CL R16: Barcelona FC vs Manchester City

Tomwin Lannister wrote:Spending 5 hundred kagillion pounds doesn't mean jack shit if 99.99999% of that is spent on a new 4th choice striker every 6 months

Idiotic

Exactly

They haven't really improved their starting XI since 2011 when they singed Aguero, Dzeko etc.

Hoping Suarez singlehandedly knocks them out. Another brace please Luisito

for this game im just curious to see who is going to be redcarded for city

Maybe Joe Hart for a change? Would draw some more high-profile discussion on this stupid triple punishment.

People who say this is over are the same people that were suggesting that we were going to have a walk in the park against Di Mateo’s Chelsea

billy_gr wrote:People who say this is over are the same people that were suggesting that we were going to have a walk in the park against Di Mateo’s Chelsea

Do you have any statistical proof of this or are you just making an unfounded statement?

Pls respond

I have proof.
I have thoroughly maintained entries of all Barca related conversation throughout the years and I have developed a filtering system that searches history and fetches results.
Right now I have 17,3 accounts of people that implied that beating Chelsea would be a walk in the park while now they are maintaining the opinion that City is finished.
Maybe you are included in the list. Maybe not. The tension is killing me

billy_gr wrote:I have proof.
I have thoroughly maintained entries of all Barca related conversation throughout the years and I have developed a filtering system that searches history and fetches results.
Right now I have 17,3 accounts of people that implied that beating Chelsea would be a walk in the park while now they are maintaining the opinion that City is finished.
Maybe you are included in the list. Maybe not. The tension is killing me

so no proof then, pls go.

you're not worthy of my proof

Don't recall Chelsea coming back from 2-1 down home defeat to beat Barca tbh, they always had a lead except one time and they was at home the 2nd leg.

Quite the key difference, besides Chelsea have always been a team which can defend when necessary and make it difficult so a turnaround such as this would be possible for them.

City and their band of low IQ idiots? Not a chance in hell, it's quite clearly over and was when the draw was made lol.

^ yet people were delirious about how easily we would progress

They were last year too, look how that turned out.

billy_gr wrote:^ yet people were delirious about how easily we would progress

ANyone that had watched Barcas previous matches with Chelsea would have not thought that. I also suspected Chelsea might win, their match in 2009 started the whole Pepcelona craze and I felt that their win would bring things to a full circle, which it did as they retired Pep.

Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Alves, Pique, Mathieu, Alba, Mascherano, Iniesta, Rakitic, Messi, Suarez, Neymar

Manchester City: Hart, Sagna, Kompany, Demichelis, Kolarov, Nasri, Fernandinho, Toure, Milner, Silva, Aguero

LETS GO!

Pelle vs Messi, For PL Honor

Ter Stegen to shine

Toure to give his best ever CL performance.

MAtS FTW!

Peps reaction when Messi nutmegged Milner and lol at it getting repeated 10 times as if they've never seen someone nutmeg a player before

Barca are toying with this hopeless City team. They can't even create a decent offside line. Barca are literally only defending with 7 players and City can't even put any sort of pressure on them

Messiah is wiping floor with citeh. Its like God playing fifa with messi as his control. The best ever. Ronaldo who!!?

Having said that chitty has to concede a lot more. No matter how much they get dominated upon, never will they get thrashed. Hope 2nd half will change that trend.

Hart Ruined thousands of bets tonight.

My god, it was like watching Sanchez and Pedro again, with Neymar and Suarez. Neymar started the bad feeling with the first half miss, just like Sanchez did against Chelsea, and then nothing would go in.

Thank god Rakitic somehow squeezed it in from the bar.

our finishing... Casillas to sleep well tonight...

As great as Hart was it was made to look all the better by Barca's abysmal finishing. They'll have to be a lot more efficient if they want to win the competition.

Hell they'll have to be a lot more efficient if they want to win at the weekend.

not to discredit Hart but we basically shot all of them towards him, cant remember any great save to be honest. may be i have to check those again

Milner and Kompany were abysmal tonight. Awful players.

That entire match was Hart vs Kompany. Kompany seemed hell bent on screwing Hart over.