bluetonium
Well-Known Member
That pitch was frightening, glad we've got through it.
Alvarez is an absolute star he's a bit of Gundo and a bit of Aguero rolled into one.
Being lenient with nunes and kovacic, they had periods of great promise such as nunes almost getting himself on the scoresheet and kovacic finding the space intelligently, but something isn't clicking and we really need it to do so by new year. That said, kev back by then! Kova needs a bit more forward drive but looks like he's running in treacle, and Nunes needs to be better off the ball and decision making, imo. Hopefully it all comes together, but I feel that one more in, come January, is quite likely given their apparent limits.
Soft penalty? Maybe, but it's a foul no questions if given further up the pitch, there was contact and we've had them given against us before.
Amusing listening to the commentators on TNT berate us for every little thing, every Haaland miss, every second we were drawing it's all about plucky Young Boys and underachieving City, and once we pulled two clear goals ahead it changed instantly to how Haaland has 37 in 33 champions league games, how were now on a 5 game winning streak in this competition. It's like they knew that at that exact point their whole red listener audience would have switched over...
Also thought that stadium announcer was a bit mad. Wasn't he wittering on after their keeper made a save and getting the crowd going, whilst the ball was still in play? Uefa won't like that, unless it was sponsored by a preferred partner or course.
Alvarez is an absolute star he's a bit of Gundo and a bit of Aguero rolled into one.
Being lenient with nunes and kovacic, they had periods of great promise such as nunes almost getting himself on the scoresheet and kovacic finding the space intelligently, but something isn't clicking and we really need it to do so by new year. That said, kev back by then! Kova needs a bit more forward drive but looks like he's running in treacle, and Nunes needs to be better off the ball and decision making, imo. Hopefully it all comes together, but I feel that one more in, come January, is quite likely given their apparent limits.
Soft penalty? Maybe, but it's a foul no questions if given further up the pitch, there was contact and we've had them given against us before.
Amusing listening to the commentators on TNT berate us for every little thing, every Haaland miss, every second we were drawing it's all about plucky Young Boys and underachieving City, and once we pulled two clear goals ahead it changed instantly to how Haaland has 37 in 33 champions league games, how were now on a 5 game winning streak in this competition. It's like they knew that at that exact point their whole red listener audience would have switched over...
Also thought that stadium announcer was a bit mad. Wasn't he wittering on after their keeper made a save and getting the crowd going, whilst the ball was still in play? Uefa won't like that, unless it was sponsored by a preferred partner or course.
