Match Thread | Sheffield Utd vs Man City (27/08/23)

[JDV]

Very tough game without Phil or KDB or even Akanji or Stones who would be helping us overload midfield.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Hard not to when theyre allowed to bear hug you/rugby tackle without consequence

Don’t disagree but it’s now overanalysed because of it, one of them will stick if he can control himself

 

[samuelyeboah]

grealish is an incredibly frustrating player to watch. The things that he's bad at, he's SO bad at them it's so comical.

 

[1961_vintage]

Foden needed here. Why was he dropped?

Too much arse licking with Camel.

 

[PragueBlue]

Frustrating half. Not at our best but should probably be a couple up. Too many players wanting too much time on the ball instead of moving it a bit more quickly. Alvarez's movement has looked the most likely to create something. Maybe Foden and/or Doku on in the 2nd half at some stage.

Move the ball a bit more quickly and be a bit more clinical and we should win this.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Jack has to come off, suspect he’s not anywhere near fully fit
Haaland FFS you better score second half
Come on City!

If he's not fully fit we should tell the waistcoat he's injured otherwise he'll fuck him.

 

[malg]

Keep up, he’s not well

 

[christened at st marks]

What does Grealish do the amount of balls given to him in space and nothing comes from it, why the fuck is Phil on the bench, why the fuck do we pay palmer he has been great and just ignored and why the fuck have we bought Doku, absolute no creativity at all crying out for someone who can beat a defender

 

[wolviedinho]

Alavarez with a good chance- should have scored.

Haaland pen- should have scored.

If one of those goes in it’s a different game.

So although we are not creating at will and are more pragmatic we still should be ahead.

 

[Keeper!]

Erling needs to play his game and not get wond up. If they foul him it will be given as one.

They are resorting to pull and wrestling him to the ground

He's fallen for it, another lesson for him, he still has much to learn and improve

 

[akrh215]

Well, the match hasn't been great so far. I think it would be a good idea to substitute Grealish with Doku at half time. I'm really interested to see how fast and direct Doku is as a player. If he's as good a dribbler as they say, he could completely dismantle the defenders. Grealish hasn't really made much of an impact so far, that's for sure.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

No Gundo, no Kev, No Mahrez, no Foden.

You'd want to get used to missing Mahrez and Gundogan

 

[vmsuhail]

Kovacic amazingly could be an upgrade on Mr Wippy, what a player

Can we wait until he score a goal or an assist ?

 

[Bald fraud]

Rugby tackle players in the box is fine. Yesterday defenders shorts brush rashfords shorts nailed on pen!

 

[ysmsa]

How the hell has VAR not looked and given a penalty for that deliberate 2 arm hug and wrestle to the ground on Haaland.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Both those challenges on Haaland in the box were fouls anywhere else on the pitch.

Fucking hate the 'standard' of refereeing in the Prem.

 

[heslops barnet]

you´re a bloody footballer ,you are past 2 players,18 metres from the goal and you won´t try to curl or hit it in??wtff

He’s not very good at shooting…..

 

[phargrave]

If only we had a couple of good strikers, we would be 4 or 5 nil up by now….

Or creative midfielders…

 

[WickyWain]

Been a while since haaland didn't drop a stinker, to be honest.

Did he drop a stinker against Burnley?

 

[KingGeorge]

Robbie Earle saying at halftime that we should have had another penalty