I need to go back to Karachi and get back my old 2004-05 Inter jersey.
Can't believe Manuel fecking Akanji is going to play a UCL final.
Can't believe Manuel fecking Akanji is going to play a UCL final.
Champions League Semi Finals (9th - 17th May)
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Total domination
Who is gonna be Madrid’s Roy Keane in the second half? I choose Nacho.
Having two squads helps.
Modric, Benzema, and Kroos looking like their actual age.
If they don't step up in the second half, it's over for Madrid.
If they don't step up in the second half, it's over for Madrid.
City have been ridiculous. Should be 5 up.
Of course they are, their manager was a cheat. They have all those players with fitness problems at their previous clubs and now they can't stop running and pressing all season.
It's all but guaranteed with Pep being there. There was a stat somewhere saying that City are one of the least rotated sides in the prem too...
Not sure how many times this need said but they don't listen. Our outfielders aren't good enough on the ball. Putting ederson in there does very little to helps us
People really think signing Kane and a couple of others will make us go past these cnuts? We're better off planning long term because they are miles better than us.
Well they are managed by a drugs cheat who hired the man he blamed for his drug ban to be his club doctor at Barca.
So anything is possible.
I feel this way about Klopp's team, but City always have the ball, so I think it's less taxing. It's noticeable when someone on their team actually sprints, and it feels like it's only Haaland, De Bruyne and Walker who ever actually do.
I do think Pep wants to be doping, so probably they are, though I have no real idea.
It's unreal this is just 2 nil. How Madrid have gotten out of this half just two goals down is staggering.
More more more more more
amazing by city so far
amazing by city so far
SAF.
Agree, it's also the third man run.
Player A passes to player C We do this. Crucially though we don't do this bit:
Player B runs off the ball to give a first time to player C.
Player C passes ball to runner, Player B and now Player D has made an option for Player B.
Yep. Regularly putting games to bed in the first half is amazing for long-term fitness.
I'm not sure I've seen a better performance than that. It's like they have completed football. I hate it.
Now the famous 2nd half from Madrid? They've been absolutely owned in that first. Arses in hand.
Had to win at SB, Pep is too good at home.
This is finished but I would play with Rudiger, Alaba on the left and Camavinga to the middle, all accompanied by serious pressing and moving forward the team, even with the risk of receiving the third
Well... that didn't go well... 
Doesn't seem like a club with 100s of charges hanging over their heads
What's so crazy about it? If you have watched them, you'd know. In most matches they suffocate the opposition quickly and then just pass the ball around. There's a reason Haaland gets subbed early on. They don't spend 90 minutes running around like headless chickens trying to scrape a result against the likes of Soton and Crystal Palace.
I know it's not the right website, but City are brilliant. They're like Slot's Feyenoord, but with a bottomless pit of money to buy great players.
I'm feeling sick imagining them winning the treble
We have Lisandro and Shaw, but the right side of defence and keeper would have to be new signings to play like this.
Ok that was scary. At this speed they are unplayable, simple as that
Take out Modric, move Camavinga up into midfield, see if we can match them physically, otherwise it's over
Take out Modric, move Camavinga up into midfield, see if we can match them physically, otherwise it's over
Fixed.
Benzema left it all out last year. Has nothing left tbh
Gotta admit that first 25 minutes by City was some of the best football I've ever seen, especially given the level this game is at. They then had a quietish 10 mins and ended the first half with another 10 minute dominant spell.
Then again, have Madrid just been awful? They do look defeated already.
Then again, have Madrid just been awful? They do look defeated already.
If that was 4-0 I don’t think anyone could say it was undeserved.
Outstanding from city (puke)
Outstanding from city (puke)
Worst half of football I've seen Modric play.
I know it looks fairly unlikely but City have hardly been very clinical and you feel like if Madrid can somehow nick one goal, they'll panic and the nerves will get to them.
Technical and intelligence levels have to be increased to play like this. Changing DDG will help for sure but he's not the main reason our passing sequences are disjointed
Just continuous blitzkrieg. Amazing team. Almost as one sided as Pep's Barcelona at their height.
Madrid have been decidedly awful tbh. City have been good but Christ, move off the ball Madrid.
Well that’s kinda stating the obvious there buddy!
nothing will happen
These cheating cnuts will probably do back to back trebles just to make a mockery of it. It’s a farce how good their squad is and they’ll strengthen in the summer. Hate them with a passion.
Unfortunately we need the super wealth, structure, facilities and quality of player that they have to compete with them. We wouldn’t need to cheat though!
Unfortunately we need the super wealth, structure, facilities and quality of player that they have to compete with them. We wouldn’t need to cheat though!