Match Thread | Man City vs. Brentford (20/02/24)

[heslops barnet]

This referee is in the fucking way all the time, surprise, surprise.

Got to blame somebody…..

 

[madloaf]

Dippers 15 shots against Brentford at the weekend, 4 goals.
City 17, in one half, ZERO.

They get behind then defence. We see it as a challenge to get all ten men behind the ball then try and score.

 

[Bluemoonadam]

Liverpool will maul us at anfield sadly.

 

[phargrave]

We're going to win this.

That’s the spirit!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Better go down early then. Down 1-0 is the safest lead in football, you know? Much better than up 2-0. SO dangerous, that.

Ben Mee OG 94th minute.

:)

 

[oldius]

Sadly we have declined hugely this season and its a mix of poor transfer activity and baffling team selections by Pep.
Our defence changes per game and shits itself anytime someone runs at them and we are way to easy to counter due to only having 1 proper midfielder in Rodri, who isnt the quickest and attacking we have no pace, are far to slow and when we even create chances this is the worst season ive seen us in taking them.
We dont have that fear factor anymore and Alverez anywhere but up front isn’t working, and going forward Kyle has regressed hugely.
We just have a lack of pace in the team and are so slow teams find it easy to defend

It's exactly because we DO have the fear factor that we face massed defences every week.

 

[Woody2792]

Liverpool blew these lot away why can't we?

 

[pudge]

Too much dicking about around the box for Haaland to score

True...

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Doesn't help when these teams sit back, 11 men behind the ball, looking for a counter. Anti-football. Suppose that's the price of being good but they don't do it just through fear, they get a buzz from not being beaten by us so they give a lot of effort - effort they wouldn't give even if it meant taking points in a part of the table ot actually mattered to them.

How do you combat that?

Liverpool and Arsenal seem to cope.

 

[Roachy]

I am at the game and I have not witnessed as bad a half all season. Mainly down to Brentfords anti-football tactics but also our inability to break them down.

Lost some zip this team.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Perfect example was when Ederson played it through to Alvarez who was on his own and everyone else was jogging to catch up.

Yes and thats because were not a pace and power team..sadly.. also i just can't enjoy watching Alvarez. Great attitude but his finesse well...seems strange to keep playing a lad whose touch to me is a bit brick wall 'ish

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Might aswell get used to it lads
Haaland and alveraz will play together for the rest of the season and our beloved captain will also not be dropped and I’m afraid we are seeing the end of our title challenge tonight and it’s all on pep . Also j know we are not allowed to criticise him but bloody hell Haaland is so off form he is making Nunez look great . He looks half arsed and couldn’t hit a fucking barn door atm and before I get the usual we are the treble winners and he scored 40 goals last season blah blah blah that’s the past and we are now in the present I mean don’t get me wrong I’m ok with not winning the titke this season but what im not alright with is players being picked because of who they are .

I feel like Haaland has lost a bit of confidence since his injury.

 

[No.8]

If Pep read this thread he'd be a much better manager: /

If Pep read this thread he’d tear his eyes out !

 

[sh249]

Drop Walker back, push Stones up alongside Rodri and get an attacking player out wide right. Don’t care who - Bernardo, Foden or Bobb.

 

[madloaf]

This could finish 4-0 or 0-1.

I really couldn’t say if we will win it :-(

Where’s the fast attacking city goal machine gone

It's back in 2019. Quick...to the delorean

 

[hertsblue]

Scoring at Tottenham clearly came at a cost...

We had 19 v Everton also with only 3 on target.
as bad as we have been in defence its our finishing thats killed us this season.
Give Dippers/Arsenal the 67 shots v Everton, Chelsea and Brentford and guaranteed they would have more than 3 goals

 

[Haaland94]

Ben Mee OG 94th minute.

:)

He saved them there when Bobb's shot went past Flekken.

 

[wolviedinho]

We are making games harder than they should be, that’s on the boss. Needs to change it up.

 

[give it to gordon]

Liverpool blew these lot away why can't we?

Simple liverpool play at 100mph and brentford didnt sit so deep !

 

[Blu1]

Since haaland came back we look a less attacking team. How is this possible