CL- Manchester City v FC Barcelona - 19:45

colly_06

City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (c), Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Toure, Fernandinho, Kolarov, Silva, Negredo

Barca: Valdés, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, J.Alba, Sergio, Xavi, Cesc, Alexis, Messi, Iniesta

dreamers75

Stupid broken sky dish!!!!1 arghh!!!!

fcuk you wind, fcuk you real good!!!

Professional Griefer

Wouldn't mind seeing City win just to see AIGs reaction. Going to be 2 cracking games, I fancy City to go through though.

Rayne Wooney

Champions league I have missed thee

Hopefully a good game, Barca seem to be hitting some form, City are City, at home this season pretty amazing.

Could go any way this

The_Kew_Tour

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Wouldn't mind seeing City win just to see AIGs reaction. Going to be 2 cracking games, I fancy City to go through though.

I dont think he will post much if City were to win.

Pity Aguero is out

Barca might sneak this

Looking forward to this.

Would like to see City win the tie but I doubt they will.

Turtyturd

Can't see past a Barca win.

Could be a strange match thread though. Who will Ronnie' fans be rooting for?

Mocha Joe

Looking at the lineups, this looks like goals. I thought Javi Garcia would play beside Fernandinho with Yaya behind Negredo. Yaya won't sit and track which means Barca can expose Demichelis. But the flipside of that is he can do major damage to Barca when he gets on the ball.

Kylo Ren

I'm envisaging a Demichelis mistake.

JPA

Looks like City going 4-4-1-1.
Changing the team around like that may backfire. Better to play to their strengths.

Plus Demichelis is playing.

masti123

can see this going either way

Johner

I think Barca will win tonight. 3-1.

klose

Havent seen iniesta on the wing in a while! Hopefully will be a good game. Score draw me thinks.

Andersonisgod

Two interesting team selections. For Barcelona, Fabregas, Iniesta and Xavi all start to maximize possession, Barcelona's best form of defence and attack. Alba and Alves will have to be disciplined, Kolarov offers good delivery from the left and Navas will look to run ino the space Alba regularly leaves behind. Mascherano in open play is generally quite good, in particular in one vs one situations but from set pieces could be a weakness. Sanchez with his diagonal running is chosen ahead of the more technically gifted Pedro.

Man City's line up looks rather defensive all things considered. Two left backs, Toure and Garcia holding the midfield with only 1 up front. Barcelona's away record in the Champions League is not fantastic and you'd think tonight is City's big chance to rack up an insurmountable lead.

It's tough to predict but, after seeing the line ups, my confidence is up. I think Barcelona will go to Manchester tonight and get a good result, be it a scored draw or even bringing a lead back to the Camp Nou.

stiffler123

2-1 Man City. Demichelis to score the winner from a corner.

listermint

dreamers75 wrote: »

Stupid broken sky dish!!!!1 arghh!!!!

fcuk you wind, fcuk you real good!!!

Easy fix in the scheme of things unless you have it mounted on the actual roof.

WoollyRedHat

stiffler123 wrote: »

2-1 Man City. Demichelis to score the winner from a corner.

And Michael Jackson to come back from the dead and do the moonwalk across the pitch at full time while performing "Thriller".

dfx-

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Wouldn't mind seeing City win just to see AIGs reaction. Going to be 2 cracking games, I fancy City to go through though.

General note to everyone: Can we have less of this please regardless of scoreline

SEPT 23 1989

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

And Michael Jackson to come back from the dead and do the moonwalk across the pitch at full time.

I would have more confidence in his dead monkey Bubbles lining out for us tonight

gosplan

City going to contain and look to spring Kolarov down the left.

wotzgoingon

3-1 Barca. Hopefully Messi' on good form.

Darkglasses

Feel a bit more confident with Neymar not starting. Don't think we'll do worse than a draw, even with Demichelis starting.

irishfeen

2-2 ... I think it could be a great open game.

dreamers75

listermint wrote: »

Easy fix in the scheme of things unless you have it mounted on the actual roof.

Well it was on the roof, now its in my backgarden and another piece in the neighbours.

Hank Scorpio

No Aguero is a big blow, without him I don't see City getting a result tonight

prettyboy81

3-1 Barca & tie over in 1st Leg!

J. Marston

0-0.

Nuri Sahin

Demichelis starts tonight?

Prediction: City 1-3 Barca

DazMarz

Only channel that appears to be showing this game is TV3. Not on Sky Sports, EPSN, BT, RTE or Setanta. Huge coup for viewership figures for TV3 if this is correct. Maybe I'm wrong.

Also, I think Barca will win this, but just. It won't be easy and City will not be held scoreless either. 2-3 is my shout.

Andersonisgod

DazMarz wrote: »

Only channel that appears to be showing this game is TV3. Not on Sky Sports, EPSN, BT, RTE or Setanta. Huge coup for viewership figures for TV3 if this is correct. Maybe I'm wrong.

ITV with it's haphazard coverage and sheer determination to skip the CL music bit at the start.

Alpha Dog 1

DazMarz wrote: »

Only channel that appears to be showing this game is TV3. Not on Sky Sports, EPSN, BT, RTE or Setanta. Huge coup for viewership figures for TV3 if this is correct. Maybe I'm wrong.

Itv?

Alpha Dog 1

Comon barca

KingdomYid

DazMarz wrote: »

Only channel that appears to be showing this game is TV3. Not on Sky Sports, EPSN, BT, RTE or Setanta. Huge coup for viewership figures for TV3 if this is correct. Maybe I'm wrong.

Also, I think Barca will win this, but just. It won't be easy and City will not be held scoreless either. 2-3 is my shout.

Also UTV/ITV

DazMarz

Didn't realise ITV were showing it too. I was thinking someone else must surely have it...

GLaDOS

Bit defensive from City, could be their downfall tbh, they need to go for it.

Demichelis could be badly shown up tonight I feel.

Darkglasses

That's good stuff City let's go

Agueroooo

City with two banks of four and hoping to catch them on the counter.

Goodnight City.

GLaDOS

City need to tighten up the passing in their own half, barca will murder you if you keep gifting them possession.

Alpha Dog 1

City getting outplayed so far. 7 Spanish players in the barca team vs 1 English player in city's team with none coming through the academy.

masti123

City are going to park the bus and counter attack I see a city win

Darkglasses

Oh my God Demichelis..

Jelle1880

masti123 wrote: »

City are going to park the bus and counter attack I see a city win

To counter attack you actually need to keep the ball once you get it, all City do is give it back right away to Barca.

super_furry

City not even trying to close down. They're on the way to a hiding if they keep this up.

Agueroooo

masti123 wrote: »

City are going to park the bus and counter attack I see a city win

Probably not the best tactic tbh.

week-in-week out they face this defensive setup.

City need to mix it up with more width etc.

Dempsey

27% Possession so far for City, hmmm

Ardent

Darkglasses wrote: »

Oh my God Demichelis..

How on earth is this guy playing tonight, he's brutal!

elefant

Demichelis is truly awful. Why is he playing for City? With all their money surely they could afford someone, anyone, better?

GLaDOS

masti123 wrote: »

City are going to park the bus and counter attack I see a city win

I disagree, I think they're playing right into Barca's hands. Don't think they have the defensive fortitude to withstand so much pressure, especially with Demichelis at cm.

cson

City are going to get smashed here. Reminds me of first half of Arsenal - Barcelona at the Emirates in 2011.

GLaDOS

Valdes makes a hash of the catch, gets a free :rolleyes:

cson

That's not a free. You flat out missed that catch Victor Valdes. Shove into the back of Negredo too.