The European Leagues & Competitions Thread V2

[Roquila 1,335]

Come on City!

[didierforever 7,349]

Oh dear.

http://youtu.be/m7zZu0stUqE

Happened in Austria over the weekend.

Match fixing???

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Match fixing???

Don't think so. Misjudged the flight of the ball. Often happens due to lack of proper warmup.

[samzilla 517]

Match fixing???

There's a great book about match fixing called "The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime" by Declan Hill.

[zyzz 711]

Hoping for a city win today. Bring back the english dominance in the cl

[Jusek 2,031]

Fuck Champions League football, I'm going to watch Chelsea U18 match. :blue scalf:

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

TEAM NEWS: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany ©, Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Toure, Fernandinho, Kolarov, Silva, Negredo #mcfcb #mcfc

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Interesting line-up from City. I guess Kolarov is playing on the left wing. Defenses, prepare your anuses!

[sutro 1,026]

Lol dimichelis starting, thats like messi against a sunday league defender, good luck with that one

[Fernando 6,496]

any good links for the game?

[communicate 2,703]

Lol dimichelis starting, thats like messi against a sunday league defender, good luck with that one

Yap surprise with demichelis selection, probably because of his experience

[communicate 2,703]

Pellegrini will really be an idiot if he plays 2 STs again after getting torn apart by Bayern and us because he played a 4-4-2.

No against us, City practically sat back, defend and played on the counter even in the first half. It's because they did that, we couldn't create much. They pressed, hurried, tackled and intercepted our passes and we ended up couldn't do anything. They couldn't handled us two weeks ago because they were simply too attack minded which resulted in them being open and susceptible to counter attacks. City changed their approach against us on Saturday and they looked much better, never mind the stupid overused excuse of tiredness. Also, just because they are used to having the ball doesn't mean they can't tweak their approach to play on the counter. It's ridiculous to suggest so. I simply used that game as an example on a broader scale that they can be adaptable. Even we, United, Bayern etc all used to have tons of possession in most of our games but still capable of being defensive and play on the counter when coming up against a team like Barcelona.

I don't think they sat back against us in fact they actually pressed us especially our front 3. I am not sure that works against barca.

I haven't watch any barca game this season but last seqson most team that play barca either play narrow deep n counter or high press. Not sure city are that kind of team but who knows, Bayern was possesion based team but they play counter against barca.

[Special Juan 27,492]

As a price raiser I have taken City on the coupon but come on Barca, bury the fuckers.

[Jase 43,479]

I don't think they sat back against us in fact they actually pressed us especially our front 3. I am not sure that works against barca.

I haven't watch any barca game this season but last seqson most team that play barca either play narrow deep n counter or high press. Not sure city are that kind of team but who knows, Bayern was possesion based team but they play counter against barca.

They did. City sat back to make sure there's no space for us to play and break into like we did in the league game 2 weeks ago. Keep it tight and compact. They only started pressing when we got into their half, when we passed the ball to any of our front attacking players.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

All my friends thinks city will win... I'm I the only one thinking barcelona will beat them?

[GhanaBoy 104]

Anyone have a stream

[Jase 43,479]

All my friends thinks city will win... I'm I the only one thinking barcelona will beat them?

Yes and if you get it wrong, your current name goes out of the window.

[nyikolajevics 2,601]

Anyone have a stream

http://neolivs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/city2_18.html

[nyikolajevics 2,601]

All my friends thinks city will win... I'm I the only one thinking barcelona will beat them?

It's hard to predict. City is strong as fuck, but they can be beaten with a good strategy - the 0-1 against them was a masterpiece by José. Barca has fantastic players but Martino is clearly not a tactical genius.