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give it to gordon said:
The only thing that bothered me was VAR again.
Why wasnt our handball looked at ? Why did it take so long to award our goal ?

For an unfit City team we bossed it long periods.

Haaland will take time .

City fans put the dippers best fans in world blocks well and truly to bed. Well done blues out song those twats who only made a noise when they scored.
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Anyone got a pic or video of the handball that wasn't even looked at?
 
Liverpool played full tilt and were desperate to win. We treated it as an opportunity to get more up to speed. A good work out for us, nothing more. We need to sharpen up our passing throughout the team, we need to heighten our awareness of team mates movements as well as those of opponents. We weren’t great, but we still created chances, which is promising. A fluke of a penalty and a complete fuck up for the 3rd goal… what actually happened with the 3rd? Ederson had it at his feet in the left corner for a free kick. His distribution was awful too. On to next week and 3 points.
 
salfordblue-tony2 said:
How embrassing letting 3 goals in against Liverpool , them unable u score in their previous three finals !
And why does everyone keep calling it a pre-season friendly ?
When it 's a one off game for a trophy between the best two teams in England ?
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Because it was always considered to be little more than a pre-season friendly. Well at least until Ferguson said it was a proper trophy.
 
noirish said:
Dias form worrying. Also that we didn’t have control in the midfield and found it difficult to get the ball through to our forwards. Don’t think we were worse but they are efficient as always.

Who has 4 PL titles in 5 years?
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Liverpool were just sharper than us today. Dias seems to only play well with Stones. Mahrez is typically a late starter and Foden should start ahead of Grealish. We'll smash West Ham next week and Haaland will score
 
Good preseason test that. Liverpool looked miles fitter and sharper and a few of our lads looked a bit off the pace. Great that Haaland and Alvarez have now got off the mark in preseason. There will be no way on earth Haaland will care about that miss, it will fuel the fire.

We maybe need some time to settle with him in the side. The ball into space or even into him when under pressure will stick more than it did with a false 9. Cancelo had a poor game, albeit Salah can make most look poor.

Bring on West Ham!
 
Nothing from today matters if we get off to a good start next week, but we did look very rusty and I can’t stand losing to that shower of shit, regardless of the circumstances. Booing the national anthem again as well because of how they were apparently singled out by Thatcher’s policies, like every other city somehow dodged it all. Fucking self-obsessed weirdos.

As for the game, again it’s difficult to judge how significant the lack of preparation will be - only two games prior to today looks a gamble - but a couple of things concern me.

First is losing both Sterling and Jesus and having to rely on Mahrez more than we have done previously. Obviously Mahrez gets a load of sometimes unwarranted shit on the Matchday threads, from myself as well, but he has been bang out of form for a while now and so the lack of competition is a concern for me. Hopefully Alvarez can adjust quickly and he looked good when he came on, but I think we may be a bit short in terms of wingers. Not giving Palmer any minutes today was a surprise particularly given how poorly Bernado was playing, and so he may not be developing as quickly as we hoped.

The other observation was Bernado playing very deep - this could be just to provide extra cover until Rodri finds his full fitness, but it was very noticeable. Again Phillips not getting any minutes was another surprise, but the midfield didn’t work and will have to be much better next week.

The plus (Alvarez apart) was Foden, who looked very good when he came on. Ake did alright and Ederson played well, but difficult to judge the rest given how rusty they were. Gundogan in particular looked heavy and slow.

Big improvement required in training this week and we need to buy a left back. Wouldn’t be too surprised if Haaland is on the bench next week.
 
salfordblue-tony2 said:
How embrassing letting 3 goals in against Liverpool , them unable u score in their previous three finals !
And why does everyone keep calling it a pre-season friendly ?
When it 's a one off game for a trophy between the best two teams in England ?
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Hahahaha ILKAY MADE THE SCOUSERS CRY
 
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