Match Thread | Sporting CP vs. Man City (05/11/24)

[Chak19]

Fine margins. I think he has looked a lot more lively tonight and on another day has a 1st half hat-trick.

That's the thing, he hasn't been himself in front of goal in the last 5 or 6 games excluding the Sparta game.

 

[MCFC1993]

How on earth is the conceded goal on midfield?

Not protecting the defence when the ball is turned over, always too far wide or too far forward on every break.

 

[ufo]

nunes , foden and savi having a fantastic game

 

[ninjamonkey]

The same problems persist, wide open at the back to every single simple 3 pass attack. how many times have we seen teams get in the exact way they did for their goal the last half a dozen games? It's absurd Pep is refusing to address it.

An improvement on last weekend but their naivety together with foden looking good made us look better than we've been in reality. Foden and Nunes have both been great, savinho looks lively but absolutely zero end product tonight and looks weak, Lewis has been really poor, anonymous in defence and keeps giving the ball away. Bernardo started deeper alongside kovacic and both he and the team looked better, seemed to push up more as the half went on and we looked progressively worse for it.

Kovacic is going to have to come off early, can't risk a red.

 

[stan bowles]

Joleon's re-seed was definitely worth the cost.

 

[Blue Calx]

The long ball over the top everytime..fuckin disastrous week in week out

 

[eyalluvitt]

Are we coasting though?

Plain sailing most of the half

 

[hertsblue]

Haaland hasn't been himself lately.

No competition for his place. Of course when fit he is undropable but we are too heavily reliant on him scoring as we have ended up with a squad with a worrying lack of goal threat in it

 

[blue44]

Should be out of sight
Savio so frustrating, great skill but no final ball or finish
Oh for Mahrez right now...

its the exact same with doku too ,what you say about savinho

 

[blue by birth]

Akanji is a coward

Get to fuck..you should be fucking banned for coming out with that shit

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Not replacing Alvarez was a mistake. Desperately need another striker. Decent performance and you can tell words were had after Saturday, but that crazy high line..

Crazy high line and no real pace in the backs.
Been a strange tactic. Doubley so when we aren’t scoring nearly enough of our chances.

At least we are creating chances though, unlike the Bournemouth game.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Akanji is a coward

132 messages in 12 years. You’re the coward mr raggie

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

I think Haaland needs competition he's got no one in the team that can push him for the striker position. He's a world class striker Haaland but competition helps to improve, Aguero became even better when Jesus was his competition.

Gvardiol would be up for it

 

[Josh_D]

Savio needs an over lapping RB

With the underlapping runs, onus is on the wingers. Probably why Pep bought wingers who can take their man on.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Israel got away with murder there .... sorry wrong meeting ;-)

Franco Israel? The Madrid fan from Tel Aviv?

 

[Chak19]

The same problems persist, wide open at the back to every single simple 3 pass attack. how many times have we seen teams get in the exact way they did for their goal the last half a dozen games? It's absurd Pep is refusing to address it.

An improvement on last weekend but their naivety together with foden looking good made us look better than we've been in reality. Foden and Nunes have both been great, savinho looks lively but absolutely zero end product tonight and looks weak, Lewis has been really poor, anonymous in defence and keeps giving the ball away. Bernardo started deeper alongside kovacic and both he and the team looked better, seemed to push up more as the half went on and we looked progressively worse for it.

Maybe he just can't address it, our current midfielders just can't protect the backline.

 

[youngbob]

Think Bernardo and Kovacic are a huge problem positionally when defending against counters. Both find themselves beyond the ball and if we give it away cheaply they're in straight away. We'll probably tighten up and win 4-1 but the break constantly being on is only gonna make our forwards less certain of what they're doing.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Nunes and Phil have been very good

 

[Phil1]

He’s been a bit unlucky if you ask me.

He’s been fine. Only the snap shot that he thrashed at that could be considered not great.
Rest of his game has been decent.
I’d question anyone who after that 45 decided that Haaland not earning his crust is the issue as it stands.

 

[Blue Bogey]

We have to move the ball quicker

We were moving it quicker but then we got too comfortable and started slowing up again and they started breaking up our passes.