ChicagoBlue
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That's exactly what I thought. I think he thought better about it because it's all AstroTurf and his kit wouldn't have survived! :-)
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Monaco post match
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Saddleworth2
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I think a rerun of the tactics from both teams would result in exactly the same outcome. Since when could we play it tight!Bring on Huddersfield! ;-)
Rushed home from work, put the game on, and kicked every ball with them! I'm exhausted, so I can only imagine how the players feel. I think that is the most complete Agüero performance I have seen in a very long time. Obviously, he was robbed of a penalty...and Yaya a goal...and I get a little frustrated that he can't get the ball to stick sometimes when we are trying to break out through him, but his work rate and battling was extraordinary, especially given the knock against him. I think Pep might have actually got it through to him that he can be better.
Hard to fault anyone that wasn't playing in goal or in the middle of the back 3-4 tonight, because that performance was an outstanding advertisement for what City can be going forward IF we can learn to lock up the back door every now and then!
The ref? Well, what can one say? Diabolical? Clueless? Arsewipe? A few Euros richer from the Asian syndicate? How do you book 10, 11, 12(?) players in a match that didn't have a dirty foul in it? Yes, there were a few tugs and arms out, but he brought ALL the dissent on himself with his poor performance. I watched it on Fox Sports in the US, and Warren Barton said the ref should never referee a top Euro game ever again.
I have one question: If the goalkeeper actually kicks Sergio, which he did, how is it possible for the ref to see (with enough certainty to book him for diving) there was no contact when there absolutely was a kick out and definite kick on Sergio's lower leg/foot?
Last I checked, it is IMPOSSIBLE to see something that isn't there, so I can only believe that either he is bent, or the goal line assistant at that end is!
Time to lock it up tight for Monaco. A nice SOLID 4-5-1 with breakaway potential, but can't out and out attack them there, or it would be suicide.
hinchcliffes bulbous conk
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I've stopped going in, just winds the fuck out of me. Shouldn't but it does. You have to click through dozens of shitty histrionic posts to get to anything decent.Ive not seen any of them on the post match thread yet so make of that what you will..............
City_Sean
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One of the best games of football I've ever seen. Defensively we were horrific at times, but as an attacking force we were phenomenal.
Thought Aguero had a monstrous second half, same with Silva. Sane and Sterling are getting better with each passing game.
Need to shore up at the back, but that was entertainment of the highest order.
Thought Aguero had a monstrous second half, same with Silva. Sane and Sterling are getting better with each passing game.
Need to shore up at the back, but that was entertainment of the highest order.
I need to become a pundit
What did the bitter K_nt say at full time.
As much as it pains me to say he starts going down a split second before contact is made. It's the kind of 'winning/gaining' a penalty that I don't like to see.
How can he start going down in a split second when your watching it in super slow motion at 1000 of second timeframe?
stunning going forward, suicidal at the back,
willy is the better of a bad pair(apart from pen saves) otamendi is all over the shop, ferna didn't know whether to stick or twist, it calmed down a little when zabba came in
hopefully we have done enough but who knows
our front 5 plus jesus is as good as any in world football, get that defence solid in the window and we are going places
willy is the better of a bad pair(apart from pen saves) otamendi is all over the shop, ferna didn't know whether to stick or twist, it calmed down a little when zabba came in
hopefully we have done enough but who knows
our front 5 plus jesus is as good as any in world football, get that defence solid in the window and we are going places
Danish Blue
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The constant whining in the media about playing long from the back is getting to be tedious. Yes we get in to trouble sometimes because teams like monaco play an ultra high press. What is the end result, they run themselves into the ground and get murdered in the last quarter, also on the occasions we beat the press we are usually in a good attacking situation with pacy players, Sane, Sterling and Aguero to take advantage of their lack of cover.
Its a risky strategy and at times it will go wrong and you will look like a dick, but if you have the right personnel to play it its very difficult to counter. You play ultra high press get knackered and lose or you sit back concede possession and lose.
Why do so called experts have such a hard time conceptualizing what a fat couch potato (me) and my 12 year old lad can work out? (to be fair he had to explain it to me a few times)
Its a risky strategy and at times it will go wrong and you will look like a dick, but if you have the right personnel to play it its very difficult to counter. You play ultra high press get knackered and lose or you sit back concede possession and lose.
Why do so called experts have such a hard time conceptualizing what a fat couch potato (me) and my 12 year old lad can work out? (to be fair he had to explain it to me a few times)
yeah whatever !!
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I need to become a pundit
Love to see what he had to say at full time.. he sounds so bitter.