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3 defenders now

this reminds me of the bucharest match.

this is why we won't win this match and only waste our first teamer's energy.

y? the 4th still qualifies for CL. Anyway Bundesliga does not even deserve that 4th cl spot. And we should be Champions of the best league in the world.

What are City even doing? When they continue to stage those collapses, fuckin Bundesliga will overtake the prem in the uefa ranking.

Schürrle's movement is so headless

why do we even play a first team here? WE don't need to win and are playing extraordinarily shit today.

I would love to see him there and i am sure he has the attitude to track back, I don't know about his defensive skills. His pace could surely be useful though. But I guess he would not be a permanent choice for the rw position. We surely got enough quantity on the wings also with the guys on loan but we lack quality. This is why i can see us going for reus.

the maribor fans should not be celebrate Drogs leaving too early. when diego costa comes on it will be fast and hard for them

never a foul by drogs. we are not playing pussyball here.

the schürrle/willian position(s) is our only real weakness in our first XI. They are both decent players but look at what we could have got from the money we paid for them. Schürrle can still improve but can Willian?

yup he has great pace, not only for a defender. The first tackle was weak but he recovered and finally cleared. Players like him who are stronger and faster than most attackers can be extremely handy.

the crowd is great but that maribor defence is shit. should have a lead already.

fabregas is having a shocker tonight.

lol. Ronaldo slower and weaker than Sterling. Goes to ground after the latter completely outpaced him.

^stevie g is such an average player. humps every long pass into the stands. Can't believe anyone ever said this guy was better than lampard. Having moved to City only for the money or not, he can hit those 40 yard diagonals right on the wingers foot with his eyes closed

i dont think this was a foul by borini on ramos. Legit goal imo

one could watch Vampire diaries on itv2. probably would be less predictable and boring than this match

I have never even heard of most of pools players. Rodgers is completely surrendering the game to real madrid in order to have his better players fresh. Talk about "small club mentality"

Sorry, but I won't jump on the "Pique is shit" bandwagon. Let's take a step back and evaluate what Pique really is about. Yes he is overrated, but he has won everything there is and he has had significantly contributed to that. Against Germany in 2010 he was a fuckin wall. In the two CL finals vs ManU he was immense. No one would get past him. He surely knows how to pick up form for big matches. ON the other hand he gets cought ballwatching more so often. Though he has excellent tackling skills, esp his fair, standing tacklings are second to none. HIs positional sense is average. HIs heading ability is ok for his size. His leap and height are a nice bonus. He is very skilfull for a defender but more disciplined than DAvid LUiz. IMO his experience speaks for itself so I would go for him. That being said, I highly doubt he will move, having only renewed his contract in 2014 and BArca being short of quality defenders. And he having failed at MU is not really a valid argument. It was ages ago. He failed for th same reason e.g. Matic did: they were too young. Coming back Pique could be just as much a success having matured as a player.

The past couple of weeks showed exactly what Cesc is about. Delivering decent skill and precise passing, the more space he has the better. He will dominate weak teams like QPR, Palace etc and completely vanish in big games. He is a brilliant player and after this season no one will question his deliveries. He might very well pile up 30+ assists in all comps. Nonetheless he is a choker and will vanish in most big games no matter how poor DMs he faces. It is no coincidence we once won against an Arsenal team he captained 5 successive times. I only remember 1 big game he actually performed in., which was when Arsenal beat us 3-1 at the Emirates due to some atrocious defensive errors by us. I remember most of his games against us and against MU. The latter i watched hoping that they could help us and take some points from them. But they never did. Everytime I switched to the stream he only saw him shooting wide and trotting back with hanging head. He was also immensely shit in our two encounters with Barcelona in 2012. Let's face it. This season he vanished vs City and MU. And you know what: Who cares. We bought him as our flat track bully, the one thing we lacked last season to win the title. Let's see what we can do in the big games though we should not rely on Fab. Other players like Hazard, Oscar, Courtois have to step up and show their class now to crown their names with big titles by delivering in the most crucial of times. For the league it will suffice to be flat track bullies and for the rest let's hope our young guns develop into the kind of big-match winners Fabregas never will be.

Doesn't matter. Barring a major injury catastrophy we will win inevitably win the title. Even when performing below-par we are heads and shoulders above the rest. IMO we have yet to find our best possible form and cohesion, which is no wonder cos over the summer we plugged in players like FAbregas and Costa, who simply require a different style of play but also offer a lot themselves already. City did not change their first XI that much and should be clicking already. The only issue is our lack of depth in the middle of the park and maybe a lack of genuine quality in the Willian/Schürrle position, but most teams who have won the league in the last 10 years had more issues. The bits i have seen from Christensen, Zouma and Ake have assured me that they can provide a quantum of depth required to keep us in the Cup competitions.

LOLZ Hendo=Müller best part btw if City don't win tomorrow, Pellegrini should get out his field-glasses to see usfrom behind, cos we are far far away.

Divéry. When that was a pen, u would have to award 10pens per match. But just as La Liga is set up to catalyze all the rescources towards the two top teams, Bundesliga is meant to have BAyern win every time. joke of a league.

What an überstunning goal. Someone here said Oscar was the Brazilian Dirk kuyt, I doubt kuyt could have done that