Gundogan, Mendy, Cancelo, Angelino.
Plus not replacing Kompany.
You don’t think being down to 10 men was a factor?So we didn't score 2 goals after ederson got sent off? Did ederson contribute directly to us conceding a goal? Do us a favour dude ...
It's not as easy as that to just sign a top centre back. It isn't football managerbut we could have signed a top centre back, that would have gone some way towards improving our defence..
Yep before a ball was kicked we knew our first choice CB pairing would not be playing, as has been the case for most of the season. No Laporte and Fernandinho on the pitch but not where he can affect the game like we know he can. So its basically like we've also lost Fernandinho too as a result. Already a harder task than it was last season for City and an easier one for Wolves. In the end we lost a game from a harsh red card(Ederson didn't make the contact, Jota did) because we had to play with 10 for 80 mins. All of this with Bravo in goal(not at fault for any of the goals),who makes the backline nervous with 11men on the field.Yeah. And they spout a lot of childish rubbish without taking into account the current injury situation - despite which, we’re still easily 3rd in the league (& will improve) & in all other cups.
short memories too. It’s not easy to win the PL 3 times on the trot (especially with half the team missing)
Klipperty is already moaning because a couple of squad players are injured. Imagine the media excuses if they’d lost VVD Salah Mane & one of their full backs.
Let’s have some perspective
What has that got to do with tonights abomination? People are rightly upset with the performance. If theres a rant on what's the big deal? I'm sure someone can answer the question if you really need to know.What is the record number of pages in a Post Match Thread?
Are you dismissing the failure to replace Kompany?
I know we’ve had injuries, and a fit Laporte would change things massively, but we shouldn’t be in this situation as we should have replaced our leader and greatest centre back.
We’ve lost medical and recruitment staff to Liverpool and it’s showing, they seem to get zero injuries, look fitter and over the last couple of seasons have recruited better.
We have a lot of work to do in many areas, back room and playing staff, it should have started two summers ago when we failed to get a replacement for Fernandinho and didn’t manage that until this season with Rodri, but failing to sort the centre half and left back issues for two seasons has caught up with us this season. We’ve had an amazing last couple of seasons, I hope we can get Laporte and Sane back before the champions league resumes and put in a decent challenge.
Of course but didn't cost us the game.... it was 0 0 when we went to 10 men ... the main factor was individual mistakesYou don’t think being down to 10 men was a factor?
He will just play ferdy and Laporte at the back I think . His trust with stones and otamendi is gone so I’m hoping he starts Garcia or buys in JanuaryI still think man city will win the champions league. Laporte will be back.
Sane will mean we won't have to play Mahrez
No other team in Europe has a midfield the quality of rodri, de Bruyne and Bernardo.
Freeing up Fernandinho to go in midfield will also be huge. He is so important to what we do. Everything went through him last season.
I'd like to see
Ederson
Walker stones Laporte zinchenko
Fernandinho
Rodri De Bruyne
Bernardo Aguero Sterling/Sane
That matches up with the best of them. Having Bernardo on the right mitigates how shit walker is because Bernie works his hole off.
Once again Sir I would suggest Laporte's stature and reputation grows with every game he doesn't play.. I like him but feel he is easily done by pace and strength, lacks aerial ability and leadership but in this defence he would seem like Bobby Moore. Laporte was humbled by Spuds in the European semis. He will be great with another great defender alongside him..We have been unable to defend the title because of injury to Laporte. That's not criminal. That's bad luck.