It was an entertaining game of football. With the game "already won" they invited Citeh to play and in doing so opened them up, toying with them. It was both amusing & hilarious to watch.
You could say City almost gave up from the off but they did have some chances, not many, but we flexed our defensive capabilities.
City were simply out classed across 2 legs with a Barça team at about 40-60%. They didn't need to go all out. What we saw in the first half of the first leg basically put this whole tie to bed. Call it conserving energy and rightly so, why bother? We have an important game on the horizon and at times we slowed it down to walking pace whilst still looking dangerous, again inviting City on but they didn't seem to care and just walked with us. Watch as Barça then broke into an attack.
After the first near miss by Neymar, Hart's tactic was to come rushing out and smother the area of the ball trajectory and/or player.
Great game by
both gk's, Stegen is clearly our future #1 and I am ever more confident in his abilities. German gk's... phwoooaaaarrrrr
The created chances were fantastic, it's convincing & great to see that we can open up teams in such a way and look dangerous. Sad indeed; as Kohe pointed out exactly what I wanted to say;
Hart was immense.
BUT, don't let that fool you: the reason we didn't score more was because of our complacent attitude. We played too relaxed, released the ball to late, shot to late, or shot when we should have square passed it.
I hate this attitude, and I think it can sink us later in the CL if we start with it again BEFORE a match has been decided properly.
But all in all, the lack of goals here say absolutely NOTHING about the coming clasico. The mentality will be completely different.
Spot on. It was frustrating to see the ball being released far too late, shot too late or shooting when the ball should have been passed or passed when it should have been shot. That has happened regularly through the season and something they need to brush up on. Neymar aggravates me to no end when he slows it right down when he needs to use his speed, agility & skill to take it past. Quite a fair few chances especially on the counter that should & could have been put away but I don't want to be another echo. We all know it could & should have been a higher score line but the fact is we won 3-1 without much effort and are through to the next stage.
That's all that matters. No injuries, didn't need to go ham before the Clasico so hopefully energy levels aren't going to be spent. Our only lose is Alves for the next CL match but something that can be filled.
Oh, and it's always a pleasure to kick out English teams.
Try living in the country, because it's not, all we're going to hear is blah blah blah moan moan moan, bitch bitch bitch more none sense garbage from usual pundits *yawn*
jk'ing of course, it is an absolute pleasure to out class English teams and shut them up. Unless they start the "how we were cheated" campaign aka '09 (they're still sour to this day about it).
Where can i watch the full match??
