Match Thread | Leyton Orient vs. Man City (08/02/25)

[Kippax Street 1880]

How the hell did we not get a free kick for that

 

[oakiecokie]

I seriously had forgotten that McAtee was playing util I saw him get booked.

 

[chesterbells]

Gundo & Lewis are sucking the life out of midfield, offering nothing positive going forward, and defensively non existent.

Spot on bud.

 

[sh249]

No urgency, everyone waiting for someone else to do something.
Savinho has looked lively (but should have done much better with that ball over the top). Rest have been varying degrees of shit.

 

[eyalluvitt]

The Pep inverted fullback role, you know the thing that hasn't been working for ages but he insists on it for whatever fucking reason.

Our tactics look 5 years out of date, we have all the penetration of John Wayne Bobbit

 

[Blueknows]

It wasn't a sensational goal though was it.

It came off Ortega's arse.

Shame he wasn't further out else it'd.just come back off the bar and cleared out , but what the actual fuck was that miss by gundo ? Shockingly bad miss

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

WTF is THIS!

Nice! BBC

Half-time little interview with the O's captain as he leaves the pitch.
"What are your plans to beat the filthy twats?"
"Yeah! YEAH! Fuck yeah! Now get yourself off for your half time team talk, lad. GOOD LUCK!"

(or words to that effect)


Cool. So now we know how a bunch of local dickheads get to a point where they boo a lad like Grealish's every touch.

Fucking pathetic!

 

[Keeper!]

Get Khusanov on and kick some ass

 

[mosssideblue]

Don't give a fuck now tbh even if we salvage this tie today as soon as we play someone decent we are going out.

We’re blooding in new players ffs

 

[roach3]

just no where near enough movement, no one looking for space, defending too high and too tight, can't get the ball to Marmoush enough, powerder puff shots or straight at the keeper so far from us.

Bang on word for word

 

[paulchapo]

I’m confident

Well I hope you're right but we might need Phil and Kev on at this rate.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Mcatee annd gundo off. Grealish in mid and savinho left. Foden and de bruyne on.

I like that. Grealish wasted out wide.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Incredibly shit that.

2nd to every ball, soft as fuck in every challenge, lack of authority, shit one dimensional patterns.

They need to pull themselves together or this will the embarrassment of the decade.

 

[BigJoe#1]

Proper FA Cup tie!

Reminds me of Notts Co away in 2011. Is Džeko on the bench?

They’ll tire second half. No way will they be able to out that level of intensity for 90mins, and I can see us scoring a few.

But there’s been some very poor performers for us so far.

I raise you Halifax...

 

[blueju]

Grealish didn’t even want to make a run up the wing just before ht, he was behind the ball instead of busting a gut to beat his man.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

I'd take gundogan off, move grealish to the middle and put foden on the left.

A shit performance from pretty much every one though.

Savio left foden right

 

[Brewster's millions]

If we’re relying on a foul being called against a League 1 side in the only goal in the game, we really are in trouble.

I didn’t even think it was a foul to be honest.

 

[mac]

hard to play quick one touch football on this pitch and with the amount of physical contact allowed.

We don't play like that. It's a myth. 4 or 5 touches and most are backwards. Its actually fucking shite.

 

[Nas_City]

Would like to see Divin Mubama brought on. See zero urgency from Jack, he should be showing Pep why he should be getting more game time. He looks like a passenger.

 

[MCFC1993]

I get Orient being the lower league side and it being unbelievable for them but the BBC are just making up a narrative here, it's not even factual reporting. We've had the better chances, they had an early half chance and that's it.