Post Match Thread: Kiev 1 - 3 City

[kaz7]

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

 

[Rorz88]

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 !


CTID

 

[citymad]

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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.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

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.

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

 

[mancity1]

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 !


CTID

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.

 

[GaudBlessYa]

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!

 

[The perfect fumble]

http://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-how-to-create-transfer-rumours

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?

 

[citymad]

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!

Good analysis of Vinny.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

i bet mp fiddles with it

Eww, Karen couldn't you have worded that a little better.

 

[kaz7]

Eww, Karen couldn't you have worded that a little better.

Haha