Crvena Zvezda (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

He’s been slightly off his finishing game so far this season. Still has 7 goals.

He’ll get back to his best soon. The finishing gods haven’t been with him for 2 games now.

We still win anyway!
The rather encouraging thing is that he has so many chances. We will no doubt see some statistic appearing in the RDAHMeedya that Hojlund is more prolific in that his goal to shot stat is twice the Erling percentage, although they won't dwell on the fact that our man has more goals!
 
Some say we were sloppy last night. I didn't see it that way. Yes there was some casual play where we lost the ball, but most of the time we won it back very quickly.
Some of our passes didn't reach their targets, but with new players in the team and them not being so familiar with where other players will be, that was understandable.
Alvarez and Haaland have got a really good understanding, they are on the same wavelength and will be our 'Sutton and Shearer' combo going forward.
The Red Star keeper had a great game I thought, bar that free kick mistake, and put his body on the line time after time, incredibly denying Haaland and Foden of what looked like certain goals.
(If any rags were watching our match last night they could be wanting a "Glazer in!" Haha).
All in all a very good win without the likea of Stones, Kevin and Jack available.
Alvarez a deserved motm.
 
A few things shone out last night:

- Nunes, absolutely a City type player. Didn't look out of place, in fact he just seems like a younger version of Kovacic to me. Picked up some nice space as the free man, will take some time for him to completely get it but i think he pretty much does.

- Doku, fucking hell what a player we've got here potentially. There will 100% be games where he annoys us with poor end product, but if someone can teach this guy that back post tap-in like Sterling, we might have a winner! So direct, it was exactly what was needed on that left side.

- Rodri, what else to say about this guy? So calm, never phased when in trouble and it just sets the tempo again.

At some point you gotta think what is Phillips showing in training? Surely this game was tailor-made for him? Sit next to Rodri and control the game, but if he can't get in against these lot when we have all these injuries, when?
 
Nice to see Red Star Belgrade live - a famous old club. And that’s about it really.

Another fairly meaningless procession of a game against hopelessly overmatched opponents - yep it’s CL time again

And they’re expanding it next year to about ninety clubs. Brilliant idea.
come on keep up at the back tonights game has so much history and rivalry in european competition it's what we ALL apparently want to see
german rags v english rags YCMIU
 
Enjoyed that, five seasons ago there would’ve been 10’000 less on the gate, no atmosphere & we’d of played at a much slower tempo, scraping a one goal win…..only downside was City giving them 100 seats in CB2 when there’s a thousand going spare in the away end
They have to give a certain number of seats in the main stand for visiting club staff, delegates and olayers families etc as oer UEFA rules
 
On reflection a fairly frantic game on account of us failing to take early chances, and that in turn leads to greater openness, which may leave us susceptible to tiredness and then to injuries. On such nights we miss the composure of Gundogan or Kovacic who can slow the game down and keep the ball.

With the squad already stretched thin, we now desperately need our attackers to be clinical and to start scoring with their first chances, but even that knowledge adds a little pressure to them which means they might have more such games.
That's why we need Haaland to come back to his best soon ish.
 
That's why we need Haaland to come back to his best soon ish.
Not just Haaland. We are clearly going off at the sound of the trumpets and hoping to get games over quickly so as to rotate, but then if we fail to score, or worse concede, we need to be much more patient. We actually have an incredibly young attack and they need to relax more in front of goal. Anxious players are not going to score if they become more anxious; it’s little coincidence that we’ve scored immediately after the break in the last two games. A half-time break allows them to calm down, listen to the coaching staff, and re-focus on what needs to be done.
 
What a great feeling to follow this team now and when we go one down not worry about it being two soon, as we did for so many years. Having said that I’m still jumpy until 3-1 not just 2-1! Cityitis til I die!
 
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