Sevilla v City post match thread

Top with two games to spare brilliant performance to a man..
Great composure from sterling, he took it well, what a player he is..
 
leighton said:
A great result everyone was brilliant. Sterling , Navas , Bony all good going forward. Fernadhino and Yaya control the midfield and got forward. Defence solid and we are into the last 16.
Also Fernando was a great in the holding role. Countless tackles and breaking there play up. If Fernando plays like that regularly we will be hard to beat for the rest of the season both in England and Europe.
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Just came back on to give Fernando a mention, he was quality tonight as he has quietly been for the last few games he has played. Really starting to see what this lad is all about now.
 
jimharri said:
Try living over here. There are two terrestrial stations that cover CL games live over here (TV3 on tuedays, RTE on wednesdays). This is gameweek 4, and we still haven't been shown live. Tonight we had the Real vs PSG game (staggered that it wasn't the rags). Coming up after the break, we're going to be treated to extended highlights from... guess!
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Jim its the usual bullshit. Clash with the Rags no chance of showing us. Kinda glad tv 3 showed something different than the English teams in the PSG and Madrid game as they missed out on a cracker here. If Souness is on tv 3 tonight be nice to hear his views and tomorrow night we will get some sort of praise from RTE how can they not praise us after that lol.
 
I've been saying pellegrini is tactically inept and holding this team back, particularly in Europe for the past 10-11 months now. It's taken long enough but i'm delighted he's finally proved me wrong tonight. And given that i was one of a very small minority that was happy with the lineup and KDB being dropped pre-match he's proved a lot of people on here wrong tonight. At last a lineup with a specific game plan and look at the results. Our best away performance by an absolute mile!

Yaya wasn't in the number 10 role, where he's not the best, he was in midfield with Fernandinho with the vital protection of Fernando. It allowed all three of them to play their natural game rather than compromising and all three put in tremendous performances. There's no excuse for not playing them 3 from now on in the champions league and tough away league games. If it means leaving out influential players sometimes, like Silva or KDB then so be it, the teams more important than individuals.

Looked solid at the back throughout and Fernando deserves most of the credit for that, absolutely superb tonight, only bettered by fernandinho. Going forward, Bony looked the part, we played more to his strengths and didn't ask him to do what Aguero does and he shown what a good player he is. Sterling has so much improvement to make still, yet he put in great performance tonight. As did Navas on the other flank. Now the pressure of qualifying is off, we need to put in a similar performance in Turin and top the group. It's vital we do for the draw.

I'm convinced our side is better suited to play counter attacking football now rather than possession and tonight has only strengthened my opinion. We can still dominate inferior teams in the league and retain possession when necessary but in Europe we should be switching to a counter attacking style, similar to what Real Madrid did when they won it.
 
I thought the CB's were amazing as well. Kolarov was letting them have cross after cross and Kompany and Otamendi dealt with everything thrown at them.
 
an outstanding perfomance...MP got it spot on tonight.......total control and a really mature performance from the players

added bonuses

sterling shoving it down the throats of his critics in the media
navas since the spurs performance where he was awful has suddenly started doing the things that we have needed him to do in an attacking sense and long may it continue.
delph coming back
bony getting a goal (hopefully help his confidence as that is how he should be finishing)
fernando
MP getting better balance to the team

awesome display and that save by hart from he header was again top class and it barely got a mention
 
Lots of folk questioning team selection/probable tactics in the pre match thread. You've got to admit Pellers set us up perfectly for that one. Well done all round to the management and team.
 
Thought that was Sterling's best performance for us tonight. Constantly took on the full back and looked a real threat every time he was in possession. Unlucky not to grab one or two assists to go along with his goal too
 
Perfect night and great to see Delph get some minutes!!...Great to see us get the game plan right in europe!! Best performance for a very long time!! GO BLUES!!!!
 
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