First 7 mins about Spurs, gushing over us but Sky hate us etc...
First 7 mins about Spurs, gushing over us but Sky hate us etc...
Why Lionel Messi is Pep Guardiola and Man City's biggest problem - Alan Shearer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47845335
I sincerely hope we beat City and it's Spurs facing Messi in the final. I'd love to prove his 'analysis' wrong.....here's hoping.
Why Lionel Messi is Pep Guardiola and Man City's biggest problem - Alan Shearer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47845335
I sincerely hope we beat City and it's Spurs facing Messi in the final. I'd love to prove his 'analysis' wrong.....here's hoping.
I agree with shearer. We are the underdogs here. We have not improved this season, our team has if anything got worse.
I felt last season like we could beat anyone. Now there is no ifs and buts about it. City are better than us and should beat us and comfortably over two legs.
But it's football and you never know. One thing is definite we need Winks and dier back.
My issue here is his incrdible 'insight' that "Messi is a problem for City"Why Lionel Messi is Pep Guardiola and Man City's biggest problem - Alan Shearer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47845335
I sincerely hope we beat City and it's Spurs facing Messi in the final. I'd love to prove his 'analysis' wrong.....here's hoping.
In fairness, we did have quite a lot of luck to be in such a good position at that point. In three of the four games before the nightmare run we scored late goals to win when we didn't really deserve to against much weaker opposition in Fulham away and Watford and Newcastle at home. In a ten-game league run from Man United on the 13th of January until Liverpool at the end of March, the only game where we put in an acceptable performance and won without needing a late goal was Leicester, at the same time as we went out of both domestic cups. While we'd had a good first half to the season, things really did go very poorly after that as had been widely predicted given our World Cup fatigue, lack of signings or squad depth, and many players with pre-existing injury concerns.Until that inexplicable 5 match run picking up only 1 point from 15, there was a lot of positivity on this forum. With the implosion of confidence currently around, that appears to suggest the time prior to those fatal 5 games is now thought by some on here as that we were either lucky or punching well above our weight. I don't believe either to be true. I think we were very good, deserved our success and still are a very good side.
For the Champions League games, quite rightly, many have us as the underdogs - their squad contains a plethora of talent far exceeding ours. The likelihood of City going through may be right but not necessarily a certainty. I don't want to second guess the result but, if we can have one of those cracking games we are capable of and get a decent result in the home match, that will put a lot of pressure on City. As their squad is so good they have rarely, if ever, had to play under pressure this season - they are not exactly practised in it. So fingers crossed for a decent first leg and let's see hat City are really made of.
To Hell with Shearer's views. Two months ago he was praising us to high Heaven and as genuine title contenders. He no longer has the courage if his convictions and bases most of his views using hindsight.
COYS