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[phips]

Can ballo play in the champions league at all this year? Or just not the 1st round or just not the first leg? Anyone know?

I'm fairly certain he can't play at all for the rest of the CL campaign this year

[halnone]

I'm fairly certain he can't play at all for the rest of the CL campaign this year

huge shame. would have loved to see him play in the CL more this season

[dazby]

Can ballo play in the champions league at all this year? Or just not the 1st round or just not the first leg? Anyone know?

I'm fairly certain he can't play at all for the rest of the CL campaign this year

Yep, he's cup tied because he played for us.

[Dwaring]

huge shame. would have loved to see him play in the CL more this season

Would have loved to see him knock out the scum

[Hazy2]

Barca were awful but mainly because Milan's defensive peformance,organisation and effort was fantastic.Then they got a couple of breaks and finished then superbly.

The champs league summed up in one game Doug, be solid, keep your shape, do nothing daft and take your chances when they come.

[Ted Hughes]

Barca were awful but mainly because Milan's defensive peformance,organisation and effort was fantastic.Then they got a couple of breaks and finished then superbly.

The champs league summed up in one game Doug, be solid, keep your shape, do nothing daft and take your chances when they come.

I hope Mancini is taking note of this. We saw the same from the rags v Real Mdrid & even though they are a superior outfit to Arsenal, Bayern did the same at the Emirates. None of these teams used any bizarre, experimental tactics; they played a simple, solid game where each bloke knew his job.

The absolute glaring opposite of sending a side to the Bernabau with two players making their fucking debuts or pushing 4 players right up against the oppo's back 4 & leaving the midfield completely empty, like v Dortmund at home or suddenly bringing Kolo Toure into the cb job after a year on a ban away at Bayern Munich, or suddenly changing to a back 3 away from home when you concede a goal.

If the rags had gone to the Bernabau with Nastasic & Maicon on debut, they would have come back holding their bollocks in their hands. Utter fucking disgrace.

So far,the biggest problem City have had in the Champions League is not inexperience, it's Mancini. He has been terrible. Trying to be clever all the time.

He gets one more go imo & I want to see City put out a solid, hard grafting, well practiced team in these kind of games. These teams, like Chelsea did last season, have showed it can be done successfully against even the best. A simple plan which the players can understand & work with, hard grafting players in the team, & you have a chance.

Any more needless, smart arsed, computer game, tactical bullshit from Mancini next season; that will be it for me.

[Hazy2]

Barca were awful but mainly because Milan's defensive peformance,organisation and effort was fantastic.Then they got a couple of breaks and finished then superbly.

The champs league summed up in one game Doug, be solid, keep your shape, do nothing daft and take your chances when they come.

I hope Mancini is taking note of this. We saw the same from the rags v Real Mdrid & even though they are a superior outfit to Arsenal, Bayern did the same at the Emirates. None of these teams used any bizarre, experimental tactics; they played a simple, solid game where each bloke knew his job.

The absolute glaring opposite of sending a side to the Bernabau with two players making their fucking debuts or pushing 4 players right up against the oppo's back 4 & leaving the midfield completely empty, like v Dortmund at home or suddenly bringing Kolo Toure into the cb job after a year on a ban away at Bayern Munich, or suddenly changing to a back 3 away from home when you concede a goal.

If the rags had gone to the Bernabau with Nastasic & Maicon on debut, they would have come back holding their bollocks in their hands. Utter fucking disgrace.

So far,the biggest problem City have had in the Champions League is not inexperience, it's Mancini. He has been terrible. Trying to be clever all the time.

He gets one more go imo & I want to see City put out a solid, hard grafting, well practiced team in these kind of games. These teams, like Chelsea did last season, have showed it can be done successfully against even the best. A simple plan which the players can understand & work with, hard grafting players in the team, & you have a chance.

Any more needless, smart arsed, computer game, tactical bullshit from Mancini next season; that will be it for me.

Good post Ted, for the record I do not regard you as a fool or an idiot. Mancio doors but he is a little under the weather, Ambrosini and Montelivio screeening not bombing on Ted like Kamikaze Barry, ok for Yaya to do it, but Barry had to sit at 2-1, and we walk out winners and this season would have been set up big time. Ifs and Butts mate.

[Ted Hughes]

Barca were awful but mainly because Milan's defensive peformance,organisation and effort was fantastic.Then they got a couple of breaks and finished then superbly.

The champs league summed up in one game Doug, be solid, keep your shape, do nothing daft and take your chances when they come.

I hope Mancini is taking note of this. We saw the same from the rags v Real Mdrid & even though they are a superior outfit to Arsenal, Bayern did the same at the Emirates. None of these teams used any bizarre, experimental tactics; they played a simple, solid game where each bloke knew his job.

The absolute glaring opposite of sending a side to the Bernabau with two players making their fucking debuts or pushing 4 players right up against the oppo's back 4 & leaving the midfield completely empty, like v Dortmund at home or suddenly bringing Kolo Toure into the cb job after a year on a ban away at Bayern Munich, or suddenly changing to a back 3 away from home when you concede a goal.

If the rags had gone to the Bernabau with Nastasic & Maicon on debut, they would have come back holding their bollocks in their hands. Utter fucking disgrace.

So far,the biggest problem City have had in the Champions League is not inexperience, it's Mancini. He has been terrible. Trying to be clever all the time.

He gets one more go imo & I want to see City put out a solid, hard grafting, well practiced team in these kind of games. These teams, like Chelsea did last season, have showed it can be done successfully against even the best. A simple plan which the players can understand & work with, hard grafting players in the team, & you have a chance.

Any more needless, smart arsed, computer game, tactical bullshit from Mancini next season; that will be it for me.

Good post Ted, for the record I do not regard you as a fool or an idiot. Mancio doors but he is a little under the weather, Ambrosini and Montelivio screeening not bombing on Ted like Kamikaze Barry, ok for Yaya to do it, but Barry had to sit at 2-1, and we walk out winners and this season would have been set up big time. Ifs and Butts mate.

All of these teams have much more numbers in the centre & are much better organised. We were getting to that last season, but we have let it slip & are no longer at the same level. We have focused on other stuff & lost our basics before we had even learned them properly. I remember Nev***e stopping a replay of our game v the rags last season & putting circles round all the City players in the centre, explaining how Utd were totally outnumbered & basically; fucked. We were a block, like AC Milan were last night & the rags were spread all over, like Arsenal were v Bayern. That's how we have been this season; all over the place.

V Villa in the League Cup, Mancini tried a tactic which I thought was just to get the game over; he pushed all our attackers right up against their back 4, leaving the midfield just with two. Villa ran straight through it (& Nastasic/Kolarov etc) & dicked us.

When we played Arsenal at home, he did something similar, they ran straight through it often having 4 players running at 3 defenders. He tried it v Dortmund at home & they ran straight through it, on one occasion there was no out ball for Yaya & Rodwell because half the team was missing up front, they got robbed & Dortmund scored.

Mancini's cunning plan, should be to find something the players are comfortable with & play to their strengths, not shoehorn them into some plan he & Plunty fancy having a go at & seeing if it works.

[Cit.revenge]

Barca were awful but mainly because Milan's defensive peformance,organisation and effort was fantastic.Then they got a couple of breaks and finished then superbly.

The champs league summed up in one game Doug, be solid, keep your shape, do nothing daft and take your chances when they come.

I hope Mancini is taking note of this. We saw the same from the rags v Real Mdrid & even though they are a superior outfit to Arsenal, Bayern did the same at the Emirates. None of these teams used any bizarre, experimental tactics; they played a simple, solid game where each bloke knew his job.

The absolute glaring opposite of sending a side to the Bernabau with two players making their fucking debuts or pushing 4 players right up against the oppo's back 4 & leaving the midfield completely empty, like v Dortmund at home or suddenly bringing Kolo Toure into the cb job after a year on a ban away at Bayern Munich, or suddenly changing to a back 3 away from home when you concede a goal.

If the rags had gone to the Bernabau with Nastasic & Maicon on debut, they would have come back holding their bollocks in their hands. Utter fucking disgrace.

So far,the biggest problem City have had in the Champions League is not inexperience, it's Mancini. He has been terrible. Trying to be clever all the time.

He gets one more go imo & I want to see City put out a solid, hard grafting, well practiced team in these kind of games. These teams, like Chelsea did last season, have showed it can be done successfully against even the best. A simple plan which the players can understand & work with, hard grafting players in the team, & you have a chance.

Any more needless, smart arsed, computer game, tactical bullshit from Mancini next season; that will be it for me.

Good post Ted, for the record I do not regard you as a fool or an idiot. Mancio doors but he is a little under the weather, Ambrosini and Montelivio screeening not bombing on Ted like Kamikaze Barry, ok for Yaya to do it, but Barry had to sit at 2-1, and we walk out winners and this season would have been set up big time. Ifs and Butts mate.

All of these teams have much more numbers in the centre & are much better organised. We were getting to that last season, but we have let it slip & are no longer at the same level. We have focused on other stuff & lost our basics before we had even learned them properly. I remember Nev***e stopping a replay of our game v the rags last season & putting circles round all the City players in the centre, explaining how Utd were totally outnumbered & basically; fucked. We were a block, like AC Milan were last night & the rags were spread all over, like Arsenal were v Bayern. That's how we have been this season; all over the place.

V Villa in the League Cup, Mancini tried a tactic which I thought was just to get the game over; he pushed all our attackers right up against their back 4, leaving the midfield just with two. Villa ran straight through it (& Nastasic/Kolarov etc) & dicked us.

When we played Arsenal at home, he did something similar, they ran straight through it often having 4 players running at 3 defenders. He tried it v Dortmund at home & they ran straight through it, on one occasion there was no out ball for Yaya & Rodwell because half the team was missing up front, they got robbed & Dortmund scored.

Mancini's cunning plan, should be to find something the players are comfortable with & play to their strengths, not shoehorn them into some plan he & Plunty fancy having a go at & seeing if it works.

Ted have point there is no some clever idea in AC tactic , just discipline and playing out of the skin to win.

[bigblue]

chelsea losing 0-1 to sparta on a well worked goal but some bad marking

and the dippers down 3-0 on aggregate (1-0 this game) also to the mighty fc zenit

[AG7]

chelsea losing 0-1 to sparta on a well worked goal but some bad marking

and the dippers down 3-0 on aggregate (1-0 this game) also to the mighty fc zenit

So we are using the Champions League thread for Europa too?

[Lev Bronstein]

chelsea losing 0-1 to sparta on a well worked goal but some bad marking

and the dippers down 3-0 on aggregate (1-0 this game) also to the mighty fc zenit

So we are using the Champions League thread for Europa too?

Yeh bollox to it

[Lev Bronstein]

Wow 3-1 to the dippers 30 mins to go - quite exciting

[AG7]

Chelsea 0-1 down after 1-0 first leg is perfect for us ... get this to extra time (and penalties) ... tire their legs some more please!

[zuricity]

Wow 3-1 to the dippers 30 mins to go - quite exciting

Is that a tattoo on Shelvey's head ? or a map of the Americas? or possibly a bruise ...

[zuricity]

So we are using the Champions League thread for Europa too?

Are there any women here ?

[Lev Bronstein]

Chelsea 0-1 down after 1-0 first leg is perfect for us ... get this to extra time (and penalties) ... tire their legs some more please!

Bugger Hazard scored in injury time

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Haha, fucking dippers.

[Im_Spartacus]

So we are using the Champions League thread for Europa too?

Awwwww, diddums, did you not get to start a thread?

[freshie]

Is that a tattoo on Shelvey's head ? or a map of the Americas? or possibly a bruise ...

Haha, I have often wondered the same