City vs Barca - Post Match Thread

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I cant wait for Saturday. Bugger the football I'm gonna watch the grass grow. TV can't compete on that one.

 

[aguero93:20]

I cant wait for Saturday. Bugger the football I'm gonna watch the grass grow. TV can't compete on that one.

You wouldn't want to blink or leave your seat.
Stoke playing has nothing on watching grass grow or paint dry anyway.

 

[Haveacookie]

This thread is ridiculous. I literally have a choice whether to watch paint dry or grass grow! Is this Barca bloke serious? Are we actually debating this. We have one of the best pitches in world football, the length of the grass doesn't alter so significantly as to impact on the style of play. Look at the pass completion percentages! Were there any serious injuries? All signs of a good pitch. Look at what Tottenham played on last night. Jesus Navas this guys a twat.

Barca fan here. I agree, no injuries, no visible mud, high pass completion percentages etc - the pitch was fine. I've seen some teams try to make it hard for us by letting the grass grow long, water the pitch way to much, make the pitch as small as regulations allow - but only fair game this time.
Overall it was a fair game, we maybe got 60% of the 50/50 fouls sure. We maybe also got a couple of 'easy' fk's. Kompany and Pellegrini complained that some fouls would not be given in the EPL, well this wasn't the EPL.
But there were no major scandals in my honest and as objective as possible opinion - Navas dived or went down ver very very easy before the red card /PK, we should have had a handball PK, the offside goal was not offside, the red card was a no-brainer, the foul on Messi continued after the line.
Some City fans come to our forum and post what Kompany said, that Barca was not the best team they've faced. Well than it makes it even more embarrassing you didn't beat us, or even score a goal at your own home ground. And just as Pellegrini said that no good refs could come from Sweden, haha wtf - butthurt much? Ok Pellegrini, no good coach could come from Chile either than, it's not like Chile is a great footballing nation is it now?
Anyway, I hope you win the EPL. Put Mou in his place!

 

[moomba]

Not embarrassing at all to claim Barca arent the best side we've played. It's not even insulting to Barca.

I was impressed by Barca on Tuesday night but we were destroyed by Bayern.

We've lost three games at home this season. All three were very good performances by the away team. But only one can be the best we've played.

 

[CitizenTID]

Guti: "Congratulations to Barça, another robbery"

Saw this on Marca - Guti tweet after our game

 

[Challenger1978]

So you cut if before & after matches yet it grew like that by the 33rd minute?...If it grows like that from match to match, that's some magic grass

Grass can grow incredibly fast in the right conditions (warm/wet). In fact some varieties of grasses can grow as much as 100cm to 250cm a day in optimal conditions.

A metre to 2.5 metres in a day?

Bamboo is a type of grass and it really can grow up to 2.5 meters a day.

 

[Bluesiam]

Not embarrassing at all to claim Barca arent the best side we've played. It's not even insulting to Barca.

I was impressed by Barca on Tuesday night but we were destroyed by Bayern.

We've lost three games at home this season. All three were very good performances by the away team. But only one can be the best we've played.

Well said Sir. There's way too much read into some of the after match comments

 

[Newman Noggs]

Does ranting on about grass count as wumming?

Not when it distracts people from a club's dubious tax affairs. Let's all play along and pretend that Barca are victims of dishonest behaviour by their competitors in grass length. It is, after all, rather more important than gaining an advantage by tax-dodging

 

[gmckennasell]

This thread is ridiculous. I literally have a choice whether to watch paint dry or grass grow! Is this Barca bloke serious? Are we actually debating this. We have one of the best pitches in world football, the length of the grass doesn't alter so significantly as to impact on the style of play. Look at the pass completion percentages! Were there any serious injuries? All signs of a good pitch. Look at what Tottenham played on last night. Jesus Navas this guys a twat.

Barca fan here. I agree, no injuries, no visible mud, high pass completion percentages etc - the pitch was fine. I've seen some teams try to make it hard for us by letting the grass grow long, water the pitch way to much, make the pitch as small as regulations allow - but only fair game this time.
Overall it was a fair game, we maybe got 60% of the 50/50 fouls sure. We maybe also got a couple of 'easy' fk's. Kompany and Pellegrini complained that some fouls would not be given in the EPL, well this wasn't the EPL.
But there were no major scandals in my honest and as objective as possible opinion - Navas dived or went down ver very very easy before the red card /PK, we should have had a handball PK, the offside goal was not offside, the red card was a no-brainer, the foul on Messi continued after the line.
Some City fans come to our forum and post what Kompany said, that Barca was not the best team they've faced. Well than it makes it even more embarrassing you didn't beat us, or even score a goal at your own home ground. And just as Pellegrini said that no good refs could come from Sweden, haha wtf - butthurt much? Ok Pellegrini, no good coach could come from Chile either than, it's not like Chile is a great footballing nation is it now?
Anyway, I hope you win the EPL. Put Mou in his place!

navas went down easily ? barca players are coached to do this every single one of your players goes down easy and screaming like a little spanish senorita . Upto the sending off you had 60% posession and yet joe hart only had one save to make , we made valdes save on at least 6 occasions , you didnt even dominate against 10 men . We are not embarrassed about not scoring when we had to play 40 minutes with 10 men , maybe barca should be embarrassed that they didnt take advantage ,and as for your "offside" goal you wouldnt have even got into our penalty area if we had 11 men , you won the game on one decision , dont kid yourself you are a better side than City. But there is every possibility we will not progress in champs league now , not because barca are a better side , but because the ref will give you everything at the naughty camp , if we got an impartial ref we would comfortably beat you , maybe not as comfortable as bayern though (was that 7-0 or 8-0 on aggregate i cant remember). Just hope uefa take action against your club over the bribes and back handers you had to give to get neymar to play for your club , (and i thought players didnt got to barca for the money , its supposed to be the glory not 100m euros ( half in a brown envelope) and 350,000 euros a week ), class and history ? more like bribes and corruption , Not surprising in spain though , more bent / dishonest mayors and councillors than the whole rest of the world , now run along and sign on the dole with the other 25% in your country , this forums for proper football supporters , not gloryhunting tourists.

 

[silvasleftleg]

This thread is ridiculous. I literally have a choice whether to watch paint dry or grass grow! Is this Barca bloke serious? Are we actually debating this. We have one of the best pitches in world football, the length of the grass doesn't alter so significantly as to impact on the style of play. Look at the pass completion percentages! Were there any serious injuries? All signs of a good pitch. Look at what Tottenham played on last night. Jesus Navas this guys a twat.

Barca fan here. I agree, no injuries, no visible mud, high pass completion percentages etc - the pitch was fine. I've seen some teams try to make it hard for us by letting the grass grow long, water the pitch way to much, make the pitch as small as regulations allow - but only fair game this time.
Overall it was a fair game, we maybe got 60% of the 50/50 fouls sure. We maybe also got a couple of 'easy' fk's. Kompany and Pellegrini complained that some fouls would not be given in the EPL, well this wasn't the EPL.
But there were no major scandals in my honest and as objective as possible opinion - Navas dived or went down ver very very easy before the red card /PK, we should have had a handball PK, the offside goal was not offside, the red card was a no-brainer, the foul on Messi continued after the line.
Some City fans come to our forum and post what Kompany said, that Barca was not the best team they've faced. Well than it makes it even more embarrassing you didn't beat us, or even score a goal at your own home ground. And just as Pellegrini said that no good refs could come from Sweden, haha wtf - butthurt much? Ok Pellegrini, no good coach could come from Chile either than, it's not like Chile is a great footballing nation is it now?
Anyway, I hope you win the EPL. Put Mou in his place!

The game was balanced until the referee turned the game on its head. Next game should be a goal fest.