FC Copenhagen v Man City 19th February 2009 @ Parken Stadium (Danish National Stadium) Kick-off 19:05 MH's view of the match: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pageid=115&pagegid={DBD12D53-8346-431D-A04F-5D0F8664DE80}&newsid=6627273&siteid=&pageno=&newscategory=&frommonth=12&fromyear=2008&tomonth=2&toyear=2009 Robinho, Dunnie and SWP will be travelling to Copenhagen. The return leg will be played on Thu 26 February, kick-off 19:45. Come on City
Though City were in huge trouble against Midtjylland and FC København is a much better team than FCM, then the Danish league is now on winter break and the players are not in shape to play UEFA Cup, so City is going to win easily this time of year ... ....(quickly hides the Aalborg v Deportivo La Coruña UEFA Cup result ) .
There's no such thing as a sure winner for City. All City fans keep their fingers crossed at all matches.
I'd go with -----------Given---------------- Zabaleta--Dunne--Onouha--Bridge SWP------Kompany------Ireland Bellamy---Caicedo---Robinho I wouldn't want us to use two defensive midfielders, especially since it hasn't exactly produced the goods. With Dunne available (irrelevant because it was only a domestic suspension) and Onouha performing greatly at centre-back recently I'd place them both together and move Kompany forward. Richards requires a late fitness test so if he fails to come through Zabaleta is the most natural right-back we have so it makes sense to move him there. Kompany has played defensive midfielder so many times before that he knows the art completely.
Streams http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=30495&part=sports Any others? Looks like the main stream on this one is a channel called Iraq Goals.
Yeah they are. Copenhagen has been very agressive, they've spent quite a bit of time on our side of the field, at least that's what I've seen in the 7+ minutes I've been watching, lol.
2-1 City. Copenhagen equalize with a free header off a coner. However, Ireland volleys to put man City up 2-1. The Copenhagen manager gets a little irrate and pulls the advert board on the bench booth down. LOL!
Wow Copenhagen is looking real dangerous. We've got to get some possesion for the last 10+ minutes. 2-2... I knew it, the defense has got to step it up...
Typical and so predictable. When oh when is our defence going to be sorted? We SHOULD win at home but nothing is for certain with this team.
Only watched the last 10 minutes but the commentary team were saying City should've been up by two goals or so. Just in that 10 minutes Robinho & SWP had 1 on 1's & Bellamy had plenty of space down the left. You just knew a late equaliser was coming though, from another cross into the box. Still, two away goals, solid result.
The defense is simply too soft. Aside from some agressive play from Zabaleta and Kompany everyone gives way too much space to attackers. Vinguaard shouldn't have flown in, right down the middle unmarked for that last goal. I mean really, come on! Where's the communication?
The FCK keeper is actually one of the more highly rated FCK players and I have never seen him make this kind of mistake before.... but then it was also easy to see that the FCK players are still on winter break... lacking the needed timing and match fitness... Well, Jesper Grønkjaer (who played the lst 20 minutes) was named man-of-the-match for the home team. He has been long-term injured, so it was his first game in more than a year, but he looked surprisingly good and surely made a difference for FCK in the end... .
For a team managed by a guy that is supposedly a hard man and a stickler, we sure have lots of mental lapses... Sounds like the injury time goal was born of tentative defending and a lack of communication.
The problem as I see it, is if the City players now are sure they will progress... Fact is that FCK are on winter break and made some unusual defensive mistakes in this match, but they will no doubt be more fit next week... another thing is the FCK results/performance in Europe so far this season, show that they for some reason are better away than at home, so it could still turn horrible wrong for City if the players now think this will be a fairly easy task at home : UCQ R1: Cliftonville FC (Nir) v FC København, 0-4 & 0-7 UCQ R2: FC København v Lillestrøm (Nor), 3-1 & 4-2 UC R1 : FC Moscow (Rus) v FC København, 1-2 & 1-1 UC GS : FC København v Saint-Etienne (Fra), 1-3 UC GS : Valencia CF (Spa) v FC København, 1-1 UC GS : FC København v Rosenborg BK (Nor), 1-1 UC GS : Club Brugge (Bel) v FC København, 0-1 .