Real Madrid Vs Manchester City Post Match Thread

[Citizen in Pakistan]

is it me or it hurts a lil more when you wake up to a defeat like last night,,we.ll have our moments in champions league to this time around thats for sure.
Mancini would have learned alot of lessons and i m sure we,ll be alot better at our home,i have a feeling we will at home against them.

 

[bapi]

Don't understand why we're so passive without the ball. Home matches against Arsenal and Dortmund will be interesting but it's clear there's a huge difference between City now and 1 year ago.

 

[SWP's back]

The performance was very good. Not many teams can go to the Bernabeu in such an important game and try to play football. There is only one team on the planet who could do that.

When the dust settles we will realise that in Nastasic and Garcia we have made two top class additions.

We restricted Real Madrid to taking shots from outside the area and in the end they got a bit of luck. Perhaps they earned it. Cruel game

We were lucky that Essien played. Unlucky to lose two key players to injury

Two things Madrid did very well which we could learn from:

1) Crossfield passes to get wide men one on one and Di Maria, Ronaldo c an be deadly one on one

2) Shooting from edge of area. We dominate games, but don't work the keeper enough. Marcelo, Ronaldo, Di Maria were all shooting the second they got an opportunity

Overall defeat is a defeat but there are defeats at Bayern where you are given a lesson, and defeats at Real Madrid where you know you are almost the equals of one of the world's great teams. In time the players and management will be able to take some positives from this.

Real Madrid were better but not by much

Very good summation

 

[Feed-The-Goat]

This thread is fucking priceless.

 

[tonea2003]

we should have able to shut up shop with 5 to go, big lesson there
conceding the equaliser straight away was pretty bad
we seemed to play the occasion to much especially in the first half, where we we are a yard slower than them apart from joe, thank goodness.

the good thing is i really don't think we will have a harder game all season and i really think we can go unbeaten the rest of the group

we need some clean sheets though, starting sunday!

 

[Marvin]

is it me or it hurts a lil more when you wake up to a defeat like last night,,we.ll have our moments in champions league to this time around thats for sure.
Mancini would have learned alot of lessons and i m sure we,ll be alot better at our home,i have a feeling we will at home against them.

It will be tough to beat them. But possible

 

[StanGibsonspitchfork]

The performance was very good. Not many teams can go to the Bernabeu in such an important game and try to play football. There is only one team on the planet who could do that.

When the dust settles we will realise that in Nastasic and Garcia we have made two top class additions.

We restricted Real Madrid to taking shots from outside the area and in the end they got a bit of luck. Perhaps they earned it. Cruel game

We were lucky that Essien played. Unlucky to lose two key players to injury

Two things Madrid did very well which we could learn from:

1) Crossfield passes to get wide men one on one and Di Maria, Ronaldo c an be deadly one on one

2) Shooting from edge of area. We dominate games, but don't work the keeper enough. Marcelo, Ronaldo, Di Maria were all shooting the second they got an opportunity

Overall defeat is a defeat but there are defeats at Bayern where you are given a lesson, and defeats at Real Madrid where you know you are almost the equals of one of the world's great teams. In time the players and management will be able to take some positives from this.

Real Madrid were better but not by much

Very good summation

Yes to all. One point to add - Joe Hart is a great goalkeeper, but still developing. He also needs to put his brain into action before he opens his mind about team mates. Sure the defence didn't close space down allowing them to shoot so much, which must have annoyed him. But his distribution and kicking should be better, and it isn't just last nights game that you can say that about. Improve on that and then think about criticising other team mates. Overall, well done blues - the champions league is a learning curve and is a hartbreaker!

 

[HellasLEAF]

I'm very impressed with City today actually. I thought we showed really character and fight in a very hostile ground. We survived the storm in the first half and then it became a real match, with City bossing the game in moments in the 2nd half.

Madrid were very good though and created many chances. They are a quality team, but weak at the back.

I don't understand why Maicon over Zab though. Does Zab have a knock or something? Looked fine to me...

 

[Marvin]

I'm very impressed with City today actually. I thought we showed really character and fight in a very hostile ground. We survived the storm in the first half and then it became a real match, with City bossing the game in moments in the 2nd half.

Madrid were very good though and created many chances. They are a quality team, but weak at the back.

I don't understand why Maicon over Zab though. Does Zab have a knock or something? Looked fine to me...

Maicon is better going forward but his high crosses were a little pointless. He will learn

 

[GazM]

Let's face it, we could have been 2 goals down by half-time but that's football for you. We took an undeserved lead against run of play & came more into the game at that point. A draw would have been a fair result but we were up against the team who beat Barca to La Liga last season...not QPR, Macclesfield or Wigan.