Wafty Cranker
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Evening News reporting Spanish Police attacking City fans.
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purplenose
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Madrid were not anything special tonight yet really cruised through to the final. Flat insipid effort from City, important to keep perspective after all considering we played Macclesfield in a league match not that long ago to lose by a single goal in a Champions league semi final to Real Madrid is perhaps not something to moan about.
I think what we can see beyond any shadow of doubt is that some of our players are now well past their sell by date, others not good enough if we expect to compete at the very top level both in Europe and domestically.
Keeping perspective it isnt the end of the world, nor a major disaster, rather just a dissapointing end to an era, and maybe a warning that despite the ridiculous hysteria over Pep, the fact is he has a big job on his hands and patience maybe needed. He will of course have considerable resources with which to takle the job in hand but he aint got a magic wand, and neither has he got a domestic league in which to build where he has a single game where anything other than 100% will gain reward.
I think what we can see beyond any shadow of doubt is that some of our players are now well past their sell by date, others not good enough if we expect to compete at the very top level both in Europe and domestically.
Keeping perspective it isnt the end of the world, nor a major disaster, rather just a dissapointing end to an era, and maybe a warning that despite the ridiculous hysteria over Pep, the fact is he has a big job on his hands and patience maybe needed. He will of course have considerable resources with which to takle the job in hand but he aint got a magic wand, and neither has he got a domestic league in which to build where he has a single game where anything other than 100% will gain reward.
Pellegrini has the charisma of a potato. ifsome here call athelico madrid a bus team what would you call the way city play under him against strong teams ?
totally lost.you can losebut by trying not by trying nothing once real scored the first goal they acted like its over can't find themselves him just watching like a statue.
its time for the club to stop this embarrassement making the club look like a pub team. even before the first game all the talk about real madrid ect city like if it wasa sparting partner.
Need to sign top top players not fraud ones who end up costing fortunes for nothing at least if they were good for marketing te sell nothing.
Guardiola will have a lot of work to do.
totally lost.you can losebut by trying not by trying nothing once real scored the first goal they acted like its over can't find themselves him just watching like a statue.
its time for the club to stop this embarrassement making the club look like a pub team. even before the first game all the talk about real madrid ect city like if it wasa sparting partner.
Need to sign top top players not fraud ones who end up costing fortunes for nothing at least if they were good for marketing te sell nothing.
Guardiola will have a lot of work to do.
Think i must be v much alone-but this is the highest level to play at, and funnily enough your weaknesses get exposed. We weren't playing the dog and duck ffs.
Some of the abuse given again is frankly shameful. The semi final-losing over two legs to a deflected own goal. We came up short-short of creativity and short on energy but jesus wept some of you need to get a grip. This team has done us proud over the last 5 years or so-but now we need to get younger, fitter and faster and hopefully Pep will see that.
Some of the abuse given again is frankly shameful. The semi final-losing over two legs to a deflected own goal. We came up short-short of creativity and short on energy but jesus wept some of you need to get a grip. This team has done us proud over the last 5 years or so-but now we need to get younger, fitter and faster and hopefully Pep will see that.
malg
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Maybe they were fucking annoyed at our performance as well!Evening News reporting Spanish Police attacking City fans.
malg
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Glass half full fella aren't you? Fair play.Think i must be v much alone-but this is the highest level to play at, and funnily enough your weaknesses get exposed. We weren't playing the dog and duck ffs.
Some of the abuse given again is frankly shameful. The semi final-losing over two legs to a deflected own goal. We came up short-short of creativity and short on energy but jesus wept some of you need to get a grip. This team has done us proud over the last 5 years or so-but now we need to get younger, fitter and faster and hopefully Pep will see that.
Wafty Cranker
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Maybe they were fucking annoyed at our performance as well!
Video now.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...s/watch-spanish-police-throw-punches-11286085
Ended up feeling like a bit of a damp squib. But I don't think it was a case of not 'going for it' or a lack of ambition, but rather that our limitations hindered us.
Too many defensive players who struggle to pass the ball forward - of our back 5 (Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Clichy and Fernando), Clichy is the only one capable of anything resembling a quick incisive ball into the front players. And an obvious lack of physical presence up front - we could have thumped long balls into the box for the last 5 minutes, but it wouldn't have made any difference with Aguero up against Pepe and Ramos. The ultimate irony being, of course, that Bony may actually have been useful to come on during that period, had we not had to make the early sub.
It was also obvious that we were going to be looking for De Bruyne to provide the spark going forward, especially on the break, and unfortunately he was dreadful.
Disappointing, obviously, but I'm not entirely sure that there's much more we could have done - other than individual players simply doing the basics better (passing more accurately, working harder). Team selection was fine, setup was good, the Sterling and Iheanacho subs were the right ones. We just happened to come up short, which isn't entirely surprising given the obvious gulf in quality of the players on show.
Too many defensive players who struggle to pass the ball forward - of our back 5 (Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Clichy and Fernando), Clichy is the only one capable of anything resembling a quick incisive ball into the front players. And an obvious lack of physical presence up front - we could have thumped long balls into the box for the last 5 minutes, but it wouldn't have made any difference with Aguero up against Pepe and Ramos. The ultimate irony being, of course, that Bony may actually have been useful to come on during that period, had we not had to make the early sub.
It was also obvious that we were going to be looking for De Bruyne to provide the spark going forward, especially on the break, and unfortunately he was dreadful.
Disappointing, obviously, but I'm not entirely sure that there's much more we could have done - other than individual players simply doing the basics better (passing more accurately, working harder). Team selection was fine, setup was good, the Sterling and Iheanacho subs were the right ones. We just happened to come up short, which isn't entirely surprising given the obvious gulf in quality of the players on show.
Glass half full fella aren't you? Fair play.
Forty old years of following City makes you either mentally unstable or look on the bright side-the latter is better for your health :)
A bit of sense-thank you. Sometimes the other team is simply better.Ended up feeling like a bit of a damp squib. But I don't think it was a case of not 'going for it' or a lack of ambition, but rather that our limitations hindered us.
Too many defensive players who struggle to pass the ball forward - of our back 5 (Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Clichy and Fernando), Clichy is the only one capable of anything resembling a quick incisive ball into the front players. And an obvious lack of physical presence up front - we could have thumped long balls into the box for the last 5 minutes, but it wouldn't have made any difference with Aguero up against Pepe and Ramos. The ultimate irony being, of course, that Bony may actually have been useful to come on during that period, had we not had to make the early sub.
It was also obvious that we were going to be looking for De Bruyne to provide the spark going forward, especially on the break, and unfortunately he was dreadful.
Disappointing, obviously, but I'm not entirely sure that there's much more we could have done - other than individual players simply doing the basics better (passing more accurately, working harder). Team selection was fine, setup was good, the Sterling and Iheanacho subs were the right ones. We just happened to come up short, which isn't entirely surprising given the obvious gulf in quality of the players on show.