Veratti is unbelievable on the ball. One of the best I have seen. Pleasure to watch that first half.
Champions league Semi Finals 2020-21 - April 27-28 and May 4-5
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PSG have been mustard.
I'd agree with your four. But I think we could get away with two for next year if we kept Pogba and Cavani.
I'd go for a CDM and RW.
Sure this PSG isn't without fault and is doing amazing tonight and against Bayern. There fullbacks leave a lot to be desired for instance.
Top CDM and Sancho and we will go up a level for sure.
Should city go for it? Or damage limitation and take the game to them back at home?
Different between coming up with a plan to get a win and actually going head to head on a technical level. We are no where near this level of football. But we can get a win on the day.
Mourinho won our first title in 50 yrs, and retained it. Pellegrini and mancini won the league at city before pep. My point is he wasnt signed to win the Premier league imo.
Id argue pep, pellegrini and mancinis city honours arent a million miles apart.
We’re miles off because we simply don’t have personnel as good and confident. Yet we were not 3-1 worse off than them. I don’t find it watching players as good as their front 3 and Verratti in midfield depressing at all. It’s what we should aspire to be with the right players and right coaching
PSG have been great but they're overcomplicating things in the final third a bit. Just lash it at goal on sight.
City have been great at last ditch defending and horrible at everything else. They're lucky to be 1-0 down.
City have been great at last ditch defending and horrible at everything else. They're lucky to be 1-0 down.
I’d like it to get much much sadder
Probably. At full strength it's still bayern
This is the first time in the last 5/6 years that I’m watching the champions league semis and thinking Utd could easily compete here. We are better than Chelsea for a start so I’d have fancied us replicating their run if we had got the chance.
Any team can beat any team. I didn’t say we’re miles off being able to beat one of these teams, I think we’re miles off being able to play at this level. In order for us to win, we’d need to surrender and counter. Which is fine, but it’s a necessity because our midfield cannot keep the ball at this level, that’s all.
This is how a team looks like when everyone of them is competent on the ball. The build up play of PSG is just superb.
How many of our players are actually composed on the ball ?
How many of our players are actually composed on the ball ?
Sancho will be a massive signing for you. He's got the potential to be that.
Roman bought Chelsea wanting to win the CL. You think that wasn't communicated to Mourinho?
Masterclass. PSG have better players and are simply superior.
Common PSG 5-0 now.
Psg very good. I disagree with the city fans on their message boards claiming theres nothing between them, even half.
Thought the same, it's quite unusual. I think you can see it's a shock to the City players. De Bruyne complaining because he's not being allowed time for example.
What's frustrating is that with the money in the Prem League City should be facing this kind of quality 6 times a season. Instead they seem to get a pretty easy ride(fair play to Liverpool for keeping it interesting the last few years).
Well so far I look like a proper fool don't I?
I would have Bayern at full strength, PSG was a bit lucky to get by on away-goal rules and Bayern missing Lewandowski, Gnabry and Goretzka 3 of their top 4 scorers.
PSG 2nd though.
It takes a ton of organization to field a lot of creative players. We don't have that organization, and thus have to use workhorses to cover for that.
I believe we have the personnel to play much more technical football than we're playing.
I wouldn’t write off City just yet either.
The very best players in the world don't play in the prem. PSG have better quality than every team in the prem.
Agree. It's why I fancied PSG to go through. They've got the players to take City on in a simular fashion to how we go about it. With more quality as well.
Compare this to how Spurs approached the cup final.
Albeit not very often, but every time I watch PSG, I'm left with the same feeling I had watching Real Madrid a few years back, Di Maria is such a classy player. We may dislike him for his stint at United, but playing alongside Neymar and Mbappe, he is consistently at least as good as they are, and it was the same for RM. Surely, he must go down as one of the most underrated or underappreciated players.
Bakker is so so bad
Well that's my point.
With the money in the Prem more teams should have this quality. But over the last 5-7 years their transfer work has been shocking.
Got nothing to do with transfer work. The best players will always pick Madrid Barca and Bayern over every team in the Prem, even PSG. Hazard forced a move to Madrid, Ronaldo twice forced a move even when Madrid were bad, Suarez to Barca, Courtinho to Barca etc.
Really? Of course Mbappe and Neymar are the best two players from both teams. KDB 3rd I'd say. There's quite a few PSG players that wouldn't get into the City team IMO.
I don’t get it. Do PSG not have a better left back than him?
And that right there is why you want De Bruyne pushed up instead of in midfield.
I would ignore any reports at this time of the year
And to win us the league for the first time in decades. Which he did twice.
City won the league a few times before pep and imo winning the title was not why he was signed. Otherwise stick with mancini or. Pellegrini.
He was brought in for the cl and if he doesnt win it, i dont think hes totally outshone the previous 2 managers.
Rondos.
Is that good or bad?
Navas, Kimpembe, Marquinos, Veratti, Di Maria, Parades, Neymar and Mbappe would have an arguemnt to walk into City's starting 11. Navas is a clutch GK. I won't say KdB is that much better than Di Maria.
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Anyone else hear the rumours KDB is on £400k pw?
Think people are overrating PSG's performance here, they've spent most of the game putting a lot of their men behind the ball.