Matchday 2 (Group F) - Tuesday 26th September, 2017

[Stan]

kick-off 7.45pm

Man City vs Shakhtar Donetsk

Napoli vs Feyenoord

[Guest]

Napoli to win 3-0 today. The Dutch sides are never pushovers but at the San Paolo, Napoli should win comfortably.

[Stan]

4 minutes ago, Blue said:

Napoli to win 3-0 today. The Dutch sides are never pushovers but at the San Paolo, Napoli should win comfortably.

wouldn't surprise me if it went to 4-0 or 5-0 tbh. 

[Guest]

Feyenoord have not forgotten Mertens it seems!

 

[Guest]

Golazo from Insigne. 1-0, this will be a long night for the Dutch.

[Guest]

Hamsik's off the ball movement is out of this world. So few can rival what he does without it. Messi, Ronaldo and Cavani are the only 3 I can think off.

[Guest]

Renato Tapia having a perfect game so far for Feyenoord. Hopefully he keeps it up.

[Stan]

Hargreaves is really doing my head in (unsurprisingly) commentating on this City/Shakhtar game. Calls a simple through ball to Aguero 'astonishing' and as De Bruyne tackles Bernard, given as a foul, he calls that a 'terrific tackle'.

So much hyperbole it pisses me off. 

[Guest]

Jones and Tapia the 2 best on the pitch right now. Both doing a good job in keeping Napoli from their second. Focused and anticipating well. Hamsik and Insigne are the 2 best on Napoli right now I'd say. Mertens more invisible than usual.

[Stan]

of course it's a Peruvian who is 1 of the best on the pitch  

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Stan said:

of course it's a Peruvian who is 1 of the best on the pitch  

He actually is though, I'd say Jones is probably the best but Tapia has been superb in this first half.

Im actually a bit surprised because he's usually the one who struggles most for the NT but i wouldn't go as far as calling him a weak link.

[Happy Blue]

0-0 HT  ..love the way the commentators bang on about the goals drying up when 80% of our goals come in the 2nd half of a game    ..just a normal steady start from us, we nearly scored a few, sure we will move through the gears in the 2nd half

[Guest]

Mertens 2-0. Absolute gift from that Feyenoord right back. Completely misplaced that pass. Mertens anticipated the run well.

[Happy Blue]

1-0 De Bruyne, world class long range screamer!

[Stan]

Absolutely fantastic goal from De Bruyne. Curled finish about 20 yards out. Keeper didn't even dive. 

[Guest]

Renato Tapia wants to keep his starting spot. What a game he's having.

[Stan]

3-0 Napoli. Callejon. 

[Guest]

Napoli 3-0. Jose Callejon.

Tapia was playing a 9/10. That goal was on him though, got disposessed too easily and Callejon took advantage. Hope that doesn't lose him his spot!

[Stan]

Penalty Man City. Superb from Ederson to play it in to Sane.

Questionable decision by the ref to give a penalty though. Was pushed rather than tripped but was put off balance by the defender.

Aguero misses!!

[Stan]

Was a brilliant save to be fair. Was going for the side of the net but Pyatov got across well. 

[Stan]

Sane can be such a selfish bastard sometimes

[Happy Blue]

2-0 Sterling  ..should be 5 by now, missed some sitters!!

[Stan]

Sterling! 2-0 finally! About time they killed this game off.Brilliant ball from Sterling to Silva. Sterling gets the ball back in the box who side-foots it in off the bar. 

[Guest]

3-1 now. Thank goodness I didn't bet on my prediction, otherwise I would have been furious!

[SirBalon]

3-1...  Brilliant!  Needed this because the first game was a display of retardedness from Napoli...  This was much better although it was at home.  In the Champions League you've GOT to perform away too!

Happy with this though.