| Manchester City FC | 4-1 | Borussia Dortmund |
|---|---|---|
| Foden (Reijnders) | 1-0 ('22) | – |
| Haaland (Doku) | 2-0 ('29) | – |
| Foden (Reijnders) | 3-0 ('57) | – |
| – | 3-1 ('72) | Anton (Ryerson) |
| Cherki | 4-1 ('90+1) | – |
Lineup
Borussia Dortmund: Kobel – Anton , Schlotterbeck, Bensebaïni ( Can '66) – Ryerson, Sabitzer ( Groß '66), Nmecha, Svensson – Adeyemi ( Silva '81), Beier ( Bellingham '66) – Guirassy ( Chukwuemeka '66)
Bank: Ostrzinski, Meyer – Couto, Bellingham , Groß , Chukwuemeka , Silva , Can , Anselmino
Manchester City FC: Donnarumma – Nunes, Stones, Gvardiol, O'Reilly ( Aït-Nouri '86) – González – Savinho ( Cherki '79), Reijnders ( Dias '79), Foden , Doku ( Silva '79) – Haaland ( Marmoush '86)
Bank: Trafford, Bettinelli – Dias , Aké, Marmoush , Cherki , Silva , Aït-Nouri, Khusanov, Bobb, Lewis
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by rish234
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Da war locker ein Unentschieden drin. Aber insgesamt guter Auftritt.
We were sound asleep from minute 20 to 35 and that lost us the game. Overall not a bad showing in the 2nd half. Sabitzer needs a break, Guirassy is in prime Cologne times form and Emre returns with immediately playing a horrendous pass that makes us concede the 4th goal. Good night everyone.
We played against a team that has spent over a billion euros of oil money on transfer fees alone and doesn’t abide by financial fairplay. The game is so rigged; I’m fine with us losing this match.
We showed up and with some luck, there might have been a chance to take something from this but ultimately it is what it is.
Get results in the other games and smash the oil clubs in the knockout games.
Schlotti brother you gotta lock in soon
Bad game against a very good opponent.
Particularly disappointed by Guirassy and Schlotterbeck tonight, considering they are supposed to be the leaders. Awful performances from both.
Is Kovac going to learn how to prepare a good game for the full 90 minutes?
I’m prepared to get downvoted for this. I don’t get some of the comments.
When we gave up or 3atb formation against Barca, we lost 4-0, and everyone complained that we gave up on our working system.
When we kept the 3atb but adjusted the formation a bit against Bayern, we lost 2-1, and people complained that we didn’t start our best players and the formation that we normally use.
Today we started our best players in our usual formation, lost 4-1 and some people are complaining that we should play a different formation.
It’s almost like our squad isn’t good enough to compete against these teams.
Feel like a lot are going way to crazy about us losing our first CL Game in the literal hardest game we drew.
Wasnt a great performance in anyway but dont feel anything but apathy when a Team that was built to win by cheating over and over does exactly that.
Only thing i care about is our qualification now becoming harder with us needing to win the next two to stay save.
First 3 of their goals were just precise especially Foden’s. 4th goal I mean that’s on Jobe. You can easily cut that run out.
Could tell Schlotti isn’t 100% feel like he could have stepped up on both Foden goals to make it more difficult.
Guirassy while wasn’t awful did screw up a few opportunities, that botched pass to Beier was not good.
Other than that I think we played well, dominated a lot but as always those final passes are what’s killing our chance creation. Tough stretch of games this month no doubt about it but a nice confident win against Hamburg and I think we can go into the break happy.
Don’t worry guys in 3 years from now Albert, Inacio, Kaba and Fahrenhorst hoop session will change this. Till then all we can do is wait.
You could see that defeat coming 3 weeks ago, man our passing is so shit sometimes and the last 3 weeks were not really convincing.
A team like City can exploit that.
These performances are happening way too often as of late. Can we buckle the fuck up please?
Idk if it was the tactics or the players but not pressig when they were attacking was crazy, literally the worst team in the world to try that against.
I’m starting to get fed up with Kovac. Boring football and terrible subs. Adeyemi coming off killed our attack, Beier playing 70 minutes, Guirassy being subbed off at all.
We need signings and a new coach if we ever want to win anything. The way we are now we will never win even the Pokal. At least we’ll finish top 4 though!
Don’t think we are gonna get any trophies this season too…..
our fans owned the place tonight – kudos for great support of the team!
not sure what’s up with Guirassy, but at this point he just really shouldn’t be starting our games until whatever it is, is dealt with. If Silva isn’t fit to play 90, we have Adeyemi and Beier who can (and prefer to) play up front. It’s so obvious something is off with Serhou.
I’m not going to let City being more passive after scoring 3 goals delude me into thinking that that second half was half decent. That was bad even if you don’t factor in City’s goals.
In January, a LWB and a forward. That front 3 combination has regularly disappointed because if Adeyemi isn’t having a good game, none of them are.
I also am going to start demanding more from our signings/ Kovac to get them more involved because it is a little absurd that not a single summer signing has been able to be a starting player for us. Feels like we’ve signed depth more than anything with how they’ve been involved this season so far.
As for City, just a class above. A reminder that the Kovac project is in its infancy too. Much like the Barca 4-0 result, City will be a nice measurement stick to compare our progress in a few years time. Beat Hamburg and we get over this result
I am really struggling to see how that last goal was Jobe fault. If he tried to go for a tackle, that’s like a 95% chance it would have resulted in a penalty. The poor defending is not on a midfield player, it’s on the centerbacks who have been garbage all game.
Hard to understand people ont his sub. I’m far from being a football expert but I can’t deny what I see with my bare eyes. We had no control over the game in any phase, there was no (as is the case of the whole season) idea as to how to attack. It’s basically circulate the ball hoping somebody make a run or beat a defender in speed in a cross of long ball.
We had 10 minutes of some offensive volume mostly due to City being totally sleepy after a 3 goal up. Never felt we were creating chances after chances. As soon as they subbed players with fresh league the game got dead again.
But then we have a bunch morons defending Kovac like its their father. We’re 3 goal down at 60 minutes and the bright idea is to bring 3 midfielders and 1 CB? Meanwhile the only attacking players on the bench wasn’t called (Couto and Silva). It’s so depressing to watch. How can people not see the obvious. Winning games against Koln and Augsburg isn’t something to be pround of, it should be mandatory for a multi milion dolars squad.
Another good performance by kobel hijacked by a bad defense and terrible score.
Lets look at the bright side,last year by this point we used to lose against koln,wolfsburg,augsburg,mainz and whatever
Atl now we lost to city,other teams like napoli and so lost at big diff too ,not the end of the world,they were better,we need to adjust and hope for the best
It was so strange. We played so well in the first 10 minutes or so but we fell apart and let them grow into the game to the point they completely dominated us. Foden had a monster game and scored some bangers. We weren’t closing them down fast enough at the edge of the box
So another bad first half but like I said we started well and weren’t playing too defensive. Subs were good and we had a lot of good chances. I just wish we started out with a 10. I don’t really care for the trio of adeyemi Beier and Guirassy. We made them sweat a little until their fourth goal.
Ultimately just not good enough but we expected to lose this game. If we finish out strongly we should be able to get top 10. I will see you this weekend since it’s best to avoid this sub after a bad game. Way too much negativity and overreactions
well, that was fucking sobering. I mean, we knew going on we’re likely going to lose but I think we all hoped for a bit of a fight after the last couple of rather shit matches. The 3 ATB just doesn’t work to create control or chances. Not the system itself really but you need players who can either drive the ball or play deep passes and that’s only Schlotti really. Now that Can is back, maybe we’ll look a bit better offensively from there but our two wide players just in front of them are also very limited and can mostly overlap but those positions are usually filled by Adeyemi and the other side has no wing support whatsoever. And even if the overlap does happen – what then? Who is at the end of those crosses? Nobody.
Overall, we are having a better-than-expected season. Only our second loss after Bayern, which really doesn’t sound too bad.
If we were going to lose a match, it would be this one, that’s okay. You can’t win everything. Perform in the next matches and we’ll go through. Let’s not forget, BVB does surprise in the UCL.
That being said, losing this is one thing, but it doesn’t excuse how we lost. We looked very bad, not like a top-tier club, and many of our players got exposed. Very below standard.
But please, let’s not act like the club is falling apart. It’s not like beating City was something we realistically expected to happen anyway.
Our fans were amazing btw
There were moments that we played very well in the 2nd half and we had some chances in the first half. I’m not surprised we lost considering the financial disparity between us, this is just not fair that clubs can be funded by countries. Now we must focus on getting a good win vs HSV.
Also this is or second L all season the other was to Bayern. Imagine how many we had last season by this time