Crvena Zvezda (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

Good game but so many missed chances.
What happened with the minutes silence.It was going well until one idiot shouted out and then for some reason folk started booing.
Why not stay silent until the end.
 
Harder work than it should have been, mostly because Erling didn‘t have any luck tonight. He’s due an avalanche of goals soon, surely.

Alvarez and Rodri excellent though, and we looked better when Doku came on.
 
Pretty much sat on the back row of the East Stand so didn't even realise Alvarez was playing until halfway through the first half as I assumed the forward dropping into the half space and turning was Foden. But I think it was Alvarez. Although having read this thread it seems Nunes started and I totally missed that. Maybe I need an eye test.

Alvarez is a player that you could argue maybe isn't that great. His first touch is pretty hit and miss and his passing is also a little sloppy. He's not particular fast or good at dribbling but my goodness he makes stuff happen. Sometimes a player is more than their attributes.

Also thought Gomez did well apart from one pull back into the box shortly before he was subbed. City are in a weird spot. We've arguably had first elevens that are superior to this current team but I've never felt so tranquil watching City. We feel inevitable right now.

Also Haaland will be his own harshest critic after this misses today but please remember before going in too hard on him that he's currently outscoring United
 
JRockBlues said:
The worst miss in that game I think was Foden's header. Point blank, met it beautifully but straight at the keeper. I know heading isn't his greatest assset but it's something he will need to work on.
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I'm not so sure - would need to see it again, but I thought he tried to glance it to to the right of the keeper, expecting him to move left. The keeper didn't move as much as expected, and Foden got a little more on it, but it didn't look quite so straight.
 
hertsblue said:
Sounds crazy after the amount of chances we created but i thought we were poor.
Wide Wide open at the back, less said about the finishing the better, similar to West Ham. Over 30 shots but missed sitter after sitter and thought our passing was sloppy esp the final third.
But 3 points on the board and move on
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Yep totally agree. We were very sloppy but it's difficult to criticise too heavily when we keep getting the job done. The positives are we have key players to come back, making loads of chances and we keep on winning playing under par.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
One to file in the ”take the three points and move on” file.

We didn’t play that badly, but we arent half missing some chances at the moment.

Haaland is going to score 12 in a match soon. He can’t keep missing these chances!
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I don't register them as misses. Apart from the mis-fist for Hoolihaan's second goal their goalie had a 'match of the season' and we were merely millimetres from Haarland gettin' yer quadruple hat-trick. The fact that he never stops and mopes about one miss is mightily encouraging. The scoreline should be been reflected in a six, seven or eight goal haul. Red Star won't be that lucky in Belgrade.
 
Actually think that's probably the best we've played as a team so far this season in terms of our patterns being varied and us creating chances just couldn't finish them. Always had full confidence we would win comfortably because we were vastly superior to them even though they did alright and their keeper had a great game.

Routine win in the end, did what we had to, sadly couldn't avoid one of the main aims other than winning which was no more injuries.

We've got forest this weekend, we should be smashing them, we will have to throw the carabao cup game and play almost the full eds side with the likes of lewis, bobb and gomez as the senior figures, . Maybe newcastle will do the same with them having champions league too which might see for a competitive game, then its wolves next weekend, by then we should have kovacic and grealish back minimum before we go to the emirates.
 
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.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I don't register them as misses. Apart from the mis-fist for Hoolihaan's second goal their goalie had a 'match of the season' and we were merely millimetres from Haarland gettin' yer quadruple hat-trick. The fact that he never stops and mopes about one miss is mightily encouraging. The scoreline should be been reflected in a six, seven or eight goal haul. Red Star won't be that lucky in Belgrade.
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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!
 
ActonBlue said:
F**k me, based off that interview he's going to make a great future manager. Incredibly articulate and providing in depth answers to difficult questions in a second language. An intelligent footballer on the pitch, and equally erudite off it.
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director of football his aim
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
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
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uefa rules friends n family
 
Need to get more ruthless in front of goal.. although i’m sure we will so not concerned

That’s 3 or 4 matches so far this season where a catalogue of missed chances has given our opponent a sniff

It should have been double figures tonight
 
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