Steaua Bucharest post-match thread

[Walking on the blue moon]

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.

 

[Mr Partridge]

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.

 

[Helmet Cole]

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.

 

[Sky Blue]

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.

Same script with Martin Samuel on the mail online...... I had to recheck the score after reading it.

 

[adrianr]

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.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

That was majestic at times. And we've still got Kompany, Gundogan, and Bravo to come in.

This gon be good.

Poor Sané, the forgotten man! ;)

 

[Tricky_Trev]

At least so you would say looking at Daily **** ratings:

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.

 

[tonea2003]

top performance and that 4th goal was something else

 

[yeah whatever !!]

anyone seen what Steaua posted on twitter? #OilFC? Twunts...

its because we are slick.

 

[i8rags]

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.