Man City (a) 3/1/2019

[3 Stacks]

11 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

Good man. Just easily dismiss mistakes and pretend everything is cool. 

I'm not. I think Lovren was and is trash and you're gonna pay at some point with him in the team, but we had no choice. In the same way, TAA is only 20 and is bound to fuck up in the biggest moments. Objectively though, this is a game we didn't have to win and it was gonna be the toughest of the season. 

[Luckyhillkop]

1 hour ago, Scrump said:

Damn

 

Good game from two excellent sides. Came down to small margins - unfortunately the quality of finishing from Aguero and Sane. 

 

Still four points clear

A reasoned voice amongst so many emotional comments. Would rep if I could. 

[Guest]

It's back to being a three team title race. Exciting but fuck me we could have done with not losing tonight.

 

Like is being said, top of League in January is something any of us would have taken back at the beginning of the season. We go again.

[bizzle10]

were 4 points in front not behind dont have to play these again in league thank fuck this game is in jan not april imagine the hype on sky this is very much in our hands common you reds

[KMD7]

Looking at the stats on BBC sport it showed we edged the possession and chances on goal. No consolation but shows how close it was. 

Oh and Pep is a cunt and Sky can fuck off as well the fawning wankers.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

We will both drop points between now and the end of the season. I'd have pushed a war widow down a flight of stairs for a four point lead and only one loss after 21 games.

[TheDrowningMan]

1 minute ago, KMD7 said:

Looking at the stats on BBC sport it showed we edged the possession and chances on goal. No consolation but shows how close it was. 

Oh and Pep is a cunt and Sky can fuck off as well the fawning wankers.

First time in Guardiola’s reign that they’ve had less possession in a league game.

[Luckyhillkop]

39 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

with the exception maybe of Henderson.. 

I could see the reason Klopp went with Hendo but Fabinho should gained a lot of confidence from Klopp tonight with his performance. Comfortably a better option compared to Hendo no matter who the opposition is. 

[KMD7]

1 minute ago, TheDrowningMan said:

First time in Guardiola’s reign that they’ve had less possession in a league game.

Shows how close we are to them now, just a Lovren short.

[Thoth]

Is Gomez likely to be back fully fit before March?

[Carvalho Diablo]

I am a deeply unhappy man.

[DirkDiggledinho]

5 minutes ago, aRdja said:

They have a relatively easy run of games coming up unfortunately. But the good news is on paper so do we. 

 

Yep and they have already lost to two of those said "easy" teams.

 

The encouraging thing for me and the reason I'm not more upset is we have shown a real mental steel this year that simply wasn't there before, with VVD and Alisson being probably the biggest factors in that. This is where their leadership is really going to come into play.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Shows how close we are to them now, just a Lovren short.

1.2 cm to be exact

[Lario]

34 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Watch the game again, and try focus on Fabinho for the opening 10 or so minutes. The guys sat around me were screaming at him constantly as he kept giving the ball away.

Well if the guys sat around you were screaming at him constantly, he should be fucking sold immediately. 

[Baltar]

Very deflated after that, was sure we could nick the win. And if not for Lovren we probably would have. At least some of the problems in the team have been highlighted again. Don't play a midfield of Gini, Milner and Hendo again. It's crap. Mix it up, we have Keita, Fabinho and Shaq, put them in there. Lovren showed why he's 4th choice. Decent against crap sides but totally exposed against good teams. TAA is talented and full of potential but he's not yet good enough to compete against the very best. Not yet, but one day he will be.

We've got the toughest game of the season out of the way, and we're still 4 points clear. So it's not all doom and gloom, hopefully Gomez is back asap and we don't let this hurt our confidence, we can bounce back and put together another good run.

[aRdja]

Just now, Lario said:

Well if the guys sat around you were screaming at him constantly, he should be fucking sold immediately. 

“as he kept giving the ball away”. I was agnostic about Fabinho starting, I wanted Naby to start. Was only trying to see the logic behind the team selection. 

[Harry Squatter]

9 minutes ago, Thoth said:

Is Gomez likely to be back fully fit before March?

He should be back by the end of January hopefully.

[aRdja]

I’m still so annoyed by the last two minutes where we kept hoofing the ball into the box aimlessly. Robbo, Hendo and Lovren. Shite ball after shite ball. 

[3 Stacks]

Margins so fine. Absolutely cut them apart in the first half, hit the post and had the ball a millimeter from going in. So close to a draw, which would've been terrific. Just no use beating yourself up. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Sat here, glass half empty, rolling up bogeys and flicking them into the fire. My life fucking sucks..

[s(k)aturation]

We're going to win the League, CD.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 12/30/2018 at 11:39 AM, AngryofTuebrook said:

If we win this, I will cheerfully suck Stig's pox-riddled micropenis.

Ah well... silver linings.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

18 minutes ago, Luckyhillkop said:

I could see the reason Klopp went with Hendo but Fabinho should gained a lot of confidence from Klopp tonight with his performance. Comfortably a better option compared to Hendo no matter who the opposition is. 

 

100% agree. 

[Guest Alex_K]

There is also probably an element of Klopp wanting to go with the same outfield 10 as won there in Europe last season (sans Chamberlain - which was a forced change). Unfortunate in hindsight as Milner probably was not fit to the levels needed given how intensely the game was played. It casts a big shadow on Keita's form this season that he, as one of our most expensive outfield signings in history, is not nearly close to knocking on the door for these games. In an ideal world he's really the one that comes in for Oxlade vs. the team last season.

[Red Phoenix]

Would rather we won obviously, but now that we've lost I can finally watch us for the first time this season without fear of jinxing the unbeaten run. Anyway if Hodgepodge can send his team over there and get a win maybe others will still go there with more confidence and take more points from them too. Hopefully Klopp and the team can just concentrate on our games though and try to finally win the league.