V Al-Hilal

[Swiss]

Teams are in; didn't realise that AH have basically bought a load of decent players with top club pedigree, this isnt going to be a walk in the park!

City
Ederson
Nunes
Dias
Gvardiol
Aitnoiri
Gundogan
Silva
Reijnders
Savinho
Doku
Haaland

Vs

Bounou (ex-sevilla)
Lodi (ex-At.Madrid, Notts Forrest and Marseille)
Al-Harbi
Koulibaly (ex-Chelsea and Napoli)
Cancelo (no intros needed)
Dawsari
Ruben Neves (ex-wolves and Porto)
Malcolm (ex barce, bordeaux and Zenit)
Milinkovic-savic (ex lazio)
Kanno
Leonardo (ex benfica).

(Those with no details are native to the KSA league).

[Swiss]

Let's also not forget they drew against real madrid (1-1) and Salzburg (0-0), Winning their final match against Pachuca (Mexican) (2-0).

[Stephen Paul]

extra time

This game going to the wire

[Stephen Paul]

We had good chances to win this game , but we now the lottery coming up

[Stephen Paul]

to be fair , they are decent

[Stephen Paul]

Jesus Christ 3-2 down

[Stephen Paul]

Next flight home

[Swiss]

Fucking balls at the back.

Gutted I stayed up for thar

[Stephen Paul]

Fucking balls at the back.

Gutted I stayed up for thar

listened on the radio , Dias fucking around as usual ? 

[Hesperus]

You could argue that's our 1st choice defence for this season........ it's not good enough.

[Vickki]

'City are back' did not last long 🤣🤣🤣
First half we missed a boat load of chances. The second half, defense fully exposed. Again we struggled with a team parking the bus and hitting us on the break - nothing has changed from last season.
The blessing here is the fact that the players can get some rest before next season begins.

[gavin]

Shocked and appalled.

[jingoe]

And Rodri came off injured ffs

[Stephen Paul]

And Rodri came off injured ffs

Must have been at the toilet when that happened FFS

[Swiss]

Must have been at the toilet when that happened FFS

TBF, he was misplacing passes all over the place.

listened on the radio , Dias fucking around as usual ? 

It's more that it's so easy to pop a ball over the top...

Also, we're just not marking players or following the deeper runs.


Ederson had another poor game. Some of his passing was against direct to AH.
Also, woukd be nice if he could make a save. At one point they had 3 shots on target, and scored all 3.

[Swiss]

I do have e to say, there were some decent performances out there.

There was some really good link up play and runs from deep in thr 1st half, and again when Cherki came on, some excellent passing.

Just that soft underbelly killing us.

Gundog is only good for about 30 mins, still class but can't compete in that heat.
The players were bronzed and shinier than a mr universe competition

[Swiss]

Oh also

Bounou, Koulibaly and Ruben Neves played out of their skins.

[gavin]

I agree that there are big question marks over Eddie these days. He is far less reliable with his passing than he used to be and when the opposition are through on goal, I expect them to score. A club legend but he must get back to near his best.

[Stephen Paul]

Wouldn't say Ederson is a legend, excellent keeper, but has taken his eye of the ball lately

Rumours hes up the road