Manchester City have it all to do in the second leg of their Europa league tie at Eastlands next week as they slumped to a 2-0 defeat away in the Ukraine. City started with Tevez on the bench and it showed as City were pretty much always second to the ball. Chelsea flop, Shevchenko scored the opening goal after 24 minutes as City failed to clear their lines properly. That was something that was the problem with City all game long as wave after wave of Kiev attacks developed. Second half and City started with only ten men as David Platt was sent back down the tunnel to retrieve Mario Balotelli and our whole substitution bench. In fairness it didn’t make a whole bit of difference and it wasn’t long before Balotelli was replaced by Tevez.
From that point City seemed a little more livelier but still looked very vulnerable when Kiev would counter. The second goal of the game came from almost comical defending from City, allowing Gusev to control then rifle the ball past Hart, all from just outside the six yard box.
In truth it was only a fine stop for Hart later on that stopped it becoming three and although City did have a few chances they will have to perform much better in seven days time if they want to continue in this competition.
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