chestervegasblue
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I blame the white shorts.
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Match Thread | Barcelona vs Man City (18/03/15)
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"They're better than us" is not an acceptable excuse if you go down with a whimper. If we go out like Arsenal did then yes you can say they were better than us but we gave a good show but right now once again we are embarrassing ourselves in front of the whole world.
The slaughtered lamb
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Riding our luck but we're still in this. If we can nick one barca will start to shit themselves.
Don't know how Alba wasn't booked for raising his hands. The officials develop wengeritis when it's barca...they just don't see it.
Don't know how Alba wasn't booked for raising his hands. The officials develop wengeritis when it's barca...they just don't see it.
IcriedwhenTueartleft
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all their threat is coming down our right hand side, they work it centrally then shift it out to the left and we have no-one covering that side cos Sagna gets sucked in
For me it's the gamesmanship I find most annoying with Barcelona.
Now the past 3 times we've played them, we've pretty much had half a team on yellow each game, and in all but this one (so far) we've had a player sent off.
Don't get me wrong, the pressing style of play they play is great to watch (normally as a neutral - not today). But when we do it, the players go to ground almost instantly, and rather than getting told to get the fuck up, there rewarded with a free-kick, so continue to do it.
Suarez dived in that half about 5/6 times, won a free kick in maybe 4? If he'll continually get away with it he'll continue to do it. Yet when our players go to ground easy (see Sagna up near the throw in line) it's just brushed off and ignored by the officials.
I'm sure we're not going to leave with 11 men on the pitch again today, and yet again it's made to look like we're a dirty team, when we're faaaaar from one. I mean out of those yellows we've had so far, Kolorovs was stupid but probably a yellow yes and Nasri's most certainly was as it was stupid. But we've got 4 players booked from 6 fouls.
On their goal they broke past Silva (on a yellow already so could do nothing), Ferny (on a yellow so again could do nothing) and Kolorov (again on a yellow so could do nothing). It's no suprise they go all out with the diving and in my mind, cheating from the off, get the players booked so they can't go in for challenges. If any one of those three tried to take the barca player out on the break he'd have been off, you saw how they'll swarm the ref when they can to get a decision to help them (like they need any fucking help).
In truth that's what's annoying me most.
Now the past 3 times we've played them, we've pretty much had half a team on yellow each game, and in all but this one (so far) we've had a player sent off.
Don't get me wrong, the pressing style of play they play is great to watch (normally as a neutral - not today). But when we do it, the players go to ground almost instantly, and rather than getting told to get the fuck up, there rewarded with a free-kick, so continue to do it.
Suarez dived in that half about 5/6 times, won a free kick in maybe 4? If he'll continually get away with it he'll continue to do it. Yet when our players go to ground easy (see Sagna up near the throw in line) it's just brushed off and ignored by the officials.
I'm sure we're not going to leave with 11 men on the pitch again today, and yet again it's made to look like we're a dirty team, when we're faaaaar from one. I mean out of those yellows we've had so far, Kolorovs was stupid but probably a yellow yes and Nasri's most certainly was as it was stupid. But we've got 4 players booked from 6 fouls.
On their goal they broke past Silva (on a yellow already so could do nothing), Ferny (on a yellow so again could do nothing) and Kolorov (again on a yellow so could do nothing). It's no suprise they go all out with the diving and in my mind, cheating from the off, get the players booked so they can't go in for challenges. If any one of those three tried to take the barca player out on the break he'd have been off, you saw how they'll swarm the ref when they can to get a decision to help them (like they need any fucking help).
In truth that's what's annoying me most.
BlueMoonz1977
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Well this game will prove to be pivotal in 2 ways.... it will highlight we have some way to go in order to improve in Europe, and it will also highlight who has come to the end of the careers at our club
rushts
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tramazi said:Barca magic this, Messi magician that... Easy to show flair when you are winning. If we score then we will see how good barca are
I see a slight problem......;-)
roypaulknewmyfather
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I'm struggling to think of a better 45 mins from a player than I've just seen from Messi. Might have been better for us if he'd scored that penalty
i8rags said:They are fucking awesome end of, would be a great result to even score in this game, way way way off this kind of talent.
Absurd that people expect us to roll in and take them on despite playing shit in the league for months.
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