*** Barcelona v City - Official Match Thread ***

[Wonderwall]

You know what's hilarious? Lescott was brilliant for us in the title winning season but the only thing some fans remember is hiss mess up in the QPR game. A game we won anyway.
It's just ridiculous at times.

He wasn't brilliant at all, he had numerous lacklustre performances.

Then neither was Kompany.

Your £24 million comment & the fact you are happy to go back two seasons to find something to pick on Lescott, but ignore the 2nd goal, is typical of the kind of shit directed at him & it shows the problem he has always had with a section of fans & media.

A bunch of City fans set their stall out against us signing Lescott, many of whom were confirmed Hughes haters. A load of media sided with 'good ol Moysie' against City & Lescott at the time.

Few of them have ever been able to admit since then if Lescott plays well, only seeing & memorising his mistakes.

A mistake from Lescott, is worth five or six from anyone else.

He was a key part of us winning the title & 40 years ago would have got huge respect for it. These days he just gets shit from the same people who had it in for him since the day he signed.

I bet there's not one single person, who didn't give Lescott shit when we first signed him, but gives him shit now. Not fucking one.

My only 'disappointment' regarding Lescott is that he hasn't got anywhere near the amount of goals from free kicks or corners that he did for Everton, he got ten in one season for them! However that really is being picky and overall he's been a great servant and a great player for us who has played a huge role in our recent success.

you cant score if your not picked.

I agree with Teds stance on the boo boys and even Lescott remarked on it when we played Blackburn and tweeted that the abuse he was getting was personal and not on, there really are some pathetic City fans

[Ted Hughes]

I'm always a bit wary of stats but I've just seen one that says Lescott's pass success rate, v Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, was 92%.

Vinny's was 86. Not bad for a nervous, calamity waiting to happen.

[Breks]

I'm always a bit wary of stats but I've just seen one that says Lescott's pass success rate, v Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, was 92%.

Vinny's was 86. Not bad for a nervous, calamity waiting to happen.

Most if Lescott's passes where sideways or backwards. Stats can be misleading.

[Breks]

We had the best defence in the league and he was part of that.
Can you remind me of some of his lacklusture performances please?

Sunderland home and away, Chelsea away, Fulham away. To name some.

[Sparklehorse]

Do we qualify on the 11 v 11 rule, because we won that one on away goals.
Three of their 4 goals are scored when we are down to 10 men.
I really think they are eminently beatable and a bit more nous in the home leg, who knows.
I hope we've learnt a lot from this experience.
What I've learnt is that referees are pre-programmed to ensure that the teams at the top table of European football get through against us "minnows". Some of the decision making has been utterly garbage and Iniesta was on his arse for most of last night and the refs buy it every time.
I believe we are two signings from being a great team. There was a ten minute period last night when Barca looked really rattled and if nasri had scored. ???
They are definitely not 4-1 better than us.
Now for the hard bit of winning the league, I'll get me coat !!

[Bridge'srightfoot]

We had the best defence in the league and he was part of that.
Can you remind me of some of his lacklusture performances please?

Sunderland home and away, Chelsea away, Fulham away. To name some.

Sunderland at home? The match Lescott didn't play?

Here was the line up:

25 Hart
02 Richards (Johnson - 46' )
04 Kompany
13 Kolarov
28 K Toure
07 Milner (Pizarro - 81' )
21 Silva (Tevez - 58' )
34 De Jong Booked
42 Y Toure
10 Dzeko
45 Balotelli


Pathetic.

[Ted Hughes]

I'm always a bit wary of stats but I've just seen one that says Lescott's pass success rate, v Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, was 92%.

Vinny's was 86. Not bad for a nervous, calamity waiting to happen.

Most if Lescott's passes where sideways or backwards. Stats can be misleading.

Most of Silva's passes will be sideways & backwards too won't they ? But Lescott played quite a few forwards didn't he ? And it's you who are choosing to be misleading, isn't it ? Because you are picking on Lescott.

You have proved my point.

[Breks]

Sunderland at home? The match Lescott didn't play?

Here was the line up:

25 Hart
02 Richards (Johnson - 46' )
04 Kompany
13 Kolarov
28 K Toure
07 Milner (Pizarro - 81' )
21 Silva (Tevez - 58' )
34 De Jong Booked
42 Y Toure
10 Dzeko
45 Balotelli

Pathetic.

Well maybe I got mixed up with last season. I can't remember every single game from every season. Ok anorak. However Lescott isn't good enough and that's the reason Pellers won't pick him.

[Breks]

Most of Silva's passes will be sideways & backwards too won't they ? But Lescott played quite a few forwards didn't he ? And it's you who are choosing to be misleading, isn't it ? Because you are picking on Lescott.

You have proved my point.

Picking on him? So you honestly think he played well last night did you?

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Sunderland at home? The match Lescott didn't play?

Here was the line up:

25 Hart
02 Richards (Johnson - 46' )
04 Kompany
13 Kolarov
28 K Toure
07 Milner (Pizarro - 81' )
21 Silva (Tevez - 58' )
34 De Jong Booked
42 Y Toure
10 Dzeko
45 Balotelli

Pathetic.

Well maybe I got mixed up with last season. I can't remember every single game from every season. Ok anorak. However Lescott isn't good enough and that's the reason Pellers won't pick him.

Oh last season where Lescott came on in the 89th minute?

In other words, you have no idea whether Lescott played well, badly or even played at all in the games you've mentioned.
You've simply handpicked a number of poor results at random and just assumed Lescott was at fault without any real recollection.

Generally pathetic.

[Breks]

Oh last season where Lescott came on in the 89th minute?

In other words, you have no idea whether Lescott played well, badly or even played at all in the games you've mentioned.
You've simply handpicked a number of poor results at random and just assumed Lescott was at fault without any real recollection.

Generally pathetic.

Never blamed him for the results I said they where lacklustre performances by him. Fact remains he isn't a top class centre back.

[Blue Since 76]

I'm always a bit wary of stats but I've just seen one that says Lescott's pass success rate, v Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, was 92%.

Vinny's was 86. Not bad for a nervous, calamity waiting to happen.

Thought his passing was pretty good last night and he played a couple of great passes forwards that ended up going nowhere but should have led to chances.

Much easier to just say everything he does is shit though.

[MilnersJaw]

Oh last season where Lescott came on in the 89th minute?

In other words, you have no idea whether Lescott played well, badly or even played at all in the games you've mentioned.
You've simply handpicked a number of poor results at random and just assumed Lescott was at fault without any real recollection.

Generally pathetic.

Never blamed him for the results I said they where lacklustre performances by him. Fact remains he isn't a top class centre back.

why do people even respond to this bellend.

lescott was good last night apart from the bollock he dropped. after that his confidence waived abit.

if DM or nastic were playing, we definitely would have conceded in that first half.

[Wonderwall]

Thought his passing was pretty good last night and he played a couple of great passes forwards that ended up going nowhere but should have led to chances.

Much easier to just say everything he does is shit though.

Spot on. He played some really good through balls to.start attacks last night. I was actually impressed with his game. I notice that replays against us last night were played over ans over again by the spanish director. Yet not one replay to see if messi was offside for the first goal. Misy have been close.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Not a complaint but has anybody got a gif of their goal 'cos at the time I thought Messi was offside?

For some reason, the director never showed an angle where you could tell, so I'd guess he was off.

Same as the tackle on Silva in the penalty area which was eventually shown once from an angle where you couldn't tell if he'd dived or been fouled. As oppose to Lescott's on Messi which was shown about 100 times from every know angle.

Messi wasn't offside.I am sure I saw one replay where it was clear he wasn't.

I have no doubt Iniesta made contact with Silva but I don't think it was anything that warranted he went down as he did. Edin though was 100% definitely clipped.

More importantly is Breks related to Carl?

[Rag_hater]

Thought his passing was pretty good last night and he played a couple of great passes forwards that ended up going nowhere but should have led to chances.

Much easier to just say everything he does is shit though.

Spot on. He played some really good through balls to.start attacks last night. I was actually impressed with his game. I notice that replays against us last night were played over ans over again by the spanish director. Yet not one replay to see if messi was offside for the first goal. Misy have been close.

Looks off to me but am not sure of the law.Could it have said to be a backpass of Joleon ?

[Ted Hughes]

Thought his passing was pretty good last night and he played a couple of great passes forwards that ended up going nowhere but should have led to chances.

Much easier to just say everything he does is shit though.

Spot on. He played some really good through balls to.start attacks last night. I was actually impressed with his game. I notice that replays against us last night were played over ans over again by the spanish director. Yet not one replay to see if messi was offside for the first goal. Misy have been close.

Looks off to me but am not sure of the law.Could it have said to be a backpass of Joleon ?

Hard to tell if he's off from that but it would have been a con job if tyey claimed Lescott had played him on.

Looking at that, no way should Zabba & Vinny have been gambling on offside. One, should have just gone with him.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Oh last season where Lescott came on in the 89th minute?

In other words, you have no idea whether Lescott played well, badly or even played at all in the games you've mentioned.
You've simply handpicked a number of poor results at random and just assumed Lescott was at fault without any real recollection.

Generally pathetic.

Never blamed him for the results I said they where lacklustre performances by him. Fact remains he isn't a top class centre back.

You're argument was that he wasn't great in our title winning season and had a lot of lackluster performances.
I then asked which performances these were and you listed a game which he didn't play any part in.
You then said you got mixed up with last season, where he didn't come on until the 89th minute.

You have no idea whether Lescott was poor in any of the games you listed. You simply randomly selected games we did poorly in and guessed that he didn't play well.

[nottsblue]

My only 'disappointment' regarding Lescott is that he hasn't got anywhere near the amount of goals from free kicks or corners that he did for Everton, he got ten in one season for them! However that really is being picky and overall he's been a great servant and a great player for us who has played a huge role in our recent success.

Bang on with the goals. With the number of set plays we get his return is poor. Like you say though, thats being a bit churlish. I'd keep him next year for what its worth. Considering we'll need minimum of 2 new centre backs for next season his prem experience and knowledge could be pivotal

[carl_feedthegoat]

Not a complaint but has anybody got a gif of their goal 'cos at the time I thought Messi was offside?

For some reason, the director never showed an angle where you could tell, so I'd guess he was off.

Same as the tackle on Silva in the penalty area which was eventually shown once from an angle where you couldn't tell if he'd dived or been fouled. As oppose to Lescott's on Messi which was shown about 100 times from every know angle.

Messi wasn't offside.I am sure I saw one replay where it was clear he wasn't.

I have no doubt Iniesta made contact with Silva but I don't think it was anything that warranted he went down as he did. Edin though was 100% definitely clipped.

More importantly is Breks related to Carl?

Maybe ,I will check my family tree. On the same subject maybe you want to look up yours with Mr Magoo....you both definitely have a lot in common.