Post Match Thread: Kiev 1 - 3 City

Father Paul said:
Only seen one Utd game this year so can't comment about their performances. Not sure if the long lay off had an impact on Kiev or not. However, it would be unwise to believe that they are anything other than a very ordinary team. Fair play to the lads for putting them to the sword in a ruthless fashion but lets not get carried away. The next two games will be a much tougher proposition and we will need to produce performances on par with last nights.
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Probably a bit better but they are capable of it.
 
Father Paul said:
Only seen one Utd game this year so can't comment about their performances. Not sure if the long lay off had an impact on Kiev or not. However, it would be unwise to believe that they are anything other than a very ordinary team. Fair play to the lads for putting them to the sword in a ruthless fashion but lets not get carried away. The next two games will be a much tougher proposition and we will need to produce performances on par with last nights.
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I know we shouldn't get carried away, but weve been that bad for so long, a decent performance and a great win makes it very hard not to get carried away.
 
Very well done the Blues and Pellers!
Perfect result that leaves a 2nd leg at home where City and the fans may celebrate some history.
Ah, but don't forget to boooo UEFA :)

So important for David and Yaya to score! Great to see them having some fun again!!
We have seen a true team and it was fun watching them.

Great for Pellers to stop pundits and media talking about the Fa cup lineup. A defeat yesterday would have been some wankfest.
Now they have earned some calm days to prepare and concentrate on the big day at Wembley.

Could have been a turning point for the season as the tight domestic cup schedule is - nearly - over now, players return from injury and the team has shown it's alive and hungry. And PL history has shown it would be a mistake writing off City too early.

Doesn't look too bad right now.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Can't agree with that. Clichy making an occasional mistake & being beaten by a good player is one thing but he went completely to shite & invited the opposition into the game, by making elementary stupid mistakes, as did Otamendi. One instance for example, they hit a ball over the top & Ciichy just ran underneath it, leaving his opponent goal side with the ball. Just completely missed a simple ball. All hell broke loose from then on.

For a spell of about ten minutes, Clichy & Otamendi were the biggest threat to City winning the game. Prior to that, both were great & ok later too.

But you just can't allow yourself to drop to that level.
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It's a funny thing. At half time, I turned to a mate and said, "Clichy's having an impeccable game, isn't he?" About a quarter of an hour into the second half, I said, glumly, "That was a mistake to say that about Clichy".
With ref. to the RTE commentary. We know damn well that one good performance doesn't make up for the dross that's been played this season. People were virtually conceding the title to us in mid-September, and here we are in fourth place, fighting to keep in the qualifying group for the CL. But all we'd like is a bit of generous appreciation for the match that's played on the night. I've never subscribed to the agenda theory, but it is amazing how ungenerous the 'pundits' are towards us.And it is habitual. And yes, they would have been jizzing themselves if that had been the rags, Liverpool, or Arsenal.
 
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I've been critical of MP because of our lack of shape defensively and especially our work rate. So only fair to give credit where it is due, tactically good and the work rate was faultless.

I could have a whine about why we couldn't have worked that hard in our last two home games, but last night was all we were looking for in terms of effort.

One swallow doesn't make a summer but if we work like that for the rest of the season no reason why league and league cup not doable, plus get to the latter stages of CL when even teams like Barca get twitchy and who knows.

So well done MP and well done blues, more of that until May please!
 
Just like to ask where the fernando slayers are now! Fantastic performance from the man who doesn't challenge! Fernandinhio fantastic yet again! Silva looking something like himself!
 
Our spine back together was the difference i believe,they are so comfortable together
They must all start on sunday and that includes joe,but i bet mp fiddles with it
 
Firstly, cracking result and performance and it could have been even more than 3 in the end. Really big boost before the final on Sunday, which I am buzzing about now though.

1 thing I do want to mention, the team last night I thought was spot on ! BT Sport said that Fernando and Toure played in a midfield 2 with Sterling Silva and Dinho in front of them. However, I feel it was more like:

---------Fernando----------

----Dinho-------Toure------

Silva-----------------Sterling

----------Aguero------------

What do other people think ?

I have been crying out for this system for 2 seasons ! Just thought it worked really well with Yaya and Dinho getting up and down the pitch with Fernando giving that extra cover.

Also meant that if Silva drifted, like he always does, there was always cover.

Same team for the Final for me please Manuel !


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Here is the link to the RTE post match analysis, I don't have the words to describe it....

http://www.rte.ie/player/gb/show/uefa-champions-league-extras-30003372/10535552/
A little harsh at times but I have no problems with that analysis. Pretty much spot on about the game. At 2-1 we all thought we might throw it away like we did against CSKA Moscow until another bit of magic from Yaya. Yes it was a much better performance but it was against a poor side.
 
KippaxCitizen said:
Hart 7.5 and Clichy 7? Hart made a fantastic save at 1-2 and made several good punches from crosses...Clichy had a very average game.
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yeah I did struuggle with Hart, he wasnt in the game that much to judge, his save was game saving though. His punches though.... he missed everyone of those Kiev players faces, so took .5 off him
 
Rorz88 said:
Firstly, cracking result and performance and it could have been even more than 3 in the end. Really big boost before the final on Sunday, which I am buzzing about now though.

1 thing I do want to mention, the team last night I thought was spot on ! BT Sport said that Fernando and Toure played in a midfield 2 with Sterling Silva and Dinho in front of them. However, I feel it was more like:

---------Fernando----------

----Dinho-------Toure------

Silva-----------------Sterling

----------Aguero------------

What do other people think ?

I have been crying out for this system for 2 seasons ! Just thought it worked really well with Yaya and Dinho getting up and down the pitch with Fernando giving that extra cover.

Also meant that if Silva drifted, like he always does, there was always cover.

Same team for the Final for me please Manuel !


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All things considered its our best formation with Delph ( if not injured of course )replacing Toure for certain games and KDB /Sterling or Silva/ KDB as injury form etc permits.
 
Great team effort last night. Everyone deserves praise but for me the true importance of Kompany was plain for all to see. Not just a true leader and top defender but his defending on the front foot, winning tackles early and high up the pitch set the tone for the rest. He got the whole team higher up the pitch, the midfield were then more compact and we were able to create pressure and dangerous situations with much more ease. We know we can play in those areas!
 
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What a difference three days makes

Monday: The Daily Mirror describes Manchester City as ‘THE CUP KILLERS’, and claims Manuel Pellegrini was ‘speeding the demise’ of the FA Cup by fielding a weakened side in their fifth-round FA Cup tie against Chelsea. Darren Lewis labels Pellegrini and City as ‘stroppy’, amongst other things.

Thursday: The Daily Mirror‘s David McDonnell writes how City’s players ‘produced performances that endorsed Pellegrini’s decision to prioritise success in Europe’. Of the ‘five things we learnt’, number one is that Pellegrini is ‘now England’s hero’, with his decision helping to ‘save England’s fourth Champions League place’. Weird, that.

Monday: The Sun tell us how Pellegrini ‘stuck up two fingers at the FA Cup’ with his team selection the previous Sunday, with Charlie Wyett claiming the decision had ‘backfired spectacularly’.

Thursday: The Sun explains how Pellegrini’s ‘Euro gamble paid off’, with Martin Blackburn telling us that resting players ‘looked a good call’, and the Chilean might ‘even field the kids for the return leg on March 15’. Would that not ‘stick two fingers up’ at the Champions League?
 
GaudBlessYa said:
Great team effort last night. Everyone deserves praise but for me the true importance of Kompany was plain for all to see. Not just a true leader and top defender but his defending on the front foot, winning tackles early and high up the pitch set the tone for the rest. He got the whole team higher up the pitch, the midfield were then more compact and we were able to create pressure and dangerous situations with much more ease. We know we can play in those areas!
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Good analysis of Vinny.
 
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