Pep's Greatest Game

[BongoBlue]

Whilst it wasn’t the best performance of the Pep era, I will always remember going to Stamford Bridge in his second season, when they were reigning champions, and just pressing the life out of them and dominating the game. That was when I knew We had reached a new level .

Absolutely. I still can't believe that it only finished 1-0. Could have been 6, so was the domination that day.

 

[bluemanchester]

Maybe not the greatest game but certainly the best 5 and a half minutes of football I have seen any City team play, and I have been watching since 1955, was the Villa league winning game. Those 5 and a half minutes had everything, despair, desperation, prayers, tears and emptyness.
Then, joy, hope, maybe if, more prayers then Mr Whippy, Zinchenkos little stepover, Rodri and Mr Whippy again turning a despondent stadium into a cauldron of noise. Then tension and nerves at breaking point till the final whistle, when the fans realised what 11 City players on the pitch had done, they had done what 20 minutes earlier none of us would have believed possible, maybe hoped for but not really believing. Multiply that 5 and a half minutes by 16 and I'm not sure my aged ticker would have survived 90 minutes. As I said, not the greatest game overall, but certainly the best 5 and a half minutes I have seen.

 

[unicorn]

Just watched his leaving video again and I don't think anything will beat that.

 

[super_city_si]

City 4 Real Madrid 0.

Years of coaching all coming together and being perfectly executed by every player.

The pinnacle.

It can only be this one. We would have beaten any team that night. Past or present. Everything was prefect.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It can only be this one. We would have beaten any team that night. Past or present. Everything was prefect.

Yes, we absolutely schooled them that night.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

So the great man leaves having brought success beyond our wildest dreams.

I had a think about what game I enjoyed the most, what performance I thought was our best and this game for me was not only our greatest performance but one of the best any side has ever produced in my opinion.

Total dominance in that first half. They didn't have the ball in our half for 20 odd minutes which is just mind blowing.

Considering who it was against and the matches we had played against them before, to do that to a side coached by Ancelotti makes it even more exceptional.

Not only was this Peps greatest game, it was better than any other fuckers greatest game of all time. Absolutely fuckin honoured to have witnessed it.

 

[hagster]

The state of Stones for all four and Bravo.

Was at this game the Everton fans celebrated like they had won the league

 

[hagster]

It can only be this one. We would have beaten any team that night. Past or present. Everything was prefect.

My sentiments this was a perfect performance

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

Bayern / Real QF/SF - Would say both legs in each game - That's when we peaked.

The 2-1 against Liverpool as well - Arguably two of the best sides in the PL ever head to head - Klopp/Pep rivalry - The tension I felt back then I will never feel again.

So many to choose from. 3-0 against Arsenal and 7-2 against Stoke, some of the most amazing combos I've seen leading up to goals. Gundo's goal against United with 10s of passes without them touching the ball. We never got to see something like that the last years with Pep, but my, those were the days. I was just gasping and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

 

[manc2222]

Bayern / Real QF/SF - Would say both legs in each game - That's when we peaked.

The 2-1 against Liverpool as well - Arguably two of the best sides in the PL ever head to head - Klopp/Pep rivalry - The tension I felt back then I will never feel again.

So many to choose from. 3-0 against Arsenal and 7-2 against Stoke, some of the most amazing combos I've seen leading up to goals. Gundo's goal against United with 10s of passes without them touching the ball. We never got to see something like that the last years with Pep, but my, those were the days. I was just gasping and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Maybe not quite as good but remember Haaland's goal against Liverpool this season? It started with O'Reilly in the left back position, surrounded by scousers. Foden came to help out and then every outfield player touched the ball even if Erling's only touch was his header from Nunes' cross. It was quite beautiful. Yeah maybe not peak 2022/23 Pepball but it promised an awful lot.

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

Maybe not quite as good but remember Haaland's goal against Liverpool this season? It started with O'Reilly in the left back position, surrounded by scousers. Foden came to help out and then every outfield player touched the ball even if Erling's only touch was his header from Nunes' cross. It was quite beautiful. Yeah maybe not peak 2022/23 Pepball but it promised an awful lot.

True! That was definitely like the good old days, thanks for the reminder!

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

City 4 Real Madrid 0.

Years of coaching all coming together and being perfectly executed by every player.

The pinnacle.

It’s funny what a bogey team Real have been over the years, starting with Pellegrini. But those 2 games and especially at home we played them off the park. Strange that we haven’t been able to do better against Real than what we have done considering what a dominant force we’ve been domestically.

 

[SamBlue]

That win against Barcelona at home back in winter of 2016, 3:1, that was the harbinger of things to come. When Pep was full of ideas and was managing the games minute by minute. That press after we had gone one nil down, dear me......
Otherwise from purely tactical point of view, Liverpool at home 2:1, probably the best game in the history of the PL. And Atletico M away 1/4 final back in 2022 - just to blow it against their city neghbours in that 2 minutes or whaetver disaster - with the better team and the better play than the season we won it.

 

[The Colonel]

I looked to the Madrid fans at the end of that game. In fairness they were applauding us.

 

[Ban-jani]

- City 4-1 Spurs 2017
- City 2-1 Napoli

The actual answer has been said (Madrid 4-0) but a shoutout to these two games.

Napoli was early on in the season in the Champions League Group stage in 2017. A Rag mate of mine text into a WhatsApp group full of mixed fans saying something along the lines of “bollocks, he’s actually managed to get them playing like that great Barca team, they’ll win everything this lot…”

We only won 2-1 but it should have been 3 times that and Napoli were a great side that season.

The Tottenham game in December 2017, is one of the best individual performances of a City player I’ve ever seen, KDB ran the show and utterly demolished a decent Spurs side. The football we played that night was electric.

 

[bg1968]

Pep's greatest game was Barca schooling the Rags at Wembley a footballingl mis-match , that Barca side was the best i have ever seen , his best game in Manchester has to be the Real Madrid battering in the Champs league, the crest fallen look of the most arrogant football club in the world was so enjoyable , the fact a Catalan manager was the instigator must have been like a knife through their hearts.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

4-0 Madrid has to be one of the greatest performances by an English football team of all time. Hard to think of a better one by anybody. It was poetry.

I actually think we played better to beat Bayern 3-0 in the previous round.

That’s was an absolutely top notch game between two amazing sides.

We battered Madrid, so that gets the headlines, but the Bayern performance made us believe we could batter anyone.

 

[jimharri]

The state of Stones for all four and Bravo.

You think that was his greatest game?