Champions League 2014/15 - Real World Football - FM24/25 Update

Fernando is shite. Milner was muck. Kompany was worse. Fernandinho changed the game imo. Bony still needs to gel.

Think we've a decent shout in the 2nd leg with Yaya back and Bony more integrated into the team. All depends on if Kolarov decides to play or not

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By Slashman X | On 24 February 2015 - 21:52 PM

Fernando is shite. Milner was muck. Kompany was worse. Fernandinho changed the game imo. Bony still needs to gel.

Think we've a decent shout in the 2nd leg with Yaya back and Bony more integrated into the team. All depends on if Kolarov decides to play or not

For all the talk of you not giving them respect and all that, you absolutely bottled it/shat yourself in the first half. Awful, awful first half. Once you actually started to play in the second and got some belief you could have turned that around. If you go to the Nou Camp and play with some intensity then you most definitely can get a result, but it's all a very big if

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We don't play with intensity though. That's one of our things, it's something we save for special occasions in small bursts.

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Yeah, we play an outrageously patient game, every game

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If you go out of the CL next week do you think Pellegrini might be job hunting in the summer?

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Man City probably just found it hard to recover from their Cup Final on Saturday

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By bluemoon. | On 24 February 2015 - 22:14 PM

We don't play with intensity though. That's one of our things, it's something we save for special occasions in small bursts.

By Slashman X | On 24 February 2015 - 22:27 PM

Yeah, we play an outrageously patient game, every game

The second half you came out much better, despite not changing much tactically. Obviously pressing Barcelona high will absolutely kill you before the finish, but also cant sit back and let them play their game

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25 Feb 2015 09:49:32

Barcelona had stopped and that's why City looked better in the second half. Tie is over now for me and can't see them scoring at least twice in Spain.

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By Ninja | On 24 February 2015 - 23:31 PM

If you go out of the CL next week do you think Pellegrini might be job hunting in the summer?

Quite possibly. It's certainly something they should be considering anyway, he's had an absolutely horrific season in basically every respect. The big question, and it's one that can't really be answered, is just how convinced Txiki/Soriano are by him. They seem fairly patient and determined about following a set style (and the Sheikh and Khaldoon definitely are) but to me, Pellegrini doesn't seem to following that style all that closely. He plays a lot of lip-service to the idea of playing positive, attacking football but I'm not convinced how much we've lived up to it. His team is the only one in the entire City set-up that doesn't play a Barça-style 4-3-3, the kids do it, the women's team too and I believe NYCFC do too. He seems absolutely set on trying to succeed with his 4-4-2. It's bizarre both as a personal preference and in relation to the club's wider plan.

All that said, if Pep decides not to stay at Bayern then Pellegrini will be out on his ear.

By VP. | On 25 February 2015 - 09:49 AM

Barcelona had stopped and that's why City looked better in the second half. Tie is over now for me and can't see them scoring at least twice in Spain.

Unfortunately, I think you're probably right on both counts.

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25 Feb 2015 19:08:50

Monaco have scored 26 in 25 games this season, jeez.

Can't see Arsenal running into any problems.

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Think they've been fairly good defensively though recently but we've gone with quite an attacking line up.

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1 goal conceded in their group stage. 19 in the league. So yeah, they're good defensively, at the expense of their attack.

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By Crane | On 25 February 2015 - 19:08 PM

Monaco have scored 26 in 25 games this season, jeez.

Can't see Arsenal running into any problems.

Me neither, can see it being one of those comfortable 2-0 or 3-0 wins that Arsenal get in the CL at home against teams like Galatasaray and Olympiakos.