Real Madrid (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[SWPISHOME]

There are some serious Muppets on here. It saddens me to read their negative posts. For me our boys did us proud against one of the worlds best teams, in an intimidating stadium.
Well done I say to our warriors in blue. It’s only half time, but fight like that again and history will remember this brilliant squad of players, supporting the best manager off all time.
One day this incredible run of ours will stop. Enjoy this period in our history because I doubt it will last forever.

Nice to read a post like this on Bluemoon, Makes a change!

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Not with Pep & the characters in the team.

I think you’re probably right, but at the moment complacency is more of a challenge than any other team in the world. This where the crowd next week need to create a boiling cauldron of an atmosphere, to help drive our advantage home. It’s going to be great.

 

[youngbob]

They're not happy.

 

[malg]

He's NOT a Blue, though, is he?

He's just cashing in on his tenure with us.

He admits he's an Arse...

FFS.....never knew he was an Arsenal fan. Leeds born lad as well.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Got to feel sorry for Akanji. He got back to deal with RM attacking break through problems twice only for wicked deflections to lead to goals against us.

 

[malg]

They're not happy.

He should relax. Wio reckons they've got it.

 

[BlueAnorak]

They're not happy.

Sorry Valverde old chap, but the stats prove we were slightly better than Real so you can't really complain.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

That performance came off the back that our biggest creative influence in KDB pulled out of the game shortly before kick off. Everything they would have worked on attacking Madrid would have gone out of the window. They won’t want to come to the Etihad next week, this was their big chance to lay one on City and they couldn’t do it.

 

[Tbilisi]

What a team and manager, to go there after our punishing schedule and play like that defies belief.

I would love to seen Pep in the changing room, he had his warriors alright.

Real Madrid to Luton ....we owe those bastards big time.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Just watching Sky Sports Morning News. Opening 18 minutes all about Arse/ Bayern.
City/Real Game 7 minutes !

Sky Sports Mourning news ?

 

[Cobwebcat]

Worth remembering we were playing the second best side in the World in their own stadium.

The result was 3-3. The performance was closest to 1-1 so overall nobody got lucky.

You have got to expect some teams will be difficult to beat. To look at how both teams played and assume it will be the same in the second leg is quite an assumption. Both teams are wiser now.

I‘d have taken a draw and we have maybe a 70% chance of progression given we are now at home.

We could play below par or be unlucky and still go out to an excellent team but you can’t moan about 3-3 away at Real Madrid come on.

 

[Gorbachev]

Huge credit to the players last night because I thought we could have been dead and buried in that first half. We dug deep and put a champions performance in.

A few years ago we would have folded.

All about the result at this stage, not how you do it.

 

[chris85mcfc]

They're not happy.

They've got a mental block about coming to the Etihad.

They'll have wanted a cushion for the 2nd leg, and I think they thought they had one at half time, and that they could extend it in the 2nd half.

Not sure they were expecting us to come out like we did for the last 45 minutes.

 

[SWPISHOME]

People also need to realise we were missing 4 of our usual starting 11 also, Ederson, Ake, Walker and KDB all massive players for us and very influential as leaders.

Hopefully they'll all be back for the next leg.

 

[bluethai]

If this keeper still plays in the next game, we have to shoot much more often and focus on the target. No need for fancy shots at the top corner or super curves at all.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

If this keeper still plays in the next game, we have to shoot much more often and focus on the target. No need for fancy shots at the top corner or super curves at all.

The fancy shots and super curves all seemed to happen on all of our goals. Each one was some finish.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Isn’t it great waking up to a performance like that, at this stage, away to a club like that?

That will shitting themselves about next week.

To dominate a club like that away from home takes some doing. It’s a very hard place to do that

 

[tonea2003]

Thought Kova played well, kept the ball in tight areas and played a pass.

he did and i like him, but he doesn't half slow things down, he's a conundrum for me

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Jude Bellingham is a prime example of a player who thinks he's already made it. He's believing his own hype..aka Neymer, Rashford, Mbappe etc etc. It's a dangerous mindset to have. I'm absolutely delighted with that draw, even though I didn't think we played particularly well(again we lost the ball far too much) we dug in and got the draw, which is something we wouldn't of managed 5 years ago. We'll fuckin batter these at home. Gonna be a bear pit again. C'MON CITY!!

 

[Dribble]

It’s definitely by design what is being said and wrote,imagine certain other teams getting a draw in Madrid the media would have wall to wall coverage,we know now what it’s like if you listen to pre match build ups on champions league games we are treated as the foreign team,anybody thinking otherwise has their head in the clouds ..

Much of that is because TNT now hold the Champions League rights. Sky have to report it because it's big sports news, but there's nothing stopping them doing it in a muted fashion, through gritted teeth.