Steaua Bucharest post-match thread

Brilliant all-round performance:) Could watch the movement of the players all day long. And it's nice that the team was scoring goals for fun.
Granted the opposition was not the strongest, but the signs are very promising. Thought we keep our shape better without the ball and the pressing was more organised. Passing seems to have improved from Saturday as well. It will only get better when the players have more time to learn and adapt to Pep's tactics.
 
The Sun is even worse. Gave Sterling no credit whatsoever and basically said it was all because the opposition were crap. I hope no City fans ever buy that paper, I wouldn't pick up dog shit with it.
 
Bitter salty tears. The media project to destroy Stirling hasn't worked and the last crumb of hope for most of the rag/dipper media was that we'd slip on the banana skin of cl qualification.
 
Mr Partridge said:
The Sun is even worse. Gave Sterling no credit whatsoever and basically said it was all because the opposition were crap. I hope no City fans ever buy that paper, I wouldn't pick up dog shit with it.
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Same script with Martin Samuel on the mail online...... I had to recheck the score after reading it.
 
The best way I can describe watching that is when I was younger, and we were shit, it felt like every match the opposition always had an extra player. Everytime we looked like winning it back it would fall from a 50/50 and end up with this phantom twelfth man.

We looked like we had someone everywhere, and then someone else for good measure. I spent as much time admiring the spacing of the players as I did watching where the ball was. Yes, the opposition could have made it harder, and its not going to be plain sailing with these complex systems for a good while yet; There will be games when we'll get caught coming out from the back and everyone will be up in arms about it, or when we leave a counter on a single center back and the posts of 'A defence is a line of four fucking people, center backs stay in the middle' (Think we've actually already had that funnily enough), but if the players show faith in it, and obviously we practice it to death, we are going to destroy this league. 100% absolutely annihilate it.

He's going to be the most important thing to happen to this club since Sheikh Mansour.
 
almir said:
At least so you would say looking at Daily **** ratings:

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How typically English is it that they say we played 4231!? Everyone else in England plays it so City must have done too, seems to be the thinking.
 
Loved it at the end when pep said "txixi did well signing sterling last season", all it was missing was a big grin down the lense and a wink.
 
The press and media are getting nervous about what we could actually achieve if we stay focused and work to peps plans and ideas..

let them give us undeserved poor marks and bad match reports..


we know how it is, that's all that matters.

Running scared?? you bet they are.
 
yeah whatever !! said:
The press and media are getting nervous about what we could actually achieve if we stay focused and work to peps plans and ideas..

let them give us undeserved poor marks and bad match reports..


we know how it is, that's all that matters.

Running scared?? you bet they are.
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It's very very early. Steua was a glimpse, and a reminder of how good we are. For the first time in a European game we really showed our quality. It was like watching Barcelona toying with an opponent only it was City we were watching.
 
Had to listen to the match on Talk Shite so this morning tried to get another picture from the media. No mention at all on the the BBC - just Silly Sally and another daft bird gushing for ages about the Olympics including a 'wow' because two cyclists had the same birthday and an 'awww' when some silly bugger fell over at the first hurdle.ITV was even worse- like a mum's coffee morning discussing events they had never heard of. Interesting to hear how good it is that the dreaded money injection put into the sports has caused success. It seems that only City's money is bad.

Over to the print media and although they praise City (they had to) nearly all have to mention returned tickets. I have never seen so many reports contain mention of fans not going to an away match 2000 miles away with no direct flights. I don't know if it is good or bad for UK clubs to get 'only ' 500 fans for a qualifying round so far away - it never gets reported for anybody else - but I do recall many excuses for others clubs not playing well because after long journeys and we might see it again with Thursday night football soon.

It seems that the media cunuts have to get negatives out of any situation and as usual it is at the expense of us. In more ways than one, there is no doubt that:-

THERE IS ONLY ONE CITY
 
Awesome display by City, brilliant that Sergio stayed focused despite his penalty misses, I think we started to see the first signs of Peps Influence yesterday and if this is a taste of things to come, its going to be a truly awesome season and beyond...!
 
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Pablo1 said:
The caf aren't taking your praise very well are they? Haha!
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I don't really quite understand the rivalry between your two clubs, tbh. I mean I get that in one city there will be a divide over two clubs, even if one has a longer history of success. But perhaps it's just the type of banter I don't really understand - it's not like with Barcelona vs RM.

There's bitterness, clearly - I think many have overhyped Mou and just as many selling Pep short because he 'inherited great teams'. Like Sacchi said last night, when you watch City last night it was immediate who the coach was - it's as simple as that. And even for a longtime culer like myself, I love the Pep effect and have missed that style of play.

It'll be very interesting to see what Pep builds at City
 
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