Watford (A) - Post-Match Thread

I still can't see how some think that, with a clinical striker we would be 5/6 nil up at half time...total nonsense, if we had one at the expense of one of our mf's we wouldn't dominate possession quite as much or create quite so many chances.
Having a young 'Messi' in place of one, then maybe, not guaranteed ,his goals in a mostly crap Spanish league would never have been replicated at that level in the PL.
 
southamptonblue said:
I still can't see how some think that, with a clinical striker we would be 5/6 nil up at half time...total nonsense, if we had one at the expense of one of our mf's we wouldn't dominate possession quite as much or create quite so many chances.
Having a young 'Messi' in place of one, then maybe, not guaranteed ,his goals in a mostly crap Spanish league would never have been replicated at that level in the PL.
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Right?! We can see for ourselves what the great 08/09 treble winning team, with one of the top five players of all time, did. Sometimes they won games 3-1. https://www.skysports.com/barcelona-results/2008-09
 
I thought everyone played well including Grealish. He will be judged on his numbers though so it is annoying. Had to score that header.

Ref was decent overall I thought. But those two shockers change his performance for me. Disgrace, wtf were var doing aswel.
 
roach3 said:
Not as slick as recent games but in total control.
The potential to score ridiculous amount of goals if only the players had the belief
Sterling useless as usual
It’s a testament to how good we really are
When we have a player who’s only attribute is pace effectively playing with 10 men
Let raz go and sign someone who’s got natural all round ability
Top of the league let’s hope can stay there
Bernardo wow
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Lol
 
paulchapo said:
Our football is on a different planet to every other team. We are on a par with Pep's great Barcelona side, the only difference is we haven't got a peak goalscoring machine like Messi.

It's not boring it's beautiful to watch. Other teams make some of our games appear boring by timewasting and putting eleven men behind the ball. That's not our fault.

I get why other teams fans would say it though. When your team can't get a kick of the ball ( Can our players though eh you Watford thugs) and are chasing shadows then yes it must be awful for them. Long may their pain continue.
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I'm not sure we are quite at the Barca level but if you put peak Messi in our team and dropped the team into La Liga, we would probably look even stronger than we do.

We are the best passing side I have seen in 50 odd years of watching English football. Pep's Barca side, who I did watch an awful lot on TV (most of their games), are the best club side I have seen and Xavi is the best passer of a ball I think I've seen in terms of consistency.

Pep is the guy who would know and there is a reason that he looks so happy and relaxed at the moment, which must have a lot to do with how good he feels his team are.

You are absolutely right that our football is a thing of great beauty and, if any of our games appear boring, that is because the opponents have been driven to adopt a very negative approach.

What I hope for is that our team will do something that makes it nigh on impossible for any reasonable observer to conclude anything other than City have produced the greatest English club side of all time.

My view is that we do need a prolific world class sticker to ice the cake. The right guy would both open the floodgates in games like yesterday's and break through in big, tight games. Getting someone who can reliably score from close and longer range would ease the pressure on the rest of the team and hopefully remove the kind of tension that makes them fluff their lines too often when shooting for goal.
 
spiny said:
Look at the top top player Kyle Walker has become compared with Rose. Back in time, many pundits thought them on a similar level.
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A perfect example of why Kane will regret not pushing harder to move here in the summer. Does he want to retire with Kyle Walker’s career or Danny Rose’s?
 
chaddblue said:
Mate... our first 15 games have been far more difficult than Chelsea's or Liverpool's.. a fact the media have either not noticed or decided to ignore. I think at the start of the season, the general feeling on here was that if we were still in touch by the turn of the year we'd be favourite's to win it. It's beginning to look like we'll be in a far better position than 'still in touch'. A contentious issue for some, but if we get a striker in January we'll become even better (imo) and give ourselves an even greater chance
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Pep very deliberately chose to make the point about our tough run of away fixtures in the first half of the season in his post match interviews yesterday.
Yet virtually all the media still chose to totally ignore it.
Seems that in their desperation to talk up ‘the best title race for years’ - which would make them lots more money in ad click revenue - they are desperately trying not to acknowledge the elephant in the room, namely that we could be once again ready to break the back of the season in December and January and absolutely spreadeagle the rest of the league
 
LongsightM13 said:
Pep very deliberately chose to make the point about our tough run of away fixtures in the first half of the season in his post match interviews yesterday.
Yet virtually all the media still chose to totally ignore it.
Seems that in their desperation to talk up ‘the best title race for years’ - which would make them lots more money in ad click revenue - they are desperately trying not to acknowledge the elephant in the room, namely that we could be once again ready to break the back of the season in December and January and absolutely spreadeagle the rest of the league
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I think getting knocked out the League Cup is the best thing that could have happened to us.

Miss my spring trip to Wembley but League and CL priority.

Liverpool and Chelsea need to get to the final.
 
We did what we needed to do, against a determined Watford. Sterling is creeping back to form, Gundog & Silva bossed the game & it was great to see Grealish, Foden & KDB back & looking sharp, just in time for the man-killer festive season programme.

We just need to be more clinical in front of goal. Having said that, what we've lost in goal scoring prowess, we've gained in defensive solidarity. If we could combine our goal scoring of 3 seasons ago, with our current defensive solidarity & our possession, we'd be the best football team in the world right now.

As it stands, I honestly believe we're a clinical striker away from that.
 
At least some Watford fans appreciate our magnificence.
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Against Villa, Gabby sprints down the right and crosses for Bernie to volley. Against Watford, Phil sprints down the left and crosses for Raz to head in.
With Sterling on the left and Mahrez on the right, so often promising counter attacks are halted or slowed while the pair change to their preferred foot, a few seconds, but enough for defenders to regroup.
 
Sumptuous performance yesterday from City, the only thing that was missing was a few more goals which that display warranted. Game should have been over after 15 mins and the profligacy in front of goal is a recurring theme and one which Pep is all too aware of.

We got a bit sloppy in the last 15 mins, but overall a very good performance and it is a joy to watch this team play at present.
 
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