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

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Looks chaotic and messy up top.
More composure lads and the goals will come.
Please bring Kev on for Alvares and lets do these
 
Jesus2020 said:
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 where it actually mattered to them.

How do you combat that?
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Its not anti football its playing the game on its merits. Brilliant from Frank. They could be 2 up away v 3rd place by now. They are doing their job
 
It's not a player problem that we have at the moment. It's the balance. We play with wrong combinations of players. Some players don't work well together. I hope we change it up in the 2nd half.
 
I know we try to get the ball to the wide areas outside the pen box, but for the love of all that is holy, TAKE YOU MAN ON, try and run past him drop the shoulder etc. Then fall over a leg, who knows what would happen?
 
We need to start picking out the through ball passes to Haaland a lot earlier

The current attacking style, especially with our form after last season, isnt working and we are struggling

Open up the passing lanes and get haaland running at the goal. We have players who can make those passes, but it seems to ve only Kev that trusts his ability or Phil who will do it occassionally
 
it may brentford was more open vs Liverpool 3 days ago, but that is also down to speed of attacks.

first dipper goal was from a brentford freekick when everybody went ahead for a header and van Dijk cleared with a great long ball Jota headed it down to Nunez who could run 1 v1 and scored.
we would not clear it like that, we pass it around, wait, build up slow, wait for Brentford to reshape than start pass around their block good 60-90 seconds later. cant see Dias try a long ball clearance like that, he is instructed to do the opposite.

and then clinical finishing matters too, lets be honest Jota buries that header that Bernardo missed, and Salah would have scored that Bobb chance.

then all of a sudden Brentford couldnt not sit back as much, which favored dippers 3 days ago given they were 1-0 up after 35 mins so Brentford had to go for it bit more.
 
Even the pundits saying its too slow and predictable. Giving them time to get back. Dipper twats scored by being direct. Leave bob up with erl and just get a quicker ball out wen got chance to break.
 
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