Manchester City

FT

1 : 2

vs

HT 0 : 2

Lyon

The 'degradations' are mainly a joke to illustrate the point that when any team outside of Liga and EPL don't do well, they're classified as farmers by average football fans. The people who say this are generally idiots, so it's nice to make them eat their own words!

Honestly. Do football fans no longer appreciate football in the pure form? Makes me a little sad

Go sleep boy

then you have to explain why every year PL/Liga/Bundesliga/Seria A clubs likes to buy farmers from this farmer league .... You should show more respect for a league that gives every year to your league some top players... especially when the only merit of your league, who does'nt produce talents, is to have the money to buy the talents of the others... while the merit of ligue 1 is to produce talents and regenerate each year when your clubs comes with money to take these talents...

Haha, one of the more witty comments I've seen on here. Good work.

Well said mate! Most of these people who are talkin know nothing about football

Fox just because other leagues buy from France doesn't mean it's not an farmer league . PSG been winning titles year after year and destroyed reigning champion Monaco 7-0 last year which is absurd

To everyone but fox: the idea of calling a professional footballer a 'farmer' because he doesn't compete in one of two leagues in the world is ridiculous as shit! If anything, losTerry's original comment should point out that good football can be played regardless of what league it originates from.

You say Tottenham but why not say Londonian bakers while you're at it? There's a constant bias and it's propagated by casual fans (which makes your comment quite ironic Madacity). I would say that people that do know football can appreciate at many different tiers. Dismissing good football as mediocre makes you..ignorant, frankly.

As for the Irish lad, c'mon man, we don't expect you guys to fall into the trap of arrogance.

Pep Guarduila is his Master

?? When was the last time City spent money on a "Big" name. Arguably Mahrez but he wasn't really considered as a big player that is one of the best. Before that, I don't think City have spend any money on "Big" names. Only rising young talents or good players that not many people payed attention to.

Laporte, Stirling, stones, otamendi, walker, mendy, bernardo silva, de bruyne, sane, gundogan, jesus, ederson etc all which were quite recent

Sterling was a young talent at Liverpool when they bought him. Laporte, Otamendi were playing Midtable LaLiga and not well known CBs, Stones was playing for Everton and was still very undeveloped as a player when they got him, Bernardo and Mendy were playing for Monaco and weren't even considered the best players on that team before City got them. De Bruyne was at Wolfsburg and not many teams payed attention to him, Sane was at Schalke and also wasn't very well known. I don't think anyone even heard of Ederson until his 16/17 season with Benfica.

My point is that City buy young talents or hidden gems from lower teams and develop them to the point they are considered world class players, they are not like PSG who spend 200m on stars like Neymar or 90m on Pogba.

After watching the game I also got the impression that Manchester City greatly underestimated Lyon, even the bookies did so. To me Liverpool seems much more of a favorite than Manchester City is this year, especially taking into consideration injuries and the other things you mentioned. In short they need to start their best team if they want to win anything at all.

fact is, it came home

You haven't won none. So you are not even in position to open your stinky mouth. One game won and suddenly happy? Was yesterdays loose to Liverpool that painful in your arse? Looks like yes

Apparently these ballmunchers invented the sport. Fuck em I say. Lol

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First, no need for talking that way. Second of all, yesterday Liverpool played amazing as usual lately and deserves the win. To be honest 2-3 at anfield isnt that bad. Im just reacting to the ligue1 and France baching that happens in this website from mostly english fans. And apart of winnig the world cup, something else we are gratfull for is for exemple kante, i think you can relate to that no? Face it, without you buying all the farmer league players you wouldnt be that good. Point made, again

Of course that it's a FArmer league. The only good thing about THIS is that it happened against the 2nd GYPSY TEAM IN THE WORLD, MAN-CITY (1st, being PSG).
Lyon got twice near the goal, and scored twice, as a result of the mistakes of domestic players!
However, it's true that way too cocky, because their league isn't so much above the others!

1 off game when city defense gave 2 free goals and the team didn't even have their manager on the sideline. Its still a farmer league, because theres only 1 quality team in the whole league and that is PSG.

lmao do you really wanna talk about success in the CL? The closest you've come is the QFs back in 2016 when we knocked you out lmao

Sounds like you're still pained from yesterday's?

Ligue 1 is not a farmers league City fanboys. It's a one league team like Serie A and Bundesliga but are we really gonna sit here and pretend that teams like Lyon, Monaco and Marseille are that much weaker than Spurs, Arsenal, Inter, Roma, Napoli, Hoffenheim, Schalke 04, Dortmund, Sevilla or Valencia, etc.?

Wow.. That must have been cathartic for you after last night.. Good game by Lyon though..

And the 4th placed English team kicked up your champion's. Context.

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its still farmers league mate i mean you win it every year

Liverpool (4th place) won (PSG 1st place) so according to you logic... oh wait you don’t have logic!

City also lost to Wigan last season, and England lost Iceland in 2016. Barcelona lost to Roma, etc. etc. Upsets happen. In football, the better team doesn't always win, that doesn't mean that it isn't a "farmer league" just because they can pull off a shock result once in a while. Not to mention City had a terrible first half and gifted 2 goals. I'm pretty sure City can get the 3 points in the away fixture for sure.

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