****City vs CSKA Moscow****

[CHOPPERmcfc]

Surely Micah could be a replacement for Garcia as Lescott seems to be out of favour.

[Slim]

Why didn't Yaya line up to take that as well to make lining the wall up more difficult?

I don't think anyone would be fooled by him standing there, was a definite lefty FK.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Looks like this could be a frustrating game. We got all thee possession, but struggle with our combination game due to the bad pitch.
If we're not one up come halftime, I would consider subbing Kun for Dzeko, and go for wing play and crosses, instead of trying to pass our way through.

always sound thinking to consider taking your best goalscorer off :)

[Blue Since 76]

6 off CSKA and it's done.

That'd be nice, but not needed. We get 4 off them and we get 10 even losing to Bayern. If they beat Bayern, they can only get 10, but our head to head would be better.

So 3 points would be good, but they're going on like we'd be relegated if we didn't win the game.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Kun's in the best form since he joined us. Absolute goal machine. `

[aaron bond]

Some good attacking play in that half - we're causing plenty of problems and deserve our lead.

It was obvious before the game that the defence would be shite and it's proven to be that way. A centre back pairing of Garcia and Nastasic is simply not good enough. The goal was a shambles - Garcia's poor challenge to win the header and Nastasic not having a clue where his opponent was.

Lescott-Richards would be a better partnership until Kompany is back. I think I'd even prefer Boyata partnering Lescott until then. Then we can reform our title-winning partnership and make some attempt to build a sound defensive unit again.

[Dameerto]

Souness knows what's what with Negredo.

[Slim]

Looks like this could be a frustrating game. We got all thee possession, but struggle with our combination game due to the bad pitch.
If we're not one up come halftime, I would consider subbing Kun for Dzeko, and go for wing play and crosses, instead of trying to pass our way through.

always sound thinking to consider taking your best goalscorer off :)

Isn't hindsight wonderful?

[Douglas Higginbottom]

So far so good.We are clearly miles better than them but we do look vulnerable to anything over the top down the middle or for someone running from deep.That goal they scored was simply embarrassing.First we get Garcia challenging weakly in the air but it should have been no big deal if either Zaba but especially Nasti does their job.

I just cannot see how Nasti isn't tight on their striker but then Joe comes off his line to give the guy the only real chance he has of scoring with a gentle lob over his head.Great response though with a touch of good fortune as their center back messes up but Sergio finished it superbly.As he did from that delightful chip from Negredo.

Just settle the game with the next goal and I can relax. Kolarov's playing well isn't he.

[Slim]

6 off CSKA and it's done.

That'd be nice, but not needed. We get 4 off them and we get 10 even losing to Bayern. If they beat Bayern, they can only get 10, but our head to head would be better.

So 3 points would be good, but they're going on like we'd be relegated if we didn't win the game.

Same deal with getting 6 from CSKA, 9 points, best they could do is 9 and H2H means we go through.

And quite frankly if we drop points against this team, well I don't think we deserve to be put through.

[mr_nool]

Looks like this could be a frustrating game. We got all thee possession, but struggle with our combination game due to the bad pitch.
If we're not one up come halftime, I would consider subbing Kun for Dzeko, and go for wing play and crosses, instead of trying to pass our way through.

always sound thinking to consider taking your best goalscorer off :)

Ha ha! You have a very good point.
But it did look really bad there for a while. We weren't creating anything. But seeing that KUn has started scoring with his head as well, Dzeko will really struggle to get game time!

[PrezIke]

These canadian commentators said that was he first time aguero scored a brace since he was at athletico madrid...

Uhhh didnt he score twice in our last game?

They must have meant in the chumps league...

[zuricity]

How was Kolarov not taking that?

Decent effort though.

Agreed!

[Slim]

These canadian commentators said that was he first time aguero scored a brace since he was at athletico madrid...

Uhhh didnt he score twice in our last game?

They must have meant in the chumps league...

And on debut, and has scored more than once on 11 occasions for City.

[zuricity]

Same deal with getting 6 from CSKA, 9 points, best they could do is 9 and H2H means we go through.

And quite frankly if we drop points against this team, well I don't think we deserve to be put through.

We'll beat Bayern easy

[dick dastardley]

Lescott or micah for Garcia total liability, apart from that all good

[Bluemoon16]

That's 8 goals in 6 games for Aguero! Continue in this form and Real will surely come knocking with a ridiculous 96 million offer by the summer.

[stevefromdonny]

we need to score again, I would do what they are doing, huff the ball upwards and lets see what we can get

[Slim]

Same deal with getting 6 from CSKA, 9 points, best they could do is 9 and H2H means we go through.

And quite frankly if we drop points against this team, well I don't think we deserve to be put through.

We'll beat Bayern easy

Tevez cutout on the bench?

[Cit.revenge]

Can we spend some fuckin money on CB