Match Thread | Southampton vs Man City (11/01/23)

[B\connellblue]

Guardiola at fault.
Utter fucking slow shite.

 

[MCFC1993]

Fucking awful, pathetic performance. As bad as we've been in a long time.

Laporte, Gundogan and Alvarez aside the rest of these outfield players are having poor seasons.

Wouldn't be shocked to see 5 subs at half time.

 

[whipper]

You'd think it was us who were bottom of the league

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Astonishingly bad

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Worst half of football in a long, long time.

Not a single player out there can hold their hand up and say they did enough. Notable mentions to Gomes, Cancelo, Philips and Palmer who have been fucking atrocious.

Get it fucking sorted Pep.

 

[Goater=Legend]

Truly horrific performance that. 2-0 down and players still deciding to pass it back.

Change it at half time nothings going to change with these players.

 

[oddfellows]

Where’s Cancelo’s head at the minute?

Up his arse

 

[youngbob]

Akanji for Gomez.
Rodri for Phillips.
Bernardo for Palmer.

Ortega
Walker, Akanji, Laporte, Cancelo
Rodri
Bernardo, Gundogan
Foden, Alvarez, Grealish

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Save the big guns. Throw the fucking tie. We have bigger fish to fry this year. Not worth risking Saturday for.

 

[DavidWhitesUnderpants]

Possibly the worst half from us in many years

As many also said for the Chelsea away game and Everton at home. Seems to be happening waaaay too often lately.

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

This thread is going hit 100 pages before half time.

 

[bert38]

Cancelo and Gomez utter shit; Walker lost at centre half; Phillips totally lacking sharpness, Foden anonymous in midfield; Cole has stopped wanting to take people on…pathetic half.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Crikey. That was a bizarre half of non-football from City. It's hard to see what we are trying to achieve at 2-0 down without even looking like we have any desire to svore, never mind win. Just inexplicable. Hopefully, Pep can salvage something.

 

[skillman]

If he doesn’t make changes at half time then he’s basically saying he’s not arsed about winning

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

From one of our only good performances v Chelsea… to this.

Maybe our worst half under Pep.

Gomez abysmal. Phillips bewildered. Walker awful too.

A nightmare half.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Can someone take the lead out of Phillips boots for him, that way he might be able to move.

 

[yankblue]

On the upside it's making me all nostalgic.

We look fucking hopeless, getting arse raped by some dross in a cup game, playing in a hideous neon kit, it's like I've gone into a time machine back to the late 90s. Feel like a kid again.

Sounds like my experience with the 90s as well

 

[Bluemoonie92]

Absolute wank. Only positive is were only 2 down. What the fuck was the game plan? Play as slow as possible n give the ball away over and over again? Thought the reason we play slow is to control the game. Literally zero control.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

I can tolerate not playing well. I can tolerate getting beat. I cannot tolerate talented highly paid professionals putting a half arsed effort in. Hope they get pasted at half time

 

[JWCH-99]

I get the change at half time, but bring who on? de bruyne and haaland form has been patchy and mahrez is the only one playing well atm