City v Barca - Live Thread

[blueboy]

[blueboy]

[blueboy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3891680/Barcelona-match-Manchester-City-s-cup-final-says-Pep-Guardiola-ahead-integral-Champions-League-tie.html

[blueboy]

[blueboy]

What's everyone's predictions for the score tonight?

[Topdawg]

I'll be happy if we score

[blueboy]

1-0 then?

[Topdawg]

Who wouldn't take 1-0 to us?  3-1 City...

[blueboy]

The Etihad was evacuated earlier.....some cock-womble burnt chips!!

Everything back to normal now.....good job they didn't do that at 19:45!!

[blueboy]

Hope it's not an omen, but our U19's lost 2-0 earlier.

[blueboy]

Team News at 18:45.

[Nijinsky]

With my realistic head on I'd take a draw

But I forecast a 3 0 city win

[blueboy]

Here's the team:

Willy
Zab, Stones, Ota, Kolorov
Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva
Sterling, Aguero, KDB

[blueboy]

Gotta say...I know experience counts for a lot, but Zab and Kolorov as full backs, doesn't fill me with confidence.

[Topdawg]

expecting to get beat with that line up.

[Guest]

I dont know why we bother, these refs are dire in Europe

[Topdawg]

sterling's reputation goes before him

[Nijinsky]

Ref looks like a rabbit caught in headlights frightened to make a decision

[Guest]

49m Raheem you need to do better now son

[Topdawg]

fucking shit defending

[Topdawg]

What on earth is Pep doing? Tell the fuckers not to go gung ho like that

[Nijinsky]

Terrible goal to conceed

[Nijinsky]

Wtf was stones doing

[Guest]

Ref is simply wank, but we just are poles apart from this team. They are so direct, bang bang bang goal. We break fast ok but have so lillte end product. Will take a point now, but cant see it.

[Topdawg]

Why do we play a narrow free kick like that? Put two guys out wide to spread them out. clueless at times.

[Topdawg]

same kind of break from us but aguero hits the man rather than pick out silva in space on the edge of the box. like you said bb, pols apart

[Guest]

Why cant we stop these mistakes, so many every game.

How clinicaly dirty are they too.

[blueboy]

1. Otamendi is fucking wank!
2. We get in the exact same position as their goal, and Aguero plays a stupid pass when Silva was in the exact same place as Messi was for their goal.
3. Gundogan has a nice touch, but boy, he moves like TLMLF when we lose the ball.
4. This referee...ffs, what a c**t!

[blueboy]

All 3 are in the team tonight - and all 3 cannot play together.

KDB, Silva and Gundogan...KDB has been isolated out wide and not been in the game....why? Gundogan and Silva playing inside.

Borussia winning.

[Guest]

Ota dives in, never seen him do that before, bellend

[Guest]

More fucking mistakes.

[Topdawg]

look at the difference in the pressing. light years apart

[Guest]

3 or 4 nil again this, men v boys

[Guest]

There you are 3 or 4 nil.

[Nijinsky]

Need to sort out this playing out from the back

[Nijinsky]

We got 1

[Topdawg]

we've given up on pressing now

[Guest]

Just cut out the mistakes will be enough for me.

I know i was mugging myself off :-)

NEED TO TAKE EVERY CHANCE

[Topdawg]

and a mistake....from some pressing

[Topdawg]

Can't believe some were slagging Gundogan off a few days ago...

[Nijinsky]

Lot of empty seats and I couldn't get a ticket...at a price I could afford...annoying

[Topdawg]

they don't like a bit of pressure

[Topdawg]

bbc said there were big queue, even at kick off

[Nijinsky]

Why wasn't messi booked for that dive
Like sterling was . And sterling didn't dive

[Nijinsky]

Behind the city goal there looks to be a lot of empty seats

[Topdawg]

screaming at sterling to shoot and then he play the sublime ball to gundogan. class.

[Topdawg]

1-1 at HT. They are still a class apart, but we're back in the game. It's hard for our guys not to feel the pressure and kick the ball out or to their players when, normally, they wouldn't do such things. But we have to somehow cut out the really stupid mistakes and hope we get lucky again.

[leopold]

There were massive queues again, we missed the first ten minutes. The turnstiles are a joke.

We've played well in spells, a draw is about right, but we need to be much more direct and pass quicker. Also, can someone just grab Messi's shirt once in a while, just to stop him running into the gap our defense is leaving for him?

[Guest]

Look a point is a start against this team, happy with anything from it.

[blueboy]

Can't believe some were slagging Gundogan off a few days ago...

You mean me? Yeah, his work rate isn't great - that's what I said. Never questioned him on the ball, as per my last post. Important goal, but will mean nothing if he doesn't help Fernandinho when we lose the ball and they score again.

The goal came from him turning his back on a cross-field ball and trying to get it with his back leg....when he should've just let the ball go and track back.

But credit where it's due...took his goal well - from 6 yards into an empty net.

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