City v Real Madrid post match

[moh]

Yeah. Think it's been confirmed this morning he has a slight tear in his hamstring. He isn't going to play against us.

Stem cell treatment apparently although I think stem cell is spelt with a P then E then a D

 

[cleavers]

You might be right that we dropped off deliberately but if we did, it might just have been a recognition that we could not physically keep up the first half performance or it might have been to draw them out. Also, they may have deceided to be more progressive and imposed their quality on the game. Really don't know but l do think the old chess match analogy is fair.

I enjoyed the game, even when I watched it a second time and thought there was plenty to be happy about in City's performance. Now that they have got throught the first leg unscathed, I hope the players will relax a bit, but remain totally focused, and give an even better account of themselves in Spain.

I agree that I don't know why we did it, whether to draw them out, or that we knew we couldn't keep that up for 90 minutes (probably both anyway), but my point was that to me it looked intentional, rather than forced by RM. I watched it again last night (highlights) and I'm even more convinced it was deliberate.

I very much enjoyed the game, and its the first time we've had a tactical battle at this level that we haven't lost. We may have beaten Bayern a couple of times, but they weren't tactical battles as such, so seeing us compete that way was the most pleasing thing of the night for me. Yes we could have lost, but also we could have won, and ultimately we are one game (and possibly only 1 goal) away from a European cup final, so f*ck what the media say, we can afford two of the three results in Madrid, they can only afford one.

 

[kippax4ever]

Watched the mini highlights lastnight.Dixon made one good point about the tranny and his goals against Wolfburgh.how they block the runs on corners,allowing tranny to head in..
So with all the talk from pundits not giving us any chance over there(seeing how many goals they've scored & even less concealed).
In my opinion them 2goals bad defending.the 3rd was the walls fault(opened up)allowing the ball through.So i think we have a better defence & every chance in the tie even if the tranny plays or not

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Just discovered the cost of my five-hour phone call to City, because they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, has cost me £25.10. That's despite me having BT's free anytime package at £23 a month.

You see, you have to hang up before the hour mark, and then dial again.

Which is fine, as long as you aren't ringing fucking City. In addition to the £10 booking fee City also charged me for the courtesy, again, because they are fucking useless, my expenditure just to get the actual fucking Real home tickets I was fucking entitled to was £35.10.

That's fucking more than I paid for one of the fucking tickets.

Robbing wankers, the lot of 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cleavers]

Just discovered the cost of my five-hour phone call to City, because they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, has cost me £25.10. That's despite me having BT's free anytime package at £23 a month.

You see, you have to hang up before the hour mark, and then dial again.

Which is fine, as long as you aren't ringing fucking City. In addition to the £10 booking fee City also charged me for the courtesy, again, because they are fucking useless, my expenditure just to get the actual fucking Real home tickets I was fucking entitled to was £35.10.

That's fucking more than I paid for one of the fucking tickets.

Robbing wankers, the lot of 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least you enjoyed the game.

 

[kippax4ever]

Man City making money for BT from their fans

 

[Eaglechief]

I'd like to think you see your statement about us meekly surrendering as being well off the mark and a little tongue in cheek

To be honest, yes it was slightly tongue in cheek, but I do believe we paid too much respect to Real, fearing they could score an away goal, which stifled our own attacking intent, I think the balance was too defensive for my liking.

Only time will tell whether 0-0 was a good result for us in the end (I fear it may not be).

 

[Eaglechief]

What would have been the point in that? You've already said Real will score 3 or 4 so we'd still be out.

Honestly, if we had won at least 1-0, then RM would need to come at us and score at least 2 to win outright, this would leave more space for us to launch counter attacks and hopefully score an away goal, so effectively the balance would have swung in our favour, by forcing them be more attack minded.

But with 0-0, they only need to score 1 and then keep us out, which makes RM favourites for the return leg to my mind, they don't need to come at us with all guns blazing, so they can reduce their exposure to any counter attacks from us (unless we get a bit of luck somehow).

 

[mosssideblue]

To be honest, yes it was slightly tongue in cheek, but I do believe we paid too much respect to Real, fearing they could score an away goal, which stifled our own attacking intent, I think the balance was too defensive for my liking.

Only time will tell whether 0-0 was a good result for us in the end (I fear it may not be).

Fair enough, but a counter argument would have been in trying to chase a goal or two, we could have easily left ourselves vulnerable. I'm much more happy with a 0-0 than winning 3-2

 

[Jazzman]

Fair enough, but a counter argument would have been in trying to chase a goal or two, we could have easily left ourselves vulnerable. I'm much more happy with a 0-0 than winning 3-2

0-0 is better than most results where Real would have one or more away goals. To be precise better than all realistic results :-)