*****Bayern MUNICH v Man City***** official Match day thread

[citytilidie]

Dzeko throws his toys out of the pram
Zab going mental
Tevez refusing to play (apparently)

Mancini with his head in his hands

What the fuck is going on

[kennyboy]

Would like to see what happend on the bench, Dzeko fuming and Tevez refusing to play,
dont understand at all to let NDJ in when we should be chasing goals..

[DoomMerchant]

Bayern didn't do anything different to create any of their goals or chances, than we face every week. We were fucking pathetic & that starts from the way Bob set the team up. If we play like that or like we did v Napoli in a top PL game, we will be eaten alive. It's no disgrace to lose at Bayern. It's a fucking disgrace to play like that v anybody.

Let's be clear tho...it's a disgrace to play like that from about the 35 minute mark or so...the first 30 minutes i thought we showed energy, conviction and had a couple good chances and a couple penalty shouts.

The problem was shifting into another gear or recognizing their threats and responding properly to them.

[Michael Brookes]

Would like to see what happend on the bench, Dzeko fuming and Tevez refusing to play,
dont understand at all to let NDJ in when we should be chasing goals..

we desperately needed a stronger midfield presence, the bizarre thing about it was not ND coming on, but Dzecko coming off

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Let's have some realism. Away at Bayern is a likely defeat unless you play very well.We played crap and lost 2 nil. Move on.

The big result will be on Saturday at Blackburn where we should win,if we have real plans to win the prem.The worries about today for me were the plan from the start and the team we started with. Very naive.The performances of too many of the players.Way below par.The substitutions and how they were likely to scramble a draw for us.And definitely what went on with Tevez if he did refuse to warm up and come on.

[paulmclaren]

What was it with Tevez not wanting to come on?
If true i hope he's gone tomoz, shot in the head if possible please?
And yaya toure, I've said this countless times, how the fuck is he a guaranteed starting 11 player, he done literally fuckall the entire match, jogged along, drop him please.
Dzetko shouldn't of thrown his dummy out, he was shit, 'again'.
And how on earth does kolo toure get in the starting 11 in a game like that after nearly a year out in a ban?
Madness.
So in summary.
Tevez- fuckoff you bigheaded squareheaded argie freeek.
Drop yaya.
F\irst 35 minsd we were more then a match then bazza gave the ball away, then shit hit the fan.
Not going to be a good atmosphere in training next time.
On a plus note, clitchy was amazing again, richards wasn't that bad just come up against a quality player in Ribbery.
Kompany didn't do much wrong.

[Redna]

We can talk about everything that went wrong. Bobs failure,players attitude but I'm telling you all.
No fucking chance of us doing well in Europe.
Plantini has given his orders. No doubt about that.

we were shit, they were better. He didnt give us a penalty and he denied them a stonewall one aswell. Let's not blame the ref here we were terrible players, tactics and attitudes- all garbage and we got thumped against a very good Bayern. Even if we played well we still could have lost 2-0 at this ground.

It's not the big dicisions. It's them small that counts in the end.
They were better, much better.

[Michigan Blue]

Bayern didn't do anything different to create any of their goals or chances, than we face every week. We were fucking pathetic & that starts from the way Bob set the team up. If we play like that or like we did v Napoli in a top PL game, we will be eaten alive. It's no disgrace to lose at Bayern. It's a fucking disgrace to play like that v anybody.

Yep. Bayern will keep going on about reaching the final at their own ground, but Barca and Real will murder these.

We got at them for 30 minutes, then wilted and finally gave up completely.

As I said before, 1860 Munich would have given them a better game.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Let's have some realism. Away at Bayern is a likely defeat unless you play very well.We played crap and lost 2 nil. Move on.

The big result will be on Saturday at Blackburn where we should win,if we have real plans to win the prem.The worries about today for me were the plan from the start and the team we started with. Very naive.The performances of too many of the players.Way below par.The substitutions and how they were likely to scramble a draw for us.And definitely what went on with Tevez if he did refuse to warm up and come on.

You dont just move on though do you !! Questions need to be asked and answered. It was not a poor performance..It was a disgusting performance from EVERYONE barring Hart.

This is not a case of move on at all......its far more serious than that ffs !

[DoomMerchant]

What was it with Tevez not wanting to come on?
If true i hope he's gone tomoz, shot in the head if possible please?
And yaya toure, I've said this countless times, how the fuck is he a guaranteed starting 11 player, he done literally fuckall the entire match, jogged along, drop him please.
Dzetko shouldn't of thrown his dummy out, he was shit, 'again'.
And how on earth does kolo toure get in the starting 11 in a game like that after nearly a year out in a ban?
Madness.
So in summary.
Tevez- fuckoff you bigheaded squareheaded argie freeek.
Drop yaya.
F\irst 35 minsd we were more then a match then bazza gave the ball away, then shit hit the fan.
Not going to be a good atmosphere in training next time.
On a plus note, clitchy was amazing again, richards wasn't that bad just come up against a quality player in Ribbery.
Kompany didn't do much wrong.

try not to suggest we shoot our players in the head...it's poor form.

cheers

[kinkylola]

we set up our midfield wrong from the beginning. We should not have been playing a midfield of yaya and barry with 2 up top against bayern at theirs. after our initial flurry they were always going to come back into it and we didn't have the drive, speed or manpower in mid to hold them back.

ndj should have started, allowing yaya to support farther up. I would have started with one of dzeko/aquero up top ... that way we have a solid formation but still room to change it up if we need to chase the game. When we start out with such an attacking formation away from home, and go down 2-0, where can we go? We have to chase the game but it's no good to open up totally and allow more goals.

i saw the dejong sub as changing the system to how we should have started, and it was obvious to me that aguero would be the next off to be replaced by tevez, better suited to a 1 man striker force. Tevez refusing to play is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard if it's true. If true, I want him to never play for us again and rot in a hole somewhere. It does need to be confirmed however.

[BobbyJ1956]

If it's true about Tevez he should get the train home. Loved Tevez, now he can sod off.

[paulmclaren]

What was it with Tevez not wanting to come on?
If true i hope he's gone tomoz, shot in the head if possible please?
And yaya toure, I've said this countless times, how the fuck is he a guaranteed starting 11 player, he done literally fuckall the entire match, jogged along, drop him please.
Dzetko shouldn't of thrown his dummy out, he was shit, 'again'.
And how on earth does kolo toure get in the starting 11 in a game like that after nearly a year out in a ban?
Madness.
So in summary.
Tevez- fuckoff you bigheaded squareheaded argie freeek.
Drop yaya.
F\irst 35 minsd we were more then a match then bazza gave the ball away, then shit hit the fan.
Not going to be a good atmosphere in training next time.
On a plus note, clitchy was amazing again, richards wasn't that bad just come up against a quality player in Ribbery.
Kompany didn't do much wrong.

try not to suggest we shoot our players in the head...it's poor form.
cheers

But for tevez to 'refuse' to come on?
You having a laugh?

[Alfie]

Mancini doesn't seem to graps the psychological part of the game. If you want to affect the game you got to show that we are changing the style of play, with attack minded subsitutions. What he did today was to tell the players that we were happy with the score or close by.

[Blue Since 76]

What was it with Tevez not wanting to come on?
If true i hope he's gone tomoz, shot in the head if possible please?
And yaya toure, I've said this countless times, how the fuck is he a guaranteed starting 11 player, he done literally fuckall the entire match, jogged along, drop him please.
Dzetko shouldn't of thrown his dummy out, he was shit, 'again'.
And how on earth does kolo toure get in the starting 11 in a game like that after nearly a year out in a ban?
Madness.
So in summary.
Tevez- fuckoff you bigheaded squareheaded argie freeek.
Drop yaya.
F\irst 35 minsd we were more then a match then bazza gave the ball away, then shit hit the fan.
Not going to be a good atmosphere in training next time.
On a plus note, clitchy was amazing again, richards wasn't that bad just come up against a quality player in Ribbery.
Kompany didn't do much wrong.

try not to suggest we shoot our players in the head...it's poor form.

cheers

I'd be willing to make some exceptions. Tevez refused to play, according to Mancini, so I'll do it myself.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Mancini has confirmed that Tevez refused to come on.

[feedthegreek]

mancini as just said tevez as refused to play.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

I can accept losing to Bayern, but I can't accept the absolutely pathetic second half performance. We gave up, stopped trying. Why? Where was the fight back spirit? Which multi million pound signing grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck? We barely touched the ball.

Nasri was poor, Aguerro also, Dkeo don't get me started.

[bluebananamilksheikh]

Mancini just said Tevez refused to come on!!!! Fuck him off now, Sack him!

[Blue Since 76]

Cups for cock ups anyone?