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Last night Barcelona saw the Guardiola Circus arrive back in town and this morning their sides must still hurt with laughter.
Pep is a busted flush. A manager who thinks he has invented a new way of playing. A genius  Would Diego Simeone got rid of Hart for the clown Bravo?. Would Simeone have paid £50m for the clown Stones? Would Simeone have left his best player on the bench for a visit to the Camp Nou? If Pep hadn't had Messi at Barcelona he would have won feck all and now be chasing jobs in the championship. A Spanish Steve Bruce |
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Football is about winning. If you playing Barca you have to work out a way of winning against Messi. Simione has done that. Pep hasn't. Pep is the Spanish Steve Bruce.
You call Jose negative but leaving Sergio Aguero on the bench last night was a crime against football. And the clown Bravo, how many games has he played for City? Sent off last night due to his sh!t ball control should have been sent off against United. That is some record and Joe hart must be grateful he is in Italy |
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Really?
Atletico haven't beaten Barcelona in the league since 2010 |
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2006 was the last time Atletico won at the Nou Camp.
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Can't remember the last time they were spanked 4-0.
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Notice you qualify your arguement with in the league
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Atletico haven't won at the Nou Camp in any competition since 2006 yet you say Simeone has worked out a way of winning against Messi..in 2011 Atletico lost 5-0 at Barcelona.
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Atletico haven't beaten Barceolana in any competition in the last 10 meetings
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Leaving Aguero out obviously didn't work although City didn't look too bad until the slip that let Messi in for his first. De Bruyne I thought had a decent enough game in the false 9. Possession wise City did ok and although you could look at it as a negative not playing Aguero it probably mean't City did at least have a reasonable amount of possession even though it will be the lowest in a match since Guardiola arrived.
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The way the groups are shaping up, and assuming City finish 2nd in the group, City will have one of the following in the knock-out phase :
Napoli Atletico Madrid (poss Bayern) Monaco Real Madrid (poss Dortmund) Juventus (poss Sevilla) |
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Mover what did you think of Stones and Kolarov performance
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Barca beat AM 5-0 in October 2011. Simione became AM manager on 27 December 2011.
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fair enough
So which matches are you going to quote to justify your comment "If you playing Barca you have to work out a way of winning against Messi. Simione has done that." |
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Watching city last night one can see they still have a big threat going forward but in defence they have big issues , when under pressure stones and kolarov look very shaky , the full backs are not top quality and the goalkeeper under orders from pepsi is an accident waiting to happen,
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Stones and Kolarov did ok I thought, particularly in the first half. Accepting that they aren't the best players defensively they were always going to be up against it with the best 3 strikers around.
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Mover even against Celtic and more so at White Hart Lane they were very poor does the Manager not know how to organize a defence , I actually do not think he does employing all your players to be dreamlike forwards id very naïve especially when you come up against decent teams in their own back yard , Blue Moon you started singing too soon - an old song rings true for the oil rig.
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Well I suppose if you're going to play out from the back and hold on to the ball you are always going to sacrifice a bit defensively as there's very few defenders that are good at both. Many thought Kolarov would be on his way out but he's decent with the ball so has been a regular under Pep. Will be alright against most teams. The scoreline was probably a bit harsh but if you make a few mistakes with Messi around that can always happen. Stones won't have played a frontline like that before and on occasions was shown up (eg when Suarez went past him and he didn't move!). I don't think Guardiola will change his style of play much and it might mean a few more changes over the next couple of transfer windows.
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So which matches are you going to quote to justify your comment "If you playing Barca you have to work out a way of winning against Messi. Simione has done that." Simione's record against Barca in the Champion's League. P4 W2 D1 L1 GF5 GA3 |
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The scoreline was harsh? City should have finished the game with 8 men FFS. You were run ragged.
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Both of Atletico's wins against Barca in the Champions League were at home, so not sure that compares to playing at the Nou Camp or really justifies the statement you made that Simeone has worked out a way of winning against Messi when they have failed far more times than not.
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and who knows...maybe we'll beat them at the Etihad
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46% possession for city,a marked and welcome step up from the fetid decomposing dish served up on monday by 666,we got a game of footy-hurrah
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....and tho it was wide in the end,possibly could have been a much narrower margin,thought they were doing fairly well up till the goal
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Rommel another scouse fan of the oil rig
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you not think it was a better game than mondays?
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46% and new aresholes all round
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at least one Manchester club went away from home and had a go, even down to 10-men
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Gave it a go
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I haven't read a single match report where City have been accused of parking the bus at the Camp Nou. I don't think anyone has denied Mou parked the bus at Anfield.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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City don't have a bus to park. Stones is as much use as a one legged man at an ares-kicking party.
Fancy thinking you can win the CL without a solid defence Pep has been seriously found out. |
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has 1p got the bravo tackle in yet....he will...he will
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need new full backs
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Yes rommel I have already pointed out if he had got the straight red he deserved at OT he would have a sending off rate of nearly 20%
Joe Hart must be pissing his sides. |
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It's been a terrible week for Pep and City's Arab masters.
Pep wasn't hired by City's Arab masters to win the Premiership. Manuel Pellegrini was already doing that rather comfortably. Pep was hired to bring City the Champions League but after Wednesday night's hammering City's Arab masters must be wondering if they hired the right man. Did they not even take a cursory look at his Champions League record? If they did it'd show they have hired the wrong man! Separated from Lionel Messi Pep's record in the Champions League is poor. At Munich he took over the reigning European champions but in the next 3 seasons he couldn't even take them to a final. Contrast Pep's Champions League record with that of Diego Simeone. Simeone's inexpensively assembled Atlético Madrid have knocked Barca out of the Champions League each time they have met them, in 2014 & 2016. In all 4 of their meeting Barca have only ever score 3 goals. But Pep can put aside his embarrassment today. Hopefully he is getting used to his new areshole and get on with his day job against Southampton. Who knows, maybe he'll be confident enough to play his star striker  |
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1p just you start clenching pal,the last post might be sounding on uniteds title hopes today
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Your embarrassing Rommel as a scouser who has such love and affection for the feckin oil rig
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costa will cost ya babeeeeeee,whatever the briger of doon tries today think chels will edge it
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