And score at the same rate as Drogba too?To win a game you have to put the ball in the net. Sorry Erling but flat footed and not strong enough. Use your weight man and be a bit more aggressive. Watch some Drogba videos and be an animal like you are built to be.
LolAnother big game this season that we bottled
Spot on. When teams park the bus, like Real Madrid did, it is like playing through a forest. I agree. Its the only way team's can avoid defeat against us and maybe do a smash n grab. That is exactly what Arsenal did a few weeks ago and Chelsea did the same in the CL final. You need luck to beat City doing that and the teams I have mentioned definitely got it in those games. Shows how good City are when top teams dont think they are able to stand toe to toe against us. The best teams do not always progress in knock out competitions. I remember Chelsea beat Barcelona in 2012 over 2 legs and Chelsea did a smash n grab. Hopefully we can bounce back on Saturday. Come on City!No, the worst thing is "fans" not appreciating how good we are and not realising that we can't win every single game every time. Most times we don't it's when the opposition got lucky and today was another one of those., Any one of those attempts we had could have gone in, but when a team parks the bus it's like trying to play football in a forest. I'm proud that we made a team like Madrid do that, in the end it was exactly what Steve Mac said it would be, toss of a coin.
I really don’t think Real Madrid played in a good spirit at all.Was proud of the team. Just not our night.
Game played in a good spirit from both teams imo.
I am glad its the FAC Semi this Sat as Pep can at least rotate.
Then its on to winning those remaining Cup Finals.
Surprised Rodri didn’t take one. Must have been too knackered. Banged them in for Spain.
Arsenal fan but hope you can get it done just for the achievement alone. As long as you promise not to come for our invincible title xD.I'm sure the chance of 4 in a row hasn't gone unnoticed by a certain Howard Webb and Co.
Would be unbelievable if we can get it done though
Agree, my thoughts exactly. As you say just hope it hasn't taken too much out of the players physically and mentally. Also pray this match doesn't go to extra time and penalties as well. If it did I think it could seriously affect our premier league form.I'm not that bothered about last night. We were the better team and lost on penalties after having 33 shots on goal to their 8. That is knockout football. That said , it was Shit defending for their goal.
I just hope the physical exhaustion is not too much for us to recover for the Chelsea game
His penalty was the same as 4 of the madrid ones. Their goalie guessed rightBetter players than Kovacic have fucked up penalties.
A dipper would float the story that the SAS were responsible for kidnapping the ball ordered by the Tories.
Anyone think the ref got in the way of our passing lanes and potential through balls multiple times last night? Thought we had to change direction multiple times as he was a 12th man. Apologies if someone’s already mentioned this.
If we win the league it will be a amazing achievement. I agree we're no longer looking like sharks when we're out of possession but its to be expected after winning 5 trophies.Could, should have won but a lot of chickens from the season came home to roost last night.
In the lead up to the game and for most of the 90 minutes, I just didn't feel the excitement that I should have for a CL QF against Real Madrid. We are nowhere near the levels of last season, let alone the Centurions or Fourmidable seasons.
- Too many players not at their best - KDB, Haaland and Bernardo, and even Rodri, well below their standards of last season.
- Poor execution when in good positions. In the first half KDB got the ball to the byline in what you could say is our signature move, but put the ball too close to the keeper. Bernardo barely delivered a decent ball and there was one spell of a few minutes where he under-hit a ball across goal, then massively over-hit one a couple of minutes later. KDB's shot on 80 minutes, would would probably have sealed the tie.
- Insipid attacking football with too little intensity or imagination. Trying to thread delicate little passes through a wall of 5 RM players instead of having a shot. Some really poor decision making last night. Just have a shot occasionally. We dis show intensity in the second half of the 90 and first half of ET but were let doen by our decisions and actions around the RM area.
- Something I've noticed for a while but we were talking about last night was how often we're in a 50/50, or even 60/40 situation with a loose ball and fail to come away with it. There's a worrying lack of commitment when looking to win he ball. Doku, Kovacic, Foden and Haaland (and others) were all guilty of that quite badly at some point. We were seeing a lot of second ball but often giving it away far too easily.
- Our goals to chances ratio. At least we got a good number of shots on target last night but most were far too easily dealt with by the keeper.