Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City Leg 1

suffering golfer

First leg of the champion league last 16 for City.

With Arsenal all but out and Chelsea not looking in great shape themselves, City could be the only English club in the Quarter Finals, something they have never achieved. This represent their best chance of doing so as previous last 16 rounds have seen them up against Barcelona and Bayern Munich, etc...

Easy... nah!! this is City.

May be not much interest for this thread, but let see.


Man City XI: Hart, Sagna, Kompany (C), Otamendi, Clichy, Fernando, Fernandinho, Toure, Silva, Sterling, Aguero.

Dynamo Kiev XI: Shovkovskiy, Danilo Silva, Dragovic, Vida, Khacheridi, Rybalka, Garmash, Gonzalez, Buyalskiy, Yarmolenko, Teodorczyk.


Looks like Pellegrini has learnt from past mistakes and is packing the midfield.

Prediction: 1-1 draw.

the whole year inn

Solid team as your going to get from City.Dont know much about Kiev but there not here cos there push overs.
City win 3-1 fenandinho sterling and Aguero

09_09_09

2-1 to City. Augero with the first fist :cool:.

the whole year inn

Hart bossing it in the tunnell.

Harry Palmr

Crazy time for kicking off a game

GreNoLi

A random stream from Tajikistan would work better than rte's, joke.

Flint Fredstone

Ronnie Whelan, ugggh.

Darkglasses

These are worse than Barcelona or Real Madrid for rolling around crying. Shocking

eagle eye

Really hoping for a City win. I'd love to see them at least make the semi-finals for Pellegrini's sake. I'd like to see him leave there with his head held high. I think a semi-final appearance would be enough for him to do that.

GreNoLi

Lucky Fernando, Toure started poorly.

GreNoLi

Best striker in the world, good finish.

recylingbin

GreNoLi wrote: »

Best striker in the world, good finish.

Great finish.
He's lethal in those situations. Or si e achuns ...as ray Houghton would say

eagle eye

Yeah, great start and they deserve to be 1-0 up already.

the whole year inn

Not sure if its deserved but Kiev caught sleeping.No silly mistakes now and they can score again!

GreNoLi

City can put this tie to bed in Kiev.

Chris_Bradley

Kiev look wide open here and doing nothing going forward.

Plenty of goals here for City if they want them.

the whole year inn

GreNoLi wrote: »

City can put this tie to bed in Kiev.

Yea they can Aguero close again.

Mushy

the whole year inn wrote: »

Yea they can Aguero close again.

Thought he should have scored it tbh.

blueser

Mushy wrote: »

Thought he should have scored it tbh.

Agreed, should be two up now. Competent display by us so far; no real defensive scares after Hart's parry on to the bar early on. But I'd expect Kyiv to press harder as the game goes on.

SlickRic

Sterling is regressing. I'm sure of it.

Chris_Bradley

Kiev really are a poor outfit.

GreNoLi

SlickRic wrote: »

Sterling is regressing. I'm sure of it.

Replace Sterling with De Bruyne and it would be city's strongest side.

blueser

SlickRic wrote: »

Sterling is regressing. I'm sure of it.

Yep; our poorest player so far, by a distance. He seems totally lacking in confidence.

GavRedKing

I mentioned in the City team thread recently that Kyiv were a poor side and they shouldnt have got a chance to get out of the group with us, City can put this away and have a relatiely easy time back in Manchester if the get the right result tonight.

GreNoLi

Lovely goal, tie over.

eagle eye

Good goal that, well worked.

blueser

blueser wrote: »

Yep; our poorest player so far, by a distance. He seems totally lacking in confidence.

Then, naturally, he puts one on a plate for Merlin!

GavRedKing

And there it is, Citys 2nd.

Could well go and get another 1 or 2 in the 2nd half and rest players for the 2nd leg.

Mushy

This is 2 going on 5, and City don't even have to do much.

Harry Palmr

Good for the co-efficient

the whole year inn

Lovely goal,nice by Aguero and Sterling stepped up when needed.
Otemendi is playing well made some great tackles at the start.

klose

Jesus kiev are ****

GavRedKing

City look likely to be the only English side left in the competition at the moment. Arsenal wont turn around their game and I seriously doubt Chelsea will get the right result to send PSG out either.

Harry Palmr

You can imagine that Kiev are now feeling the effects of no proper football since early December.

GreNoLi

Harry Palmr wrote: »

You can imagine that Kiev are now feeling the effects of no proper football since early December.

No competitive matches in over 2 months and you have to play one of the best sides in Europe, madness.

Harry Palmr

Well now, lets not over-egg the situation...

blueser

Mushy wrote: »

This is 2 going on 5, and City don't even have to do much.

Agreed. We could (should?) have at least 1 more goal; Auero when he was through in the inside left area. Hopefully get another goal or two to put the tie to bed, then play the young lads again in the second leg.

suffering golfer

GreNoLi wrote: »

No competitive matches in over 2 months and you have to play one of the best sides in Europe, madness.

easy now. Am a City fan, but I wouldn't call us one of the best side in Europe. We are in the second/third tier of good teams, but there are at least 4 teams ahead of us at present.

GreNoLi

suffering golfer wrote: »

easy now. Am a City fan, but I wouldn't call us one of the best side in Europe. We are in the second/third tier of good teams, but there are at least 4 teams ahead of us at present.

I would count 6/7 at the most but that is still the top tier imo.

Harry Palmr

Good to see the army guys are not wearing gloves.

blueser

Kyiv beginning to press now. We need to be careful here, we don't want to end up doing what Bayern did last night.

recylingbin

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Good for the co-efficient

Great news for arsenal.

GreNoLi

Oh my.

recylingbin

Here come juve kyiv.

Harry Palmr

#so_city

eagle eye

Out of nothing it's 2-1, good finish with a deflection. City have been really good defensively and unfortunate to concede a goal like that.

blueser

Stuffy goal, but Kyiv have upped their game since HT.

the whole year inn

Smart football by city ,try and knick one more if not then should beat them handy enough at home,going by tonights standard.

blueser

the whole year inn wrote: »

Smart football by city ,try and knick one more if not then should beat them handy enough at home,going by tonights standard.

If we could scramble 1 more goal, I'd be fairly confident we wouldn't concede 3 at home to Kyiv. Which is what it'd take for us to go out.


*edit* Cracking save by Joe.

Hank Scorpio

How have City only scored twice here, they look like scoring everytime they get into the third half

Mushy

How Touré, just how?