Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Man City fall to Juventus at the Etihad

                                             Manchester City 1  -  2  Juventus

On Tuesday night, not even a massive dollop of good fortune to give them the lead against Juventus could get their campaign off to a positive start.

Having got the break, City then contrived a way to let it slip through their hands, a horrid, ineffectual defensive display across the last 20 minutes that leaked two goals and asked questions of coach Manuel Pellegrini. Namely: why did he remove his captain, Vincent Kompany after the first went in? The official explanation was a calf injury, but he didn’t seem in great pain, didn’t go down the tunnel for treatment, didn’t sit on the bench with a large, visible ice-pack on a sore limb. 

His replacement, Nicolas Otamendi, then got rolled by Alvaro Morata for the winner. So it’s the hard way again. Borussia Monchengladbach up next, then a double header with Sevilla. City can’t keep blaming the draw though. Not when the three substitutes they introduced came in at a ballpark £120m. Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and Otamendi. And still they lost to what is basically a very upmarket selling club.


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