Champions league Semi Finals 2020-21 - April 27-28 and May 4-5

JJ12

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City better team early in 2nd half
 

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Pep continues with his unorthodox tactics in the business end of the CL. Can't help thinking Aguero would afford them the space they clearly are lacking. And it seems Foden and de Bruyne are hogging the same space at times.
 

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Think people are overrating PSG's performance here, they've spent most of the game putting a lot of their men behind the ball.
If you’ve only watched the 2nd half yeah
 

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Think people are overrating PSG's performance here, they've spent most of the game putting a lot of their men behind the ball.
They've been bad for about 7 minutes that's it. I'd say you're the one overrating City's performance. PSG killed them in the first half.
 

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Navas, Kimpembe, Marquinos, Veratti, Di Maria, Parades, Neymar and Mbappe would walk into City's starting 11. Navas is a clutch GK. I won't say KdB is better than Di Maria. Di Maria has done more in his career than KdB and I would trust him more in big games than KdB.
I'd have to disagree with about half of that, and I don't think Marquinhos scoring from a corner while PSG pretty much park the bus proves me wrong.
 

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Pep continues with his unorthodox tactics in the business end of the CL. Can't help thinking Aguero would afford them the space they clearly are lacking. And it seems Foden and de Bruyne are hogging the same space at times.
Except this has been the team he has played the most in City's great run. Aguero would flop like he always does in the Cl. What Pep's issue were was that he adjusted too much. He is actually trying to make City play their usual game which is the right move.
 

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Except this has been the team he has played the most in City's great run. Aguero would flop like he always does in the Cl. What Pep's issue were was that he adjusted too much. He is actually trying to make City play their usual game which is the right move.
Yes, they have actually done this a lot more over recent months, but they are still playing de Bruyne well out of position and they have almost zero presence inside the box, yet still trying to find that invisible player there.
 

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I don’t get it. Do PSG not have a better left back than him?
He wasn't even good enough to be a regular sub at Ajax, but somehow he managed to play a lot of matches for PSG. So weird
 

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Can’t lie, this has been a little depressing to watch. We’re miles off this level of play. Certainly our midfield area cannot keep the ball under pressure like this. It’s been beautiful stuff.
You guys and your recruitment team hated good technical players for ages. Your recruitment team since Alex Ferguson has consistently overlooked good midfielders in favour of chasing pacy midfielders. It's too ingrained in your dna that I doubt Man UTD will ever field an excellent technical team.
 

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Di Maria is on absolute fire tonight.

Better than he was v QPR for us :lol:
 

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Di Maria could’ve been so good for us if he wasn’t a massive bellend