Prospects of winning our Champions League Group?

[Marvin]

last couple of seasons we've ended up 2nd and landed Barcelona in the last 16 and promptly gone out.

After losing at home to Juve I was thinking it would be 2nd at best, but after Juve slipped up at home the table looks like this

Juve 7
City 6
Sevilla 3
BMG 1

We have got 2 away games now: Sevilla then Juve and we finish up with BMG at home.

Juve have got 2 away games too. They play BMG away, City at home and then finish up at Sevilla.

I can see them slipping up in Germany, but can we beat Sevilla? By then we should have everyone back from injury??? but Aguero will probably be working his way through his usual rust.

I know most fans think that the minute we get drawn against a Barcelona we will go out, but Juve got to the final last year and we are as good as they are, and Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool have won it before so why not us. Maybe our luck is changing?

It certainly was a strange feeling walking away from the Etihad last night knowing we'd won but feeling rather fortunate.

I hope we can go into the last home game playing for top spot.

 

[@BluePhil8]

I believe we will top it. I was at Juventus and they rather pathetically parked the bus like Stoke City and then scored with their only two attacks. Not impressive at all and I hope we hit them fucking hard in Turin. I also think we will have less pressure away from the Etihad so expect us to win away at Seville as well.

 

[acess87]

I think it is very important not to lose in Spain. If we win this fixture,I think we will win the group for sure. Anyway, for me:

Sev City 1:1
BMG Juve 1:0 (yes I belive!)

Juve City 1:1
BMG Sev 1:1

Sev Juve 1:0
City BMG 2:0

So finally:
City 11
Juve 8
Sevilla 8
BMG 5

 

[PragueBlue]

but Juve got to the final last year and we are as good as they are, and Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool have won it before so why not us.

Individually we are better than those sides but they are/were better organised teams and able to park the bus and get results against better opposition even though they may have been outplayed. I don't think we have yet worked out how to effectively play as a team against quality opponents when we don't have the ball. We might get away with it against Sevilla and BM but when we come up against the likes of Real Madrid or Barcelona, it's hard to see us beating them.

 

[borassic]

Win two of them (including Juve) and I reckon that will be enough.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

This is City we are talking about and when combined with CL it is probably going to take a win in Turin to qualify never mind win the group.

We should get through from here but winning the competition is a fair way off yet unless we are extremely lucky with draws.

 

[razman]

You mentioned Juve reaching the final last year.. But I remember them getting pretty decent draws till the latter stages of the competition...Which made their path easier to the finals.. . And this all happened was coz they topped their group and then it was the luck of the draw..


Hope we can top our group

 

[Marvin]

This is City we are talking about and when combined with CL it is probably going to take a win in Turin to qualify never mind win the group.

We should get through from here but winning the competition is a fair way off yet unless we are extremely lucky with draws.

I don't know what's happened with the competition rules (there were changes in the initial seeding) but in previous seasons nearly all, if not all the Group winners went on to the Quarter Finals as they got easier draws in the last 16. So if we can top the group, a path might open up that could see us get to the Quarter Finals, and then we can be lucky in the draw.

I know we've still got a lot of work to do. Realistic chance though that City can top their Champions League group.

Juve I think will put a lot of effort into this competition as they are losing finalists and not doing well in Serie A. I wasn't that impressed with them when we played them. We could and perhaps should have beaten them.

 

[gkmcfc]

I think we can win the group. Fancy us to come away from Sevilla with something and Juve too. We just need to display some defensive solidity and stop playing 4-4-2!

 

[SWP's back]

If we finish top we will draw the 2nd place team from Madrid/PSG group anyway.