Man City traveled to Barcelona last night, having all to do tonight, bidding to turn over a 2-1 result and hoping to progress through to the Quarter Finals for the first time, while probably lacking in confidence.
Tonight Barcelona welcome Pelligrini and his charges to the Camp Nou, a ground where many have conceived to be Man City's slaughter house; surveys were carried and a whopping 93% have Barcelona as their winners tonight. Following their 2 away goals gathered during the 2-1 victory at the Ethiad plus their form since then, climbing to the top of the table above Real Madrid, and are unbeaten in five games and having won 16 of their last 18 games since the turn of 2015. This is also coupled with the fact that messi has found scary form again scoring six goals in the last four matches since that date in Manchester and with returning to his best form, word around the footballing community is that he, Neymar who continues to impress even his stoutest of doubter, and Suarez who has started showing why he was bought, will be looking to tear Manchester City apart.
On the other side of the coin, Man City have are going through woeful times. Since that loss against tonight's host, they have lost two out of their last three games, six points behind league leaders Chelsea and are one bad result away from being chanced from the 2nd spot. This City side is not the same side that score more than 150 goals last season and tonight all indications lead to the fact that Manchester City may be walking into the lion's den, and although this time around, Manchester City can boast of the return of club talisman Yaya Toure, I'm sure that most can agree that this still won't do for the Manchurian side.
Apart from the obvious, I also have to add that most British sides have not faired well at the Nou Camp. The only English club to ever pull this off was Liverpool back in 2007 and perhaps for your own consideration waaaaaay back in 1976 in a Uefa cup tie, and the only British side to complete this feat home and away was Dundee United in 1987. Mind you these are the very few occasions in history these things occurred...
I really hope for a City win because I can't help but to root for the underdog, no matter who the scum blue side of Manchester underdog may be, but I'd be really surprised if they pull it off, as I am sure everyone else would. They blew their chance a few weeks ago and now they have to do at the Bad Man's house. Goodluck
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