MAN CITY v BARCELONA

barca havnt even tried imo

bye bye city

One of the worst decisions ever to start that Maverick DEMI-CARELESS !!...Everyone knew before kick off he would not be up to it ...!!

his legs were wider than amanda knox on crack

legs wider than kelly brook

sucker punch ! pen should not have been given  was just outside box !

alves just loves to get forward

empty ground

WD BARCA

City swallowed it

love the way barca finished that match, totally bossed it

That was easy enough

next citeeh manager ......................

What a damp squib that was.

first taste of the champions league knock out stages for city

VIVA LA BARCA LIVES ON FOR THE TIME BEING

any way city lost...had they played on their strenght (attacking)...atleast we would have enjoyed...

Aggregate 6-0 or 7-0 imo

sh1t game really though , in terms of exciting football

England will have to rely on Chelsea again this year

Narrow margins

never in the game

Man City a very naive team.

Barcelona streak of never watching them in an entertaining match continues, I think the count now is at 4327 matches.  Absolutely embarrassing as usual.

who was it who said recently that City are the best team in the world?

EPL so insular still, media got a lot to answer for - broadcast media not so much the written press.

Well, I mean Sky really.

City lost this game before a ball was even kicked. You should never change your formation and style of football for anyone, not at home and especially not at home in Europe. Very poor from Pellegrini.

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who was it who said recently that City are the best team in the world?

EPL so insular still, media got a lot to answer for - broadcast media not so much the written press.

Well, I mean Sky really.
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Tim Sherwood did. Jose was then slaughtered by the press for saying that wasnt the case. Oh well

Barca played at about 70% pace. Wait til the Noucamp where they'll tear into them.

Ibrahima Sonko 18 Feb 14 21:35 
Narrow margins Laugh

never in the game

Absolutely

i'd like to see the sending off / penalty incident again

There for the taking? lmao

What is Kompany on ?

not the best team you've played this season?

no, not at all.

lol

Man City looked like a side with an inferiority complex tonight.

Barca underwhelming.  They don't have the intensity of old, can't see them going all the way this year.

kompany delusional

Kompany seething

/ crazy if he's serious. but basically seething.

seething with his managers crappy tactics

was it me or the second goal took time to suspend markets, feel like someone saw the goal and i could not cancel my bet, and bf did not suspend on time, human error?

Facts 2-0 Barca away from home. should have been at least 4-0, Stonewall penalty turned down, onside goal disallowed.  City lucky to be still in the tie.

Facts Barca got awarded a pen that wasnt. Has this happened before?

People talking about formations are missing the key thing.
People taking about the sending off are also missing the key thing.

The key thing is that Barca are much better than City at football.

The best result City could have got out of that was a 0-0. They always get maulicated over two legs.

demichelis was very naive to make that tackle

tiki taki , way to go

Feb 18, 2014 -- 9:44PM, themover wrote:

Facts Barca got awarded a pen that wasnt. Has this happened before?

What about the penalty they didnt get and the offside goal wrongly dissalowed.

Deluded much?

looked outside the box to be honest

still would have had 10 men and lost.

JamDav, please add your own facts in another post. TIA

what are they talking about? Barca were all over them

Oh  good. My advice has stopped the clueless ranting . We 're all agreed it was off side then. Great. My work here is done.

Barcelona made City look very ordinary today. I think Pellegrini handed the opposition a huge advantage by changing his formation and being more defensive. You never give up home advantage in Europe. Pellegrini made a huge mistake tonight.

man city should stick to the carling cup not good enough to challenge in europe.

at least city will have their best player back for the 2nd leg

jamdav.....the goal disallowed was offside ya gobshiite ya.....

need the ball first

Feb 18, 2014 -- 9:48PM, YOMOMMA wrote:

man city should stick to the carling cup not good enough to challenge in europe.

eh? They were playing one of the best teams EVER

Maybe City will attack in the second leg...

or capital one cup or wotever its called these days.

that barcelona team is not near as good as a few seasons back.

city restricted to 32% possession at home

Feb 18, 2014 -- 9:49PM, paulie wallnuts wrote:

jamdav.....the goal disallowed was offside ya gobshiite ya.....

No it wasnt go and look again.

was very naive of demichelis to make that challenge

I thought City were awful tonight, never took the game to the opposition, looked clueless.

yep city disappointing.

was very simply out played

yes must congratulate barca on  getting 3 shots on target(including pen0 against 10 men , has any other team managed this /

I think Bayern will be waiting for them later and sort them out with the minimum of fuss like last time

think the same here, bayern the team to beat again.

Feb 18, 2014 -- 9:49PM, YOMOMMA wrote:

or capital one cup or wotever its called these days. that barcelona team is not near as good as a few seasons back.

in Fabreagas' words "you will have to shut up for a few days"

jamdav.....it wouldn't have been disallowed if he scored himself......but he passed to a player was......have another peep.....

Man city 32% possesion, 28% in their own half...promising.

it seemed to me that city were playing for a 0-0 from the start, they were always going to be on the wrong end of the posession figures, but up untill the sending off they showed very little urgency with their own limited posession.

to be honest meadow, the possession stats are invariably like that in barca game but what did you expect in the 2nd half with city down to ten, did you think theyd be all over barca  with 1 man down that said they still probably had as many chances.

Feb 18, 2014 -- 9:54PM, paulie wallnuts wrote:

jamdav.....it wouldn't have been disallowed if he scored himself......but he passed to a player was......have another peep.....

2nd phase, 2nd phase.

did city have a chance

they can have 70% of the chances  v bayrn but end up wityh 25% of the goals

Soflw,

True that teams really struggle v barca at the best of times but down to tem men means getting the tent and sleeping bags pitched in your own half.

I can't see a way back for them but they need to get stuck in.

I wouldn't surprise me with nothing to lose we don't see cit take risks and give barca a better game than is expected, if theyre a huge price ill have a small bet on them winning the 2nd leg

barca beat them without getting out of 1st gear... laughable really laughable

2nd leg is gonna be a tanking of epic proportions... cant wait

I personally thought Barcelona were pretty average tonight. The old Barca would have gone for the kill and knocked in 3 or 4 after the penalty. Navas gets the blame for the goal, and how much City do rely on Aguero ?

Another horror show on the cards tomorrow from an English side.

Feb 18, 2014 -- 10:12PM, David Icke wrote:

I personally thought Barcelona were pretty average tonight. The old Barca would have gone for the kill and knocked in 3 or 4 after the penalty. Navas gets the blame for the goal, and how much City do rely on Aguero ?Another horror show on the cards tomorrow from an English side.

The old Barca usually played a lot worse than that away from home in CL.

True enough, but then they were playing teams who deserved to be in the Champions League.

tbh this barca was a lot less naive than the guardiola version. back then they went all out attack and left themselves too exposed. but this lot conserved their energy and played a very impressive waiting game. i was very impressed and i now think they will win the cl... i'm saying that and i used to hate barca

Its time, everyone, woke up to the fact, that Spains La Liga, is better than the English (foreign) Premier League and agree that Barce, are definatly not the side they once were, however their, still an excellent side and have the expieriance, that Man City don't in the Champions League.

Man city team v Barcelona 2nd leg (they wont have any legs left after this one)

Shumacher,

Dave Mackay, Tom Forsyth, Jack Charlton, Doug Rougvie

Billy Bremner, Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter,

Jimmy Johnstone, Gary Lineker, Ally McCoist

Scythe them down then hoof it up to the front men.

Man City are the best of what is a poor league. When it comes to the European elite they are still quite a way off.

City are great in prem league, not so with giants. City performance rests on pellegrinis shoulders, they could have done better, very defensive and bad tactics an team choice. Obviously could have done with Augero, didnt see what all the fuss was about fernandinho,  negrado is good but goes awol a lot and needs feeding balls, nasri a great player. Barca are a class above city no doubt. Not the best barca performance but the defense looked better, is it puyol glad he didnt play, bit tighter at the back. Danny alvis loves getting forward. They started to up the anti towards the end, could have easily been 0-4, bad tactics by pelligrini, I rest the blame on him, not that i care as i follow barca. Xavi losing the shine though. Barca magic still there

City seemed happy with a 0-0 from the start and happy with the 0-1 when they went down to 10 men.  Now Pelligreni says they will have to go for it in the 2nd leg.....here's a daring thought, how about if they had gone for it from the off????  Barca's only weakness is when teams go after them as they are not great at defending.  Valencia beat them at the Nou Camp recently by doing just that and City are a far better side than Valencia.  Pellegrini got it totally wrong.

Football does my nut in. Referees ruin so many games. Was not a penalty as initial contact was outside the box. Don't know why they don't make use of video replays.

Tennis has benefitted no end from hawk eye technology. Time for an overhaul for football to bring it in to the modern era.

Pellegrini made a huge mistake playing defensively against Barcelona last night. It's the worst thing you can do. He should have went 4-4-2 and went at them from the off. Sitting back and inviting them to attack you is asking for trouble. Terrible tactics. The worse possible tactics in fact.

poor manager tactics for sure,braindead

Why give up possession to a side who love to have lots of possession? Why not go at them and keep them on the back foot. City were at home but they played like they were the away team. I wonder if Pellegrini, like so many of his countrymen, have an inferiority complex when coming up against Barcelona and Real Madrid? City played like a team who were afraid.

Could've gone the other way though high lander. If he'd attacked Barca from the off and they'd been done on the break then people would've said he was mad to go all out attack against them.

Yes they invited pressure on and let Barca have the ball but you couldn't say Barca were creating much. Hart didn't have much to do, one long range shot from Xavi was about it. I think he was happy to take a 0-0 and then go for an away goal in the Nou Camp.

Biscuit, I'm not saying go all out attack. You can attack and keep pressure on the opposition without playing recklessly. It seemed to me that City were on the back foot from the off. They handed the psychological advantage to Barca by changing their team and style of play. Pellegrini might as well have come out and said "we know you are better than us." If you are a strong home team in Europe you do not change your style of play for any team. That was very weak from Pellegrini

Yeah i see your point but City went 442 v Bayern and look what happened so that was obviously in Pellgrini's mind.

I also think City having Demichelis, a half fit Fernandinho and Nasri and no Aguero didn't help them either.

did city play out for 0-0 or what? what kind of defence playing was that? embarrasing to watch! and it was at home.... lets hope for something else at nou camp..

Nah City played 4-4-1-1 but more importantly they did not commit themselves to attack. They should have went at the opposition and kept them on the back foot, if possible. Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference, Barca were excellent. But at least City could have had a proper go.

Man city will probably hold out for a 0-0 draw at the Camp

that's how these games go - Barca won't be winning 4 or 5-0 ,that's for certain


they might have to  drop Hart though