Salford City (H) | Post Match Thread

All these lads deserve to start agains Brentford. Actually play the full 90 mins.
 
northendenton said:
We new that already but hey no harm in repeating
it.
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I also don't believe he was born in wedlock!

Any great performance, no injuries and a thoroughly enjoyable time against the rags lite.

Loved both Savinho and Doku, Nico very good. Good 2nd half from McAtee, Grealish and we're getting the Uzbek Otamendi this January. Blues are on the up!
 
Watching that game was an absolute pleasure, from the looks on the faces of the class of 92, to the outstanding performances by our youngsters.

Macca wasn’t his normal accurate self early on, but showed his class with three superb finishes. Doku destroyed them while he was out there and Mubama worked his socks off.

But O’Reilly! What a prospect he is. I just saw some stats. He recorded the most successful passes, most recoveries, most duels won and most tackles in the game. All while playing in a position he has never played before. He is an immense talent and his physicality could help us so much in midfield.

Our fans were loving it, and all up a great game to watch!
 
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "We won finally a game with a good margin, all respect for Salford. It was not easy with the man marking but we were clinical up front and happy with the performance."

On James McAtee: "I'm so happy for him, he's a special player. Scoring a hat-trick is not easy. He started a little bit flat but afterwards he has incredible sense in front of goal. He has the right tempo, he changed the rhythm to score.

"So I'm really happy for him and for Nico O'Reilly, who was playing a position he'd never played before at left-back. We have a lot of problems in that position. We could have played Josko [Gvardiol] or Rico [Lewis] but they need to rest with the amount of games that are coming and that they've played in the past.

"Jeremy [Doku] played really good, so happy for everyone.

"Of course, [McAtee] can play better. He scored three goals but he can play better. First half was not his best but his work ethic, his composure and his rhythm... he's a special player.

"He's been at City for a long time, a City supporter and he was one of the biggest talents at the academy from the generation of Jadon Sancho, Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers and Liam Delap. He played with these guys and was the captain of them.

"I'm really, really pleased he's here with us."

On Jack Grealish ending his goal drought: "He made a good assist as well, not just the goal. He scored a goal, made an assist. Jack's a special player, not always one to score a lot of goals but it depends on him.

"If he can perform well, he'll take the opportunity to keep going and going.

"All the players depend on the performance in training sessions and when they have minutes to play. It's simple, not just for Jack, for all of them.

"I've been manager here for more than 500 games and we've made an incredible 487 or 488 games. Then we had 11, 12 or 13 bad games.

"The problem that we've had is that we've had an incredible amount of injuries so we could not train and we could not compete. It's so difficult but step by step, people are coming back.

"This season or maybe next season, new players come in and you have to fight for your position. When someone pushes you, you have competition and you give your best."
 
maurizio said:
I think McAtee just needs confidence. He wasn't really playing well until his goal. He scored really good goals and was so happy with them, you've got to love him. I was impressed with Nico. We could use him and break him into the first team squad from what I've seen today. Nunez and Jack played well, I was pleased for them.
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Did you see him celebrate his first?

It looked like the weight of the world came off his shoulders. Bringing on Phil also helped him play his game, IMO. Even discounting his goals, I thought he was brilliant in the build-up all second half.
 
Excellent today, can we play these every week? Even Nunes was good, Grealish, O'Reilly, Sav, Doku and McAtee, Foden, only slight disappointment was Gundo.
 
BlueDan91 said:
Pep saying Walker asked to leave to go abroad.
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Didn't follow the news all day because I went out for the walk before the game, honestly shocked how Pep just casually dropped "Kyle is leaving".
I swear one day he ll be interviewed post-match where he ll just drop it while smiling "I haven't been manager for three months now",
 
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