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I'd agree with all of that except Petrov 'wasting it', he was our only player worth 9/10 tonight. Petrov was our only real source of invention, Elano was good and failed at final ball.

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Concur. Goal was dunney's fault. End of.

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It's time for Dunne to leave or play second string, we need a CH with distribution among his quiver.

Bring on any fuckwit who says otherwise.

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That is a regretful comment after tonights showing. Ben-Haim had a bit of a shocker at left-back, despite a promising start.
Only positives really were johnno and richards, even dunney had a shocker by his standards. Elano good, petrov looked bright, but not good enough as a team.

There was a lot wrong tonight and a lot of reasons why.
For some reason English teams rarely hit the ground running at this stage of the season so playing European qualifying games in August will always throw up performances and results like this.
Liverpool struggled badly last night and were lucky to come away with a draw. Arsenal were outplayed for much of the match and sneaked a win. Qualifying for these UEFA Cup games is a poisoned chalice and it doesn't mean City are crap. Yes they played crap and too many players were seriously off the pace but chances are we wouldn't have gone very far in this competition even if we'd trounced tonight's oppostion. Teams have to learn how to play in Europe and City are at the blunt end of that learning process. Doing well in the league and avoiding these kind of games will see us doing better in the long term.

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From where i was elano looked like he just hated being out on the right, then when he started to come in a little he had more of a say in the matter.

Petrov in the first half was right in front of us ,and until about 30 minutes in he never had a run at the leftback, and once he did, he put quality in the box.
For sure he was one of the best outta the bunch..

caciedo was absolute pants, why boji did'nt start i don't know..
He was getting stuck in when he came on and looked a threat..

Ahh just one of those frustrating evenings i guess..

were gonna have to improve and have santa claus up front to get any further now..
tall order now..

City till i die..

Im off to bed now...night all.!!
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Have to say i thought ben hiam looked decent tonight, pretty solid performance at left back..dunnie was at fault for the goal as i saw it..
but he supported petov, even though the passing was all over the place. but everyone was at that..

What was Caicedo playing at? He's quick and strong, why doesn't he use it to beat defenders, and play off their shoulder. I think Hamann could've helped us today, he keeps calm and would have been a good influence on the productive, yet frustrated Johnson. We missed Vassell tonight.

The Good: Richards, Johnson (at times), Bojinov, Petrov
Average: Elano, Sturridge, Fernandes, Hart (can't be blamed), Corluka
The Bad: Dunne, Ben-Haim
And The Absolutely Shocking: FELIPE CAICEDO!!!

Whatever possesed Eriksson to pay £5million for him i will never know!

Well said man, spot on.

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We're not out of it yet.
But we've left ourselves a hell of a lot to do.

went tonight and i reckon it was just a bad day at the office.We'll put it right in denmark.seen caiscedo several times now.what the fuck did sven see in him:eek:

Apologies if I'm the only one who thinks this, but I think if had made a move or a dive for the ball, he'd of got there. He was far too arrogant and just though "Oh well, we'll get it back" He panicked toward the end and desperately wanted the goal.
The whole team were arrogant and gave Midtjylland far too little respect.

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Getting two clear goals over there is going to be beyond difficult with the forwards we have availble. We dont do that well under pressure when we have to perform

As predicted the press are having a field day already. The amount of glee and excitement. Whipping themselves up into a frenzy....

Well i been reading all the posts and got up to page 26 then i got a tad bored:D, Anyways, First half Shite second half slightly better ( but ever so slightly mind) also does anyone find it slightly amusing that 3-4 months ago we had about 10-11 strikers at the club and now were struggling??? I do believe that we should have had a penalty their in the first half against Caicedo, clearly the defender had his arm round him. I have a feeling we will do em at thier ground, also nice to see Dunne almost get his first OG of the season. I still predict he'll at least get 2 this season:cool: