Man City (a) 3/1/2019

[VladimirIlyich]

19 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

I disagree, Klopp should not have played that midfield trio. Milner, Henderson and Wijnaldum should not have played, regardless of the opposition. Only Milner is remotely capable of scoring goals in play, Wijnaldum was never going to score and should not be expected to either. Henderson? If footballers could score goals on command by pointing their fingers, we would have won.

 

We were unlucky with the post and goal line clearance so that team could have won but with Fab and possibly even Shaq from the beginning it's possible we would have had a couple of goals and then change the team to containment. Smash and grab, not grab and smash.

The midfield did ok but Milner was clearly nowhere near fit. We were a match for City and luck went against us once more. I agree that not starting Fabinho was a mistake but you simply can't get everything right. Having to play Lovren in big games is frequently a mistake we need to remedy soon though and City were smart enough to realise this. Was also a bad night for Mane to have a stinker too.

[Section_31]

Stuart Brennan, the city reporter at the MEN gets on my tits, wouldn't mind but he's a fucking man United fan to boot.

[Guest]

January 2018 Transfer thread started by AoT on August 13th, 2018 - 65 pages long

 

Man City (a) 3/1/2019 started by Stig on December 29th, 2018 - 51 pages long

 

Was this match quite important?

[A_S]

Fucking morons comparing the VVD/Mertens incident to Kompany/Salah, as if they were identical.

 

Yeah, had Mo's leg been planted like Mertens', he'd be in hospital right now and out for the season. Fuck sake. 

[Anubis]

Glad to see somebody call out the bollocks.  Worth reading the whole thread.

 

 

 

[DirkDiggledinho]

On 1/4/2019 at 1:54 PM, The Guest said:

No I’m worried because I’d expect him to say I wasn’t worried about the table before hand and I’m not looking at it now either.  Things must be pretty flat if he’s trying to cling to that 4 points.  He knows like the rest of us that will probably have evaporated in a month.

 

Pep said before the game on more than one occasion we are the best side in Europe and favourites for the league.

 

He's just dampening expectation and hedging his bets, every manager does it. If he comes out full of confidence saying we are still favourites and he's not that worried (which may actually be the case) he just stokes the media storm and risks getting egg on his face.

 

Much smarter to say winning the league was never our aim at the start of the season and we're doing very well to be in this position. It's always better to be humble, look at Lovren's various arrogant comments that have come back to bit him/us in the arse again and again.

[VladimirIlyich]

I think City playing a nine man defence for the last 15 minutes shows Pep is genuinely worried about us.