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Team v Chicken Kiev
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Team v Chicken Kiev
by shakencity Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:40 am
First topic message reminder :
This is how i'd start:
.............Hart
Zab....Vince...Ota...Clichy
......Diho....Yaya
Navas.....Silva....Sterling
.........King Sergio
We never lose when i go, so i fully expect another victory....3-0 i say
This is how i'd start:
.............Hart
Zab....Vince...Ota...Clichy
......Diho....Yaya
Navas.....Silva....Sterling
.........King Sergio
We never lose when i go, so i fully expect another victory....3-0 i say
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:14 pm
That was a pissed off kind of tackle from silva
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:23 pm
Kiev are tired and have given up hope. Sterling to score.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:25 pm
Dimi holding his back like a 70 year old... classic
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:27 pm
Bloody hell good on you Clichy!
Ps has Kolarov had a fallout with MP? If so, Good!
Ps has Kolarov had a fallout with MP? If so, Good!
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:28 pm
jonathan pearce with his poor defending comment when 3 players were yards offside. pillock
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:32 pm
Right congratulations blues. Surely they can't score 2 goals in 5 minutes.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:33 pm
great trickery from sterling then absolute shite cross
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:34 pm
If you can't do clever stuff just amash it in like Navas does!
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:35 pm
Topdawg wrote:they need 3 goals.
True. Forgot the away goal rule!
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:37 pm
gave my ticket to my brother in law. poor bastard.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:40 pm
not entertaining, but we're through.
big injury worries for the weekend though.
big injury worries for the weekend though.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by TMG Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:43 pm
Decent professional performance in the end
Ferdy twins played well, Aguero is just a different class
Thought Yaya did pretty well as did all the back 4
Navas although wank did have the best chance
Vinnie will be out. Lets hope Otto is not as bad as we thought coz I dread DeM & Mangala against Martial
Ferdy twins played well, Aguero is just a different class
Thought Yaya did pretty well as did all the back 4
Navas although wank did have the best chance
Vinnie will be out. Lets hope Otto is not as bad as we thought coz I dread DeM & Mangala against Martial
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by blueboy Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:46 pm
Fuck me, I've watched some shit in my time....but that was nothing short of painful.
The club should give a refund to every single person who paid for a ticket to watch that dross.
Well done....QF draw on Friday....won't matter who we get if the players are as motivated as that tonight.
Off to bed, my eyelids are fucking aching!
The club should give a refund to every single person who paid for a ticket to watch that dross.
Well done....QF draw on Friday....won't matter who we get if the players are as motivated as that tonight.
Off to bed, my eyelids are fucking aching!
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by blueboy Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:49 pm
- agree.TMG wrote:Decent professional performance in the end - boring as fuck though
Ferdy twins played well, Aguero is just a different class - felt sorry for Serg...if only the others put in his effort.
Thought Yaya did pretty well as did all the back 4 - had one of his better games tonight against a team that were abysmal
Navas although wank did have the best chance - struggling to find the words to describe him
Vinnie will be out. Lets hope Otto is not as bad as we thought coz I dread DeM & Mangala against Martial
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Topdawg Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:50 pm
that was a tough watch. Good that we didn't win the game as our record would have us in trouble for the derby
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by TMG Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:59 pm
As long as we dont get Barca, RM,BM & probably PSG in the next round we have a chance 
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:01 pm
Away with work and fancied a curry with a colleague more than the match, seems I made the right call. Still history made, who knows from here, a bit of luck and one of the lesser teams and who knows? We are still due luck overall in the comp.
Shame about Kompany, I can't see him getting a new contract after all these injuries.
Shame about Kompany, I can't see him getting a new contract after all these injuries.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Guest Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:12 pm
blisteringblue wrote:Away with work and fancied a curry with a colleague more than the match, seems I made the right call. Still history made, who knows from here, a bit of luck and one of the lesser teams and who knows? We are still due luck overall in the comp.
Shame about Kompany, I can't see him getting a new contract after all these injuries.
Liveepool and Chelsea won it with a huge bit of fortune so you never know. Have in mind that we are City!
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Nijinsky Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:21 pm
Saw that one comingNijinsky wrote:Always draw when I go
i'd settle for 0 0
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by shakencity Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:22 am
You even came out to a standing ovation last night tooNijinsky wrote:Saw that one comingNijinsky wrote:Always draw when I go
i'd settle for 0 0
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by blueboy Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:53 am
Martin Samuel's take on last night's game:
Any executive who continues to advocate closed-shop European football, minus promotion, relegation or a rigorous qualification process should be tied to a chair and made to watch this game.
Not just once. Over and over again, until he begins sweating uncomfortably through his suit, bursts into tears, breaks out in hives and signs a piece of paper promising that he will never, ever sit in a room with some American idiot discussing ways to take everything that makes football compelling, and remove it, in exchange for a few quid.
This is what football looks like when there is nothing to play for. This is what it becomes. A waste of your time, a waste of my time, a waste of everybody’s time.
Any executive who continues to advocate closed-shop European football, minus promotion, relegation or a rigorous qualification process should be tied to a chair and made to watch this game.
Not just once. Over and over again, until he begins sweating uncomfortably through his suit, bursts into tears, breaks out in hives and signs a piece of paper promising that he will never, ever sit in a room with some American idiot discussing ways to take everything that makes football compelling, and remove it, in exchange for a few quid.
This is what football looks like when there is nothing to play for. This is what it becomes. A waste of your time, a waste of my time, a waste of everybody’s time.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by blueboy Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:55 am
There will have been worse matches than this, technically, but they will have been played by lousy teams. Manchester City are supposed to be good. So, too, Dynamo Kiev. This was going to be breakthrough night, when City would at last join the Champions League last eight. And for that reason some of the locals will not have minded the tedium, seeing it as job done.
But they should mind. They should feel entitled to expect so much more. It is too easy to blame this on the injuries to Vincent Kompany and Nicolas Otamendi that threw City’s plans through a loop. It is too simple for Kiev to concede that a 3-0 away win was beyond them. Both are to blame. It did not have to be as dull as this.
Yet this is what we could be watching, for months on end, if European competition is ever allowed to become a semi-closed shop. Here was football minus the drama; here was the game when the result is guaranteed.
Kiev knew they were out, City knew they were through and both teams knew their obligations to UEFA’s round of 16 would be over as soon as referee Ovidiu Hategan blew the final whistle. Not even the disruption to City’s defence could persuade the Ukrainians to raise their tempo. Kiev, if you pardon the pun, were chicken.
And City were far too comfortable. The best that could be said of them is that they were excused games on medical grounds. Losing Kompany after five minutes, and his partner Otamendi after 20, would sink the spirits of any team. Kompany is a talisman for City, and they are much reduced without him. If his calf injury stretches towards May, his loss could be fatal to the club’s ambitions in the remainder of the season.
For Kiev there is less excuse. They should have been buoyed by City’s misfortune, instead they settled. Andriy Yarmolenko had a shot saved by Joe Hart after 64 minutes, but that was about the best of it until injury time and a goalmouth scramble involving Oleksandr Yakovenko.
For City, Jesus Navas hit the post. The travelling Ukrainian press pack largely hit the bar. They weren’t bad judges.
How anyone can advocate meaningless rounds of matches, shorn of tension, as a money-spinning format for the Champions League in future is a mystery. Occasionally in two-leg cup tournaments this will happen, a tie that is as good as over at the end of 90 minutes. It could be the same in the Nou Camp tonight when Barcelona and Arsenal meet.
But to build an absence of danger into the fixture list, to make the process so safe and formatted, would be fatal to fans’ interests. City did not sell out this match as it was, and had the locals known then what they know now, their numbers would have been even smaller.
This was an occasion devoid of edge, and the stadium had largely emptied before the end. One can only hope City’s performance reflected the dispiriting loss of their captain, Kompany. If not, they must hope for another lucky draw on Friday, as any European team of quality will remove them.
The only conclusion that could be drawn from the first half was that Kiev did not appear to have done enough homework on City’s defence. A better-informed team would surely have realised how calamitous it was to lose not just Kompany but also Otamendi. It left Eliaquim Mangala and Martin Demichelis guarding the shop, and neither acquitted himself particularly well.
Yet Kiev’s tempo barely altered. Premier League opponents would have instantly sought to gain advantage. The play would have got quicker, more direct, they would have put more balls into the box and raised energy levels to test the makeshift back line. Instead, Kiev plodded on, matching City’s torpor.
Yes, Kiev needed three goals to progress and that was always unlikely, but this was truly abject. They should at least have had a go. City were by turn sloppy, slow, cautious, aimless. Of course, losing two centre-halves is a blow but it didn’t need to suck all life out of the game. It had all the snap of a testimonial without a fraction of the freedom of expression.
The biggest fear, of course, is that this is City’s season over, just as it is beginning. They are still fighting for the title, or at least a Champions League place next season, and they are likely to be England’s only participants in this year’s quarter-finals, but as Kompany limped off forlornly so City hearts sank.
With him on the pitch this season City concede a Premier League goal every 194 minutes; without him that falls to 65 minutes. Statistically, Manchester United are now likely to score at least once in the derby here on Sunday. There is little fun at City without Kompany.
The captain arrived here in 2008 and since then has suffered 14 calf injuries. Early reports suggested this was the 15th. He was shepherding the ball away from Oleg Gusev when he pulled up, clearly troubled. He kicked the ball off immediately and fell back on to the turf, mainly in frustration.
His face told the story. He had a thousand-mile stare. You could tell he was doing the reckoning. By the time he comes back, the season could be as good as over.
Then there is the impending arrival of new coach Pep Guardiola. Kompany is his best in situ defender, by a mile. But not injured. Guardiola will want reliable players. Casualties, if not jettisoned altogether, will become increasingly peripheral.
And with that, Kompany rose slowly and hobbled to the periphery.
On came Mangala and, within a few minutes, another calamity. Otamendi ran into Vitaliy Buyalskiy and both men fell to the ground, hurt. Otamendi rose, eventually, but wincing with pain and awkward in movement. It looked like a dead leg. He limped around for a further 10 minutes or so, until an attempted upfield pass appeared to end all hope of toughing it out.
Like Kompany, Otamendi signalled to the bench that his match was at an end. Off he went, replaced by Demichelis, now forging a partnership with Mangala that was about as popular as a Mike and Bernie Winters tribute act.
Fortunately, Kiev seemed largely happy to sign up for a non-aggression pact and City were rarely tested. They will proudly take their place in Friday’s draw but this was hardly an occasion befitting the honour of Breakthrough Night. Sleep-through night, maybe.
But they should mind. They should feel entitled to expect so much more. It is too easy to blame this on the injuries to Vincent Kompany and Nicolas Otamendi that threw City’s plans through a loop. It is too simple for Kiev to concede that a 3-0 away win was beyond them. Both are to blame. It did not have to be as dull as this.
Yet this is what we could be watching, for months on end, if European competition is ever allowed to become a semi-closed shop. Here was football minus the drama; here was the game when the result is guaranteed.
Kiev knew they were out, City knew they were through and both teams knew their obligations to UEFA’s round of 16 would be over as soon as referee Ovidiu Hategan blew the final whistle. Not even the disruption to City’s defence could persuade the Ukrainians to raise their tempo. Kiev, if you pardon the pun, were chicken.
And City were far too comfortable. The best that could be said of them is that they were excused games on medical grounds. Losing Kompany after five minutes, and his partner Otamendi after 20, would sink the spirits of any team. Kompany is a talisman for City, and they are much reduced without him. If his calf injury stretches towards May, his loss could be fatal to the club’s ambitions in the remainder of the season.
For Kiev there is less excuse. They should have been buoyed by City’s misfortune, instead they settled. Andriy Yarmolenko had a shot saved by Joe Hart after 64 minutes, but that was about the best of it until injury time and a goalmouth scramble involving Oleksandr Yakovenko.
For City, Jesus Navas hit the post. The travelling Ukrainian press pack largely hit the bar. They weren’t bad judges.
How anyone can advocate meaningless rounds of matches, shorn of tension, as a money-spinning format for the Champions League in future is a mystery. Occasionally in two-leg cup tournaments this will happen, a tie that is as good as over at the end of 90 minutes. It could be the same in the Nou Camp tonight when Barcelona and Arsenal meet.
But to build an absence of danger into the fixture list, to make the process so safe and formatted, would be fatal to fans’ interests. City did not sell out this match as it was, and had the locals known then what they know now, their numbers would have been even smaller.
This was an occasion devoid of edge, and the stadium had largely emptied before the end. One can only hope City’s performance reflected the dispiriting loss of their captain, Kompany. If not, they must hope for another lucky draw on Friday, as any European team of quality will remove them.
The only conclusion that could be drawn from the first half was that Kiev did not appear to have done enough homework on City’s defence. A better-informed team would surely have realised how calamitous it was to lose not just Kompany but also Otamendi. It left Eliaquim Mangala and Martin Demichelis guarding the shop, and neither acquitted himself particularly well.
Yet Kiev’s tempo barely altered. Premier League opponents would have instantly sought to gain advantage. The play would have got quicker, more direct, they would have put more balls into the box and raised energy levels to test the makeshift back line. Instead, Kiev plodded on, matching City’s torpor.
Yes, Kiev needed three goals to progress and that was always unlikely, but this was truly abject. They should at least have had a go. City were by turn sloppy, slow, cautious, aimless. Of course, losing two centre-halves is a blow but it didn’t need to suck all life out of the game. It had all the snap of a testimonial without a fraction of the freedom of expression.
The biggest fear, of course, is that this is City’s season over, just as it is beginning. They are still fighting for the title, or at least a Champions League place next season, and they are likely to be England’s only participants in this year’s quarter-finals, but as Kompany limped off forlornly so City hearts sank.
With him on the pitch this season City concede a Premier League goal every 194 minutes; without him that falls to 65 minutes. Statistically, Manchester United are now likely to score at least once in the derby here on Sunday. There is little fun at City without Kompany.
The captain arrived here in 2008 and since then has suffered 14 calf injuries. Early reports suggested this was the 15th. He was shepherding the ball away from Oleg Gusev when he pulled up, clearly troubled. He kicked the ball off immediately and fell back on to the turf, mainly in frustration.
His face told the story. He had a thousand-mile stare. You could tell he was doing the reckoning. By the time he comes back, the season could be as good as over.
Then there is the impending arrival of new coach Pep Guardiola. Kompany is his best in situ defender, by a mile. But not injured. Guardiola will want reliable players. Casualties, if not jettisoned altogether, will become increasingly peripheral.
And with that, Kompany rose slowly and hobbled to the periphery.
On came Mangala and, within a few minutes, another calamity. Otamendi ran into Vitaliy Buyalskiy and both men fell to the ground, hurt. Otamendi rose, eventually, but wincing with pain and awkward in movement. It looked like a dead leg. He limped around for a further 10 minutes or so, until an attempted upfield pass appeared to end all hope of toughing it out.
Like Kompany, Otamendi signalled to the bench that his match was at an end. Off he went, replaced by Demichelis, now forging a partnership with Mangala that was about as popular as a Mike and Bernie Winters tribute act.
Fortunately, Kiev seemed largely happy to sign up for a non-aggression pact and City were rarely tested. They will proudly take their place in Friday’s draw but this was hardly an occasion befitting the honour of Breakthrough Night. Sleep-through night, maybe.
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by Nijinsky Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:24 am
shakencity wrote:You even came out to a standing ovation last night tooNijinsky wrote:Saw that one comingNijinsky wrote:Always draw when I go
i'd settle for 0 0
Good of you to notice
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Re: Team v Chicken Kiev
by shakencity Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:49 am
Well my ears did prick up when i heard the Shakers get a mentionNijinsky wrote:shakencity wrote:You even came out to a standing ovation last night tooNijinsky wrote:Saw that one comingNijinsky wrote:Always draw when I go
i'd settle for 0 0
Good of you to notice
.That said, it was a great reception and fully deserved i think we can all agree
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