Good fight back for Man City. And yeah AGuero scored

This is why La Liga is better than EPL, if actually watch the full match, Man City wasn't real threat to Submarines the whole match. Yea you can trash Aston Villa with your secondary players. But look at all trouble you have with top half team of La Liga, I mean if you let Real or Barca play against top half team like Spurs, Red or even Chelsea they will probably still trash em with 2 - 0

This was a great game. City were on top but not at the best we've seen this season, and Villareal had great defence and movement on the counter attack. The second half was more open than the first. Not sure why people are saying city and the game itself was boring? All of the players on the field played pretty well I thought and the end was exciting

@Lawrence83

Don't talk sht about the prem league. Theres no competition in la liga, just real and man you. Also, Man city was a threat, they were a threat those 2 goals, and they were great build ups. Screw you la liga fan

Awwww.... It's so cute seeing Man City winning their first Champions League match.... What dolls

Like I said before....

3 points is 3 points. How many times have we seen United win games like this? City weren't at their best, but they were able to grind out a win. United has won a lot of matches where they played like garbage but won. City was able to not play well but get the win.

When United win on a late goal its because they're great.... When City do it.... Its luck.... You can't have it both ways.

City got the win.... In the end its about 3 points. City were drawn into the toughest group and they are getting a baptism by fire. They got a huge win today.

Lawernce83.... I swear if I find out who you are.... I will kill you lol.... You retarded ass douchebag.... At least make constructive criticism you fag

Lol @ the Laliga fanboys.


1. Manchester City are by far and away not the best team in England.

2. This is their first champions league campaign, thus they don't have much experience (as a team).

3. Villareal are a team that consistently qualify and do well in the Champions League (at least in the group stages)

4. As someone already correctly stated, rank in the league does not automatically equate to how good a team may or not be. E.G. If Arsenal happened to be in the same group as Barca or Real and had gotten beaten by the same scoreline your so called 'argument' would be null and void.

5. There is no denying that at this moment in time Real and Barca are among the top three clubs in the world. This however means nothing when talking in context of league quality and competitiveness. I do myself think that our clubs have been under-performing in Europe thus far with the exception of Chelsea and that is mainly contributed to other factors such as Man City making their [C.]L bow and Arsenal being a complete shadow of their former selves.

6. Regardless of what you, I or any other dipshit fanboy may think. THE stats don't LIE - And you can read all about League popularity and revenue here:


Link: www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2478...

Cliffs:

1) Premier League is watched by 70% of the football audience.
2) Not even 1/3rd of this audience actually support a PL club.
3) Two season's ago television coverage of its matches reached 643 million homes around the world, up 11 per cent from 580 million in 2009/10.
4)SPORT+MARKT's analysts estimate the total cumulative in-home TV audience shot up from 2.9 to 3.9 billion during that time. When added to the estimated 777 million out of home viewers, that takes the total Barclays Premier League audience last term to 4.7 billion.

Read it and weep PL haters.

Wow, how lucky are City! Fair play though, Vilalreall are a decent team and they showed great determination to win after falling behind.

Can't wait for Sunday!

Thank god we got Vidic back. Tihnk we're going to need him to contain that Aguero lad! Always knew he was talented but didn't know he was this good in front of goal

The derby will be won by the forwards. Nani, Young, Rooney, Hernandez/Welbeck vs Nasri, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. WOW

@Hashhash, Yo dude, are you looking for a date or something, you wanna share a hot cocoa bro? Oh wait! I need to give a SH*T about your comments?

Milner is playing so well right now, its fun watching him. Kolarov is deadly on the freekick from the right hand side

James milner so underrated

City was very lucky to win it, be ready for Sunday's Manchester derby...

People get confused between entertainment and quality. The epl is more competitive than la liga, so more entertaining but spanish teams can be more professional and tactically aware than english teams. Villareal were missing five of their top players but were organised enough to almost nick it. City had to win and break down a nine man defence, not an easy task. Tonight City rode their luck, but they missed a whole heap of chances and if Dzeko had been on from we could of riped them apart. He didn't and had a shocker. This was a tough game for city they are new to the champions league but they have high expectations on their shoulders. It's not like spurs who had less expectations and were able to play with more freedom. Spurs played like they were delighted to be in the competition and it showed with a few fantastic performances. City are choking a little bit, but doing just enough so far. This might be the result that improves their confidence and play with freedom and expression. We won't win it we are miles behind bayern united and barcelona but we could compete with any other teams at this stage. I'd be happy with a quarter final going out to a top team hopefully not united, who we can challenge for in the epl but not yet europe