Match Thread | Man City vs. Real Madrid (17/04/24)

[69FACUPfinal]

He does not deserve to be starting right now

I agree and no doubt as usual I will get piled on.

 

[malg]

In the ground and it didn't have the same feel as last season. If we do lose then it'll be in no small way down to that silly bollocks with the bus and the black flags........

 

[JULES]

Not good enough

Some of the players look half arsed, losing so many 50/50...only winning the ball back when we have 3 or 4 guys around 1 Madrid player

Haaland needs to step up, Foden needs to get more central, Walker needs to focus, Dias needs to act like a Centre half who can't be passed not a big fanny who's scared of getting physical

Deffo still in it obviously, but can't be starting the next half like this

anything else???

 

[Burtonblue]

Patience
We will win this

 

[Mancity1980]

Oh, you enjoyed reviewing that Real goal didn’t you Rio?

 

[Blu1]

How are you blaming Haaland?

he has hit the bar, put a good ball back into the middle which nobody got on the end of and also had some good play to put Grealish through but Jack had a poor touch and couldn't put it back towards haaland

He's been one of our better players and looked a threat but our final ball has been lacking

 

Hitting the bar does not mean he’s been good. His passing & holding it up has been very poor. We need somebody moving them about but he’s not moving. I don’t blame him I blame peps tactics in that first 15 mins

 

[pride in battle]

Has he balls. Gave it away on three separate occasions and started Madrid's attacks for them. I love him as a defender but he's clumsy as fuck in this midfield role.

He's been class mate

 

[Tomblue]

He hit the crossbar from a nothing cross and created our best chance for Grealish. This place is hilarious.

I'm sorry but he's been absolute dross, no press from him whatsoever and can't hold the ball up for toffee.

 

[Blue Potato]

Keep our heads and we can win this, look at the bench we have…plenty of time left yet - come on Blues!!!!

 

[Josh_D]

Switched from beer to vodka at this point. Much needed.

Shame I didn’t get myself some Soju for tonight. Beer will have to suffice

 

[Tolmie scores]

Not many did

Ohh all i heard was we'd batter em again..its fkin Real Madrid not zinny plonk FC from Moldova... some fans def were arrogant ...players prob not . Too professional. Ancelotti's done well here

 

[yankblue]

Bizzare that people are having a pop at Haaland

Some people just need to blame someone and he's been the recent boo boy

 

[Matt Diablo]

Some of u dicks should be banned and bummed bigtime

 

[pudge]

Patience
We will win this

Sure

 

[Frank the Yank]

Never read his posts before, he s a scummy wummy!

Rag twat or feral scouse on the wind up then..

 

[GaudinoMotors]

How we’re 1-0 down I don’t know. Played really well that first half and dominated the match.

Boos at half time? Unbelievable.

Unbelievable you think the boos were for the performance. It was for the ref only playing 2 minutes and blowing when we had the ball.

 

[MellowJoe]

Kyle to score a screamer!

 

[sh249]

What was Dias doing though? The high ball he is on the wrong side of the man and then doesn’t challenge the crosser.

Dias seems to have lost the ability to block a shot or cross. Just stands a couple of yards off doing nothing. Weird.

 

[Damanino]

Aknji was ok in his hybrid role first 15mins. he found 1-2 slick passes, but after that Real started to close him down and he really isnt intelligent enough or has the technical ability to keep and play a forward pass in that specific position under some pressure. lost it like 4-5 times in last 30 mins.

but what Bernardo is doing, or Foden? I bet Ancelotti is happy with those two so far. Foden hardly trying to beat a defender.

 

[Nour]

Knowing pep won't even make a sub