Man City vs Dortmund Match Thread

Let's hope we can qualify with a few games to spare. Would be very beneficial to have fresh legs and City to have weary ones in the derby.

Fergie will still probably pick Giggs in midfield to combat Toure though.....

Good thing Castle you not anywhere near City management.united were close to sacking Sir Alex but held on to him and allowed him to change their club.Mancini is trying to do the same albiet with millions at his disposal.

Thats why Wenger is still at Arsenal with 7 years without a trophy, 14years in total because football coaching is more complex than the stuff you talking about.

Dortmund wouldnt be were they are if they hadnt placed faith in Klopp.

So do I mate, Real are beatable at the Bernebau and I think Dortmund set up in a way that can cause them problems. We didn't help ourselves tonight though, wrong starting formation and a bad change in the second half. We needed more bodies in midfield.

Wenger is at Arsenal as he's doing well spending nothing and the only club spending within it's means and at the same time have built a stadium they paid for not handed to them.

Fergie was a totally different era.

Should Chelsea have Kept Ranieri? What would they have won now?

Should Inter have Kept Mancini instead of Mourinhio. Was their board wrong?

You will continue to spend and do 'nothing' in Europe with him

Rodwell is pants

I'm still baffled why he was bought and even more baffled why he'd play in a match like this. He's actually worse than he was 3 years ago and he's only 15 years old.

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redconn > (U5676)
posted 16 minutes ago
I'm honestly in disbelief at people doubting the penalty

If you run out to block a shot 6 yards out with your arm fully extended sideways you can't just say 'oops, apologies. What was that doing out there. My deepest regrets it wasn't intentional and I'm very, very sorry I just blocked a shot that probably would have been an equalising goal from 6 yards out with my fully extended, perpendicular to the ground arm ."
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Rule is that the handball has to be deliberate. This is a fact you cannot get away from.

Just because many fans, like you, have a different perception doesn't change the rulebook or the laws of the game.

However you want to sugar coat it, handball HAS to be deliberate in the officials eyes to give a penalty.

And that was not deliberate.

vik (U12889)
posted 3 minutes ago
Rodwell is useless,as is javi garcia.Maicon has been a shadow of his former self since bale ripped him.



He only every had 2 or 3 good seasons in his whole career.

>>And that was not deliberate.

If he didn't want his arm hit, he wouldn't have stuck it 3 feet out to his right. Fully extended.

Seriously. If that had been Carra blocking a Nani shot (before he dived to try and win 2 penalties simultaneously) you'd be starting online petitions about the problems of referee incompetence.

It was a penalty every day of the week and thrice on Sundays

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