Luton Town (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

ancoats said:
The win was all that mattered and a very good win to boot
Players rested, Players getting game time, and Ederson back between the posts

Luton will learn so much from today and even if they don't stay up they can be proud of what they have done this season, A Giant of the Modern Premier League vs Luton, Talk about where City have come from, Spare a thought for where Luton have come from, Non League football not so long ago, One of the smallest grounds and small fan base and they come to the Etihad to play the best team in the world,

Luton fans must go away from today and dream that one day it could be them living the dream, That is football
You just never know the future and for Luton, it must taste nice mixing it with the big boys and let's hope they will be back if they go down,

City moves on to the Champions League in midweek, Let's hope Nobody at City thinks it's done and dust and all we have to do is turn up, Today's result and resting players will mean nothing if we don't get the job done
Click to expand...
Plus Luton fans or a majority of fans stayed to the end,unlike those from a club nearby who practiced the fire drill
 
dickie davies said:
The games I mentioned we scored 4, 3 and 2 which in those particular matches should have comfortably seen us over the line
Even as dominant as we were yesterday and as comfortable as the scoreline suggests, we gave three huge chances away only one of which was taken. If the other two had, it would have left a fractious final ten minutes
Barclay should have scored when he hit the bar and there was a fantastic save from Ederson
Click to expand...
And that's my point. In previous seasons, we were rock solid in defence, & lethal up front. This season, our defence has looked vulnerable, & without Haaland's goal output of last season, it's made our games more uncomfortable than we'd have liked.

Thankfully, we've begun to add goals from around the squad again, but we seriously need to sort out our defensive frailties.

Looking at our personnel, they're all experienced at the apex of world football, & top drawer.

Could the inverted defender tactics to combat low defensive blocks be causing that vulnerability? Maybe... Probably... We must have faith that Pep has plans for our next tactical evolution.
 
Dribble said:
We changed our style of play from using a fluid false 9 where goals cane from throughout the team, to supplying a target man. This worked fine when everything Erling touched turned into goals, but now he's not hitting the heights of last season, we're suffering.

Over the last 2-3 months I sense Pep has sacrificed our style of play to supply Haaland, to one where we've reverted to bringing in other players during our build up play, to supply the goals which Erling isn't supplying at the rate he was previously.

We can see this by recent matches where we've begun scoring 3-4-5 goals a game again, with several different scorers, including Haaland. It's another Pep evolution, but one which may have come too late for the title this season, unless ArseAnal & the Dippers falter.
Click to expand...
long way to go regarding the title
 
Dribble said:
And that's my point. In previous seasons, we were rock solid in defence, & lethal up front. This season, our defence has looked vulnerable, & without Haaland's goal output of last season, it's made our games more uncomfortable than we'd have liked.

Thankfully, we've begun to add goals from around the squad again, but we seriously need to sort out our defensive frailties.

Looking at our personnel, they're all experienced at the apex of world football, & top drawer.

Could the inverted defender tactics to combat low defensive blocks be causing that vulnerability? Maybe... Probably... We must have faith that Pep has plans for our next tactical evolution.
Click to expand...
So you're saying Haaland needs to bag three every game so we score at least five so we can win a game as we can't rely on our defence!
 
dickie davies said:
So you're saying Haaland needs to bag three every game so we score at least five so we can win a game as we can't rely on our defence!
Click to expand...
I'm saying pre-Haaland, goals scored were shared throughout the team. Since Haaland, our style has changed to supplying him the ammo to get those goals.

However, this season hasn't been as productive for him, & it's only over the last couple of months that we've begun to hit goals throughout the team again.

Added to our defensive vulnerabilities, it's made this season more uncomfortable than it needed to be.

In previous seasons we've been used to City & the Dippers being far ahead of everyone else, with us duking it out for the title.

This season it's a three-way race, with the chasing pack of Vanilla & Spuds being a further ten points behind, & Newcastle, the Rags & the Hammers being a further ten points behind them.

We've uncharacteristically dropped crucial points by either letting in sloppy goals, missing gilt edge chances, or in many cases a combination of both.

As things stand, the title is out of our hands. All we can do is try to win our remaining matches whilst reducing the goal difference, & hope ArseAnal & the Dippers slip up. It is what it is...
 
Dribble said:
I'm saying pre-Haaland, goals scored were shared throughout the team. Since Haaland, our style has changed to supplying him the ammo to get those goals.

However, this season hasn't been as productive for him, & it's only over the last couple of months that we've begun to hit goals throughout the team again.

Added to our defensive vulnerabilities, it's made this season more uncomfortable than it needed to be.

In previous seasons we've been used to City & the Dippers being far ahead of everyone else, with us duking it out for the title.

This season it's a three-way race, with the chasing pack of Vanilla & Spuds being a further ten points behind, & Newcastle, the Rags & the Hammers being a further ten points behind them.

We've uncharacteristically dropped crucial points by either letting in sloppy goals, missing gilt edge chances, or in many cases a combination of both.

As things stand, the title is out of our hands. All we can do is try to win our remaining matches whilst reducing the goal difference, & hope ArseAnal & the Dippers slip up. It is what it is...
Click to expand...
You said
"We changed our style of play from using a fluid false 9 where goals cane from throughout the team, to supplying a target man. This worked fine when everything Erling touched turned into goals, but now he's not hitting the heights of last season, we're suffering."

But when it was pointed out that in three drawn games we scored 2, 3 and 4, you've now added the defending is poor
So now it's not all down to Haaland!
 
dickie davies said:
You said
"We changed our style of play from using a fluid false 9 where goals cane from throughout the team, to supplying a target man. This worked fine when everything Erling touched turned into goals, but now he's not hitting the heights of last season, we're suffering."

But when it was pointed out that in three drawn games we scored 2, 3 and 4, you've now added the defending is poor
So now it's not all down to Haaland!
Click to expand...
I said it was down to a change in our style of play from using a false 9 to having a target man, & using inverted defenders.

It worked well when everything Haaland touched turned to gold, but with us being defensively vulnerable, the over all effect has been exacerbated...
 
dickie davies said:
The games I mentioned we scored 4, 3 and 2 which in those particular matches should have comfortably seen us over the line
Even as dominant as we were yesterday and as comfortable as the scoreline suggests, we gave three huge chances away only one of which was taken. If the other two had, it would have left a fractious final ten minutes
Barclay should have scored when he hit the bar and there was a fantastic save from Ederson
Click to expand...
I thought it was a clear foul on Gvardiol prior to the ball hitting the crossbar, and VAR may well have pulled that one back. The referee, as per usual, was garbage.
 
dickie davies said:
If we don't retain the title it will have fuck all to do with Haaland not scoring and everything to do with throwing leads away in the final minutes vs Palace, Chelsea and Spurs
Click to expand...
If we had hung on to win in jusr one of those games the title would have been in our hands.
Then there was that flukey goal which gave Arse the win.....
 
dickie davies said:
The games I mentioned we scored 4, 3 and 2 which in those particular matches should have comfortably seen us over the line
Even as dominant as we were yesterday and as comfortable as the scoreline suggests, we gave three huge chances away only one of which was taken. If the other two had, it would have left a fractious final ten minutes
Barclay should have scored when he hit the bar and there was a fantastic save from Ederson
Click to expand...
Barkley didn't hit the bar, it was Woodrow. Also; if you're counting Luton's opportunities, shouldn't you also (in the name of fairness) count ours? We could (should?) have had another couple of goals. 7-3 or 8-3 wouldn't have been an out of this world score, given the opportunities missed by both sides.
 
Shite like this is the reason why I hate every other club aside from.our own. I admired the Luton story and they've played quite well, results aside. But the jealousy, pettiness and shite their fans and others spout, driven by the media narrative means I can't stand the wankers and hope they fuck off back down asap. Sold out soul....just fuck off. She actually says her other half is a City fan, I'd fucking divorce the ****.

 
wahablue said:
Plus Luton fans or a majority of fans stayed to the end,unlike those from a club nearby who practiced the fire drill
Click to expand...

Yep a good lot of fans

it just goes to show you can dream and play the big boys, Football and your club for me has never been about the glory, Yes its great and magical and the levels City has got to are amazing, But City means more than Glory and I
definitely will never forget where we have been and seen over the past 40 years
 
paulchapo said:
Shite like this is the reason why I hate every other club aside from.our own. I admired the Luton story and they've played quite well, results aside. But the jealousy, pettiness and shite their fans and others spout, driven by the media narrative means I can't stand the wankers and hope they fuck off back down asap. Sold out soul....just fuck off. She actually says her other half is a City fan, I'd fucking divorce the ****.

Click to expand...


It's just good old Old-fashioned banter, City fans give it back and that's why we love the game
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
We had the last laugh , when they sang "4-1 to the empty seats" and we then responded twice as loud when the fifth goal went in with "5-1 to the empty seats" , they supported in numbers , but small time and spent most of the time trying to take the piss and failing miserably.
You can bet most of them have a "second team" when they were in the Conference and it would have been the Rags or Dippers
Click to expand...
They were generic away fans, mostly singling the chants you hear at the darts.

I always thought Luton had a T in it, but when they sang their name, it seems to be pronounced Lu-en.
 
paulchapo said:
Shite like this is the reason why I hate every other club aside from.our own. I admired the Luton story and they've played quite well, results aside. But the jealousy, pettiness and shite their fans and others spout, driven by the media narrative means I can't stand the wankers and hope they fuck off back down asap. Sold out soul....just fuck off. She actually says her other half is a City fan, I'd fucking divorce the ****.

Click to expand...

It’s social media where everyone feels they have to act the clever **** and make a “witty remark”.
But it‘s really just “look at meeee”.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top