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Roberto Baggio 
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De Bruyne was immense, best player over both legs.
In a way the early goal for Dortmund did them no favours, they barely mustered a dangerous attack again in the game and had 9 or 10 men behind the ball for the next 45 minutes of play. Step up in class now for City in their next game, will need an improved performance in both legs |
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Roberto Baggio
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Posted: 14 Apr 2021 at 10:07pm |
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Foden running to celebrate his winning goal with Pep, the man who ruined his career by not loaning him to Rotherham two years ago to get 46 games in the Championship
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BrendanD88
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irishmufc
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Posted: 14 Apr 2021 at 10:27pm |
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I love the way you hint that City are underdogs in some way  Had City backed at 7/4 before this round the win the CL. If they get past PSG they'll definitely win it. |
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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BrendanD88
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It’s a fact though, Dortmund are a nice team to watch but they aren’t at the levels of PSG/Bayern. I think it’s a 50/50 game, though I’m leaning towards PSG to go through. 7/4 was a terrible price before this round, you can get them at 7/5 now.
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Roberto Baggio
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Its probably a 50/50 game. Step up in class definitely.
That PSG front 3 could rip anyone apart and win a game in ten minutes. They've knocked out Barcelona and Bayern so far. Its not exactly Burton Albion
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irishmufc
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Posted: 14 Apr 2021 at 10:39pm |
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City are favourites to get past PSG no?
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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irishmufc
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I only go through my local bookie for handiness sakes. He'll match PP's odds and it saves me a potential trip (when they're open) to one. I don't bet that much or online.
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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BrendanD88
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Fair enough! Trying to quit online gambling myself.
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City have struggled against pacey forwards on the counter attack....and that’s more or less psg’s game.I agree,psgs front 3 could tear city apart. |
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hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard
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Territorial
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But don't you think it amazing how he's suddenly become a genuinely top class player in the space of just a few months, when he was so average last season he started a mere 13 of City's PL games, completing just four of them? (Two PL starts the previous season  )Fact is, it's precisely because he is so good that it was ridiculous that he wasn't being given his head long before now, at least during last season, when it was soon clear that City weren't going to catch Liverpool, nor finish outside the Top Four. Oh and while we're here, who was suggesting a loan to Rotherham?  P.S. Did you notice Jude Bellingham tonight? You know, the 17 y.o. Jude Bellingham who made his 39th appearance for
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Roberto Baggio
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You wanted him to emulate Mason Mount and go on loan to the championship
Pep has managed and nurtured him perfectly IMO All that scare mongering after he signed a new contract a few years ago has proven to be bollocks
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My money is on madrid to win the champions league.
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Territorial
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No, I didn't specify the Championship, I said he should go to a club fit for his talent. You know, like a certain Jadon Sancho for instance, who left entirely when it became clear he wasn't going to be getting as many starts as he might have liked. As for Mount, when it became clear that he wasn't going to get regular starts at the Bridge either, he persuaded the club to grant him a loan to a club where they knew he'd get particular attention under Fat Frank. And the way he's torn up the PL this season (21 in August) shows that his loan hardly held him back any, doesn't it? All of which is reflected in their England careers to date - Mount 18 caps, Sancho 16 caps, Foden 6 caps.
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He’s had 4 years of being coached by one of the best coaches in the world, has made 114 appearances in that time for his boyhood club, has won countless trophies, has just scored in both legs of a CL quarter final, and will probably start for England in the euros
I’m sure he’ll forego a few caps against Andorra and San Marino for all that |
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Territorial
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He'd still have been coached by PG and won all those trophies had he been picked to start! The real question is whether his game would have benefitted more from actual playing time in big games. On which point his outstanding performances this season support my case , which is that he deserved far more proper* game time than he actually got, whether with City, or somewhere else. Simple question: Do you think he wasn't good enough last season to be a regular starter in what was by City's high standards, a pretty average side? * - When you have a moment, can you tell me how many of those 114 appearances were in minor cups, or CL dead rubbers etc? How many were starts? How many minutes per game did he get? I do know that only 65 were in the games that really count (PL), the majority of them off the bench, often for just the last few minutes, with the game already well won.
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Roberto Baggio
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He was very inconsistent last season, had plenty of poor performances
One at Old Trafford just before lockdown springs to mind. Since football resumed in July and into this season he’s looked to be at a different level. Maybe it’s a maturity thing, maybe he’s learned, maybe he’s even, dare I say it, been handled well by his manager, putting him in and out of the team as he sees fit to learn and get better. He wasn’t in the team every week at the start of this season and is now finishing the season strongly Maybe his manager knew how to time it so he wasn’t burned out and flat come April/May I reiterate my belief, all things considered PG couldn’t have handled his career much better thus far
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Posted: 15 Apr 2021 at 12:37am |
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Does that mean you don't think he was good enough to justify far more game time than he actually got? A simple "Yes" or "No" will suffice.
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