***city v the ref, sorry v barca match thread***

[Nick]

ONE SHOT ONE GOAL

3 SHOTS, 2 GOALS. ITS SAME SHIT

NEW THAT CUNT WOULD SCORE.

DOESNT TELL A FULL STORY COS WE STARTED OFF SO WELL UNTIL WE HAD TO DEFEND A SHOT ON TARGET... (I SAY IT EVERY GAME, FIRST CLEAN SHEET WAS COS NEWCASTLE HAS ONE SHOT AT HART).

How do we change it?

dinho on for dzeko? I just dont know. we need a runner.

navas too? dzeko isn't working with aguero for me.

we have 442 so have no ball but yet arent threatenin on the break. Bony? Dzeko isnt that player. hes HINDERING aguero for me by going wide

"dzeko isn't working with aguero for me"- i hate when i see this , not that Edin was playing somthing but Kun played nothing . Problem is we have shit defense and no Yaya to start action . Pelle r should know that Fernando can take ball over the half line and hes shit at covering defense to . But for me again Kompany worse on pitch

aguero is fast and skillful. dzeko is lazy and slow and runs to the left wing. we are not even hitting balls up to him so what purpose does he serve? I feel like aguero doesn't know what the fuck hes gonna do, hes the one not on the same brainwave as nasri/silva/aguero.

yes they are weak in the air but we cant take a fucking corner and are playing SILVA AND NASRI as our wingers.


NO CHANGES WTF?!??!

[Ted Hughes]

The problem is Barcelona are just better.

Players like Clichy, Milner, Fernando just don't play for clubs gunning for this competition. You might get away with one if the rest are superstars but City's next level aren't exactly brilliant.

This stage is about par for this squad.

Can't really disagree with that. Too many good but not great players.

The problem is trying to balance a squad for the Premier League compared to the Champiobs League.

We have seen Barca turned over time & again by British teams set out to stop them. We have to play that every week, then change to play this.

Few have managed to play football at both levels.

[Dub City]

The 2 corners we had were very disappointing delivery when look at their line up a decent ball in there would have them panicking all over place and pulling shirts like mad, although the corners we have taken this season I don't know why I'm surprised

[bigblue]

fernando can tackle, its one of the only things hes good at, but fernandinho should be in there instead

fuck it, get bony in now

[blues2win]

Yaya's not playing because he played absolute shit against CSKA at home and capped it all by getting sent off in the most stupid way imaginable.

[guv111]

The problem is Barcelona are just better.

Players like Clichy, Milner, Fernando just don't play for clubs gunning for this competition. You might get away with one if the rest are superstars but City's next level aren't exactly brilliant.

This stage is about par for this squad.

That's probably true. This is a squad good enough to win the PL, as results have shown, but they are incapable of stepping up a notch. It's why Dzeko, Kompany and Nasri play for City and not for Real, Bayern or Barca. Those clubs wouldn't touch those players with a barge pole, even though all can be amazing once in a while. Once in a while isn't good enough for the best club sides in the world.

[Nick]

DZEKO IOS SHITTTTE

[Blue Since 76]

May as well make the changes ready for Sunday, as this tie is gone. So when Pellegrini gets the bullet in summer, where does that leave Pinky and Perky who appointed him and made all the 'quality' signings?

[Cit.revenge]

Well SUCK IT EDIN !!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[MilnersJaw]

That dive dZeko did was awful

[Dameerto]

What team is this in blue, taking corners against Barca? It's not City surely.

[twosips]

#KickKompany'sShitTacklesNearTheAreaOutOfFootball

[Tesl]

This is much better

[HBlock Cripple]

Dzonky, bless him

[Sideshow Bob]

for what its worth dzonkey is taking up good positions unlike aguero.

[PeterParker]

So, i think is time to bring Bony in.

[Blue Since 76]

Who let that cunt sit in the director's box.

[Esky]

That Dzeko header was a brilliant chance. Free on the six yard line, centre of goal. Huge miss.

[Ted Hughes]

We pressed in Barca's half then and were all over them. Trouble is we are scared to do that & worried that we will lose the ball again when we win it So we drop off & watch them.

[twosips]

As much as people are giving him stick Dzeko has been a lot more threatening than Aguero.