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Date:Friday August 20 2010
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Timişoara 0 - Man City 1
UEFA Europa League Qualifying 3rd Round, 1st Leg
Dan Păltinişanu Stadium
19/8/10
Attendance: 25,694
Referee: Florian Meyer (GER)
Timişoara |
0 - 1 |
Man City |
Balotelli 72 |
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Venue: Dan Păltinişanu Stadium |
Attendance: 25,694 |
The Teams | ||||||||
Pantilimon (GK) |
Hart (GK) |
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Luchin |
Zabaleta |
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Alexa (C) |
Adebayor |
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Curtean |
Barry |
57 |
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Sepsi |
Lescott |
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Axente |
Silva |
66 |
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Scutaru |
71 |
K Touré |
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Magera |
83 |
Tévez (C) |
77 |
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Contra |
80 |
Kompany |
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Cišovský |
de Jong |
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Bourceanu |
Y Touré |
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Substitutes | ||||||||
Taborda (GK) |
Given (GK) |
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Mera |
80 |
Richards |
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Popović |
Wright-Phillips |
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Goga |
83 |
Johnson |
66 |
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Dukic |
Vieira |
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Zicu |
71 |
Jô |
77 |
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Poparadu |
Balotelli |
57 |
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Game Statistics | ||||||||
1 |
On Target |
2 |
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2 |
Corners |
8 |
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12 |
Fouls |
12 |
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1 |
Yellow Cards |
1 |
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47 |
% |
53 |
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Comments... | ||||||||
| Johnny On The Spot: In the context of the start to this important season, this was a massive win. From Mickey Thomas to Kasper Schmeichel and beyond the anti-Ciy brigade are openly baying for our club to fail, yet slowly Roberto Mancini is forging a siege mentality amongst his squad. Defensively we are looking more solid and better organised. Joe Hart, though with little to do last night is cementing an understanding with his defenders and certainly Kolo Toure looks a man liberated since El Apache took the armband. But for me, the biggest factor last night was City's manager. Well acquainted with European football, the initial caution he set the side up with against dogged opponents was dispensed with as he switched to a more attacking mode bringing on three forwards in quick succession, sacrificing a midfielder in the process. The game opened up and we found that extra gear and extra quality in the atom bomb potential of Super Mario. Mark Hughes was repeatedly guilty at City of avoiding changing things when a game had stagnated which ultimately cost us in Europe 2 seasons ago. On last night's evidence City certainly have a manager who carries a Plan B. Match Stats courtesy UEFA | ||||||||
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JB - Mancini has plans B & C. I don't really like the 3-man shield because until the players understand how it works we seem to invite the opposition right onto the edge of the box and defend like the Alamo. Kolo looked superb last night. He played well, worked well in tandem with Kompany and Hart and it looks as though the "triangle" is coming together. What a debut by Balotelli. All action, nightmare to mark, knocks defenders about.... oh and he scores goals!
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