City Vs Borussia Dortmund (CL) Post Match Thread

[Bill]

what an embarassement.
the entire performance was so poor, lack of confidence, good passing, pressing, concepts.
no wonder, man city did not succeed in euroleague last year. in my opinion manchini had virtually no plan at all how to bring the germans down. only dortmund delivered tonight...oh i am so dissapointed!!!

wie gehts und auf wiedersehen.

 

[jrb]

Overall we were the better team, if Joe Hart had been more alert we would have won 1-0. They got lucky as Rodwell has been faultless since he joined

Ah? :-/

 

[makinavaja]

mancini is actually clueless. to have rodwell in the team over either milner or barry is criminal. nasty over lescott is worse and as for letting de jong go for garcia is plain madness.

hart fantastic.

the bottom line though is we also had our chances and had rodwell not been colour blind the pen would have won it for us.

what did garcia do wrong tonight

and how do you think lescott would have handled their pressing

Garcia makes Dejong look like Messi , A more experienced midfielder like Milner or Barry should have been brought in and not Rodwell , This is the UCL not a preseason game Lescott is more experience and has more physical presence than Nastasic . Tevez is a workaholic and UCL quality attacker . Truely Mancini is clueless.

LOL you have not watched Garcia then, a great DM who can actually build play, with goal, and vision. To compare him with the karate master always on the verge of a red card is just.......well, pointless

 

[DaveTheYid]

City were lucky to avoid a 3 or 4 nil hammering and Hart was out of this world.

So many players looked off the pace, Nasri hasn't looked fit since he has joined City and he looks like carrying a large amount of extra weight, No intensity left in his play whatsoever.

Question marks over Mancini in Europe carry on, Suprised by his tactics and Rodwell is nowhere near good enough for a team in the CL and the lad Javi Garcia was non-existent, Didn't realise he was playing until the 20th minute.

Aguero looked good and made the best out of some scraps.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

what did garcia do wrong tonight

and how do you think lescott would have handled their pressing

Garcia makes Dejong look like Messi , A more experienced midfielder like Milner or Barry should have been brought in and not Rodwell , This is the UCL not a preseason game Lescott is more experience and has more physical presence than Nastasic . Tevez is a workaholic and UCL quality attacker . Truely Mancini is clueless.

you didn't answer the question. what did garcia do wrong tonight, or are you just going to keep in your de jong nostalgia. he's gone, garcia is here, now tell me what he did wrong tonight.

His distribution of the ball was awful imo

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Overall we were the better team, if Joe Hart had been more alert we would have won 1-0. They got lucky as Rodwell has been faultless since he joined

Ah? :-/

Bobby knows the problem and he will fix it very quickly

 

[supercrystal7]

This match reveals a few important things.
1. Nasri does not have the right work ethic or mentality to play for City. He is a loser and hid.
2. Yaya Toure really needs help in midfield against the better teams.
3. You are really missing a world class centre back. Kompany is off form and it shows.

1. Yes he has. But he isn't a winger! Yet another player who is played out of his natural best position. He would be fantastic as a playmaking centre midfielder.
2. Agree. Yaya should never again EVER be played as a defensive midfielder. That's like playing Messi at centre back.
3. Yes. I think Nastacic looks great and looks like he could turn out to be a fantastic signing.

We did not play as a unit tonight, nor have we for a while.

I think in Yaya, Nasri and Garcia we could have one of the three best midfields in Europe, and the optioons we have up front is on paper almost too good to be true. Our defence is okay, but very thin. If Maicon again reaches his potential he'll be a great addition.

With out current sqaud I think we could play like this and ought to be very successful at it.

----------------------- Hart -------------------------
------ Kompany -------------- Nastacic ---------
Maicon ------------ Garcia -------------- Kolarov
------------- Yaya ------------ Nasri --------------
--- Tevez ---------- Aguero ----------- Silva ---

I personally have lost faith in Nasri. Compare Nasri today and Silva against Arsenal. That is the difference between the two players. Silva was having a shocker. Not once did he hide. Not once did he stop trying to play the right pass, not once did he stop showing for the ball. I can recall at least 3 times in the match where Silva wasted a good counter attack. BUT that is what makes him class. Even on his worst day, with his confidence at it's lowest he is going to stand and be counted.

Do you remember Nasri doing anything good or bad today?

I expect this will be the team from now on.

Maicon Kompany Nastasic Clichy

Silva Toure Barry/Garica Kolarov

Balotelli Aguero

If Mancini gets you out of the group then I think there will be quite a few player sold in the summer.

 

[salfordblues]

BARRY IS INJURED!! Stop blaming Mancini for not playing him!!!!!!!!

Milner?

 

[xmusampa]

Yaya was a passenger and the team needs to man up as they out ran out pressed and out muscled us throughout.

 

[Chrisja1000]

I would buy both their wingers in a heartbeat!!