Burnley (A) Post-Match Thread

levets said:
According to the BBC he is...


Night of positives for City​

After last weekend's nightmare, this was much more positive for City as 18-year-old Cole Palmer offered a glimpse into the future while key centre-back Aymeric Laporte proved a calming influence on his return.

Born in Wythenshawe, boyhood City fan Palmer showed flashes of promise on his senior debut.

The teenager had one attempt that went over the bar and then tried to pick out Sterling to complete his hat-trick, with Burnley scrambling it clear.
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So, if Rashford is the Wythenshaw Pele is Cole the Wythenshaw Messi?
 
Just watching highlights on Quest and must admit this kit is beginning to grow on me.
This is more the City we are used to. Enjoying the football. Loving it.

However, even on Quest they can’t resist the dig!! ‘An ailing Burnley team’ Ggrrr grrr.

But to be fair they are praising our KDB, Torres and Raz.
Ohhh just as I was feeling good about them they had to make the reference to money!
 
Vienna_70 said:
Why not?

There are only four trophies that we can win, and the League Cup is one of them.

For 35 years, our victory in 1976 was all we old fuckers had to cling onto, though Dennis Tueart's overhead effort was a bit special.

And if we win it this season, we will equal Littlewoods' record of four in a row and their total number of League Cup successes.

I hate this arrogance among certain City fans that somehow the League Cup is below us, and we should just give up on it. It makes them sound like Klippety.
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League Cup final is great day out. The finals we've had in the last few years have been some of the best days I've ever had following City.

Yayas wonder strike against Sunderland. Beating the Dippers on penalties was priceless. Stiffing Le Arse 3 nil. Putting the thick Brummies back in their box.

It's just great to have a trophy in the cabinet while there's still frost on the ground and the clocks haven't even gone forward
 
Love the League Cup, I'm old enough to remember when aspiring to a poosible run to the semi's in the LC was about as good as it got, and laugh at me if you will, I'd take winning it with as much joy and satisfaction and ANY other trophy including that 'big boys' stitch up known commonly as, and with not a hint of irony, the 'Champions League'
 
Didn't see the game, but pleased to read good reports and remarks here. Debutants doing well. Mendy much improved. Thought the gloom and doom after Leicester was ott, and by the same token we should be circumspect here as Burnley are shite.
We have some very good players. We have a good manager. We have lost or will soon lose half a team of top players, so stay calm, stay balanced. We will come again. No panic, no entitlement, just rebuild steadily.
 
simmo said:
Having Laporte in the side automatically makes the defence play better.

Good team performance. Thought Palmer and Torres were involved a lot and did well.

Dyche was embarrassing with his constant moaning at our players and the ref.
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And his language
 
borassic said:
Why didn’t Delap play then? He starting this weekend ?
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Maybe, but doubt it after that Sterling showing. Leeds is probably the perfect game for him in the middle. Unless finally gives up project Riyad and start Torres-Delap-Raz with Bernie or Phil in the middle
 
Mahrez was driving me absolutely nuts dribbling down blind alleys and avoiding all physical confrontation

I think what annoys me a lot about him is that he’s actually a fantastic passer. He played a few gorgeous through balls and the back post cross to Torres was great. If he were more competitive we could probably even play him as an 8 from time to time but it would be suicide the way he tackles. Really wish he’d play with his head up more because if he focused more on getting 20 assists than 20 goals we’d score a lot more
 
teddykgb said:
Mahrez was driving me absolutely nuts dribbling down blind alleys and avoiding all physical confrontation

I think what annoys me a lot about him is that he’s actually a fantastic passer. He played a few gorgeous through balls and the back post cross to Torres was great. If he were more competitive we could probably even play him as an 8 from time to time but it would be suicide the way he tackles. Really wish he’d play with his head up more because if he focused more on getting 20 assists than 20 goals we’d score a lot more
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mahrez and torres both played and created chances on the left with mendy playing higher up the pitch and making outside runs but on the right walker played deeper sitting in front of defence and hardly made any outside runs , so was difficult
 
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