Football is souch better as a neutral. Just enjoy seeing other teams get wrecked and it doesn't involve us at all.
Champions League Knockouts (12 Aug - 23rd Aug)
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I highly doubt it. He is a massive Espanyol fan as well. It would be worse than if he were to go manage Arensal after Spurs. He won't do it.
One has had a very poor season and the other one is returning from a very long injury.
Mad wasn't it? I understand having a particular approach or tactic but when it not only fails to work but actually costs you over and over again, why the feck would you keep doing it? Are they that inflexible?
Honestly, I don't watch much Spanish football so I'm fairly stunned by how far Barca have fallen. They don't press anymore, they're short of pace, their best players are declining and their midfield is non-existent.
Bayern are just utterly ruthless and totally exposing their flaws tonight. It could end end up the Champions League equivalent of Germany 7 - 1 Brazil at this rate.
bayern have a "philosphy" and stick by it regardless of manager I suppose.
Something we are slowly building back up at our club.
Just goes to show that you don't need a 100m player to have a top tier team. Really impressive.
City's defence is not great, but it's definitely not as bad as Barca today, think most would agree.
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I don't think they'd destroy City, but if we'd be playing them now, I could quite easily see them destroy us.
Let’s see what greeezy is made of
Mes que un joke
Isn't the opposite also true?
I think if De Gea plays like he did against Chelsea they would kill us 5-1. If not, then they probably win 2 or 3-1.
To be fair, we snuffed City out in both league matches this year, especially in the second one where they had no clear cut chances the entire match. When we want to defend, there are few teams better in all honesty.
We wouldn’t play like Barcelona have attempted. OGS would park the bus and play on the counter. It would be a very different game
De Jong is really pissing me off with his morning.
Whats next for Barcelona? Messi 33, Suarez 33, Busquets 32, Pique 33, Alba 31, Rakitic 32, Vidal 33, Griezmann 29... Lots of good players to replace in the next few years
Setien needs to bring Rakitic, and one of Demebele/Fati on. They need goals and they need them fast. Just 0 threat currently.
They would kill us with their pressing.
Barca so poor. Messi and Suarez not pressing at all.
They will go back like in the pre Ronaldinho times
I said City's defence is more vulnerable than Bayern's.
Messi isn’t in the game at all. Barely seen him
Throw on dembele I’ve only bad impressions of him . Change my mind please
Ya there is no way we would be able to hold onto the ball, we would have to set up to defend and counter like @sammsky1 said.
Bayern have had a lot of key guys for a while though like Neuer, Alaba, Boateng, Kimmich, Thiago, Muller, and Lewendowski. They took some time and tinkering understanding how to get the best of Gnabry, Perisic, Coman, Davies, etc after Robben and Ribery left. And they also have Pavard in their side, who is really good...not sure if he's playing tonight as I cannot watch. Then Goretzka is another good player in the middle. And they'll have Sane next season?
Bayern is known to get a lot of good players on free transfers or good transfer fees, but agree...you don't have to spend so much money on players as having a good setup, a strong core of key players, and meshed with good coaching/ideas will make you seriously competitive. Flick has done a tremendous job thus far.
Very true. Be one hell of a job though. Ageing sqaud and a massive rebuild, its either a very attractive job or professionally suicidal.
Always a Barca player on the ground rolling around at every stoppage,
Ah fair enough, sorry about that.
Suarez holding his nashers 
God I hate Suarez.
The dismissal of Perisic with disdain a few seasons back looks a bit silly right now.
Well done Alaba
They spent 80mil on a defender last summer who doesn’t even start.
5-1? Muller was offside but who did it come off?
De Jong - lazy fecker.
the space through the middle
Offside unfortunately.
Looked miles off.
They were awful during the half-time break. Looked like a Run-DMC video.
Implosion basically. No money. No youth coming through (well that fati guy).
Back to the mid 90s - early 20s for them. I.e. pre-messi and ronaldinho.