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Thursdays B****x

Postby Chinners » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:50 am

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SUMS IT UP BOLLOX
Tom Cleveley has become a joke figure in football, but the stats apparently show Manchester City should be an even bigger laughing stock when it comes to the Champions League.
City slipped up against CSKA Moscow last night, with their dreadful form in Europe’s elite club competition continuing, and after the game this incredible stat came out on Twitter.
Cleverley, currently on-loan at Aston Villa from Manchester United, won more Champions League matches while at United – than City have in their history.
The stat is distorted a little as City haven’t been playing in the competition for long, but Cleverley wasn’t a regular at Old Trafford, so there.
Poor City.


Manchester City morning news: Pellegrini explains problem, Souness lays into City players
Manuel Pellegrini has suggested Manchester City are suffering a confidence crisis.
City have struggled in the Champions League this season and were beaten 2-1 at home against CSKA Moscow.
“It is a crisis of confidence of course. The last two weeks we are not playing the way we normally do,” he told Sky Sports.
Liverpool legend Graeme Souness has laid into City for the performance, suggesting that City’s big name players have gone missing.
“The mark of big players is that they want the ball all the time, even when the roof is caving in and you didn’t see that from City tonight. You saw people go absent, people who didn’t want the ball,” he told Sky.
City goalkeeper Joe Hart has suggested that City need to move on from past glory and focus on the future.
Hart was forced to watch as two Manchester City players were sent off during the game.
“It's a low moment and we've put ourselves in a really weak position in the group. We've proved in the past we're more than capable of producing really good performances, but we need to stop living in the past and make it happen,” said Hart.

Pellegrini clueless: I don't understand why Manchester City can't perform in Europe
The Chilean coach cannot explain the reasons behind the Premier League champions' continued incompetence in continental competition
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has conceded that he has no clue as to why his star-studded side struggle to perform on the Champions League stage.
The Premier League titleholders suffered their second group-stage defeat of the season on Wednesday as they fell to a 2-1 loss to CSKA Moscow to leave their hopes of qualification to the knockout phase hanging by a thread.
Two goals from Seydou Doumbia were enough to see off City on a night that saw both Yaya Toure and Fernandinho sent off, and Pellegrini admits there is much work to be done after his side's latest European setback.
He said: "All of them are important players so I don't understand why they cannot play in the Champions League, but we must review a lot of things to understand why it was such a low performance."
City are now bottom of the group and face Bayern Munich and Roma in their final two group fixtures, although former Real Madrid coach Pellegrini is convinced his side can still qualify for the next round of the competition.
He added: "If you have a mathematical chance to qualify you must try for it. We will see. First we must try to beat QPR, then we have an international break and after that of course will try to qualify for the next stage.
"It is more difficult but not impossible."
City have won two of the last three Premier League titles - yet reached the knockout stage just once, last season, when they were eliminated by Barcelona in the last 16.

Yaya Toure, Fernandinho say sorry to Manchester City fans for red cards
ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti can't believe Manchester City's players and coaches couldn't get motivated in their matchup with CSKA Moscow.
Yaya Toure and Fernandinho both issued apologies to Manchester City fans after they were each sent off during their dismal Champions League home defeat to CSKA Moscow.
City were left on the brink of elimination after both dismissed in the second half as the Premier League champions again crumbled on the European stage, losing 2-1 on a miserable night at the Etihad Stadium.
The result left them bottom of Group E with just two points from four games. City will now go out of the competition if they fail to beat Bayern Munich on matchday five and there is a winner in the game between CSKA and Roma.
City were stunned in the second minute as Seydou Doumbia, who inspired CSKA's comeback from 2-0 down to draw against City a fortnight ago, headed the opener.
Toure curled in a superb free kick to equalise soon after but Doumbia capitalised on poor defending to restore the Russians' lead before the break. It was his fifth goal in four matches against CSKA over the past year.
Toure's red card reduced City to nine men.
City again lacked spark, as they have for much of the season so far, and their hopes of a fightback evaporated as Fernandinho and Toure saw red in the second half.
Fernandinho received a second booking for blocking Ahmed Musa and Toure gave the referee little option as he raised his hands to push away Roman Eremenko.
Both players later apologised.
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Sergio Aguero was aggrieved not to be awarded two penalties late in the game while City could also claim CSKA's Pontus Wernbloom should have been sent off.
The Swede had already been booked when the referee whistled for his apparent foul on Aguero, but the yellow card shown in the chaotic aftermath was to Sergei Ignashevich.
City captain Vincent Kompany also took to social media to say he was not goving up on the club reaching a place in the knockout phase.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal wants to bolster his defence with a £10m January bid for Porto centre-back Bruno Martins Indi, the 22-year-old Netherlands international. (The Sun)

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, 27, was left out of the starting line-up for the second successive game amid speculation Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United have submitted offers for the Spain international. (DSSC)

QPR have been told it will cost at least £10m if they want to sign former Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe, 32, from MLS side Toronto in the New Year. (Daily Star)

Southampton would be willing to pay in excess of £15m for Palermo's 20-year-old Argentine forward Paulo Dybala. (Tuttosport)

Kevin Strootman, 24, is expected to make his long-awaited return to action for a Roma reserve team this weekend in a move that could boost Manchester United's prospects of signing the Netherlands midfielder in January. (Times)

Forward Joel Campbell, 22, is ready to leave Arsenal in January after becoming fed-up at a lack of first-team chances. (Daily Mirror)

Robin van Persie, 31, has scored only three goals this term and his place in the Manchester United starting line-up against Crystal Palace this weekend is reportedly under threat from 18-year-old James Wilson, who came on for him in the Manchester derby defeat at Etihad. (Daily Mirror)

EA Sports have picked a 23-man England squad based on official Performance Data, which includes three each from West Brom, West Ham and Sunderland, with neither Wayne Rooney nor Joe Hart making the starting XI. (Daily Mail)

Leicester City assistant manager Craig Shakespeare has denied talks have taken place with midfielder Esteban Cambiasso, 34, over extending his contract, which expires at the end of the season. (Leicester Mercury)

Barcelona forward Luis Suarez, 27, says he does not know how former Liverpool team-mate Steven Gerrard, 34, managed to play on after his costly slip against Chelsea last season. (Daily Mirror)

Roy Hodgson is ready to hand Theo Walcott an England recall, despite the 25-year-old Arsenal forward having played just 10 minutes of football in more than nine months. (Daily Telegraph)

Real Sociedad say they are talking to former Manchester United and Everton boss David Moyes about the managerial vacancy at the Spanish club. (Guardian)

Former Liverpool manager Roy Evans reckons forward Raheem Sterling must go back to basics as the 19-year-old looks to regain his form. (Talkshit)

Birmingham City director Panos Pavlakis says the club is in a "much safer" position financially than previously. (Birmingham Mail)

FCM Targu Mures midfielder Gabriel Muresan, 32, has been given a 16-match domestic ban for a violent tackle during a Romanian league match in October. (Guardian)

Damien Comolli says he was sacked as Liverpool's director of football because the owners did not approve of the £20m signing of midfielder Jordan Henderson, 24. (Setanta)

Midfielder Joe Cole has backed in-form forward Charles N'Zogbia, 28, to provide the goals Aston Villa need. ( Sun)

West Ham's England international Andy Carroll, 25, who has not played this season because of an ankle injury, played 60 minutes of a practice match against Southend and could feature against Aston Villa this weekend. (Daily Mail)

Real Madrid are preparing a £20m offer for Tottenham goalkeeper and French national team captain Hugo Lloris, 27. (Lefigaro)

Lille manager Rene Girard has ruled out the possibility of an exchange between the French club and Liverpool for strikers Mario Balotelli, 24, and Divock Origi, 19. (Lefigaro)

Schalke have rejected rumours that they are pursuing Bayern Munich's 23-year-old Swiss midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, who has also been linked with Tottenham. (Bild)

Lassana Diarra has denied signing a contract with Celtic. Tottenham and QPR are the other teams interested in the 29-year-old midfielder, who plays for Russian side FC Lokomotiv Moscow. (L'equipe)

Juventus have joined Manchester United and Liverpool in the race for Cruzeiro midfielder Everton Ribeiro, 25. (Tuttosport)

Former Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino says he is unsure if Argentine striker Lionel Messi will reach his best level again. (Marca)

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure took to Twitter to apologise to the club's fans for his red card in Wednesday's 2-1 Champions League loss at home to CSKA Moscow.

Former England striker Michael Owen tweeted his frustration on a flight from Los Angeles to Heathrow after it was diverted to Manchester because of fog. Owen's ultimate destination was Manchester but the airline wouldn't allow him to leave the plane. Because of the delay before it flew to Heathrow, he missed his connecting flight back to Manchester.

All 20 Premier League clubs have banded together for the first time to support the Tickets for Troops campaign which provides free matchday passes to members of the armed forces over Remembrance Weekend. (Daily Mail)
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Re: Thursdays B****x

Postby nottsblue » Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:55 pm

City could CLAIM CSKA could've had a man sent off. It isn't open to a fuckin debate.
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