***barca v pep's city official match thread***

[PeterParker]

Boys need to learn from this.

Pep needs to learn from this

This.

[KinkyKinkladze]

You know what? Not arsed. That wasn't a 4 nil game. All messi's goals down to unforced errors. The bravo sending off ruined everything though. I really like him and I'm very impressed with his footwork but that tonight was inexcusable.

I thought we played well, best I've seen us play against them. But those mistakes, the constant slipping on their arses, we need to iron that shite out. If we do, we could do Barca. And I've never felt that before until the end of this match.

Fuck it. It's nowt. Scoreline flattered them.

[Beefymcfc]

Pep needs to wake the fuck up and realise most of these defender can't defend

Don't you get it, they're not supposed to defend.

[carolina-blue]

4-0 I know But I thought we played some good stuff .

[sheblue]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

[nottsblue]

But of course. that's essentially been the difference between the two sides. They have taken their chances, we haven't

Not really NB.
They don't make so many stupid decisions and crazy mistakes.
There were times when you wondered had any of our players been introduced to each other.

But we had six or seven really good scoring opportunities and scored none. They had about the same and got four. Had we taken ours when we were on top then it's a different result

[Mase]

Boys need to learn from this.

Pep needs to learn from this

Keegan said after an early match in his first season that he made the mistake of giving players a chance and they let him down. He said after a certain match (can't remember which one) when we lost he realised that some of the players didn't deserve the chance they were getting.

I'm hoping Pep realises sooner rather than later.

[Nigels Tackle]

fully expecting to be disappointed come 2145

well?????

[BookJunior]

Boys need to learn from this.

Pep needs to learn from this

He'll have a growing shopping list and more players to go. I hate this process.

[South Stand Balti]

Awful night for Stones worst of a bad bunch at the back tonight

Wankers

Serbian
Clichy
Bravo

They all cost us tonight and not PEPS set up...we were the better team until Bravo the fuckign dick got sent off.

Next year none of those above will be here.

It was Pep who brought Bravo in though. The system we play doesn't matter that much as long as we play it well. What that keeper did was an accident waiting to happen.

[Beefymcfc]

You know what? Not arsed. That wasn't a 4 nil game. All messi's goals down to unforced errors. The bravo sending off ruined everything though. I really like him and I'm very impressed with his footwork but that tonight was inexcusable.

I thought we played well, best I've seen us play against them. But those mistakes, the constant slipping on their arses, we need to iron that shite out. If we do, we could do Barca. And I've never felt that before until the end of this match.

Fuck it. It's nowt. Scoreline flattered them.

Bravo can fuck off for me and a serious chink in Pep's armour. That was the CL but we have already been found out in the Prem with this strategy. If we stick with this we've got to hope the PL adopt this model because if they don't (monetary reasons), it just won't work.

[roblues]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

Utterly pathetic, yes. Shocking? Surely not if you're used to watching City. Deeply worrying? Not sure - the plan was still obvious, the goals that mattered (and don't get me wrong, 3 and 4 still really hurt) came because of individual errors that may or may not be systematic, but if Pep doesn't get on to those who basically gave up at 0-1 I will echo your worries. Time to show what he is really made of now.

[london blue 2]

Fuck it it's done. On to the next one.

Come on city!

[nottsblue]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

Disagree a bit here. We had some individual errors that led directly to goals but our general play was good up to the sending off. We caused them problems and on a different day could have been 2-1 up. The formation and tactics were not the problem.

[carl_feedthegoat]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

Disagree a bit here. We had some individual errors that led directly to goals but our general play was good up to the sending off. We caused them problems and on a different day could have been 2-1 up. The formation and tactics were not the problem.

Correct..PEP was spot on with tactics till the sending off ,IMO...Its fuckign Bravo echo Bravo that was the main problem today..........

[Beefymcfc]

Fuck it it's done. On to the next one.

Come on city!

That's the spirit mate, pity I can't share it after that performance.

Pathetic performance. I can't accept that, Pep led us their.

Fuck me, CamelGob has reined it in. Must've been warned.

[KinkyKinkladze]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

Disagree a bit here. We had some individual errors that led directly to goals but our general play was good up to the sending off. We caused them problems and on a different day could have been 2-1 up. The formation and tactics were not the problem.

Absolutely this.

I'll be honest, I'm completely baffled by the outrage here. It might say 4 nil but anybody who watched that tonight will by no means think they embarrassed us.

[PeterParker]

The real problem is that we are bleeding and everybody is seeing that and our first cut was made by that Rodgers cunt. Since there, we are in the open.

Guardiola cannot play against Barcelona, simple, he does not know how to stop them, For me this was a calamity, worse than the previous two with Pellers, but we are lucky. We are lucky we will avoid them in the knock-out rounds like we did the previous year.

Guardiola has a huge job on his hand, he needs to sort things out fast, because most of all, this poor period for us is now, when everyone is fit, so no excuses of this kind. He needs to do wonders to our morale and all must start with Soton this weekend.

First big difficult moment for him.

[KinkyKinkladze]

You know what? Not arsed. That wasn't a 4 nil game. All messi's goals down to unforced errors. The bravo sending off ruined everything though. I really like him and I'm very impressed with his footwork but that tonight was inexcusable.

I thought we played well, best I've seen us play against them. But those mistakes, the constant slipping on their arses, we need to iron that shite out. If we do, we could do Barca. And I've never felt that before until the end of this match.

Fuck it. It's nowt. Scoreline flattered them.

Bravo can fuck off for me and a serious chink in Pep's armour. That was the CL but we have already been found out in the Prem with this strategy. If we stick with this we've got to hope the PL adopt this model because if they don't (monetary reasons), it just won't work.

I like him. Only like. I really wish we'd gone all out for stergen though.

Oh, special mention to raheem. He was great tonight.

[BookJunior]

A shocking and deeply worrying performance. Utterly pathetic on all fronts.

Utterly pathetic, yes. Shocking? Surely not if you're used to watching City. Deeply worrying? Not sure - the plan was still obvious, the goals that mattered (and don't get me wrong, 3 and 4 still really hurt) came because of individual errors that may or may not be systematic, but if Pep doesn't get on to those who basically gave up at 0-1 I will echo your worries. Time to show what he is really made of now.

Jose Mourinho is more pragmatic and ground out a 0-0 draw.

I prefer pragmatism in games like this.