Manchester City

[Bredbury Blue]

Big decision. 30 seconds pass after Otamendi challenges Falcao and unbelievably ref gives a penalty. Willy saves.
At the moment, mentally, City have lost this.
Get Otamendi off before it's too late.

[Bredbury Blue]

2v2 Aguro. 58 mins. Big goalkeeping mistake. First goal in 7 games for Aguero. Shocked everybody. Both defences are poor

[Bredbury Blue]

John stones horror mistake. Falcao sublime finish 2v3 61mins.

Defence have gifted this game to Monaco.

[mrbojangles]

This game is batty

[Bredbury Blue]

70 mins 3v3 Aguero smashes the corner in. A very wierd game, great for the neutral.

[mrbojangles]

This must be great for a neutral

[Bredbury Blue]

76 mins John stones 4v3 from corner. Crazy game

[Bredbury Blue]

Crazy crazy game...more goals to come...both sides committed to kamikaze defending

[Bredbury Blue]

City 5v3 Silva wonderful ball over the top to Aguero who squares to Sane and Sterling both free. Sane

[Bredbury Blue]

83mins Willy brilliant save from point blank range

[Bredbury Blue]

86mins Aguero off for Fernando.

Yellow cards City 2 vs 8 Monaco. ..I think

[Bredbury Blue]

88mins Navas (who?) for Sterling

[Bredbury Blue]

Only 3 mins extra time...huh

[Bredbury Blue]

FT 5v3 UNBELIEVABLE! Wow going to take me some time to get my head around that.

Make sure you catch the rerun.

2nd game should be interesting.

[Bredbury Blue]

A game of attack vs NO defence.

2 hrs kip then work

2v4 in the other game. Some night.

[3 minus 2]

great entertainment, but some truly shocking defending.

[Bredbury Blue]

What defending?

[Bredbury Blue]

Manchester City's 5-3 win over Monaco is the highest scoring first-leg ever in a Champions League knockout tie.

Manchester City have saved the last five penalties they have faced in the Champions League.

Wobbly Willy has saved 6 out of the last 8 penalties faced.

[mrbojangles]

Something I didn't realise is that we have saved all of our last 5 penalties in the Champs League. The last 2 by Willy and the 3 before that by Hart

[balo]

On 2/21/2017 at 7:31 PM, BangrakBob said:

A young attacking Monaco with a no loss record against EPL teams, this could be a mouthwatering encounter. 

 

Think I'll stay up for this one

 

You did the right thing , I also watched it live even if I'm a Spurs fan.  One of the best games in CL history.

[mrbojangles]

4 minutes ago, balo said:

 

You did the right thing , I also watched it live even if I'm a Spurs fan.  One of the best games in CL history.

 

On reflection (and mainly due to us coming out of it with the right result) it was a thriller. But don't think my heart could take that every week

[champers]

Fair play to Pep. He looks like he has decided that attack is the best form of defence. Just one holding MF and 5 attackers. Very brave but it worked. More of the same in the 2nd leg, please.

[mrbojangles]

42 minutes ago, champers said:

Fair play to Pep. He looks like he has decided that attack is the best form of defence. Just one holding MF and 5 attackers. Very brave but it worked. More of the same in the 2nd leg, please.

Seeing as we have no defence (worthy of mentioning), I don't think he had much choice but to attack champers. The one thing I don't understand though, is whilst we have the obvious weakness in defence, he still insists on playing out from the back, even when a team is pressing high. Personally, I would mix it up a bit and kick it long  every now and then. Monaco knew we would keep the ball at the back to try and play it out and they pressured us well forcing us to make several errors 

[BangrakBob]

1 hour ago, balo said:

 

You did the right thing , I also watched it live even if I'm a Spurs fan.  One of the best games in CL history.

I thoroughly enjoyed that, exceeded my expectation.

[Bredbury Blue]

We'd been kicking it longer with Jesus in the team as he can challenge for the ball in the air but last night with Aguero we were back to playing it short. Kolorov is ok at receiving short. Otamendi and Sagna a worry. All 3 goals conceded we contributed to. Things did improve once Zaba came on RB and Sagna replaced Fernandinho at LB but at times Monaco's quick counters tore us apart. Fat chance of not conceding away so do we try to keep it to one or do we chase goals ourselves - reckon it'll be the latter knowing Peps approach.

[champers]

I suppose Iheanacho would be better suited to the long ball. Use him or lose him. He looks a great prospect but clubs will surely be looking at him over the summer. What about Nolito?

[Bredbury Blue]

As Sane in particular, Sterling and Jesus have found form, Iheanacho has dropped out of favour and Nolito has now become 2nd choice to Sane on the left.

[BangrakBob]

12 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

We'd been kicking it longer with Jesus in the team as he can challenge for the ball in the air but last night with Aguero we were back to playing it short. Kolorov is ok at receiving short. Otamendi and Sagna a worry. All 3 goals conceded we contributed to. Things did improve once Zaba came on RB and Sagna replaced Fernandinho at LB but at times Monaco's quick counters tore us apart. Fat chance of not conceding away so do we try to keep it to one or do we chase goals ourselves - reckon it'll be the latter knowing Peps approach.

Let's just have reply of that type of match, it's the only option 

[Bredbury Blue]

By now have you all seen Falcao's 2nd goal? Candidate for goal of the season.

[Rc2702]

Ay I expect a humdinger of a 2nd leg minimum 5 goals in the match.