Roma v City

[dexter]

fantastic performance. great defending, hart included, outstanding. great team performance.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

NASRI!!! THUNDERBASTARD!!!

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Joe Hart - "First of all I've got to say it was a great effort from the fans, Rome is a difficult place to come but Samir made their night for them."

Good lad!

[citoeast]

Absolutely awful, same old City. Never had a moments worry as I watched chilled out throughout the match. We were simply much better than Roma even with our central spine torn out of the team. A goal was always coming for us and it came at a great time. I think we have finally chilled in the CL.

Every player played their part tonight but special mention for Fernandinho who had his best game for us.

Through to the knockout stages against all the odds and pundits wise words of us being out a few months back.

Well done Pelle we are playing like a team now and one that wants to win.

[jingoe]

As an added bonus we are not in the Europa Thursday night debacle!!

[City63]

Makes Saturday's team selection interesting..

[bry the guy]

get in there 

[bluebrendan]

Good solid win, hopefully Yaya was taking notes about how to play as a def. midfielder from the performances of Fernandinho and Fernando. Nasri had a very good game but on past form he can't be relied on to produce that level consistently. Some good saves from Hart but one howler with the corner that seemed to go straight through him.

Draw is 11am Monday, hoping for Porto or Monaco but we'll probably get Real or Barca.

[gavin]

You could hear Joe shout keeper's for that corner too but he had a great game. As for Nasri, he is having a run of excellent games now.

[clevblue]

I got a bit worked up at the start but soon settled down, best performance I've seen for a good while, knocked Roma sick on their home ground, great stuff. I want to keep watching that one!!

[lee]

Great win that! A memorable night in Europe for City!

Excellent all round team performance. Nasri had an especially good game and the two F's in the middle did really well - especially Fernandinho. Hart got his finger tips to the one that hit the post.

You were all a bit harsh on Dzeko - he doesn't look anywhere near fully fit to me.

why play him then ken?

[BongoBlue]

Not bad for a "one-man" team eh?

Everyone out there played their socks off tonight. special mention for Clichy, MDM, both Ferns and Nasri. Dzeko is not fit but he did all right; he was rusty and will get better.

Well chuffed.

[bry the guy]

I also though Clichy was very good and he has been since the CSKA game all in all a great team dispaly.on another plus great to see Silva and kolorov back.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

You were all a bit harsh on Dzeko - he doesn't look anywhere near fully fit to me.

why play him then ken?

I suppose because we hadn't much else to offer - other than Pozo - if we wanted to play an out-and-out striker. Pellers presumably gambled that he'd get a decent 60 minutes out of Dzeko before he ran out of steam, but got little return. Dzeko looked very rusty.

However, whatever his ineffectiveness with the ball, I would at least credit Dzeko's presence with giving the Roma full backs something to think about and keeping them pegged back. He offered little else though.

*As I type this they have just replayed Nasri's goal on the lunch time news on the TV in the kitchen - and I can hear my 77 year old mother cheering wildly!   

[zacc]

Well this feeling is a recent one, City through the group stages of CL.
Had just said can't see who'll score for City when up popped Sami & in the net!!
Looking forward to the knockout now well done City and the ones there singing loudly 

[Paul lakes knee]

What an excellent team performance.

Chuffed for Mangala and Fernando as I thought both were excellent

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Missed the match cos I working and going to have a grumpy tidy nurse who I was ignoring while trying to get it on me phone.

Just watched it back. Great game and loved it when zab was kissing the badge!

[Swiss]

I missed it too, was on my work xmas do and my phone cut off. Got so pissed, it wasn't until someone reminded me 10 mins ago that the game was on 

[Hesperus]

Great result, I was very pleased.

Question though! How many people think we'd have won the last two CL games had Ya Ya not been suspended?

[gavin]

Question though! How many people think we'd have won the last two CL games had Ya Ya not been suspended?

It certainly did us some favours in terms of successfully quickly closing down Roma after the first 15 minutes. But Yaya also offers qualities that neither of the Ferns do. Personally I think Yaya is worth his place in the team. There will come a period before the end of the season when pundits are calling us a one man team referring to Yaya again like they were many times last season. The great thing for us is we are a one man team with several one mans. Sometimes it is Vinny who is called it, then Silva, then Sergio or Yaya and last night Nasri stepped up to the plate and he was pretty decent last weekend too. But I digress, it is all too easy to fall into the current trap of saying Yaya is a liability, maybe he is on occasion but even this season he has won us and saved us games.