Berggy9598

Bayern are going through and Roma will be a very tough out.

Would it?

Screw you Klopp for not going for a thumping you had 15 minutes. This is no longer amusing other City fans being sang out of their own stadium.

If the scousers were singing in Chinese or Arabic would the Etihad sing back? Let's not get ahead of ourselves though continue working on English and we'll see what happens. Same thing happened to Ronaldo.

Even if it was nobody told van Dijk to stop playing the goal was still avoidable. Different situation then a wrongly disallowed goal. And miss Tom Hagan refing a volatile City vs Liverpool game?

"Clear" is a rather comical way to put and speaking of comical your center back was the main reason that goal was conceided. Pep should know better then to mess with a ref that looks like Tom Hagan.

Just saw the first goal. Take a bow Virgil van Dijk.

That's a 100% goal.

Jesus should be moving around a lot more to draw Lovern out in space or maybe even switch spots with Sane or Silva from time to time. They're playing right into the strength of the Liverpool center backs

I love that they picked a bat s*** crazy ref for this game.

Ridiculous yellow card imo

Their starting 11 and formation looks like something I come up with on Football Manager with some of the best herbal supplements California has to offer.

That really stings. If my land line wasn't ringing and i wasn't listening to the new Alice in Chains cassette I would...wait a minute it's not 1995.

City's message board is dripping with gold. They're in full meltdown over a game that didn't matter to their manager enough to field his strongest team. We're their everything and their world revolves around us. We're the adult rolling its eyes to their kids throwing a tantrum. This is the best ever game that didn't matter.

I'm not sure it's lack of desire TBH. They often look extremely nervous and agitated during games and they can't deal ebbs and flows of a game. (especially a big one) When a team's composure is so easily knocked of kilt IMO that's when you have to start asking serious questions of the manager, especially when the teams has shown it can play with anyone in England at the very least when their head is straight. It did really seem like they came together in the second half but it was a combination of them being galvanized and being set up in a way that put the best players in the best position. The question of why it took until there was nothing to play for for this to happen. Ander made a little messy on his way off the pitch unfortunately with his paying respects to the City logo on the way to the tunnel so I wouldn't be shocked if they slap a 3 gamer on him. Had the City stewards not stood in the way of United players celebrating with their supporters after the game I would condemn him, but F them anyway.

As long as the "smarks" think the talent should look like them it's not going away.

Can't be a cheap suit either.

Can't Stroman be a serious baby face?

When did Alan Alda shave his head?

The Manchester Derby has produced some classics since City hit the lottery, but I can't recall any derby game that meant so little in terms of standings or trophies being so symbolically significant. City should have put the game away in the last 25 minutes of the first half. Not because they ran United off the pitch from kickoff, but because once again Mourinho's United fell apart mentally. When a team is nervous and lacks composure in these kind of situations and it happens consistently you HAVE to look at the manager. Thankfully, Raheem Sterling put on a clinic on how to clear a ball and Mourinho got a new lease on life. Here's where I give him all the credit in the world. At halftime all the talk was about how the team needed a lambasting, but he FINALLY recognized that once again his side was a nervous wreck, and as I was shocked to learn yesterday, he instead chose to calm them down. That's pre-Madrid Mourinho and time will tell if that was an ah-ha moment for him or he'll revert back asap. Make no mistake though, this may have been the moral victory of all moral victory, but it was still just that. Is second place the end of the world? No, but with the players available to Mourinho there was no reason not to at least make the title race competitive. On to the second half. No idea what Herrera did to be in the dog house for so long, but that second half was a prime example of why he was undroppable last season. He was absolutely everywhere on the pitch and he's also a mean little p***k on the pitch which was a much needed attitude that had a trickle down effect in the second half. His presence allows Pogba and Matic to play their natural game and gives United a midfield that could be very hard to contend with. Their first game together wasn't great, but it was also the first time they played together and they were up against Modric, Kroos and Casimero. Forgivable IMO. We need more depth in midfield, but I honestly hope that's the midfield trio over the next few seasons. It was immense to say the least that it was Pogba that dragged United into the game after Pep's little press conference "slip". Loved the gesture to the fans after the game and loved that he told City's steward's to do one. Even considering how the match unfolded I was astonished at how devastated City's fans were considering it was ultimately a bump in the road on the way to winning the league. This is a club that was a relegation fodder a little over a decade ago, but United are so deeply woven into their consciousness that if you put A.C Milan or Bayern Munich gear on them you could swear you just watched the 1999 or 2005 CL finals. Always in their thoughts, always in their head, always the shadow hanging over them. Their vindication is not their own club, but the club from Salford that haunts them, and it was freaking glorious to see how much it meant to them. Here is the bottom line they will NEVER escape. If Liverpool and Man Utd exchange trajectories in 1993, the Mansours buy Everton, and this thread would be reality TV worthy.

Honestly Mourinho owes Sterling big time. Might have saved his job when all is said and done.

Choke on something you arrogant front running bald headed pile of human trash.

Anyone got Leipzig's manager on speed dial?

Of course now that there's nothing left to play for we get to see a Pogba/Matic/Herrera midfield 8 months after they struggled in their first game together against the second best midfield in world football, with Can/Henderson/Ox occupying first place by some distance.

Porto and Inter on line 1 for you.