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

[bluebanana83]

Id take off Gomez, Phillips, Cancelo and Palmer off.

Get Akanji, De Bruyne, Bernardo and Haaland on and go 3-5-2

 

[blueballs84]

Just have to accept that we are a bit shit this season and enjoy the Haaland show.

 

[ID70]

2 nil down and still no effort to even have a shot

 

[stan bowles]

Grealish and Palmer - neither anywhere near Mahrez's level. Foden non existent. Alvarez invisible.

 

[blue whippet]

We were so far off it after 5 minutes I got 7-1 on Southampton

At this moment in time I can't believe anyone thinks we will score a goal.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Mate he is not at the level required. I think we are finding out the squad has a few useless players.

Useless is a bit strong.

Saint's have done their homework and our players are undercooked for whatever reason. It's just not clicked so far.

 

[Trojan1962]

another clown

So you think winning this game is more important than Saturday

 

[Bigga]

Very odd game. Got Cancelo playing the Rodri role and Philips playing the Cancelo role from the last Chelsea game. Should be the other way around!

Cancelo not driving forward as a result and not disrupting the oppo mid as Rodri does.

Too many short passes and silly unneeded flicks going on. Over confidence without putting the work in.

No control of the mid leaves no service to Alvarez, so no chances!

Needs shuffling and someone to control the mid for us.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

Fkn arrogance. Comes from the top... Been coming this performance ... We are a busted flush...

 

[Blue Maverick]

That Gomez mistake he should’ve been putting it down the winger for Grealish to run onto.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Feel sorry for the fans who went all that way. C'mon City buck your ideas up. Show some fight and heart for the shirt.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

I reckon I wouldn't of looked out of place in that city team during 45 mins

 

[citytill1die84]

No shots against a struggling bottom of the League Southampton lol

Don't u just love cup games.

 

[eastmanc]

Philipps has lost every 50/50?...weak

And so slow.

 

[City Raider]

Hopefully we can turn it around but not with same players on pitch. Not sure when we’ll learn messing around with squad players against teams playing their game of the season doesn’t work.

 

[paulchapo]

Let's hope Pep has now got any ideas of this mad experiment out of his head, after tonight's mad experiment has gone horrifically wrong. Play our best eleven and system, keep players in their normal position and for fucks sake stop fucking about!

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Feel sorry for the Blues who’ve travelled

 

[Gabriel]

Possibly the worst 45 mins in about 15 years that.

Looks like 11 strangers who’ve never played together.

Absolutely diabolical.

Was thinking the same. Can’t remember a half where everyone was so completely off.

 

[mosssideblue]

Think Grealish has put in a bit more effort than most and is about the only one not to lose the ball when he gets it. Not great but better than most of the rest.

Agreed

 

[wolviedinho]

Guardiola at fault.
Utter fucking slow shite.

What position is he playing? All on the players. Some not good enough and some continuing to play shite. Seen it a lot this season.