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Football Thread |OT9| #Freeelsk is now trending on twitter

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Wilbur

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In twelve Champions League games, Manchester City have won 3, drawn 4 and lost 5.

The three wins were against Villarreal home and away - who lost all their games and were relegated from La Liga - and a second string Bayern team already qualified.

The four draws were all at home, against Ajax, Napoli, Dortmund and Madrid.
 
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Wilbury said:
In twelve Champions League games, Manchester City have won 3, drawn 4 and lost 5.

The three wins were against Villarreal home and away - who lost all their games and were relegated from La Liga - and a second string Bayern team already qualified.

The four draws were all at home, against Ajax, Napoli, Dortmund and Madrid.
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To be fair Napoli, Dortmund and Madrid are all better than City
 
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Arsenal are so shit.

Could have at least won their group so we could have had a better chance of avoiding Real or one of the other good teams.

Useless.
 
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Wilbur

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Plasma said:
Funny coming from a Man Utd. fan after you got dumped out of the group stages by the mighty Basel last year.
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wayne rooney

This is a different point entirely to the one lunchbox is making though; not that I agree but how we performed last year is besides the point. We generally (the odd anomaly aside) don't waste our spot. One win and 3 finals since 2008 is pretty good going.

Lunchbox is arguing that your spot is a waste because there's no chance of you winning the tournament whatsoever so why be there in the first place?

spidye said:
that's what football is outside of PL

elsk told you so
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elsk gets so much wrong I don't listen when he's right
 
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Wilbur

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Messi said:
To be fair Napoli, Dortmund and Madrid are all better than City
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Napoli and Dortmund shouldn't be though, they're built on half the budget.

When Platt and Mancini go "oh we're still new to the CL, you're mad if you think we can win in just two years of being in it", when Napoli qualified in their first year, and Dortmund in their second and arguably looking the strongest team in the whole tournament, they have no leg to stand on.
 
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Meier

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Sounds like City have been utterly tepid in the 2nd half. I'm just glancing at ESPN's Boot Room but every chance has been for Dortmund it seems.
 
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Messi

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Wilbury said:
Napoli and Dortmund shouldn't be though, they're built on half the budget.

When Platt and Mancini go "oh we're still new to the CL, you're mad if you think we can win in just two years of being in it", when Napoli qualified in their first year, and Dortmund in their second and arguably looking the strongest team in the whole tournament, they have no leg to stand on.
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Napoli and Dortmund play very well as a team, at times city look like a bunch of individuals who happen to wear the same jersey.
 
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Wilbur

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KidA Seven said:
Any other United fan disappointed that United will play nothing like this Dortmund team vs City?
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Every day. 2007/08 and 2008/09 United played quite like this Dortmund team; our strength and speed on the break were fantastic, but we didn't press like they do.

There's been occasions in the past against Arsenal particularly - the CL semis for instance - where we hit them on the break time and time again, but this year we controlled the match because they're shit now.

I'd love to play like Dortmund, sigh

Salvadora said:
I'd like to see United try to get past Barcelona.
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I don't think we would, not at all. However, I do think we have a better chance of winning this competition than you do.
 
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SunhiLegend

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Real Madrid 4-1 Ajax

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Clegg

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The_Hitcher89 said:
So he's worse than De Jong, which makes him much worse than Barry. Must be nearly as bad as Poulsen or Spearing in that case
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De Jong is very good at breaking up opposition attacks and being a hardman.

Garcia is probably a better player technically but he fails at his job as a DM. He just lets players go by him so easily.
 
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Plasma

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Wilbury said:
Lunchbox is arguing that your spot is a waste because there's no chance of you winning the tournament whatsoever so why be there in the first place
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There are 32 teams in the CL and there are only a select few that probably have a real chance of winning, it wouldn't be much of a tournament if you just booted everyone who "waste" a spot.

Atleast we consistently get through our group and give people a game, Milan away last year was awful but at home we played very well and came close to getting through. Year before that we beat Barca at home and was only one goal away from knocking them out.
 
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Grim1ock

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Messi said:
Napoli and Dortmund play very well as a team, at times city look like a bunch of individuals who happen to wear the same jersey.
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Arsenal and city are opposites. Arsenal has a lot of shit mediocre players playing in a great system even if that system is starting to unravel recently

City has good players playing in a shit system where no one knows what they are doing.
 
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