Match Thread | Viktoria Plzen v Man City (17/09/13)

[John.des]

Only a win is good today, hope Pellegrini knows what to change. Thats why he is the manager after last year...

 

[andrewmswift]

don't like the look of this ref ,looks typical for city in Europe
cant wait to jump in for decisions against city,why did he need to jump on the spot where aguero was maybe offside

To be fair I think the refs been good do far, at least he didn't fall for the dive.

he bought every dive of theirs up to that, booked aleks for god knows what reason, arm barely extended and on the side of the pitch away from anything, no way is that deliberate

 

[pudge]

Well, they have a case though.

Actually - you can replace "instantly" with "never", and "Dzeko" with "Anyone".

Once Aguero gets the ball - you can only hope he takes it the whole way (which is not happening) - cause sure as hell no more interplay is taking place.

Aguero has made 18 passes, 78% success.

Dzeko has made 19 passes, 58% success.

Please be quiet.

Dzeko is playing the most forward position in case you didn't understand what I was saying by "behind striker". Besides, the creativity of Dzeko's passing has been off the charts, he's created 2-3 goal scoring opportunities.

He's passing as regularly as Edin, but only better.

Simple. You lot are complaining about fuck all, shocker.

 

[Heart.net]

Come on kolarov, no one's injured...

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

here we go for the 2nd half...come on the blues

 

[zandvoort blue]

At last......someone, someone has eventually sussed out the problem...

.....Yaya Toure takes 3 or 4 touches before he moves the ball on.......quote Graeme Souness, implying we are too slow in the build up.

Halle fucking lujah............

Hardly at last mate, the majority of us have been saying it for nearly 2 years now.

Our tempo is insipid at times and its puzzling as to why they just cant move the ball around at pace?

perhaps I should have said at last a pundit has come out into the open and said what we`ve noticed for the past 9 months.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Here's to you Vincent Kompany.....

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Hart - steady, distribution needs to be better
Zaba - doing ok, seems to be letting navas have the space on the right
Kolarov - steady, no wild challenges please
Kompany - a bit rusty but showing clear leadership
Nasty - nothing special, looks much calmer with VK
Fernandinho - broke a lot of play up, finds a city player with every pass
Yaya - showing glimpses of the beast that he should be game in game out, think he may score
Nasri - some good movement and passing, needs to keep work rate up
Navas - best he has played, head down and running at players
Dzeko - should have scored, nothing special but is tracking back to help team
Aguero - looking to create every time he gets ball, just needs a goal

 

[scottymol]

Ive not really seen us use the pace of Navas yet. Not seen a ball played into space ahead of him for him to run onto.
He does well when he gets the ball with a little turn of pace to beat his marker to get the cross in,but would be nice to see him at full flow turning defenders inside out and creating chances.

 

[1961_vintage]

A nice tidy 2-0 will be just the job. C'mon Blues get it done.