Man City (H) - 5:30pm, 31/12/16 - Don't Look Back In Anger.

[polymerpunkah]

They created fuck all.

 

Brief period in the second half where they were on the front foot. But that was an excellent performance.

 

And much  like Chelsea, the final 15 minutes were seen out comfortably.

 

Guardiola should leave the ref alone and save his crying for his own team. 

[Baltar]

Phew thank god for that. What an important win. Showed we could grind out wins here. Excellent result. Well done lads.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Big fucking balls. For a change.

 

Well in Redmen.

[Kloppite]

Fantastic result

 

Done nothing to convince me that we can win the league but feel a bit better about top four

 

Shitting it about Mane disappearing for a month or so

I think if we can get a lb then milner back in midfield we will be alright.

 

We have won without Couthino and we also have Sturridge.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Whew!

[Anubis]

Get in. Great win. Apart from a couple of half chances early in the second half we gave them nothing and ground out the result.

 

Feast on Pep Jamon de Iberico, pig. Feast on Pep Jamon de Iberico.

[Ginny]

Big result that 

[Grinch]

Great result.

 

Yet again pulls the points out of the bag against a far better side. Unbelievable record against the big clubs this season.

 

43 points at the half way stage and likely to only be four points ahead of fifth come tonorrow evening, crazy.

[Guest]

Fantastic result

 

Done nothing to convince me that we can win the league but feel a bit better about top four

 

Shitting it about Mane disappearing for a month or so

 

One of the two teams who won this evening was going to stay in the race, the other would be dropping back and find it harder to keep up. Just happy we are the team that won and we are still in the race. We have to keep winning, but so do they.

[Kloppite]

Thought we deserved that. We defended brilliantly and they didn't carve out one proper chance. We should have won 3nil at least.

City didn't actually cause us any serious problems in the second half as I recall.

 

Possession is nothing unless you make it count.

[setreal]

Hope we got beat.

[suzy]

Nervy much of that second half but a damn fine result

[jsjazz]

Great result. Was worried about Klavan with a yellow card after 5 minutes but he barely put a foot wrong thje rest of the game. I was more worried about the ref than City- every 50-50 was being given their way- but good to see we can grind out 1-0 results when we aren't playing particularly well.

Well in red men.

Happy New Year all.

[Guest]

Great result.

 

Yet again pulls the points out of the bag against a far better side. Unbelievable record against the big clubs this season.

 

43 points at the half way stage and likely to only be four points ahead of fifth come tonorrow evening, crazy.

 

Are City a better side? I don't think so.

[Lee909]

Table looks goid but considering how good we have been i thought there would have been a bigger gap to 5/6th

 

[Sweeney287]

Fucking hell, that was hard to watch but a very disciplined, hard fought victory against a top team and a direct rival.

 

Big up to the defence standing firm throughout and a solid team performance.

 

Chuffed.

[Arl arse]

We looked fucked at the end there. Great win.

[Grinch]

Are City a better side? I don't think so.

We've no one that would start a game for them (except Klopp) so yes they are by some distance.

[mgw100]

From 80 mins, we were brilliant. A masterclass in how you take the sting out of a game. 

[Jhinge Machha]

THAT FUCKING BOURNEMOUTH COLLAPSE STILL FUCKING PISSES ME OFF

[Ne Moe Imya]

That Craig Pawson is a right dickhead.

[stringvest]

no, they are not.

[niallers]

If we watch that again with our chimps put back in the box, we'll realise that it was quite comfortable in the end. We definitely set out for a stalemate early on and the goal sealed that path. We nullified them to the detriment of our attack but it worked.

[Hand Shandy]

Grinning pig. Grinning.

[Guest]

We've no one that would start a game for them (except Klopp) so yes they are by some distance.

 

I'm happy with that, there's no way I would want any of our players to lower their levels of expectation like Sterling did and play for them. If anything, none of their players would make it into our team and that includes Aguero as he's just as injury prone as Sturridge.