chances of winning it are probably slimmer than our chances of winning the league and there's no doubt that it will impact on our league form so in a sense we're putting all our eggs in one basket which happens to be the most prestigious basket available to us and the basket most likely to bring success.

Apologies for the piss poor metaphor.
 
Santiago Street . said:
Fans of other clubs questioning City fans' attitude for being disparaging about the Europa League don't quite get it.

It's not at all that we don't want to win absolutely every trophy we're in or that we consider ourselves too bigtime for that now. We're still as self deprecating as we always were, witness the continued presence of "We never win at home ....." at away games. But we know that our chances of winning it are probably slimmer than our chances of winning the league and there's no doubt that it will impact on our league form so in a sense we're putting all our eggs in one basket which happens to be the most prestigious basket available to us and the basket most likely to bring success.

Apologies for the piss poor metaphor.
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in a nutshell
 
Re: Tonight v Dortmund

marca_uk said:
We should give the young 'uns a chance!

Basically, tell them that if they get us into the Europa League, we will field a young team in it for the remainder of the competition! Give them valuable European experience, whilst showing the senior team that they play in Champions League or no European Competition at all!!
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I agree. Give them a chance to show what they can so as well.
 
We're not playing the best, to say the least, at the moment so sorry if I'm not in favour of Thursday night football coupled with a close title race in which we need to improve already.
 
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