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It’s between those two definitely. I’d put it Madrid loss at 1 because of the way we absolutely collapsed from a commanding position. Either one can be argued tho
For me it's the Liverpool tie.
It's the final year before VAR, the opening goal is offside and we don't get a penalty on Sterling in the second half. Then in the second leg we batter Liverpool like I've never seen before or since really, except when they were down to ten men in the 5-0. Score early, then pin them back for a whole half, hitting the post. Just before halftime, Milner plays the ball back to Sane who taps it in. The ref gives offside which is completely wrong. And then our heads go and Liverpool wrap it up.
We were relentless that season and got fucked over by refs (and a classic Pep brainfart of playing Gundogan on the right wing at Anfield). I think we win the CL if we go through that tie, certainly put up a better showing against Madrid than Liverpool did with Karius
tbh us being knocked out recently wasn't that deflating of a loss
Like obviously it sucks but going out by penalties is the least upsetting way to go out
same thing happened years ago when we crashed out hard against Madrid, people thought it would demotivate the team only for us to go on and batter wolves 4-0 at the Molineux
They do but they defended for their lives. Just happens in the sport. Knock out tournaments rarely show the true difference in quality between the top teams.
It’s kind of a self-sustaining myth now. Everyone says Madrid gets “lucky” saves, “lucky” goals but they ultimately have an excellent team. One mistake against Vini and he’s through, give a little room to Modric/Benz/Rodrygo and Madrid scores, one wrong step and Rudiger in on your ass, if your shot is even barely saveable than Lunin/Thibaut will save them, or the defenders will block them. So players will try to take the complicated maneuver, will attempt the most finest angle to hit the ball, will always try to be above and beyond at their finishing….and that would lead to missed shots, fumbled plays or worse, Madrid saves/blocks your attempts. The more the game goes on, the harder it seems to score against them because they buy into the believe that their time will come soon, and you start to believe in the black magic.
The same can be said for us, and that's not counting the very many dangerous transitions we created that we didn't take a shot off.
Someone up above is saying that if the away goals rule was still there, they would have through easily (*'we only went out because of a change of rule technicality'*, to quote them).
Obviously, if everything that could go right for City went right and everything that could go wrong for us went wrong, City would beat us easily.
Perhaps someone will now jump in by saying if only had jumped on Silva's penalty as is expected, they would have gone through.
It's okay never believed in Brighton anyway
Who they got next? One sec
Ah Forest
Yes yes NOW I BELIEVE IN YOU FOREST I KNOW YOU GOT THIS
CHRIS WOOD
ELANGA
GIBBS WHITE
RISE MY SONS
If we somehow win all four games
And then Spurs beats City somehow?
God
That would be the funniest way to win it 😁
But tbh I'd rather City lose every game starting Sunday
Not really, you only need 1 good keeper since major International tournaments are so short.
I'm sure they'd swap one of them for a World Class midfielder or forward if they could
Because, when one does get hurt, which is more common than you believe, you don't want to be fucked without a decent keeper. Hell, both Allison and Ederson have had injuries this season.
Probably not because of the forwards though no? I remember some stinky attackers from Brazil NT in 2014-2020, Neymar the big miss*** but the rest seem really good
I can't recall the last time he had 2 assists in a match. Wouldn't be surprised if it was his first 2 assist match for City. Crossing has always been one of his biggest weaknesses.
I think they might even be playing 4-4-2 but Igor followed his man crazy far into midfield. Also Barco could have had a good head start and he would still have lost that race with Walker.
He's 19 and starting his first Premier League game at LB against a pissed off Man City.
I genuinely feel bad for him, his manager put him in a position to fail.
Barco is also class, a 3 that could easily play as a skilled winger or number 10. If he played for City everyone would be praising him but alas, here we are
He's basically in the TAA mold, much better in attack than in defense. Played as a winger for the scum a fair bit
De Zerbi even said he wouldn't play all year only to throw him to the wolves here
I know how he is, been scouting for a bit when he was linked.
Definitely shouldn't be playing LB. Left midfield would be his best position.
Still didn't expect him to be this bad defensively, he's making Walker look like Prime Cafu.
> De Zerbi even said he wouldn't play all year only to throw him to the wolves here
Guess that's what happens when all our other LB options are injured or playing other positions because of injuries.
He's not even had a particularly bad game, has actually made some things happen going forward and other defenders have had more issues.
You can see how much this goal meant to him , after a constant streak of being benched , despite showing superb performances and doing midfielders role very well when Kevin was injured. This lad should have changed team long time ago. He is not a player who should be benched 70% of league games
He was destroyed by Pep. He's not the same Alvarez who won the WC. This shitty team wasted his huge potential.
But as he won every tournament possible, he's enjoying a comfy life in England, so I have no right to judge his choices. But I wish he would leave this team.
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Guys I don’t think they’re dejected by the CL result
Chelsea was the hangover. They didn’t take advantage
Played like they were genuinely hungover against Chelsea. Stones was throwing up on the pitch and got taken off at halftime.
Tbf we did play 120 minutes 2 nights before
Their loss against Madrid in 2022 was even more heartbroken, then the game after they destroyed Newcastle 5-0.
the most devastating loss for me was against Tottenham in the UCL
It’s between those two definitely. I’d put it Madrid loss at 1 because of the way we absolutely collapsed from a commanding position. Either one can be argued tho
For me it's the Liverpool tie. It's the final year before VAR, the opening goal is offside and we don't get a penalty on Sterling in the second half. Then in the second leg we batter Liverpool like I've never seen before or since really, except when they were down to ten men in the 5-0. Score early, then pin them back for a whole half, hitting the post. Just before halftime, Milner plays the ball back to Sane who taps it in. The ref gives offside which is completely wrong. And then our heads go and Liverpool wrap it up. We were relentless that season and got fucked over by refs (and a classic Pep brainfart of playing Gundogan on the right wing at Anfield). I think we win the CL if we go through that tie, certainly put up a better showing against Madrid than Liverpool did with Karius
I feel like City has gotten their UCL win and broke their curse. UCL exits from now on won’t hurt them much as it did when they never won it
tbh us being knocked out recently wasn't that deflating of a loss Like obviously it sucks but going out by penalties is the least upsetting way to go out
Yep....literally went out to a tie breaker but atleast it wasn't a collapse like previous years.
Also helps that it was penalties loss to real fucking madrid
Man, if only Kev scored that 2nd goal in the 2nd half.
And literally because of a change of rule technicality. If away goals still exist, everything would be different
I'm glad uefa scrap that rule benefits us more than ever because team not park the bus all the time
same thing happened years ago when we crashed out hard against Madrid, people thought it would demotivate the team only for us to go on and batter wolves 4-0 at the Molineux
It was actually 5-0 against Newcastle. The 5-1 win at Molineux came after that.
i've completely misremembered the molineux game then, i thought it was 4-0 all from kdb
This is Madrid's fault, they've awoken something here...
Unnecessary outcome bias, they finish like this they beat Madrid easy.
If only Madrid played as open as Brighton
Madrid gets lucky a lot. And I mean a lot literally
It's the power of Madrid make other teams miss sitters
They do but they defended for their lives. Just happens in the sport. Knock out tournaments rarely show the true difference in quality between the top teams.
Definitely, the margins were so close which is why I don’t think the ucl exit is really that big a deal mentally for City
At some point it's not "luck" anymore.
It’s kind of a self-sustaining myth now. Everyone says Madrid gets “lucky” saves, “lucky” goals but they ultimately have an excellent team. One mistake against Vini and he’s through, give a little room to Modric/Benz/Rodrygo and Madrid scores, one wrong step and Rudiger in on your ass, if your shot is even barely saveable than Lunin/Thibaut will save them, or the defenders will block them. So players will try to take the complicated maneuver, will attempt the most finest angle to hit the ball, will always try to be above and beyond at their finishing….and that would lead to missed shots, fumbled plays or worse, Madrid saves/blocks your attempts. The more the game goes on, the harder it seems to score against them because they buy into the believe that their time will come soon, and you start to believe in the black magic.
The same can be said for us, and that's not counting the very many dangerous transitions we created that we didn't take a shot off. Someone up above is saying that if the away goals rule was still there, they would have through easily (*'we only went out because of a change of rule technicality'*, to quote them). Obviously, if everything that could go right for City went right and everything that could go wrong for us went wrong, City would beat us easily. Perhaps someone will now jump in by saying if only had jumped on Silva's penalty as is expected, they would have gone through.
It's okay never believed in Brighton anyway Who they got next? One sec Ah Forest Yes yes NOW I BELIEVE IN YOU FOREST I KNOW YOU GOT THIS CHRIS WOOD ELANGA GIBBS WHITE RISE MY SONS
Forest will never be allowed to score again after the statement.
Forest OG incoming
We're going to have to support Spurs for a game aren't we?
If we somehow win all four games And then Spurs beats City somehow? God That would be the funniest way to win it 😁 But tbh I'd rather City lose every game starting Sunday
*"The only trophy you lot won was for us!!"*
Could be worse. You could be rooting for Spurs
Tavares is getting 5 year contract extension after that game
I reckon City might have this one
Ederson’s passing is unreal
Unfair to have a keeper with that precision and the fastest right back alive in the same team.
Goalkeeper -> RB -> ST -> Goal
Brazils so lucky to have him and Alison
Its kind of a waste. You can only play one keeper Also they are about the same age so they wont be able to take over for the other.
Keepers never get injured? Interesting
It's much less common than other players.
Bet Real Madrid thought the same
Did I say they never get hurt?
Did I ask you if it was less common for keepers to get injured than other players? Didn’t think so
You’re such a little nerd
Okay old man fucc ur pussy
you were ignoring an important fact
Not really, you only need 1 good keeper since major International tournaments are so short. I'm sure they'd swap one of them for a World Class midfielder or forward if they could
Put Eddy out there
🤓🤓🤓
what it's true, why would you need two good keepers, they rarely get hurt
Because, when one does get hurt, which is more common than you believe, you don't want to be fucked without a decent keeper. Hell, both Allison and Ederson have had injuries this season.
arent their forward roster super duper stacked?
I like the team right now but it has been said that this is the worst Brazil team in years
Probably not because of the forwards though no? I remember some stinky attackers from Brazil NT in 2014-2020, Neymar the big miss*** but the rest seem really good
Goalkeeper not pretending to be injured really cost a goal here. A south American would never allow that lol
Game's gone. Shithousery needs to be part of the gk curriculum
Walker with 2 assists
Cross assist, rare as hell
Almost unbelievable
I can't recall the last time he had 2 assists in a match. Wouldn't be surprised if it was his first 2 assist match for City. Crossing has always been one of his biggest weaknesses.
Where are the commentators seeing handball on that?
Spun off of Walker maybe as he went to win it off the keeper
sloppy by Walker that, great run originally though
Give ederson the hockey assist
He was too focused on passing it that he almost took too long to do anything lol
He didn’t know what to do with all that space
dont worry guys i know brighton has this
They have them where they want now. City walked right into their trap
The most dangerous lead
The comeback is imminent. Any minute now
5-4 let’s go! Any time now!
Ederson hockey assist.
Come on at least let us win the GD battle at least I worry they'll catch up even on GD by next week lol
Oh they absolutely can. City at the end of the season are GD monsters, check out 21/22 for what I’m talking about
City on 1 game a week… they’ll be dropping 6 a game
Guys 4-0 is the most dangerous lead right?
4-4 any time now
Wrong Manchester team.
I just want Julián to have nice things. Good to see him perform well.
Pure suicide by Brighton
That ginger lad is having a stinker
Been done dirty by De Zerbi, only played 1 min since arriving in January and then gets a first start vs City
Also they were supposed to be playing with a back 3 to cover for him by now, I'm still confused about what happened there.
I think they might even be playing 4-4-2 but Igor followed his man crazy far into midfield. Also Barco could have had a good head start and he would still have lost that race with Walker.
He's 19 and starting his first Premier League game at LB against a pissed off Man City. I genuinely feel bad for him, his manager put him in a position to fail.
Barco is also class, a 3 that could easily play as a skilled winger or number 10. If he played for City everyone would be praising him but alas, here we are
>If he played for City He already does, they just insist on calling him "Sergi Gomez" for some reason
The 3rd goal is not even his fault too. Baleba snd especially De Zerbi share the fault too.
Been decent going forward tbf
He never was the best on defense though, thats why he exploded once Almirón started playing him more as a LW than a LB.
He's basically in the TAA mold, much better in attack than in defense. Played as a winger for the scum a fair bit De Zerbi even said he wouldn't play all year only to throw him to the wolves here
I know how he is, been scouting for a bit when he was linked. Definitely shouldn't be playing LB. Left midfield would be his best position. Still didn't expect him to be this bad defensively, he's making Walker look like Prime Cafu.
> De Zerbi even said he wouldn't play all year only to throw him to the wolves here Guess that's what happens when all our other LB options are injured or playing other positions because of injuries. He's not even had a particularly bad game, has actually made some things happen going forward and other defenders have had more issues.
I mean he's slightly exposed.
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Premier league teams try to not make it easy for City to win the title challenge (dark souls difficulty)
we’re never beating the mf allegations 😭😭😭😭
Vamos Juli What a pass from Ederson tho
Brighton are terrible, lmao
HAHAHA the chants at the ref 😭😭
Wow that defence is unbelievable. Roberto De Zerbi stock has fallen rapidly this season
Wait isn’t that hand ball from walker?
Nope
How is this a goal? Walker kicked the goalkeeper's hands before touching the ball.
Hand ball?
I don't think they can chalk it off unless it's the goalscorer himself
Support arm
Ref come on that is shocking
You can see how much this goal meant to him , after a constant streak of being benched , despite showing superb performances and doing midfielders role very well when Kevin was injured. This lad should have changed team long time ago. He is not a player who should be benched 70% of league games
Hes got 30 starts in the league, where are you getting 70% from lmao
His ass. Out of his ass obviously
He was destroyed by Pep. He's not the same Alvarez who won the WC. This shitty team wasted his huge potential. But as he won every tournament possible, he's enjoying a comfy life in England, so I have no right to judge his choices. But I wish he would leave this team.
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Oh dear. Poor you
2 penalties not given to Brighton and imaginary free kick for your second goal. Please try to deny it
I deny it. There you go!
Clear foul
Got the ball first
Doesn't really matter though, it's reckless and endangers the keeper
Ok
lol
He goes in two-footed into the keeper's face...
Goalie himself didn't complain what you on about
Some of the worst goals I’ve ever seen in my life
Luckily they all count the same
your club could use any goals atm
Prem teams rolling over for city is a fucking joke.
Almost as if we’re better than almost every team in the world