Man City (A) - Sun 10th Apr 2022 (4:30pm)

[A_S]

1 minute ago, coachpotato said:

City will be more concentrated on the CL the nearer they get to the final, and they will get to the final I think, so they might take chances in the League and that’s when they may drop points.

We have to win all our games to be certain of taking advantage if/when they do slip.

They may just think they’ve won it today and that could be to our advantage.

We need to be better than today though.

It was so crucial to not lose today to keep it within a single slip-up from them. 

[dockers_strike]

A bonus is the laughing bouncing Micah Richards has shut the fuck up after the game.

[Kevin D]

We were excellent in the first half against Palace and Benfica, but don’t remember us playing well for a full 90 minutes in 2022.

[Strontium]

7 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

I should have gone the bog again. Sorry lads.

 

You really need one of these

 

[waddy78]

2 minutes ago, an tha said:

Anyone else exhausted after watching that?

 

It's fucking mentally draining, but of course great!

 

I think we'd all accept a draw, especially after 1st half - all we can do is keep picking up wins and if they slip up pounce.

I've just drank a Lucozade sport worn out.

[Red Shift]

VVD - you have to put pressure on their midfield. 
Exactly. We need more urgency, midfield, and our tackling was poor today. Do we buy? Again?

[Captain Howdy]

6 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

It's like playing the warlocks of quarth, like they've got about 28 players on the pitch. Like the ball boy and Klopp turn into city players when you're not looking, then you look at your Mrs on the couch and she's a fucking city player too.

They’re an incredible side they really are Klopp has worked miracles keeping up with them, he would have won a skip full of trophies but for a state sponsored cheating institution.

[Josef Svejk]

Summer priority was clear before this game but crystal so after. 

 

A midfielder or two.

[Bjornebye]

We have to be the happier. Is right Reds. 

[Einch]

Looks like we learnt nothing from the Anfield game. Much better second half only in as much as we matched them. 1st half was bad. All over. We have to be better next time. 

[Pete]

1 minute ago, A_S said:

It was so crucial to not lose today to keep it within a single slip-up from them. 

That’s how I’m looking at it too.

[CapeRed]

A win would have been great but it was important not to lose. Midfield refresh needed IMO.

[an tha]

1 minute ago, waddy78 said:

I've just drank a Lucozade sport worn out.

I know feeling....i may do same with some vodka in it

[Captain Howdy]

Not looking forward to playing them on the Wembley pitch, it’s going to be seriously hard work.

[Harry's Lad]

Just now, Strontium said:

 

You really need one of these

 

Without a doubt.

[an tha]

3 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

We were excellent in the first half against Palace and Benfica, but don’t remember us playing well for a full 90 minutes in 2022.

We are saving it!

[YorkshireRed]

17 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

No. They ARE quite good - where have you been for the past few years? The defeatism and quivering fear on here has been pathetic. We've been under par for a few weeks, at least, and we're still in it and we scored twice against them and could have scored another. Not bad for the supposedly awful performance some have seen. I bet their fans are quoting this forum by the page, laughing their arses off at the teary pessimism of it all. Keep it up, maybe they'll die laughing.

I know they are good. We were sloppy, which allowed them to show it. Less mistakes from us and they aren’t given the kind of platform to show it in the way they did.
 

We might well have won it, we could well have lost it. If we had lost it would have been more down to our sloppiness than their quality.

 

As I said, it’s a decent point. As I also inferred, we’re still in it. 

 

Not sure exactly how you managed to interpret my positive, realistic, post in the way you have but thanks for the contribution. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Got to be happy with the result after that performance.

 

We're still right in this, just got to keep winning.

[Rushies tash]

Watching that first goal again, twice Allison had the chance to shout leave it and just let the ball bounce through to him, twice Van Dijk opted to head it away. Still a jammy fucking deflection mind.

[Saintslfc13]

We could’ve won that in the second half but after that disaster of a first I’ll take the draw. Just got to keep winning now, no one else on our schedule in the league is on our level. I think city will drop points to wolves. 

[torahboy]

City were ok but we were way off the pace and they will be feeling they missed out. We scored two excellent goals while City's came from a deflection and a marginal offside decision,  which I'm not at all convinced was scrutinized fully. So, despite their superiority on the day, City won't be feeling too confident about next week. The league is theirs to lose and the pressure will take its toll - on their manager as much as their players.

[Red Shift]

4 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Not looking forward to playing them on the Wembley pitch, it’s going to be seriously hard work.

True. Hoping City run themselves into the ground well before the 90 mark. Also hoping we learn from today. Jurgen has to choose slightly different starting 11, you’d think.

[TheDrowningMan]

I’m going to be glass half-full, but…as incredibly easy as their fixtures look, ourselves and Spurs aside, the other teams they’ve dropped points against this season have been Palace and Southampton, home and away. Not exactly contenders.

[Kevin D]

1 minute ago, Rushies tash said:

Watching that first goal again, twice Allison had the chance to shout leave it and just let the ball bounce through to him, twice Van Dijk opted to head it away. Still a jammy fucking deflection mind.

Not sure that’s fair to Alisson who made a big save 30 seconds before.

[Trumo]

I'll take the 2-2, because we were hanging on by the skin of our teeth at times in that first half. Their attacking patterns were exactly as we would expect from them, but it looked like we weren't prepared for the intensity and directness with which they applied them. It's very rare to see Virg playing at full stretch.

 

Still, we posed an attacking threat when we did get the ball, and the first 5-10 minutes of the second half could easily have netted us a lead. The games looked pretty 50/50 after that.

 

So we end the day still a point behind, and they know that we will continue to breathe down their necks.

 

On the refereeing, the only incident I can remember where they definitely got it wrong was when Mo's effort was deflected wide for a corner. Other than that, I thought Taylor and his VAR buddy called everything right.