CSKA Moscow vs City Pre Match Thread

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LoveCity said:
I didn't watch their hammering by Roma, but I watched them against Bayern and they looked much better than last season. What they have are runners with pace who got behind Bayern's high line more than once. They had a couple of 1-on-1 type situations but Musa messed up a great chance with one of them. Really, they could have taken a draw from Bayern, who needed a penalty to beat them. An early goal would probably make things easier for us.
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Every match has its own story.
Bayern had this penalty in minute 22 but even then Moscow never opened up there defense and sat back very deep. Bayern had chances - but with the lead did not have to risk much more. And remarked that there defense that day (Boateng was kept on the bench because of injury problems) was not the fastest...

The CSKA strikers are very fast - but they are bottlers. But even bottlers have their days...

In the second half they only tried to bring the match home without risks. Even subbed Rafinha (fullback) for Robben etc. They kept Lewa and Müller on the pitch - if CSKA would have scored they could have brought on Pizza and go for crosses with 3 forwards if really a goal would have been needed.

If you do not bang in two goals early it will not be an easy match. The conditions (it was snowing in Moscow yesterday) and the unusual atmosphere in the stadium influence the match, too.
 
JGL07 said:
Marvin said:
I wonder how much Italian Gazza spoke at Lazio
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Gascoigne actually spoke Italian quite well.

He acted as interpreter for the Italian players with him at Rangers.

It was said that Gascoigne had a flair for languages, except for English!
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Gazza was probably speaking his version of English the whole time, which can easily be misinterpreted for any language ;)
 
i dont care if it's the dourest, slowest 0-1 borefest we see all season, as long as they win. It's not an easy place to go and it's something of a nervy tie.

win . that is all.
 
Feel very nervous. Anything but a victory will be disaster. don't care what the team is and who plays and who scores. Just want to get out of Moscow with 3 points and no new injuries.
 
JGL07 said:
Marvin said:
I wonder how much Italian Gazza spoke at Lazio
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Gascoigne actually spoke Italian quite well.

He acted as interpreter for the Italian players with him at Rangers.

It was said that Gascoigne had a flair for languages, except for English!
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Strange but true. I remember seeing him speak it on "Fooball Italia". My Italian wife finds the Geordie accent incredibly funny and to see Gazza speaking Italian with his Geordie accent just blew her away !

Personally, not to sure about the language skills debate I think it's more a sense of comfort behind the camera. Vinny, Zabaleta, Edin and Yaya and Nasri all look incredibly comfortable and others like Silva just don't.

Back to the game, I fancy us for a convincing win this evening.
 
We will no doubt be in for a tough game, but with the quality we have in our team I expect us to win.

I think we will see a top performance from our boys later on because they know they are pretty much out of the competition with a loss.

It wouldn't shock me to see Pellegrini starting with a cautious approach and putting Yaya in with Fernando and Fernandinho with just one striker up top.

I am not convinced Aguero will start, he will likely want to play and carry on his form but with his injures I am not sure he can play in Asia, followed by Spurs at home then a trip to Russia, followed by an away trip to West Ham in the space of two weeks.
 
Really confident for this and I think City will start showing more balance and keep their attacking threat and go on a really good run of performances and results. Hardest away game lost, crucial home game drawn, win the two against CSKA and hope Bayern help us out with Roma and then we have the opportunity to give Bayern a game at home and go to Rome and turn them over. Still a long way to go and beating CSKA will bring us back on track. All about momentum.
 
I think that is our strongest XI. Case could be made for Fernandinho/Nasri, but feel that Pellegrini prefers Fernando.
 
I assume it's a straight forward 4-4-2

Hopefully Yaya is at the races and the strikers do their share of pressing.
 
No surprises there, although I thought jovetic might figure. Shows you the priority the club is giving to the champions league.

Come on city. Let's dominate from the off.
 
pikku said:
What is the team?.
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Hart

Zabaleta
Kompany
Mangala
Kolarov

Fernando
Yaya

Milner
Silva

Aguero
Dzeko

Subs : Caballero, Sagna, Demichelis, Clichy, Fernandinho, Navas, Jovetic.
 
Tell you what, he has seriously started to put some trust into Milner. I'm sure his tanasity will help keep a good tempo to our game.

Like the line up.
 
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