Football Nine-man City stunned by CSKA in latest dismal European defeat Published on 05/11/2014 at 22:37 Desmond Kane Champions League Group E, Etihad Stadium - Manchester City 1 (Yaya Toure 8) CSKA Moscow 2 (Doumbia 2, 34) Manchester City ended their latest Champions League outing with nine men in a wretched 2-1 defeat to CSKA Moscow that leaves them bottom of Group E from four matches. Manuel Pellegrinis side are facing elimination at the group stage after Seydou Doumbia struck twice with Yaya Toures equaliser from a free-kick in the eighth minute proving to be another false dawn for City in the worlds biggest club competition. City did little of note to retrieve their deficit with 11 men in a chaotic second period, and were guilty of self-harming as substitute Fernandinho and Yaya Toure were sent off after losing their discipline with ill-advised challenges seeing them deservedly red carded. City will argue that the sides should have been levelled up to 10 each with Greek referee Anastasios Sidiropoulos bizarrely booking Sergei Ignashevich when Pontus Wembloom hauled back Sergio Aguero when he was already on a booking. Tweet But the Premier League champions cut a dishevelled lot at full-time with Aguero booked for diving in the dying moments in trying to earn a penalty while Samir Nasri should have been sent off for aiming a clear kick at Georgi MIlanov. Bayern Munich lead the section with 12 points from four games. City must beat the German side in their penultimate match otherwise a win for Roma or CSKA in the groups other match will condemn Citys millionaires to another embarrassing elimnation. [PELLEGRINI: CITY SUFFERING FROM CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE] KEY MOMENTS 2 - GOAL! City 0-1 CSKA. Doumbia rises unmarked to head powerfully beyond Hart from close range. Natcho with the delivery, and CSKA lead 1-0. City behind. 8 - GOAL! City 1-1 CSKA. Yaya Toure slams the free-kick low over the wall, and high into the net beyond Akinfeev. Lively start, but City restore parity at 1-1. 18 - CHANCE! Golden chance for Doumbia, but he drives the effort a few yards wide having scampered onto a lovely pass by Dzagoev. 19 - CHANCE! Akinfeev quickly off his line to block the effort by Aguero before Navas lifts the ball wide of target. And on we go. 28 - BOOKING! Wembloom is late on Yaya Toure, and that is going to be a booking for the visiting player. 34 - GOAL! City 1-2 CSKA. Doumbia slams the ball into the net. Wide of Hart. Natcho with the pass after Clichy had given the ball away. Awful defending again by City. 62 - SAVE! Akinfeev with a solid stop using his feet from the Milner shot. Some bright play by Toure to earn space for City. 63 - BOOKING! Fernandinho has been booked for a late foul on Dzagoev. Failed to time that properly. 67 - BOOKING! Yaya Toure goes into the book for taking out Wembloom. Toure none too content with that call. 70 - RED CARD! Fernandinho with a second yellow card for a blatant body check on Musa. Poor foul, and can have few complaints. 77 - BIZARRE BOOKING! Ignashevich has been booked for a foul on Aguero when it was Wembloom who made the challenge. And he had been booked. Wembloom should have been off. 82 - RED CARD! And that is a silly challenge by Toure....RED CARD...he is off for pushing Eremenko to the deck. City down to nine men now. 86 - BOOKING! Nasri should have been off to. He has just kicked Milanov off the ball. Wasnt even trying to make the tackle. City all over the place. 88 - DIVE! Aguero with a clear dive trying to earn a penalty under pressure from Ignashevich. Referee doesnt fall for it, and Aguero has rightly been booked. KEY STATS Five of Seydou Doumbias ten Champions League goals have been scored against Manchester City. Man City conceded after 96 seconds against CSKA; the quickest goal ever shipped by them in the Champions League. Yaya Toure has ended a run of nine Champions League games without a goal. This is only the third time that 4 English clubs have failed to win in the same CL group stage matchday (+ 07/12/05 & 05/11/08) No Russian side had won an away CL game v an English team since Spartak Moscow’s win over Blackburn Rovers in Sept 1995 (D2 L6) - eight games ago. Stats courtesy of Opta TALKING POINT What went wrong for City? Where do you start? Just dreadful. A few of those City players should be ashamed of themselves. They were not helped by a poor performance by the referee, but the home side must look within themselves for answers to an evening that bordered on the embarrassing for such highly-paid professionals. MATCHCAST: FULL COMMENTARY AND STATS MAN OF THE MATCH Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow): Scored two fine goals, and would maybe have bagged a hat-trick if he had been allowed to see out the game with CSKA moving to a defensive mode to protect their lead. Scored twice against City last season, and looks capable of performing in one of Europes leading league. In saying that, City were utterly hopeless. PLAYER RATINGS CSKA Moskva: Akinfeev 7, Mário Fernandes 7, Ignashevich 7, V. Berezutski 7, Schennikov 7, Wernbloom 7, Dzagoev 7, R. Eremenko 7, Natcho 7, Musa 7, Doumbia 8. Subs: Efremov 7, G. Milanov 7. Manchester City: Hart 7, Kompany 5, Zabaleta 5, Clichy 5, Demichelis 5, Fernando 5, Milner 5, Jesus Navas 5, Yaya Toure 4, Aguero 4, Jovetic 4. Subs: Nasri 4, Fernandinho 4, Dzeko 4.
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