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I have to say I'm surprised that no-one has commented on the goal that Vincent nearly scored yesterday.....mental skill to nearly put that back/side foot past Robinson

It was like he was trying to copy the boss

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Actually thought Mario's technique for his was beautiful too.....loved it.

Anyway, what's are your favourite examples of individual skill from a City player?

I have to say that for pure technical perfection....Elano's freekick vs Newcastle is still right up there for me. Some brilliant Robinho stuff from memory too and also loved Silva's wriggling free (vs Chelsea I think) earlier this season

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Ali B actually chip backheeling it to Goater and then Goater finishing on the volley.

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Or Eyal against Ipswich.

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Tevez's free-kick v Stoke was better than Elano's great free-kick v Newcastle. I've seen few free-kicks to beat that Tevez one, absolutely amazing goal.

s1ty m wrote:Tevez's free-kick v Stoke was better than Elano's great free-kick v Newcastle. I've seen few free-kicks to beat that Tevez one, absolutely amazing goal.

No.

Yaya's in ACN was better than both.

Mase wrote:Ali B actually chip backheeling it to Goater and then Goater finishing on the volley.

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Ok the 1st shot didn't go in but..

Obv we know all the history about the title in 72 and Marsh knocking the team off their stride but question for the old fellas on here (hehe).....were we a better team/team to watch with him added to the side?

I always loved this goal that Michael Johnson scored. Not only the execution that imho it's top class, but the whole moment that he had.

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ant london wrote:I have to say I'm surprised that no-one has commented on the goal that Vincent nearly scored yesterday.....mental skill to nearly put that back/side foot past Robinson

It was like he was trying to copy the boss

[youtube]iW5WvVcMYCY[/youtube]

Actually thought Mario's technique for his was beautiful too.....loved it.

Anyway, what's are your favourite examples of individual skill from a City player?

I have to say that for pure technical perfection....Elano's freekick vs Newcastle is still right up there for me. Some brilliant Robinho stuff from memory too and also loved Silva's wriggling free (vs Chelsea I think) earlier this season

[youtube]qZ3eCh7wft8[/youtube]

Can we not sign up that lad who scored the first?

Dronny.....I think Doug has seen that first lad in training. Supposed to be quite a player

ant london wrote:Obv we know all the history about the title in 72 and Marsh knocking the team off their stride but question for the old fellas on here (hehe).....were we a better team/team to watch with him added to the side?

I was just a kid but I loved him. I always thought they used him as an excuse for a general failure. We had some really shit away defeats if I remember correctly & Marsh wasn't a defender.

The strangest thing to me was when we eventually kicked him out though. It was like the opposite of Tevez, he was desperate to stay & said he'd do absolutely anything the manager asked of him, if he'd just give him another chance. About two weeks earlier, he'd been given 10 out of 10 in almost every newspaper, for one of the best displays I've ever seen from a City player. I still have the press cuttings somewhere.

Typical City.

Plenty of sideburns in some of these vids!

That Robinho goal against Arsenal when we beat them what> 4-1 or something? The little chip he did. Fantastic goal.

Mase wrote:Ali B actually chip backheeling it to Goater and then Goater finishing on the volley.

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haha the lad been given the run around there (number 16 for gillingham) is one of my best mates! i still take the piss out of him for that game. said bernarbia is probably the best he ever played against

Mase wrote:Or Eyal against Ipswich.

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One of my all time favourites that one, still wish I could find a vid of Niclas Jensen's goal vs Leeds.

Mario's volley on the bounce vs Villa last year stood out quite a bit for me. Was the moment that I thought "oh, so that's why people are rating him so highly"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_V_1lHZKqQ#t=1m10s

In the michael Johnson video the commentator says, 'hold the back page, Man City have scored at home, exactly 13hours of football at home without a goal' it's like we are now in a parallel universe where everything is the anthisis of what was. :-)

bigblue wrote:Mario's volley on the bounce vs Villa last year stood out quite a bit for me. Was the moment that I thought "oh, so that's why people are rating him so highly"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_V_1lHZKqQ#t=1m10s

Agree....quite a few of his finishes have been technically amazing but, I think because he makes it look easy, they often don't draw more comment.

That goal vs villa
His first against Red Bull Salzburg'
His karate kid finish vs Blackburn away (ie. my sig) and
The latest goal vs Blackburn

all very special finishes

As they said in yesterday's Independent.....

2 Mario Balotelli is the most natural finisher in the league
Perhaps Mario Balotelli's finest trait is his ability to make difficult finishes appear insultingly easy. On Saturday he scored Manchester City's first, meeting a whipped cross and flicking it with lazy ease past Paul Robinson, barely even making eye contact with ball or goal. His best since his karate kick at Blackburn away.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 41247.html?

All fantastic finishes. The goal in the 6-1 has to be on there too - like Robinho's chip against Arsenal, it wasn't the most spectacular goal to look at but the skill involved was incredible.

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Jensen's goal vs Leeds - fast forward to 2.58.