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Post Match Thread: Barca vs City
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totallywired
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Milner a mercenary!!uwe rosler 28 said:Fef was shit but fare play to the proped blues sagna, kolarov, vinny demi, dininho silva, sergio the rest can fuck off fucking mercenaries! Twats don't deserve to play for city!
Blueband Brother said:Barcelona played a good match. Controlled and adjusted the pace of the game throughout the match, attacked with coordination and intent and were successful in disecting our unsure defense and should have won by a big margin if it wasn't for Joe Hart.
Aguero had that chance and unfortunately he flopped his lines and that was the end of it. Another point about Aguero is that his Tevez-esque selfishness is getting more and more apparent to others more so because the team is going through a bad spell. He needs to change this. Yaya Toure looks exhausted and needs a break of two games or so. The constant games and all that comes with the AFCON tournament has taken it's toll. Silva was very quiet and did not step up today. Kompany was nothing special but I think people are turning a blind eye to the fact that Dimechelis has passed it. Not good enough anymore and we are drifting towards the damaging position of having a particular glaring problem and turning a blind eye to focus on Kompany. Mangala or even Boyata should be given more opportunities.
It was always going to be difficult after the first game but I think we should take this one on the cheek and be cheeky enough to salvage a bit of pride and I dare say positivity from the scoreline.
Thanks to Joe Hart
Yaya Didn't look exhausted when he came off and sat down in the dugout! Wasn't even blowing!! ...
Dribble
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I'm proud of the effort the lads gave tonight and relieved and thankful to Pellegrini for putting his dogmatic 442 to one side for one match thus giving us a puncher's chance of going through. However much effort we put in tonught, the damage was already done from the first leg. If we'd have set up at home the way.we set up at the Nou Camp, with home advantage I reckon we could have at least held Barca if not nicked a win, but this tie was lost from the first game and it was always going to be an up hill battle to get through.
Credit to Barca, they, Bayern and Real are a level above the rest and Barca showed how far ahead the elite of Europe are tonight. Personally I would have started with either Nasri or Yaya (probably Yaya) but not both. I thought today it was obvious we needed players with graft and endeavour to be patrolling the channels and Navas alongside Milner would have been my starting choices out wide.
Pellegrini did what he mostly fails to do by moving Yaya further forward replacing him with Milner in the middle when it was obvious he was flagging and then taking him off altogether when Yaya was all but dead on his feet. We have 3 out and out strikers and IMO 4 No 10's in Yaya, Silva, Nasri and Jovetic and from here on in I would like to think that MP will select a balanced team to see us through to the end of the season and not just pick our best players and hope it all comes good.
It saddens me to think that it possibly took rumours of Pellegrini's job being on the line before he did what was necessary to try and win a big match where we were the underdogs. Whether he stays or goes I hope he's learned a lesson that tactics and decent players who are given a viable bespoke plan by the manager win matches. We'll never know what might have been if Aguero had scored. Hart played possibly the best game I've seen him perform in at one end and we just lacked that killer cutting edge to take advantage at the other.
All in all I'm proud of our efforts tonight albeit I'm disappointed we're out, but having said that, I'm fuckin even more gutted about our clueless performance in the first leg because that was where this ties was ultimately lost for us making tonight's match almost academic. Over to you Manuel.......
Credit to Barca, they, Bayern and Real are a level above the rest and Barca showed how far ahead the elite of Europe are tonight. Personally I would have started with either Nasri or Yaya (probably Yaya) but not both. I thought today it was obvious we needed players with graft and endeavour to be patrolling the channels and Navas alongside Milner would have been my starting choices out wide.
Pellegrini did what he mostly fails to do by moving Yaya further forward replacing him with Milner in the middle when it was obvious he was flagging and then taking him off altogether when Yaya was all but dead on his feet. We have 3 out and out strikers and IMO 4 No 10's in Yaya, Silva, Nasri and Jovetic and from here on in I would like to think that MP will select a balanced team to see us through to the end of the season and not just pick our best players and hope it all comes good.
It saddens me to think that it possibly took rumours of Pellegrini's job being on the line before he did what was necessary to try and win a big match where we were the underdogs. Whether he stays or goes I hope he's learned a lesson that tactics and decent players who are given a viable bespoke plan by the manager win matches. We'll never know what might have been if Aguero had scored. Hart played possibly the best game I've seen him perform in at one end and we just lacked that killer cutting edge to take advantage at the other.
All in all I'm proud of our efforts tonight albeit I'm disappointed we're out, but having said that, I'm fuckin even more gutted about our clueless performance in the first leg because that was where this ties was ultimately lost for us making tonight's match almost academic. Over to you Manuel.......
Quite similar to last year against Barca really.
Hart was unbelievable, so was Messi in the first half.
I thought we were pretty poor, 1-0 isn't a fair reflection. If we had lost 3-0 or 4-0 tonight, we could have no complaints. Hart really kept us in the game with a world class performance.
Players like Yaya and Nasri don't do anywhere near enough defensively. We haven't really got a system and way of playing anymore, it seems like it's a case of just throwing good players onto the pitch. I'm not really sure what our style of play is. It's very Arsenal-esque for me, having good players will win you a lot of games, but you come short in the big games.
Big summer ahead. We've bought terribly since winning the league in 2012 and we can't afford another poor transfer window. We're going to be replacing players like Yaya, Nasri and Dzeko this summer, the recruitment has to be spot on.
End of an era for this group of players.
Hart was unbelievable, so was Messi in the first half.
I thought we were pretty poor, 1-0 isn't a fair reflection. If we had lost 3-0 or 4-0 tonight, we could have no complaints. Hart really kept us in the game with a world class performance.
Players like Yaya and Nasri don't do anywhere near enough defensively. We haven't really got a system and way of playing anymore, it seems like it's a case of just throwing good players onto the pitch. I'm not really sure what our style of play is. It's very Arsenal-esque for me, having good players will win you a lot of games, but you come short in the big games.
Big summer ahead. We've bought terribly since winning the league in 2012 and we can't afford another poor transfer window. We're going to be replacing players like Yaya, Nasri and Dzeko this summer, the recruitment has to be spot on.
End of an era for this group of players.
HelloCity
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I liked the white shorts.
mancitymark said:I never want to see Yaya and Nasri in a City shirt again.
abu13
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Sergi0 Na5r1 said:avoidconfusion said:If only we had played 4-5-1 at home...
I do think that would have made a considerable difference, and made the game a lot closer than it was.
451 should be the default line up from us in Europe, if we had played the system all year we would have been so much more comfortable with it. there are going to be some hard decisions to make soon.
lancs blue
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Damocles said:lancs blue said:Ducado said:Can you and a few other just give it a rest, or at least post it in the relevant thread
Excuse me?? It's a valid point in response to BP's highlighted comment.
I think he means can you put it in the big Txiki Begiristain thread please?
It's a post match discussion and actually Sky raised this very point about how few of those signings actually started our biggest game of the season so I think it is relevant in here.
Seen a few people remarking that Yaya is finished.
I disagree. he's miles off last year's player.
But that was only months ago. He's not that old. He obviously let himself go in the Summer, but I don't see wy he can't get fit in the Summer and get back to his best. He's been through a lot.
Don't write him off
I disagree. he's miles off last year's player.
But that was only months ago. He's not that old. He obviously let himself go in the Summer, but I don't see wy he can't get fit in the Summer and get back to his best. He's been through a lot.
Don't write him off
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Finished the game with 11 men for the first time against Barcelona. That's progress.
blue b4 the moon
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Great performance from Joe, after a nervous start Sagna did ok along with MDM. Vinny looks totally out of it and Kolarov is just not nearly good enough even when he tries.
Nasri looks like he's discovered pies, totally out of shape both him and the waste of space Yaya need to be dumped asap. Yaya should have been flogged in the summer after taking the piss with the cake, he's never put a shift in all season.
We looked better when Navas came on, it's a shame that Fern-o will be missing on Saturday as he'll be shattered and we'll have to put up with Fern2.
Dave and Kun tried to a degree.
Onwards and upwards.
Barca are really good going forward and we lost this in the first game I'm afraid.
Nasri looks like he's discovered pies, totally out of shape both him and the waste of space Yaya need to be dumped asap. Yaya should have been flogged in the summer after taking the piss with the cake, he's never put a shift in all season.
We looked better when Navas came on, it's a shame that Fern-o will be missing on Saturday as he'll be shattered and we'll have to put up with Fern2.
Dave and Kun tried to a degree.
Onwards and upwards.
Barca are really good going forward and we lost this in the first game I'm afraid.
ManCityX said:I liked the white shorts.
Prefer blue socks with a dash of maroon!!!
Prestwich_Blue
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We were saved from embarrassment by Joe Hart tonight. We flattered to deceive most of the time and were still as woeful as we were on Saturday. Our use of the ball was completely inept and the defending was pub standard after a heavy night out in the first half particularly.
Barcelona's incisive, quick passing and movement just served to remind me of what we were like at our most fluent. We just looked like we were going through the motions. Kompany has gone, Sagna brings nothing at all to the team, Toure strolled around and barely broke sweat, Milner ran around a lot and, er, ran around a bit more, Nasri was a disgrace and Aguero has done a Negredo and clearly been replaced by an alien who's taken his body shape. Besides Hart, only Fernandinho and Silva come out of tonight with any sort of credit.
Tony Pulis must have been grinning like a Cheshire cat watching that.
Barcelona's incisive, quick passing and movement just served to remind me of what we were like at our most fluent. We just looked like we were going through the motions. Kompany has gone, Sagna brings nothing at all to the team, Toure strolled around and barely broke sweat, Milner ran around a lot and, er, ran around a bit more, Nasri was a disgrace and Aguero has done a Negredo and clearly been replaced by an alien who's taken his body shape. Besides Hart, only Fernandinho and Silva come out of tonight with any sort of credit.
Tony Pulis must have been grinning like a Cheshire cat watching that.
Pezzer2
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Weird game tonight. It could have easily been 6 or 7 for Barca or we could have somehow sneaked a couple and at least took it to extra time. First half we ended up chasing shadows and that was partly to do with the unplayable Messi and some comical defending. Second half we shown some proud but Barca took the foot off the pedal and Joe Hart still had to produce 5 or 6 saves.
The pundits mentioned it and its plainly obvious for me. Major surgery is needed, 2 or 3 young energetic players need to come into the fold and a world class signing to lift the club.. Toure has been immense for us but major decisions need to be made and I wouldn't lose sleep to lose him despite what he has done, Nasri I have never warmed to, he just has this petulant nature about his game and has had no consistency. I think Kolarov and Dzeko's days are numbered as well. Dzeko is another player I will always be grateful for but I think a move would be beneficial to City and himself. Jovetic I would love to keep but his morale must be rock bottom and wouldn't blame him in wanting out.
Could be a rocky time for us unless we can get some momentum and get a smooth transition in re-moulding our squad. The way we have exited both domestic cups has put a dampener on the season for me, a good FA Cup run could have glossed over some of our failings. (albeit could be a blessing in disguise to change things)
The pundits mentioned it and its plainly obvious for me. Major surgery is needed, 2 or 3 young energetic players need to come into the fold and a world class signing to lift the club.. Toure has been immense for us but major decisions need to be made and I wouldn't lose sleep to lose him despite what he has done, Nasri I have never warmed to, he just has this petulant nature about his game and has had no consistency. I think Kolarov and Dzeko's days are numbered as well. Dzeko is another player I will always be grateful for but I think a move would be beneficial to City and himself. Jovetic I would love to keep but his morale must be rock bottom and wouldn't blame him in wanting out.
Could be a rocky time for us unless we can get some momentum and get a smooth transition in re-moulding our squad. The way we have exited both domestic cups has put a dampener on the season for me, a good FA Cup run could have glossed over some of our failings. (albeit could be a blessing in disguise to change things)
Chippy_boy
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Nasri should be fined for that performance. After everything that was said about the importance of keeping 11 players on the pitch, and he goes and kicks out like that. Should have been sent off for that.
well i'm happy now that this is out of the way and we need to focus only on the league..i just hope that players will not let this night ruin the rest of the season maybe chelsea will win it but at least make it hard for them and push them to the limit and btw 4-5-1 should be our formations when we play in Europe!!!
manimanc
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Joe Hart. ..
England's number 1...
That is all.
England's number 1...
That is all.
uwe rosler 28
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totallywired said:Milner a mercenary!!uwe rosler 28 said:Fef was shit but fare play to the proped blues sagna, kolarov, vinny demi, dininho silva, sergio the rest can fuck off fucking mercenaries! Twats don't deserve to play for city!
Looking that way and nowhere near good enough!
uwe rosler 28
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totallywired said:Milner a mercenary!!uwe rosler 28 said:Fef was shit but fare play to the proped blues sagna, kolarov, vinny demi, dininho silva, sergio the rest can fuck off fucking mercenaries! Twats don't deserve to play for city!
Looking that way and nowhere near good enough!