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It's all well and good for Royal Real of Madrid to scratch a 3-3 draw (via two deflections and a rare worldy), under the sun shading stadium roof in front of 80,000 baying fans in Spain but can they do it on a Wednesday night on an uncovered field in rain drenched Manchester with a gale blowing...

I don't think so...


JJ
 
One thing that TNT said correctly is that this match is becoming the Classico of our time.
Glad that the thick knee jerk moaners that spilled over to here from the match day thread have disappeared back to shouting at their Xbox football images.
We went again into the coliseum and came out with them left fearing that their chance has gone we will finish the job next week.
 
scarty10 said:
They were complaining that the ref blew the final whistle (correctly, I might add, on +4 mins exactly), despite the fact they had a throw in quite near our corner flag! That's how desperate they became!

He also did the same thing in the first half....blew for half time when they were 'sort of' on the attack.

It's called straw clutching ;)
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I just love the idea that REAL FUKIN MADRID think UEFA officiating is biased TOWARDS US [emoji15][emoji23]
 
It seems surreal sometimes watching City.

Last night, even when losing I felt like we could pull it back.

We are the biggest club in Europe now. It's a compliment that Real tried to use every advantage they had to try and beat us right down to closing the roof.

For once UEFA get credit for designating a young ref who took no shit for it. That lad will go far if he's allowed to develop like that.

They'll come to ours and play for penalties. They had their chance last night and the reaction of Bellingham at full time at the refs showed they've blown it.

I can't see us spanking them again. But we'll win.
 
SebastianBlue said:
Just a little reminder of the last time we took a first leg draw at the Bernabeu back to the Etihad.

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Just watched that again for the umpteenth time. Fodens pass to Alvarez fot the fourth goal was perfect, weight and accuracy. Not quite up there with David Silvas at the swamp but not far behind.
 
wagonman said:
It's all well and good for Royal Real of Madrid to scratch a 3-3 draw (via two deflections and a rare worldy), under the sun shading stadium roof in front of 80,000 baying fans in Spain but can they do it on a Wednesday night on an uncovered field in rain drenched Manchester with a gale blowing...

I don't think so...


JJ
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The crowd can play a huge part next week. I think a couple of Madrid players said it was intimidating last season. It needs to be intimidating again. Some of the best atmospheres we have had at the stadium have been CL QF’s and Semi finals. I’m sure it will be the 12th man.
 
SWPISHOME said:
Best ever City performance. Also the best ever performance in the Champions League from an English side.

I genuinely never seen anything like it.

Total dominace.
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Agreed.

And, worth an additional reminder that Kev didn’t play yesterday, unlike the first leg last season.

He should be back and firing (and relatively rested) for the second leg and I expect him to tear them a new arsehole.
 
Disappointed that Pep didn’t come over to acknowledge the fans last night, same as Saturday at Palace. His acknowledgment is always a highlight. Still love the bald ****
 
bluemanchester said:
Just watched that again for the umpteenth time. Fodens pass to Alvarez fot the fourth goal was perfect, weight and accuracy. Not quite up there with David Silvas at the swamp but not far behind.
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Just goes to show Phillip Walter Foden was ‘world class’ before last night.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Disappointed that Pep didn’t come over to acknowledge the fans last night, same as Saturday at Palace. His acknowledgment is always a highlight. Still love the bald ****
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I have heard he hasn’t been feeling 100% as of late and is trying to keep engagements to the bare minimum expected to try to power through it.

He’ll be back to doing it soon.
 
I read an interesting preview of our game against Arsenal, where the author showed short passes is one of our important metrics. and I've kept an eye on it over the last three games. It may be a bit daft, but I felt second half we exerted much better pressure on Madrid by having our spacing better and keeping our rhythm on these short passes.

Grealish is key to this, he constantly carries the ball into the right area and it allows us to set the rest of the attack. I'm sure I write this in every post, but if we fail to attack with purpose and establish our positions in the opponent's half, it causes us huge defensive issues.

First half we were getting caught on the ball in stupid places and the gaps between players felt too large. Madrid exploited it a few times.


It would've been great to hold on for 3-2, but taking a draw home is a good result, given we were again missing key personnel for a 'big' game.

We really don't get enough credit for the mentality of our players. They keep turning up and giving it everything, despite the gruelling nature of the last 18 months and winning the lot last season.

It's the classic crunch week now. 3 games across 3 competitions, each presenting a different challenge. Often the most stressful but exciting part of the season!
 
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