He was constantly lambasted when he played and we didn’t do well, up until his Mr Whippy reincarnation.Gündoğan not so much. He came to us injured with dislocated knee cap and missed the start of the season when he first signed for us.
Came back, played well for a few games (got 5 goals and 3 assists) but then did his cruciate knee ligaments and didn’t play again until the October of the following season.
Once he got fit again and in the swing of it he was always a good player for us from then on.
Anyone who disses our performance is either a total dipstick or not a City fan - probably both.It's fucking mental mate.
Absolutely Fuck All wrong with that tonight.
Away Group game in CL with 6 points on the board already after 2 games.
Big game on Sunday and a chance to leave out some important players.
Not to mention a plastic pitch!
Never in danger of losing despite being pegged back by a lovely goal.
Effectively qualified tonight after 3 games, fucking brilliant.
He was excellent, just what he needed.I was a little concerned for Jack before, but that was a very committed and focused performance. He may have just booked his place in the derby.
i guess got away with hand ball penalty usually anything in european football hitting arm is penaltyIt’s just a pity we are not scoring the number of goals we should be. Mind you robbed of a goal: Grealish handball decision ridiculous.
Some delightful football played tonight.
Pitch should not be allowed in this competition.
How hard can it be to find commentators who actually like City? It’s fucking tiresome listening to it. Luckily I only have to listen to them for away games but it’s draining.Darke and Hoddle - a pair of woodentops. Darke can't stop himself highlighting what he thinks are negatives 'Only this/Only that'. Hoddle getting depressed that we got a pen. Imagine him protesting against Utd, Newcastle, or Arsenal getting a pen? No, me neither.
We are watching perhaps the best English club side ever but you wouldn’t know if from these post match threads (I refuse to look at the match threads).Tell you something about this magnificent, magical team. These kind of games come around fairly regularly now.
I never doubted for a second from the first whistle to the last that we would win that game. Not for one second. I was totally relaxed throughout.
And that was basically our reserves.
i guess got away with hand ball penalty usually anything in european football hitting arm is penalty
First 3 games of the season, Kovacic was incredible. Then he got injured and he's been awful. We've seen what he is capable of, he needs to bring that form backKovacic was excellent to start with, but has faded a bit, however he improved considerably tonight when Alvarez and Bernardo came on.
Rodri was cack in his first season, anyone who says otherwise has a poor memory or deluded. But after 18 months or so he's transformed himself into a world class player and I'm delighted for him.Rodri has become world class but he was mediocre the first 2 seasons.
Can’t be arsed waiting 3 seasons for Nunes to shape himself.
Why ?Anyone who disses our performance is either a total dipstick or not a City fan - probably both.
He’s looked like an old man since he got his back injury. He started like a house on fire first few games.Kovacic was excellent to start with, but has faded a bit, however he improved considerably tonight when Alvarez and Bernardo came on.
Absolutely, t'was ever thus though. All my life I've seen the need to have a target of one of our own, from some of our fans and I've never understood it, nor ever will.He was constantly lambasted when he played and we didn’t do well, up until his Mr Whippy reincarnation.
Players that don’t get stuck in and show they care take far longer to endear themselves to old school British “get in to them” football.
It might be those who he's been playing with, he was noticeably better as soon as Alvarez and Bernardo came on tonight.He’s looked like an old man since he got his back injury. He started like a house on fire first few games.
Criticising Gundogan was always madness to me. The most important aspect of a midfielder is intelligence.Absolutely, t'was ever thus though. All my life I've seen the need to have a target of one of our own, from some of our fans and I've never understood it, nor ever will.
He was our best player in the 14 game run to the title in 2018-19. With Fernandinho injured, he stepped into defensive mid and was class.He was constantly lambasted when he played and we didn’t do well, up until his Mr Whippy reincarnation.
Players that don’t get stuck in and show they care take far longer to endear themselves to old school British “get in to them” football.
And yet, if you look back on here, he had all sorts of abuse following that too.He was our best player in the 14 game run to the title in 2018-19. With Fernandinho injured, he stepped into defensive mid and was class.
OPTA rated him as the best player in Europe in the second half of that season.
That was two years before ‘Mr Whippy’.
Personally I'm sick of the constant negatives when we're not 3-0 up after 15 minutes as some seem to expect almost every game, I've seen City struggle, really struggle for enough points to try and stay up. These days I'd hope for top four, given we have Pep, but it won't last, it never does.Why ?
Why can't people say it wasn't a great performance ?
I know we have very high expectations these days, but our finishing tonight was poor, 26 shots on goal, 14 on target, and we scored 3, that's not a great tally is it ?
There were some good performances, Lewis, Grealish, and Rodri, Alvarez and Bernardo when they came on, defence were mostly OK. However we allowed a pretty shite team to give us a game, and after their equaliser, we were hanging on a bit for a while.
We shouldn't be using the pitch as an excuse, there was nothing really that I noticed that was more difficult, and it's not like we don't play in the rain much either.
At the end of the day, the result is all that matters, and we won (easily in the end), but good performance (by our standards) it wasn't.
Any away win in the CL is a good "result", but I don't see the point painting the performance for something it wasn't. In the second half, we only gained control of the game by bringing on Alvarez and Bernardo imho.
You honestly sound a bit loony at this point with your agenda against Grealish.some good performances - Rico, Rodri, Alvarez,Bernardo, Ake, Akanji, Dias.
Some not so good - Kovacic especially and Nunes - first time they have played together however but both are not upto speed at present and both need to start adding goals and creativity as they are the replacements for Gundo and we are missing his contribution in these areas. Grealish still getting up to speed due to limited appearances but again he needs to do that quickly.
Overall a comfortable win against an average side in very poor conditions (pitch and weather) - no injures which is an added bonus and a couple of key players rested.
People need a scapegoat or something to vent about. We’re British. We like a good moan.Personally I'm sick of the constant negatives when we're not 3-0 up after 15 minutes as some seem to expect almost every game, I've seen City struggle, really struggle for enough points to try and stay up. These days I'd hope for top four, given we have Pep, but it won't last, it never does.