Post Match Thread: Kiev 1 - 3 City

We must have been good coz Savage was full of praise for us in his commentary!

I thought it was the perfect away performance. Im dead chuffed and proud.
There are no easy games in Europe, i dont care what anyone says. Going to places like Russia, Turkey Greece are never easy.

We were immense in the first half especially.

same 11 for sunday please.
 
I thought we were terrific from 1 to 11 last night, much of the credit must go to the much maligned (by myself aswell) gaffer.

Excellent decision, which I along with im sure many others, totally disagreed with at first, to play Fernandinho on the right, it allowed Yaya to play in a 2 but with added security of someone on the right who will do the hard work going backwards aswell.

It also allowed Silva to play as a number 10 (where he should always play) and whilst he's still not quite back to his mercurial best he ran the show.

We were always going to tail off slightly after the break having pressed so high and energetically in the first half but our 2 goal, which could easily have been 5, allowed us this luxury. We also looked very very dangerous every time we did attack in the second half aswell.

Great result, job half done, same team and result again Sunday please gaffer
 
We were immense in the first half especially.

same 11 for sunday please.

Agree with your first point but hope we don't play the same personnel in the same formation against liverpool. They have quicker, more mobile attacking players and I don't think Toure and Fernando have enough mobility to deal with them
 
Don't recall many asking for a 2 man central midfield of Yaya and Fernando with Fernandinho on the right.

Fair play to Pellegrini though, worked a treat.
Don't recall many asking for a 2 man central midfield of Yaya and Fernando with Fernandinho on the right.

Fair play to Pellegrini though, worked a treat.
Many have been asking for Silva to play in the central AM role rather than wide and Yaya to be a deep playmaker. I guess if you do those two things and the 5 also include Fernandinho, Fernando and Stirling then last nights formation looks natural and balanced.
 
Agree with your first point but hope we don't play the same personnel in the same formation against liverpool. They have quicker, more mobile attacking players and I don't think Toure and Fernando have enough mobility to deal with them

im not disagreeing with your point but we havent got much choice have we? The only midfielder we had on the bench last night was Garcia so i cant imagine their being a change of personnel for the final.
 
Good result, but, Fernando, what a useless player.
If you'd said Clichy - with his poor passing and poor positional sense (in this game not all the time) - i would have maybe taken on board that comment. He was our worst player (but i do like him, look at how well he played at Sunderland the other week). His poor passing lead to three Kiev attacks on our box last night.

But Fernando played really well! Worked hard, closed down well, tackled well, intercepted well, passed well...top game!
 
That was the best first forty-five minutes that we've played for, like, months. I think we have to go back to August and early September to see that discipline. We were a bit shakier in the second half, albeit still basically in control, and started letting them see too much of the ball.
I know that a lot on here will have praised Otamendi, and rightly so, he did play a good match, with much better positioning than he's been showing lately, and some superb tackles. But the guy does seem to have one horrendous mistake in him in nearly every match. And by horrendous I mean a mistake that often costs us a goal and sometimes costs us the match. And I'm not talking about the deflection, which no defender can legislate for. If he could only get that out of his game I think he really would be something like the price we paid for him.
Yaya. It's exactly the opposite, for me. I'll probably get a ton of shit for saying this, but I don't think he had a particularly good game, apart from two moments that everybody will remember. The intelligent nod to Kun (who read it superbly), and of course, the goal, which, ok, was trademark Yaya. The curling ball right into the corner that leaves the keeper with no chance whatsoever. Otherwise, I felt he kept making short passes backwards or square to players who already had a man on them, putting them under unnecessary pressure, or even more riskily, trying to dribble with it in parts of the pitch where if he lost possession — and he did, a couple of times — a counter was immediately launched against a stretched back line. A better team would have punished us for that. As I say, I know I'll get shit, because everyone wants to celebrate after a victory like this (me too!), but that's the match I saw, and those are my two quibbles in an otherwise brilliant team performance. Interesting to see Fernando getting praised on here, by the way…
One other thing. Our second — a thing of beauty. A real 'City' goal. Anybody else reminded of the Demolition Derby football by that one?
 
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We are always quick on here to slate our team after a disaster, none more so than myself.

So only right I get on here and praise the team after last night.

From 1-to11 we where magnificent. The much criticised Fernando was sensational protecting the back 4. Manuel got it spot on.

More of the same on Sunday please against Liverpool. CTID!

Wembley here we come!
 

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