City 3 - 1 Barcelona - Post match thread :-)

[whitenoise]

Awaits titanic post...

Love it, thanks!

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Messi wasn't happy. He wasn't Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy or Grumpy either, but he's still a fucking dwarf.

And he'll never be a red dwarf..

 

[scousemanc]

http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/11/01/manchester-city-vs-barcelona-highlights-full-match/

Thanks - I enjoyed that!

 

[TCIB]

The pepihad, copyright that shit sharpish, it has the right amount of cheese to not make us look ****s but drive rags over the edge of a mental cliff.

 

[northstander62]

feared the worse when we went 1 down, but once we equalised there was really only one team in it, fabulous 2nd half performance, cheers lads

 

[Metalartin]

Now that it looks like City will finally feel like they can fully compete with the best after last nights performance, I really think the amount of group of death draws we get will reduce because teams have to take us very seriously now, they wont want it and neither will UEFA.

 

[Marvin]

Just watching highlights for the first time since last night, for anyone (Terra) saying officials were ok he needs to watch again, Suarez header he's originally offside, Messi could have been booked for diving and at the start of the Fernandinho shot at the end of the first half, did he book the defender who'd tried decapitating him at the start of the move.

Look at it the other way. How could ref give Sterling pen. when it was really hard to see if the Barca player caught him. He did but you need a video slow mo to see it. And then what about Gundogan's 2nd goal? Aguero handled it. Arguable as to whether that was deliberate. I can see why Barca players were annoyed.

After playing barca repeatedly and repeatedly getting bad decisions, it's easy to assume bias, but on this occasion I just think it was a very difficult game to referee. Players of course don't help by putting huge pressure on refs. Credit to coaches for not going ballistic. Imagine what Mourinho would have been doing on touchline.

 

[inchy14]

Look at it the other way. How could ref give Sterling pen. when it was really hard to see if the Barca player caught him. He did but you need a video slow mo to see it. And then what about Gundogan's 2nd goal? Aguero handled it. Arguable as to whether that was deliberate. I can see why Barca players were annoyed.

After playing barca repeatedly and repeatedly getting bad decisions, it's easy to assume bias, but on this occasion I just think it was a very difficult game to referee. Players of course don't help by putting huge pressure on refs. Credit to coaches for not going ballistic. Imagine what Mourinho would have been doing on touchline.

Marvin I don't wish to sound rude but as usual you're talking bollocks. The ref had a clear and uninterrupted view of the sterling penalty, so no excuse, look at KDB 's goal, Busquet foul, minutes later Busquet fouls KDB again, his 3rd foul inside 5 minutes, no card. Kolarov then booked for fuck all, he gave them plenty he shouldn't have and if you can find me one incident that we got the benefit, I'll buy you a pint. And please don't mention Aguero handling, his arms were right against his side and absolutely no way he moved them towards the ball.

 

[CelesteItis]

Think now is probably a good time to stop booing the anthem? Reading his programme notes it obviously pisses Pep off and I agree with him.

Boooooo!

 

[Metalartin]

Look at it the other way. How could ref give Sterling pen. when it was really hard to see if the Barca player caught him. He did but you need a video slow mo to see it. And then what about Gundogan's 2nd goal? Aguero handled it. Arguable as to whether that was deliberate. I can see why Barca players were annoyed.

After playing barca repeatedly and repeatedly getting bad decisions, it's easy to assume bias, but on this occasion I just think it was a very difficult game to referee. Players of course don't help by putting huge pressure on refs. Credit to coaches for not going ballistic. Imagine what Mourinho would have been doing on touchline.

When you have rags saying the ref was having a stinker in a game we were losing you know something is up. That aside I thought the players lost it mentally starting with Sterling getting booked when he should have had a penalty and then more dubious decisions adding on to it like fouls on City players trying to break(Silva for example) through being waved on so they can counter on us. We lost our shape and focus defensively for a good 30mins until the equaliser... the players have to be stronger mentally than that(most City fans couldn't focus on anything but the ref during that time either but it's more important for the players on the pitch to handle it) so that spell can't be blamed all on the ref, Pep said it himself it's no good using excuses like a bad ref you have to overcome these things.