Post Match Thread: Kiev 1 - 3 City

[oasis-city-greek-fan]

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

I think Newcastle would have beaten Kiev.

I think you need to give your head a wobble, we dominated them, not many teams win away in Kiev, they are in the top 16 in Europe.

You havent even got the character to give credit where its due. Sad.

 

[kaz7]

Still banging on about chavs game mcpointy

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Get in boost for the final as well.

Same team except Zaba in for sagna

why? Sagna been excellent all season and was excellent again tonight.


Great win. Sterling motm followed my otto

 

[RochBlue]

Komps is such a pro, hope he stays at City for a long time, maybe a future manager to win us the 5th CL :-)

 

[Drakiro]

This is pathetic, predominately bias... banging on about the FA cup immediately rather than taking positives from the performance...

 

[Marvin]

We should play like that all the time , or even a lot more often would do.

Its hard to gauge but maybe although after the result today its easy to come to the conclusion that we have put our eggs in one basket hoping we avoid PSG, Barca, Bayern , Real and Athletico assuming they all come through in the QTR Final.

Why we can blow so hot and cold escapes me and if we played like that more often we wouldn't lose many games away from home in the premier league.

That's how we should et up and play at home as well ala Leicester counter attack and let the opposition make the running and the mistakes and pounce on them ala Barca against Arsenal.

Simple football much easier to play and usually gets you the result.

Kiev either didn't do their homework on City or couldn't play at the workrate required with the result that every City player had time on the ball.

We wouldn't get that luxury in the Premiership. Very unusual for a Champions League game at this level to be so one sided. That's what Utd,Chelsea, Arsenal have been playing most seasons because they were top sides whilst we played Barcelona and Bayern

 

[pavelsrnicek]

That was brilliant.

Pressed all first half and could've been 4 up.

Second half dropped off and relied on a Joe save to keep it 2-1 but we could easily have scored 2/3 more before Yaya scored and that's not counting 3 good penalty shouts.

Watching it in Ireland and Liam Brady, Damian Duff and Didi Hamann are slating City. I think they'd written a script beforehand. Utter b@ll@x so far

 

[cookster]

Excellent tactics and pressing first half especially. I've hammered Pelle but credit is due tonight.

 

[ped]

Great result, some big performances out there.

Would've liked to have seen us rest a couple tonight from the start, but I think Pellegrini got his set up bang on. Fernandinho on the right actually worked really well.

Not happy with the in game management though, think we'd have been wiser not to go chasing after that third goal and try to have kept the clean sheet. Make some early changes with an eye on Sunday and close up shop, thought we faded with the pressing off the ball which made us so dominant in the first half and were too wide open at times, and none of those key players have been rested now going into Sunday.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

 

[welsh_andy]

I think Newcastle would have beaten Kiev.

got ya rod out early

 

[Jazzman]

I think the german commentator said Kiew have only lost 1 home game in the champs league before. Can it be?

 

[Gabriel]

Thoroughly professional. Well done to all, and a safe journey back to the hardy souls who went.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Right all you doom and gloom merchants
Where are you?
All i hward on here the other day was we were going to lose get hammered
Ya ya is crap ,blah blah blah
Where are you tonight?????
Gr8 performance tonight
But i cant stand negativity from posters onhere b4 weve even kicked a ball
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!!!

I'd hardly call it a great performance, either you actually believe that or it's just been that long since we've had a stand out great performance that you've forgotten what one looks like?

I'd like to think some on here aren't being "negative" for the sake of it but are just calling what they see and have seen for the last 2 years, it's hard to pick out a single period of this season where we've looked dominate and that's because we've been poor, today was a great result but probably an average performance that started off well in the first half but was mirrored by a poor second half that had it been against a half decent side we wouldn't be feeling so good at the moment.

 

[Marvin]

I think you need to give your head a wobble, we dominated them, not many teams win away in Kiev, they are in the top 16 in Europe.

You havent even got the character to give credit where its due. Sad.

We dominated them. I just didn't think they were very good.

 

[Len Rum]

Great win.
Pleased about the third because that was a fairer reflection of the balance of play.

 

[cookster]

I think you need to give your head a wobble, we dominated them, not many teams win away in Kiev, they are in the top 16 in Europe.

You havent even got the character to give credit where its due. Sad.

Wasting your time, Marvelous Marvin has got a split personality.

 

[Clercqs]

Sterling, Toure and Kompany were top class. Aguero, Fernandinho, Fernando, Otamendi, well the whole team, were very good as well. Top performance.

 

[Mr HJ]

Sterlings best game in a City shirt.

What a difference protecting the back four and Kompany coming back makes to the defence.

I think we should play either Zaba or Sagna at left back for the final this weekend though, other than one good ball I thought Clichy played poor.

Yet we looked so much better with him in the team. He has pace which makes up for a lot plus helped Sterling no end. Great from all of them tonight. Do not underestimate how difficult it is to win in the Ukraine.

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Still banging on about chavs game mcpointy

Not sure why you are having a go at McPointy, when there are sad cunts on here who wont give us any credit, why should we expect it from BT??