Match Thread | Man City vs Crystal Palace (27/08/22)

[SleepingBlueTiger]

Echos of Newcastle 1st half. Completely different style half but similar poor performance. Mahrez and KDB were decent in my opinion, rest varying levels of below par.

Some points coming to mind:

Fullbacks are poor, combination of strange tactics by Pep and just poor play by them. We don't really have quality alternatives on bench though.

Early days but Haaland doesn't exactly seem a great fit. We are not the team that plays the ball early which is his biggest strength and as a team we lose in chance creation having him instead of a more technical player there.
We'll have to change if we want to get most out of him but that's difficult. Playing early balls means losing some control of the game and this team doesn't do well when we don't have control.

Struggling to see why Pep benched Gundogan too, the best player so far in the season. Anyway, him for Bernardo must be coming early. He is the best hope we have for salvaging something from this.

 

[M Gaudino]

Best 11 is with Gundo

who do you remove

 

[ScottSinclair]

2-0 down in every game. A lot of focus on Pep and the inverted full-back which is obviously isn't working, but this is on the players. They have been shite for a quite a while now

 

[citytill1die84]

Wow.

Palace should be 3 up imo nothing wrong with the Ederson throw out.

Walker absolutely shite in that Midfield slot.

Need to up our game big time.

 

[Blu1]

Missing Gundy so much. Nobody controlling the midfield or threading balls through.

Our defence is all over the place

 

[malg]

In the ground and can't believe people are booing at half time. Spoilt cunts. Palace deserve their lead.

 

[CityBluez]

This a the fucking reason why we shouldn't have played zinchenko. We could have subbed Walker , bring cancelo to right and zinchenko could have played in left

 

[wolviedinho]

Foden is trash .. not the future ballon dor winner we hoped .

Another deli Ali imho

Worst post of the day. Will take some beating -:)

 

[bellsouth]

Poor - no clue how to break down the packed defence

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[argyle]

Foden is trash .. not the future ballon dor winner we hoped .

Another deli Ali imho

Oof. That's quite the hot take.

He hasn't progressed as I'd hoped.

Seems like a James Maddison. Stagnated and seems more interested in haircuts and eyebrow shavings.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

That reverse cross after 160 passes is so predictable for this keeper...what are we doing in training sessions?

flying to barcelona

 

[samuelyeboah]

Passing wise this is the worst half from a guardiola side i've ever seen. It's beyond shocking

 

[CityDean]

Said it last week when our fullbacks are playing in midfield, we need to be playing another holding midfielder next to Rodri. We look way too open.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Need Alvarez and Gundo at half time but doubt Pep will change it.

88 minutes mate, or maybe not at all

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I think we're in control but we're now nervous of any attack. If we keep this up we'll score, if we're lucky we will win .

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Dreadful. Ederson is a poor keeper. That is a routine bit of keeping. Stones garbage, Foden garbage, Walker garbage, Too many fouls. Absolute crap basically from start to finish.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Given ourselves a mountain to climb here, and Palace aren’t the type of side we can give a 2 goal start to.

Unlucky with the first, and a yellow and foul on Cancelo for the second for me, but still been poor.

 

[bluealf]

In the ground and can't believe people are booing at half time. Spoilt cunts. Palace deserve their lead.

That's why they are booing.

 

[kanovic]

You would think they both have 20 assists between them lol

If 20 starts