Thursday, April 29, 2021

My fellow Manchester City fans--and if you are not, pity on you--I watched the highlights of the Paris match agayne and it is my disagreeable duty to report that Paris has better players than we do. The footwork of Neymar and Mbappe, the only time I've seen footwork like that is in Pep-Barca highlights. Their header by that guy was more skillful than anything we did in the air. We got two fluky goals; Paris got no fluky goals. They imploded in the second half, We. Played. Well. but they imploded. They were exasperated at their luck and they completely lost their discipline. If we had not gotten two fluky goals would we have gotten a non-fluky goal to at least tie it? I think so. But would they have gotten no other goal than the 15' header? I put that at 50-50. On the one 50 we dominated possession in the second half; they won TOP in the 1H. On the other 50, We. Have. No. Answer. for Neymar and Mbappe. Pep will play Cancelo in Manchester, and that's good. Pep better play Cancelo in Manchester. He must needs not tinker that up. Cancelo shadowed Mbappe. They have to win 2-0 or 3-2 to advance. Wouldn't bet they hold us scoreless but could they get three? Every damn day. We are a better team, but they have two players better than any of ours. We're going to have to get lucky agayne.