Manchester City (H) Premier League 7/10/18 Match Thread

[Caramac]

I reckon Alisson saves this if its lower

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

He dominated everything around him today -- he won a similar tackle on the other side earlier.

 

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Caramac said:

I reckon Alisson saves this if its lower

 

 

 

Good to see Hendo's schoolgirl skip again

[Kevin D]

Good result, think we've done well from that crazy run of games. Especially as the Chelsea game had two sitters we would usually score, and Napoli are a handy team.

 

 

 

[Funkasy]

The table is looking better then our games have been lately, must start some kind of a rythem after the internationals or i can see us start throwing away points, i think we have been lucky against chelsea and city today, our attack is pretty much useless at the moment with Mane the only one with any credit to his name, and the midfield is only usefull in the centre circle, the defence has been boss for all season and i think even lovren did okey today. 

[Trumo]

12 minutes ago, Caramac said:

I reckon Alisson saves this if its lower

 

 

 

The contrasting reactions of the two set of fans in one gif.

[Kevin D]

Journo: Jürgen, all 3 forwards were marked out of the game, you had nobody running from deep and and no width. What do you say to that?

 

Klopp: In some aspects, that's a fair comment but in others, no I totally disagree.

 

Journo: Jürgen, what about fitness? Salah looked knackered after 20 minutes.

 

Klopp: Yes, but what a 20 minutes it was.

[Gav]

29 minutes ago, liverpoolsno9 said:

Deeply. Really DEEPLY concerning. Where do we go from here? 

Really worried about Bournemouth ..we're only 4 points ahead of them

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Gav said:

Really worried about Bournemouth ..we're only 4 points ahead of them

Thats what they say about Everton

[thegreatelephant]

can't be disappointed about breaking club record league consecutive clean sheets at home. solid base and who'd have thought that a season or two ago with some of the previous comedy? we've got genuine monsters back there now.

 

the front will click again soon enough. at Arsenal will do

[sir roger]

Don’t really agree with the ‘ we were really lucky ‘ thrust , just thought it was a dour game with defences on top and all of the stats are practically identical for both sides. BBC saying City’s lowest possession percentage in a Prem game since he arrived - 51%.

[Captain Howdy]

15 minutes ago, thegreatelephant said:

 

 

the front will click again soon enough. at Arsenal will do

Been hearing this all season but it’s getting worse if anything, where oh where was Shaqiri today?

[LFC 6 Times]

Thank fuck Mahrez took that is all I’ll say.

[Red Shift]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

As bad as we look we are still getting results and our points tally is excellent considering our run of games. The attack is massive concern though but we've got games against weaker sides now so hopefully that'll build the confidence if they can grab a few goals each. It doesn't help that the midfield offers zero creativity.

I’m with you.

 

Each of the back four made the odd error, but none of those errors cost us goals. Lovren surprised me with his solidity, and was genuinely more creative going forward than Henderson (I say this, not as a compliment to Lovren ;-)

 

Which brings us to the reason we aren’t scoring goals. Our midfield is woefully lacking in forward momentum. The partnership of Milner, Wij and Hendo, is simply not ‘cutting the mustard’. At least Milner and Wij have balls - but are lacking that little bit of luck recently. However, Henderson is totally inadequate as a holding midfielder. Even a ‘holder’ simply has to have the ability to feed the strikers, but because Hendo is so completely inadequate at this, our strikers are limited in feed to just the fullbacks. We are being severely handicapped with Henderson in the side. For me, Keita and/or Shaq, need to be starting far more than they are.

 

Klopp sent Sturridge on to repeat his Chelsea antic, but it was the wrong move for me. Shaq would have been the better option to make a difference, for me. Give him a fucking go Kloppo.

 

We missed Milner when he went off, and although Gomez was solid, we missed TAA.

 

After the break, I want Klopp to show a bit of flexibilty in his starting 11. We’re well below our potential so far this season, but we are still equal top in a 3 way tie, so, really, not much to complain about. If Kloppo can be more mutable, we’ll raise our team performance, and results will be there.

[an tha]

Someone posted a heat map at half time earlier showing that we basically had none of the ball in the centre of the park/in advanced midfield positions and then nothing attacking centrally...our midfield is a real worry - it does not create anything, it is not especially good at shielding the back four and nobody in there gives us real forward momentum and nobody can control the tempo.

 

Klopp must be aware and hopefully will be fixing it.

[aws]

28 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Don’t really agree with the ‘ we were really lucky ‘ thrust , just thought it was a dour game with defences on top and all of the stats are practically identical for both sides. BBC saying City’s lowest possession percentage in a Prem game since he arrived - 51%.

Agree with that. Both sides canceled each other out in a cautious game and both got what they deserved. 

[TrimmTrabb]

1 hour ago, Colt Seavers said:

Feels like keita is playing it too safe, need to take the chains off and let him fuck this league up and accept his mistakes 

Huddersfield (a), Red Star Belgrade (h), Cardiff (h), Red Star (a) and Fulham (h) are 5 of next 6 games when we get back off international break and before the break for November internationals - left out Arsenal away as obviously that looks a tough game now.

 

We need to build back up momentum and get the front 3 scoring again as well as get Keita, Shaqiri and Fabinho integrated into the team. You couldn't pick an easier run of games on paper so should be a chance to start scoring goals again.

[Captain Howdy]

Ironic that our defence is now rock solid and it’s now our attack that’s wanting and by ironic I mean absolutely fucking infuriating

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Caramac said:

I reckon Alisson saves this if its lower

 

 

Caramac only posts on here to get rep. And I am a sucker for it.

[The Golden Eel]

As soon as that penalty was conceded, even before seeing who was taking it, I had a very strong feeling it wasn't going in, like I was completely relaxed about it. I'm clearly psycho. 

 

We really need to give Huddersfield a proper tanking in the next game and get the forwards in some type of form because it's difficult to see where the goals are coming from at the minute - certainly not from the midfield. Not sure why Shaqiri isn't seeing any action. Thought Keita looked more promising today though. 

[No2]

1 hour ago, Caramac said:

I reckon Alisson saves this if its lower

 

 

Love the way the guy with the Algerian flag starts folding it up the second the ball flies over the bar.

[ZonkoVille77]

Keita still looks off the pace for PL football. It will come, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

[therevivalist]

Come on, Jurgen, switch things around, mix things up, and make it work. Right now, we don't see enough coordination between midfield and the forwards. Also, where is that slick, overlapping movement that destablises and confuses many a defense thus allowing our forwards to score freely! Above all, make the best use of the resources at your disposal. Sturridge and Shak have demonstrated that they are capable of changing games and should be given enough minutes. Having said that however I had said before the game I would be happy with a draw and I am. 

[Caramac]

28 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Caramac only posts on here to get rep. And I am a sucker for it.

Reported.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Caramac said:

Reported.

It's my lucky day.