***City v Madrid CL Official Match Thread***

[Harry Dowd scored]

Khus playing that well guaranteed to be dropped for cup final nailed on

[Nick]

Was the board down with rage?

Sack everyone. Khus for manager and captain

Pep, rodri, dias bye.

Id fuck haaland off too but it won't happen and omar is also gash.

I just hope a new manager and a world class midfield athlete ups the rest.

[bigblue]

This season has usually been on Pep but this game was just as much on the players. Dias especially is atrocious and well below the level needed.

Collectively giving up at the end and letting the cheating cunt put 2 in the net is close to unforgivable.

[CTID Hants]

Clearly, I wasn't the only one who couldn't get back in to post for the last 25 minutes....

Trying to post got spikes when we had 600+ "guests" which became 1100 plus before it crashed and now down 300ish. What is going on?

[PaulieIrish]

Best we’ve played in a long time. If we play like that next Sunday we win easily.

[Nick]

Pep getting absolutely murdered on Premier sports.

The co commentator was bang on, can see everything wrong. Id fucking have him as manager. Normally get some mong saying dias and haaland are in form.

Lennon arguing with them all.

[bigblue]

Best we’ve played in a long time. If we play like that next Sunday we win easily.

Except for Khusanov, our defense and midfield was nonexistant off the ball. Better finishing from madrid and we'd lose by 3-4 goals. And we should have been down to 9 men

[Tokyo Blue]

You'll laugh at me for this. But I think reijnders will be a force next season. Ironing out all his shite this year, next year he will find his feet. His positioning, his passing, his running, it's all there to see. I accept the pelters that will come my way.

I hope you are right, mate.

[trueblue64]

Sky sports are saying in their match thread, that Pep said he was staying next season.

I’ve heard Pep Guardiola speak so many times about the fine margins in the Champions League and he’ll reflect upon another missed opportunity in Europe.

"His side created a host of great opportunities across the two legs but found Courtois and then Lumin equal to almost everything.

"Pep says he’s staying next season so will have another crack at this competition. We’ll take him at his word and see if he can recreate the sort of City team that was able to win it in 2023.”

[stevefromdonny]

Best we’ve played in a long time. If we play like that next Sunday we win easily.

Except for Khusanov, our defense and midfield was nonexistant off the ball. Better finishing from madrid and we'd lose by 3-4 goals. And we should have been down to 9 men[/quote

Better finishing from us and we would of scored more,

[Tokyo Blue]

Best we’ve played in a long time. If we play like that next Sunday we win easily.

I agree. I thought we did well, especially considering we were ten v twelve.

[Nick]

Best we’ve played in a long time. If we play like that next Sunday we win easily.

Except for Khusanov, our defense and midfield was nonexistant off the ball. Better finishing from madrid and we'd lose by 3-4 goals. And we should have been down to 9 men

Agree.

We played Miles better yes but thats cos we've not had a shot since Newcastle.

We couldn't hit the target. The defence inc Donna, bar khus was wank. Midfield wank.

Cherki and khus. That's it.

[PeterParker]

All the racism abuse Vinicius gets is purely because he is a disgusting human being.
Pure garbage.

[Nick]

All the racism abuse Vinicius gets is purely because he is a disgusting human being.
Pure garbage.

Then he's lapping up the Spanish fans.

Im more annoyed nobody stamped him.

[Wonderwall]

No idea what the coverage was like but I thought he crowd were brilliant tonight, not sure how it came across on TV.

Thought we started excellent and Madrid were all over the place and struggling until the Bernardo sending off. Then after that we had to adapt, thought we equipped ourselves very well against them under the circumstances.

It was a positive change at half time by Pep, switching the formation and still trying to go for it. But it wasn't to be, however, khushanov showed a clean pair of heels to that twat Vini tonight, made him look stupid on a number of occasions. Thought Marmoush was awful when he came on, he kept going deep and there was nobody in the middle, but overall I think we handled ourselves very well with 10 men.

Only 1 team for the quad now, let's hope we stop that on Sunday

[Sparklehorse]

Well, I have to say that I am proud of our players tonight in the respect that we gave our all. I thought Cherki and Rodri were outstanding. But of course the game was lost with the Bernie incident, I thought it could have been a yellow give that the shot was not on target and the ref should have seen that during his review, obviously a penalty though. If we play anything like that on Sunday with quick passing and pace we will blow arsenal away, but I strongly suspect we will revert back to type and play right into their hands. Madrid deserved their victory from the first leg performance. Hey ho the refs fuck us over yet again. Does this mean that Bernie will be banned on Sunday ?

[bigblue]

khushanov showed a clean pair of heels to that twat Vini tonight, made him look stupid on a number of occasions.

The ref blowing for a foul by Khus on vinicious right before halftime is one of the more maddening calls I've seen for awhile. And to give him a yellow on top of it is hard to put into words.

[sniffer]

Khush and Cherki best on the pitch should be first on team sheet from here on.

[Sparklehorse]

The one bright spark left for us is the possibility of the murderers and spuds get fucked off tomorrow, fingers crossed.

[Sparklehorse]

Khush and Cherki best on the pitch should be first on team sheet from here on.

I second that, both were brilliant tonight.