***Official Sporting vs City Match Thread***

[BlueinBosnia]

That dirty little little cunt trying to stamp on aguero (who was fucking SHITE tonight) should of been sent off, the ref didn't do anything so will it be looked at? Doubt it. Glad the nasty little cunt won't be coming to the etihad.

I'm not sure if UEFA look into things retrospectively. They almost definitely won't with this, though.

[london blue 2]

Aguero Dzeko and Milner were shocking. I can forgive Aguero though. The other two need replacing

[carolina-blue]

Thought we pretty much got what we deserved 2night , seemed to be second best all night They were much more up for It , We had to many players having an off night , Let them enjoy It tonight . Like SOF says theres still next week ,

[Swales4ever]

Presentators already wanking on the scums....
Puzzled if I'd prefer them to be laid down to the shame they deserve or to remain engaged in european efforts

[Blue In Bolton]

Do Sporting know there is a second leg to come, acting like they have gone through. Pricks.

Indeed. Lets smash em good next week.

Ditto. And we will be the ones laughing in the end

Agreed here as well. So looking forward to the return leg.

[Nigels Tackle]

Presentators already wanking on the scums....
Puzzled if I'd prefer them to be laid down to the shame they deserve or to remain engaged in european efforts

bilbao will beat them

[Mase]

Do Sporting know there is a second leg to come, acting like they have gone through. Pricks.

Indeed. Lets smash em good next week.

Over reaction or what??? We will smash them next week so i guess they need to enjoy tonight.

I take it as a compliment. Shows how far we've come

[Swales4ever]

Presentators already wanking on the scums....
Puzzled if I'd prefer them to be laid down to the shame they deserve or to remain engaged in european efforts

bilbao will beat them

I feel the same, but not sure if it's our best interest, tho

[Jon London]

Do Sporting know there is a second leg to come, acting like they have gone through. Pricks.

Yeah I remember a Championship play off I think Bristol City v Crystal Palace that Bristol City won 1-0 in the 1st leg and were doing a lap of honour. They lost the 2nd leg 2-0 or even 3-0 as the Palace players were so pumped up after witnessing Bristol City's victory parade

I expect City to dump them out 2nd leg either 3-0 or 4-0 - SCP were shite.

[Ted Hughes]

That was exactly the same as our last home performance v Porto when we won, apart from Porto played better football.

It was the same as v Bayern away & both games v Napoli. If we played in the Prem as we have in Europe, we wouldn't even be mid table. West Brom or Norwich would have caued Sporting much more problems tonight than we did.

It 's an embarrassment to the club to turn in a performance like that when we're supposed to be a top club. It's not the result which bothers me, it's the performance. It's just nowhere near good enough.

The biggest disappointments were Milner & Dzeko. Milner seemed to be drunk & was nowhere near the standard we need. He really should be better than that if he wants to play for City.

Dzeko is just a fucking lazy arsed wanker. He actually challenged for the ball on 60 mins & he won it. Unfortunately he waited 60 mins. Just afterwards, he made a sprint. Then he went off. Balotelli looked like fucking Joe Royle compared to him. Balotelli is hardly a target man, & gts criticised for his workrate but he just held his ground & they fouled him so we got possession. Dzeko just flicked & fucked around like he couldn't give a fucking shit & gave them the ball. The commentators are slating Mancini for not taking him off at half time. This is a bloke who has just been given his big chance to show us why he should play. I wouldn't mind so much, if he missed chances or made mistakes, provided he fought like he wanted to play for us. He let one ball come down from the air & the defender just took it when it landed. Disgraceful. Substitute, nothing more.

[stevefromdonny]

If you could shoot one City player who would it be.........GO!

COuld I choose board members from city fan sites instead?

go for it

[Lee_R]

Well.. if weve got to lose one... let this be it!

[Moonchesteri]

Let's very much hope Vinnie's injury is nothing serious. Our defending seems to be quite poor without the leader.
City will cruise through in the second leg, easily.

I thought our defence coped well today without Vinnie.
And anyway it is gonna be million times better as the CB pairing is Kolo-Lescott as it was when it was Savic-Lescott. I'm still praying Vinnie will be miraculously back for Swansea

[Ted Hughes]

Well.. if weve got to lose one... let this be it!

The problem is, we are getting into the habit of playing like this away from home. This wasn't a one off, the win in Porto was the odd one out; this is how we've played in most away games, (especially in europe, both this season & last ).

[Ted Hughes]

Let's very much hope Vinnie's injury is nothing serious. Our defending seems to be quite poor without the leader.
City will cruise through in the second leg, easily.

I thought our defence coped well today without Vinnie.
And anyway it is gonna be million times better as the CB pairing is Kolo-Lescott as it was when it was Savic-Lescott. I'm still praying Vinnie will be miraculously back for Swansea

Kolo seems to do his own thing & defend well himself, but the back 4 no longer seems to be a unit when he plays. He just goes missing. De Jong seemed to be doing his job half the time while he was somewhere else.

[stevefromdonny]

could some 1 explain to me, its 86 mins gone and what do we do, pass it about 15 times along the halfway line and then lose the fucking ball.

[Swales4ever]

Let's very much hope Vinnie's injury is nothing serious. Our defending seems to be quite poor without the leader.
City will cruise through in the second leg, easily.

I thought our defence coped well today without Vinnie.
And anyway it is gonna be million times better as the CB pairing is Kolo-Lescott as it was when it was Savic-Lescott. I'm still praying Vinnie will be miraculously back for Swansea

Not disagreeing with Your judgement but, as Joe got some blame for not diverting a very tricky free kick, I thought both CB were lazy at reacting and positioning there. Pretty much it summarize what I meant.

mind You, I think Joleon is having a cracker of a season and has increased his focus on the whole game very much.

[Ted Hughes]

could some 1 explain to me, its 86 mins gone and what do we do, pass it about 15 times along the halfway line and then lose the fucking ball.

The losing the ball bit was because we were shite. The passing around was because some of the players recon 1-0 won't be a problem.

[PeterParker]

could some 1 explain to me, its 86 mins gone and what do we do, pass it about 15 times along the halfway line and then lose the fucking ball.

The losing the ball bit was because we were shite. The passing around was because some of the players recon 1-0 won't be a problem.

They had the same attitude like they had last year in Kiev. The passed and passed, were confident when they were one down, and then Dynamo scored again, in the last minutes, like Sporting were close to do after that fuck up from Nasri.

[Ted Hughes]

could some 1 explain to me, its 86 mins gone and what do we do, pass it about 15 times along the halfway line and then lose the fucking ball.

The losing the ball bit was because we were shite. The passing around was because some of the players recon 1-0 won't be a problem.

They had the same attitude like they had last year in Kiev. The passed and passed, were confident when they were one down, and then Dynamo scored again, in the last minutes, like Sporting were close to do after that fuck up from Nasri.

Yep, we have mainly been shite in Europe, two years running.