Match Thread | Man City vs. Arsenal (22/09/24)

[ufo]

toss turd

 

[footballmanager]

That is not a fucking foul, pathetic defending

the fuck it isnt, its a foul everywhere except in the premier league vs arsenal

 

[wolviedinho]

Kyle Walker should be thinking of retiring at the end of the season. Everything that made him elite is deserting him.

Let’s not turn on one of our own because he is getting older. It’s pep who has chosen to play Walker.

Stick with the players. Mistakes happen.

 

[Haaland94]

Hope everyone who was up for the "lack of control" without Jack, in the pre-match thread, is happy.

Jeremy off, Jack on ASAP. Phil for Gundo as well.

 

[ScottSinclair]

Far superior footballing side to this lot. Might not win us the game, but we will never lose a league title to a team that is this inferior.

At least Klopp tried to play a bit, and they were good at it. This is just what Pulis were doing scaled up with the budget of a small nation. I respect Arteta as a coach, but he is the epitome of a wanker

 

[eyalluvitt]

Lewis for Walker at half time hopefully.

Sadly he has become a woeful liability

 

[madloaf]

Hope everyone who was up for the "lack of control" without Jack, in the pre-match thread, is happy.

I reckon no one is fucking happy after that first half. I'm fuming.

 

[vmsuhail]

I still suspect Arsenal will win this. It feels like one of those games where everything goes their way. The second half could be painful viewing.

Is being a man down for an entire half good for them ?

 

[sh249]

Blues, you know he’ll be sent out from PIGMOL to even it up

If he‘s going to be evening things up, he still owes us. A red card to a team 2-1 up comes nowhere close to allowing two extremely dubious goals.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Foden has to come on.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Particularly with how well they defend. We need some creativity in the middle. It’s non existent

We’ve got a lad on the bench who isn’t too bad.

Phil something.

 

[super_city_si]

Lewis on now to make the extra man and overload the middle

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I can’t see how he can argue against a second yellow there. It was absolutely stupid by him.

Makes for an interesting second half.
We totally lost our rhythm after Rodri went off, but they’ve been putting themselves about right from the start.

We need to pin them back again. Pep has to put a bomb under us.

Our defending from their very predictable set pieces is amateurish. That Gabriel goal was coming. We had a couple of warnings before it.

Sort them out Pep.
Win this.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

10 men have much more resolve, harder to play against in a lot of ways

Harder to attack but easier to defend counters as they’ve 1 less attacker. So need to get sustained pressure and that should in theory help us keep them away from our goal more, reducing the amount of corners as it’s basically a 50% chance of a goal.

 

[Gabriel]

We’ve been below par but still need step it up. Bernardo and Akanji have been immense and Haaland has played well, too, but the rest have more yet to give. We need to keep the ball for long spells.

 

[gray740]

Foden has to come on for dok or Jack

We have played well, rodders going off has changed it but walker & doku poor.

Was walker pulled out of position by ref for their free kick ?

Yes ,and they nicked about ten foot

 

[Really_here]

Chicago fann zone looks heaving

 

[jollylescott]

Wild first half to say the least. I’d definitely bring on Phil and Rico. As Pep says they can play in small spaces and the gooners will put every player behind the ball.

 

[deano ou812]

Maybe changing Doku as some want may not be that right call now,his pace and them defending deep will maybe offer a chance of giving a pen away..

 

[RobinHood]

That's the game now with an Arsenal low block. They'll counter more than build up from the back. We need to unlock them even more.

Phil?