2022-23 UEFA Champions League Group Stage Matchday 2: Man¢h€$t€₹ ¢ity vs Borussia Dortmund

For me the question is not are we going to lose, but how bad will be the correction... And how many goals will Haaland score and what will be his reaction after he scores!

 

No Schlotterbeck is very bad news, Can starting is even worse. It’s not looking promising.

 

Well, we survived the first 30 minutes. We also know that Haaland only needs that one chance.
Maybe Terzic didn't want us to be too deep in our half but I would have preferred another big body in defense with Schlotterbeck as well. We won't hold back their midfield anyways and Can isn't the type with super press resistance or the killer passes/dribbles for our offense.

One thing we should improve, there were a couple of situations when we could have kept possession and City wasn't even pressing us hard but we still lost the ball too fast. Chasing the ball will make us more tired.

 

I'm honestly surprised how relatively often we get into promising situations.
We just have to avoid getting caught in transition.

 

0-0 at the half, better then I expected... Haaland being one of the most prolific goal scorer of the CL, it's pretty good! Now let's see the 2nd half...
A draw is a win for me today.

 

My god Modeste is bad.... It is so blatantly obvious that the CL is miles above his league. An absolute passenger and I keep wondering why Terzic insists on sticking with him. Time for Moukoko to play. Bellingham has also been a ghost and RG is shaky, to say the least.

On the bright side we are defensively sound thus far. Surprised at the good distribution from Meyer.

 

About Modeste, I don't want to beat up on the emergency signing but I have to say that if you are that limited technically, you need to adjust your style, especially if you are an experienced player. There was a very good transition opportunity for us where he played a miserable direct pass instead of taking the additional contact to maybe ideally send one of the attackers through for a 1 vs 1. It's not that the one mistake by itself is bad, it's the mindset behind it that bothers me.

But I suppose experience and great header abilities are valuable today.

 

Reus almost with a great goal. Nice, clean attack initiated by a direct Modeste contact...

 

Goal Bellingham. We take the lead and the way the second half went, it's not even a surprise.

 

I can't get use to seeing Haaland in that ugly blue shirt!! Same for Gundogan, but it's been so long now, he's more one of them then he was one of us...

 

Is this even possible?! More then 30 minutes to go, lets not get our hope to high...
However, they'll need 2 goals to win so that's nice...

A storm is coming....

 

1:1. Great goal and more than 10 minutes for us to go.
It was a rocket but I think that's the kind of balls that Kobel saves.

 

Is it me or this was poor goal keeping? When is Kobel back anyway?

 

And now Haaland scores. We needed more fresh players. It was obvious that the players were too tired.

 

And Haaland score for the Traditional BvB Meltdown...
We need this keeper off the team asap....

 

It was terrible goal keeping. We worked hard, but we went to defensive and should have brought players to keep the ball. There's a huge gap on quality.

 

Malen looks like he's been on the pitch for 120 minutes. Lazy bastard.

 

That Stones goal was a killer for us, cannot happen. Lazy play to not close off the space and allow the shot but that has to be saved no question. The ball was less than 30cm away from the keeper regardless of movement.

 

Bad goalkeeping for the first goal IMHO. But I think the blame here has to go to Terzic, because he made an amateur mistake in adding an additional CB. Before he did that, City were as tame as they could be. Adding Nico changed the balance and the result is evident.

 

I was expecting a blowout and we lost by only one goal, we'll take positive however we can this year...

 

Yeh a good keeper probably saves the second.

The good thing is Sevilla drew. So if we can beat Sevilla at home and Copenhagen away that should be enough to make the last 16. I don't see us going any further than that.

It will be a wasted year if we don't build for the future.