2:1 Manchester

meanwhile city brilliantly defending in a line in the box, but not covering the players

Edit: more/better angles of the assist

moar Edit:
1:2 Benfica
1:0 Gladbach

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

September 30 2015 20:32 GMT

#347

There we go both manchester clubs winning! Much better :D

Deleted User 26513

2376 Posts

September 30 2015 20:36 GMT

#348

Gj city, own goal and a penalty :D Still a win though.

Liquid`Drone

Norway28695 Posts

September 30 2015 20:37 GMT

#349

benfica beating atletico the lone surprise of the evening

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

September 30 2015 20:37 GMT

#350

Yeah in Madrid too, they hadn't conceded a goal in 12 months in champions league. Let alone lose!

sharkie

Austria18476 Posts

September 30 2015 20:38 GMT

#351

On October 01 2015 05:37 Liquid`Drone wrote:
benfica beating atletico the lone surprise of the evening

You forgot to add English clubs winning

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

September 30 2015 20:38 GMT

#352

ManU and ManCity finally won, but they didn't really look all too scary, I expected worse for the German teams. Still, getting beaten by penalties is annoying.

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

September 30 2015 20:52 GMT

#353

On October 01 2015 05:38 Maenander wrote:
ManU and ManCity finally won, but they didn't really look all too scary, I expected worse for the German teams. Still, getting beaten by penalties is annoying.

I think the only thing you can do is give props to Gladbach. Gladbach is a minnow compared to City; MUCH less money, got picked apart during the summer transfer window, recently lost their manager during the season, and they don't have the European experience that almost any other club does.

The Wolfsburg loss is more disappointing, but Wolfsburg also should be a clearly worse team than Man U. They lost De Bruyne (without properly replacing him) and, of course, don't have anywhere near the amount of resources that Man U does.

I think the games are still a big indictment of the Manchester clubs' quality. Gladbach is a bad club sitting near the bottom of the German table and Wolfsburg is maybe the 4th or 5th best club in Germany this season, so the fact that they out-played the Manchester clubs for large portions of these games should be worrisome for them. That said, it is the beginning of the year and the group stage, so there's a lot of room for growth for both of those clubs.

Liquid`Drone

Norway28695 Posts

September 30 2015 21:10 GMT

#354

imo United was significantly better than Wolfsburg in the first half, and they mostly just let them back after having taken the 2-1 lead.

Anyway, Wolfsburg is a good team, beating them 2-1 home on an average day is something every team should be 'satisfied' with. And City won a champions league match on away field - that's something every team is satisfied with as well. Barcelona struggled more with Leverkusen yesterday - though I guess that might be an indictment of how they will do without messi.

It's certainly too early to reconsider them as part of the very top clubs. From what I've seen, there's still a clear 1-3 BBR, then 4 PSG, then Juventus and some Spanish English German teams fight over 5-10. Honestly past 6 months is probably the only period of the past 10 (15?) years where you can argue that no English team is a top 5 side, and they're gonna have to actually do something impressive to change that.

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

September 30 2015 21:12 GMT

#355

Agreed Stratos_speAr.

Still, a frustrating round from a Bundesliga perspective, 3 close matches against the financial giants of world football, and all of them lost 1-2 after a good start. Of course, Bundesliga's own financial giant is once again crushing any opposition, but that's hardly any consolation

Rebs

Pakistan10726 Posts

September 30 2015 21:16 GMT

#356

On October 01 2015 06:12 Maenander wrote:
Agreed Stratos_speAr.

Still, a frustrating round from a Bundesliga perspective, 3 close matches against the financial giants of world football, and all of them lost 1-2 after a good start. Of course, Bundesliga's own financial giant is once again crushing any opposition, but that's hardly any consolation

You also have to appreciate that these are rather young teams with pretty low avg ages. If they can produce enough strong players and the odd star that doesnt get picked off (unlikely) I think they will steadily improve in the next few CL cycles. They lack consistency which is just an experience thing imo.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

September 30 2015 21:49 GMT

#357

Matchday 2 - Results!
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warding

Portugal2394 Posts

October 01 2015 00:06 GMT

#358

On October 01 2015 05:37 Liquid`Drone wrote:
benfica beating atletico the lone surprise of the evening

It should be no surprise, Benfica is a vastly superior club.

Very happy with the win over Atletico and very happy about Nelson Semedo (21yo) and Gonçalo Guedes (18yo) playing superbly. With douchebag Jesus gone, this team is extremely likeable. Atletico put a ton of pressure but they were not able to score more than once due to a great defensive cohesion from Benfica.

haitike

Spain2716 Posts

October 01 2015 06:07 GMT

#359

It seems Jackson Martinez is not working too well with Atletico. Let's see if he can adapt to the team tis season.

bObaZ

Portugal862 Posts

October 01 2015 07:54 GMT

#360

On October 01 2015 09:06 warding wrote:

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It should be no surprise, Benfica is a vastly superior club.

Even for UEFA, Benfica winning in Madrid is Business as Usual. After all, we're in the pot1 of the draw.

Great defensive cohesion from Benfica yesterday, and a lot of heart!