Manchester City vs. CSKA Moscow 19:45 SS5

Darkglasses

Manchester City
01 Hart
05 Zabaleta
04 Kompany
26 Demichelis
22 Clichy
15 Jesús Navas
06 Fernando
42 Y Touré
07 Milner
16 Agüero
35 Jovetic

CSKA Moscow
35 Akinfeev
02 Figueira Fernandes
24 Berezoutski
04 Ignashevitch
42 Schennikov
18 Musa
03 Wernbloom
66 Natcho
10 Dzagoev
25 Alekseevich Eremenko
88 Doumbia

Anything less than a win will be a disappointment. Disappointed Fernandinho still doesn't start, but Fernando has been working well while Fernandinho's been out of favour.

2-0 City

Darkglasses

Already a goal down, appalling defending from a free

Sugarlumps

Ding dong.

Corholio

LOL Yaya. He's really not even bothered sometimes.

monkey9

Hate stupid celebrations like that.

Professional Griefer

Boom.

Kirby

Toure. Defensively awful. Again. Quelle surprise

ASOT

monkey9 wrote: »

Hate stupid celebrations like that.

Its because people are accusing him of being older than he is, ala etoo doing the old man celebration.

ASOT

Top class Yaya!

Sugarlumps

Top finish.

Corholio

LOL Yaya. He can be bothered sometimes.

Darkglasses

At least we can say categorically that we're outsinging the opposition fans tonight

Go on Yaya!!

Kirby

Great free kick.

stiffler123

Never been impressed with Navas's finishing. The amount of times he blasts it over the bar is ridiculous.

Kirby

stiffler123 wrote: »

Never been impressed with Navas's finishing. The amount of times he blasts it over the bar is ridiculous.

You have to blast it to score from a narrow angle....and wingers are often going to get their chances from a narrow angle. Less of the goal to aim at so its about hitting it hard before the keeper can react. Means you are going to miss more.

Darkglasses

Kirby wrote: »

You have to blast it to score from a narrow angle....and wingers are often going to get their chances from a narrow angle. Less of the goal to aim at so its about hitting it hard before the keeper can react. Means you are going to miss more.

He does tend to miss by a lot more than say Nasri though. I'd agree with stiffler, it's pretty poor

Will I Amnt

Should have been 2 for CSKA.

Kirby

Doumbia should have scored there. He even could have laid it off to a teammate for a tap in.

Let off for City.

stiffler123

Demi was lucky there.

quarryman

Seriously, why is George Hamiliton's audio always slightly ahead of the play?!

It always seems to be just him. Is it to make it appear like he's "reading" the game better?

kingshankly

Demichelis having a mare

Will I Amnt

Awful passing here from City, still look out of sorts.

Kirby

quarryman wrote: »

Seriously, why is George Hamiliton's audio always slightly ahead of the play?!

It always seems to be just him. Is it to make it appear like he's "reading" the game better?

It's RTE's lack of technical ability. It's always shocking. Sync issues are a regular occurrence.

I'm watching on Sky. Much better.

quarryman

Kirby wrote: »

It's RTE's lack of technical ability. It's always shocking. Sync issues are a regular occurrence.

I'm watching on Sky. Much better.

I mean it's not like they are Moscow, dealing with the distance there, it's only in Manchester!

stiffler123

This match is proving to be more difficult than I thought. Not passing or playing well at all. Silva's presence is badly missed.

fuzzydunlop85

The space and time Moscow are getting in midfield is ridiculous. Can see this being 4-2 to city.

Will I Amnt

This is awful from both sides, mistake after mistake.

Kirby

Cheerio City.

Will I Amnt

Laughable stuff.

kingshankly

City are absoloute ****e

Ulysses Gaze

Criminal defending by City.

A gift of a goal.

stiffler123

Ugh...

eigrod

Gael Clichy isn't very good.

batistuta9

doumbia my lord, doumbia, oh my lord doumbia

fuzzydunlop85

Just talking about negredo there on rte, why the hell did city get rid of him? Good striker and guaranteed about 15-20 goals a season.

stiffler123

Kirby wrote: »

Cheerio City.

A bit early to be saying that.

Kirby

Cant play 4-4-2 with Toure in the team. Doesn't work. Never has worked. Play another midfielder in there and let him play higher up the field where his laziness is less detrimental to the team.

CSKA playing through City way too easily.

stiffler123 wrote: »

A bit early to be saying that.

Possibly but they need to win this. Nothing else will do. And can you see City scoring two without conceding another? They might do it but I cant see it.

kingshankly

Did the Fernando lad with a competition to play tonight Christ he is shocking

Darkglasses

fuzzydunlop85 wrote: »

Just talking about negredo there on rte, why the hell did city get rid of him? Good striker and guaranteed about 15-20 goals a season.

He wanted to leave, didn't like Manchester. Might have needed to lower the wage bill for FFP too. I was pretty unhappy to lose him too, fantastic striker and worked so well in our team.

Darkglasses

Kirby wrote: »

Possibly but they need to win this. Nothing else will do. And can you see City scoring two without conceding another? They might do it but I cant see it.

With Aguero playing it's very possible, the guy can score from anything.

Kirby

True. He's lethal.

But the issue isn't scoring....its scoring two without reply. Unless changes are made at half time, that isn't going to happen.

kingshankly

Look up the dictionary for nice player that never hurts you
You will find the name james Milner

ASOT

Are those fans saying boo or boo-urns?

stiffler123

Kirby wrote: »

Cant play 4-4-2 with Toure in the team. Doesn't work. Never has worked.

It worked pretty well last season.

Darkglasses

Kirby wrote: »

True. He's lethal.

But the issue isn't scoring....its scoring two without reply. Unless changes are made at half time, that isn't going to happen.

Hard to pick a sub we could bring on the shore it up a bit in the midfield/defense. I would love if Lampard could stay with us for the year. Would you bring on Sagna? Mangala?

stiffler123

Would like to see Dzeko and Nasri on for Jov and Navas. Not saying Jovetic has been bad but he just doesn't have the understanding with Aguero that Dzeko has.

kingshankly

Pelligrini the dinasour only knows 4-4-2

Darkglasses

kingshankly wrote: »

Pelligrini the dinasour only knows 4-4-2

Jovetic off for Fernandinho :pac:

Harry Palmr

kingshankly wrote: »

Did the Fernando lad with a competition to play tonight Christ he is shocking

I wanted him at Liverpool, not watching the game until this minute so can't comment on how he'd been but it looks like he's failed to live up to his rep since joining from Porto

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I wanted him at Liverpool, not watching the game until this minute so can't comment on how he'd been but it looks like he's failed to live up to his rep since joining from Porto

he flew out of the traps his first couple of games then got an injury and hasnt looked the same since, think it was Newcastle city played on the opening weekend and he was amazing, covered every blade of grass breaking up newcastle attacks and looked assured passing the ball too, hopefully he will get back to that form sooner rather than later!

kingshankly

Gael Clichy is hilarious